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Bridge raises $58m for stablecoin API to enable real world B2B payments

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Yesterday stablecoin startup Bridge announced it has raised a cumulative $58 million in venture funding from Sequoia, Ribbit, Index, Haun Ventures and others. It’s initially offering two sets of APIs, one for issuing stablecoins and the other for orchestrating payments. Bridge supports a variety of stablecoin use cases, but the company’s Head of Revenue seems particularly focused on global B2B payments.

“While local bank interests and network rules worked great in the past, with today’s global work and borderless fund flows we need a truly global framework that can ride on top of financial systems,” Marco Mahrus, Bridge’s Head of Revenue told Primary Venture Partners.

The company outlined its ambitions in a job advertisement stating that it aims to “enable global companies to move and support millions of potential customers.”

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