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Swift

Winter 2024 · Active

Embedded finance for online merchants

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2023

Team size: 2

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About

Swift is building instant international payments to replace the archaic correspondent banking infrastructure. Our first product is an all-in-one embedded finance platform for online merchants.

Founders

  • David LalorFounder

    Co-Founder/CEO at Swift. Before Swift, I started my first company, Virra, at 16 and did half a million in annual revenue, studied computer science and economics at Stanford (before dropping out to start Swift), and worked as an engineer at Intercom. From a small village in Ireland.

  • Rakeeb HossainFounder

    Co-Founder/CTO at Swift. Before Swift, I studied computer science and math at the University of Waterloo, worked at Snap and Tesla Autopilot, and built brokerage infrastructure at Finary. I also built Memsnap, which was accepted to ASPLOS 2024 (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3620666.3651334).