Quick take:
- The latest funding brings the total raised to $338 million and comes just four months after its Series B and 10 months after its Series A.
- The company plans to use the fresh capital to expand its stablecoin settlement infrastructure to new markets and help additional enterprises go live and scale quickly.
- The company offers an end-to-end payments platform that allows companies to work with a single partner to launch compliant stablecoin cards that work everywhere Visa is accepted.
Rain, a stablecoin firm helping businesses integrate stablecoin payments into their systems, has raised $250 million in a Series C round led by global investment firm ICONIQ. The fundraising also attracted participation from Sapphire Ventures, Dragonfly, Bessemer Venture Partners, Galaxy Ventures, FirstMark, Lightspeed, Norwest, and Endeavor Catalyst, the New York-based firm said in an announcement on Friday.
According to the press release seen by NFTgators, the latest funding was closed at a valuation of $1.95 billion. The firm has now raised a total of $338 million, following a $58 million Series B announced in August, a $24.5 million Series A announced in March, and a $6 million seed round secured in 2022.
The company plans to use the fresh capital to expand its stablecoin settlement infrastructure to new markets and help additional enterprises go live and scale quickly.
The company offers an end-to-end payments platform that allows companies to work with a single partner to launch compliant stablecoin cards that work everywhere Visa is accepted.
Commenting on the announcement, Farooq Malik, CEO & Co-founder of Rain, said in a statement: “Stablecoins are quickly becoming the way money moves in the 21st century, but adoption by users worldwide requires cards and apps that just work. In the last year, our active card base has increased 30x, and our annualized payment volume has increased 38x, but we’re still in the early innings. This funding lets us bring that infrastructure to new markets and help additional enterprises go live and scale quickly everywhere.”
The company believes that stablecoins are the future of global payments and value transfer. “The next phase of adoption is about making tokenized money the default way that businesses move funds and consumers get paid, save, and spend,” Rain said, adding that enterprises need an infrastructure that lets them shift to on-chain payment rails while preserving the familiar experiences their users already trust.
Kamran Zaki, Partner at ICONIQ, commented: “In our view, Rain has a rare combination of full-stack technology, regulatory readiness, and real-world scale. Their focus on making tokenized money mainstream, rather than a niche financial experiment, may resonate and align with what large enterprises are looking for as they move from exploration to production.”
Rain claims to facilitate more than $3B in annualized transactions for over 200 partners, including the likes of Western Union, Nuvei, and KAST, adding that programs built on its platform have the potential to reach over 2.5 billion people worldwide.
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