Series ENium

Nium moves business money across borders in real time

API infrastructure that lets banks, travel sellers and payroll platforms collect, convert and pay out in 100 currencies across 190+ countries — now settling with Visa over stablecoin rails.

بنية تحتية برمجية تتيح للبنوك ومنصات السفر والرواتب تحصيل الأموال وتحويلها وصرفها لحظيًا بمئة عملة في أكثر من 190 دولة، وتسوي الآن عبر عملات مستقرة مع فيزا.

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  1. The Bottleneck

    What was broken?

    Sending business money across borders still crawls through correspondent banks — batch cut-offs, weekend gaps, opaque FX markups and multi-day reconciliation that break marketplaces, payroll and travel payouts.

  2. The Move

    Why it worked

    Built the unglamorous layer: licenses in 40+ countries plus local collection in dozens of markets, wrapped in one API, so platforms get instant payouts to accounts, wallets and cards without becoming money transmitters themselves.

  3. The Trap

    Battle scars

    Raised its Series E at a reset $1.4B valuation below its 2021 round, and has pushed its planned US listing to late 2026 — so revenue scale must re-rate the company; 2024 still showed an S$88.1M loss on S$167.2M revenue; and Airwallex, Wise Platform and Stripe all sell overlapping global-payout pipes.

The problem

A marketplace paying sellers in forty countries, or a travel agency settling hotels nightly, faces the same mess: correspondent-bank chains that stop on weekends, FX quotes padded per corridor, and reconciliation files that arrive days after the money moved.

How it works

Nium sells regulated pipes as software. One integration gives a platform local collection accounts, real-time FX and payouts to accounts, wallets and cards — Nium’s own licenses in 40+ countries absorb the compliance burden. Card issuance extends the same rails to spend. Its November 2025 entry into Visa’s stablecoin settlement pilot lets it settle with Visa in USDC on supported blockchains, targeting weekend cut-offs and reconciliation lag directly.

Pain points

Batch-based settlement that sleeps on weekends, opaque per-corridor FX markups, multi-day reconciliation, and money-transmitter licensing no marketplace wants to own.

Business model

Spread on every FX conversion, fees per payout and collection, recurring platform fees for API customers, and interchange from issued cards.

Challenges

The reset $1.4B Series E valuation (below its 2021 round) sets a high bar for the planned late-2026 US listing; stablecoin settlement must graduate from pilot to real volume; and well-funded rivals sell the same corridors to the same platforms.

Funding

  • Raised: $50M Series E (June 2024) led by Brunei Investment Agency, with BOND, NewView Capital and Tribe Capital; funds earmarked for network expansion, product and M&A (company release). 2024 accounts show S$167.2M revenue (+13.3%) against an S$88.1M loss, with the planned US IPO pushed to late 2026 (Fintech Singapore).
  • Valuation: $1.4B post-money at Series E (June 2024).

Latest — November 2025

Nium joined Visa’s stablecoin settlement pilot, enabling it to settle obligations with Visa in stablecoins including Circle’s USDC — moving settlement from legacy batch systems to seven-day blockchain rails without customers building their own crypto infrastructure.

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