Investors are looking ahead: fintech company Airwallex in a successful fundraising round

90% annual growth in ARR reaching over $1 billion

Airwallex’s business performance in 2025 has generated a lot of interest among investors. Among other things, the recurring annual revenues for 2025 will reach more than one billion dollars and reflect an annual growth of 90% (calculation based on revenues in October). The annual volume of transactions carried out in the system doubled compared to 2024 and reached more than 235 billion dollars in October.

About half of the company’s customers use a number of the company’s services and thus testify to a deep adaptation to the needs of the market. The company has granted licenses to more than 80 distributors and allows customers to make money transfers in more than 200 countries and geographic regions and to carry out multi-currency transactions on a wide scale. In 2025, Airwallex entered 12 new markets where it received regulatory approvals, appointed distributors and launched products in France, the Netherlands, Japan, Israel, Canada, Korea, New Zealand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brazil, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates and more.

AI agents perform intelligent financial processes

Airwallex is building a team of AI agents that specialize in executing financial processes, which lay the foundations for a fully autonomous finance department. Agents leverage contextual signals) in the payment systems, treasury management and the organization’s expenses (Spend), in order to enable the automation of complex operations – from approval, management and reimbursement of expenses, compliance with procedures and end-to-end Task Orchestration tasks. Hundreds of dedicated agents of this type will soon be integrated into the platform, which will allow businesses to operate at higher levels of speed and accuracy while significantly reducing manual work.

The suite of AI agents was first integrated into Airwallex’s expense management platform. The Expense Submission Agent, which is now being launched, collects receipts from a variety of sources, automatically matches them to the financial transactions, classifies the expenses by categories and fills in all the required fields for continuous submission. An Expense Policy Agent who will be available in the coming weeks, checks the correctness of the receipts, whether the submission is in line with company policy and flags potential exceptions that will be checked manually before the final approval. Expense agents, whether managing expense or payment processes for purchases, have been designed to provide improved controls, significantly reduce manual processes and shorten customer end-of-month processes.

Jack Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Airwallex: “While AI reduces software costs, infrastructure and data become the ultimate differentiator. Airwallex connects all of the customer’s financial operations – receipts (incoming money), payments (outgoing money) and everything in between – and provides our agents with context-dependent data to perform operations accurately. This unique visibility, built on our scalable financial infrastructure, is the engine behind agentic finance.”

Opening a new headquarters in San Francisco

Concurrent with the capital raising, Airwallex announced the opening of a second global headquarters in San Francisco that places its product, engineering, strategic partnerships and marketing teams at the heart of global AI innovation and talent. Over the next 12 months, the company plans to double its workforce in the US to more than 400 employees, and for this purpose it is doubling its office space in San Francisco. Airwallex will invest over a billion dollars between 2026-2029 in expanding its physical presence and brand presence in the US and recruiting top talent.

Airwallex is a leading global financial platform for modern businesses. The company is building the global banking of the future to pave the way for a cross-border, intelligent, real-time economy. Over 200,000 businesses worldwide, from start-ups to global enterprises, use Airwallex to manage their global banking and financial operations, or to build or their financial products and derive economic value from them.

Airwallex, founded in Melbourne, Australia in 2015, holds more than 80 licenses in North America, Europe, the Middle East (including Israel) and the Asia Pacific region, thus constituting one of the most comprehensive financial infrastructures in the world. Airwallex products include solutions for receiving payments, billing, global business accounts, corporate cards and expense management. The company’s headquarters are located in San Francisco and Singapore, it employs over 2,000 people in 26 offices around the world and plans to expand its teams by more than 50% by the end of 2026.