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Crypto payments company Fun announced it has raised $72 million in a Series A round to build out its infrastructure that connects traditional fiat and crypto payment rails. The round was co-led by Multicoin Capital and SignalFire, with participation from Infinity Ventures, Pharsalus Capital, and Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen.
"The infrastructure for moving money has not kept up with how the world actually works," Alex Fine, Fun's founder and CEO, said in a statement. "We are building a system where value moves instantly, globally, and without friction."
The funding round, which follows a previously unannounced $3.9 million seed round in 2022, gives Fun significant capital to expand its services. The company, which operated in stealth until recently, serves as a critical payments backbone for platforms like Polymarket, Aave, and Lighter, processing over $18 billion in transaction volume annually for millions of users.
The investment highlights growing investor confidence in the infrastructure needed to bridge the gap between the traditional financial system and the emerging digital asset economy. Fun aims to solve the complex backend challenges of moving money, allowing consumer-facing applications to offer seamless deposits and withdrawals in both fiat currencies and crypto.
Fun’s importance to its clients was highlighted by Josh Stevens, VP of Engineering at Polymarket, who noted that the platform runs at a scale that "breaks most payments infrastructure." He said that after evaluating major payment companies, Fun was in a "different category," operating like an extension of their team and building for real user behavior.
The conviction from investors is strong, with Multicoin Capital now having led two funding rounds for Fun in less than six months. "Crypto doesn’t really work at scale unless money can move smoothly between traditional systems and blockchains," said Kyle Samani, managing partner at Multicoin Capital, who noted the firm's revenue had grown "20 or 30x" in that time.
The company plans to use the fresh capital to hire more engineers, establish a new office in Singapore to expand its Asia-Pacific presence, and pursue selective acquisitions to deepen its infrastructure stack.
"We really want to be the front door for this new economy," Fine said.
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