They’re one of the fastest-moving teams and we’re proud to provide the technology they need to deliver high-quality, affordable products that help their customers save money as they grow.”
USDC operations were isolated from core treasury and accounting systems. Transactions had to be manually reconciled with fiat accounts, forcing finance teams to map each USDC payment back to a dollar transaction within ERP tools like copyright. This created inefficiencies and operational overhead for companies that Meow sought to solve.
Businesses can also programmatically send USDC from within Meow and generate unique addresses on Ethereum and Solana to collect invoice payments. That means businesses can accept vendor payments via wire or standard bank rails, such as ACH, and the business can receive that money in USDC without having to expose address details publicly.
Jiko's services are available for institutional clients, including money movement and settlement through its technology. It was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
With the rise in globalization and the increasing use of web3 infrastructure, businesses are increasingly facing the need to transact in more than their native currency. This shift puts pressure on finance teams to ensure they have the right type of currency in the right account at the right time to conduct business.
Meow Technologies, a leading financial technology company providing business banking solutions, was experiencing rapid growth with over $1 billion in assets on the platform and almost $30M investment in the company from prestigious investors like QED Investors.
That leaves copyright firms in a position where, although the fintechs are glad to offer them a US bank account at present, the underlying partner banks could in future choose to revoke permission. Meow and Brex did not respond when asked whether their partner banks have promised long-term access to banking services for copyright clients.
They were equally opportunistic when it came to choosing a name for their startup; the whimsical Meow was picked for its ability to grab attention on social media. Indeed, as SVB teetered, one VC with a healthy following posted on LinkedIn: “We are living in such a stupid timeline.
By enabling businesses to use USDC as easily and cost-effectively as cash, Meow has reinforced its value proposition of making banking easier and lowered the barriers to broader adoption of stablecoins in the business world.
Meow was born in early 2021 in a Miami apartment where meow business Arvanaghi and Crawford were holed up writing code and cold-calling investors. The duo had become friends at Vanderbilt University while both were studying computer science. They overlapped briefly at copyright exchange copyright where they were both engineers before Arvanaghi left for a stint at a bitcoin mining company.
Partnering with Bridge has enabled Meow to improve its product offering and strengthen its reputation among its customer base. By building a platform that responds to the needs of technology-forward companies focused on operating efficiently, Meow has grown payment volumes by billions.
Meow’s early clients have been other startups such as venture deal platform Sydecar and investing focused social media site Stocktwits. But it plans to go after other types of small-to-medium sized businesses, including professional service firms like dental and law offices.
Meow is building tools to address this problem, especially for those companies that need help managing their copyright assets and payments.
With TrueBiz's automation, Meow is able to streamline its compliance reviews, allowing the existing team to focus on higher-risk and more complex cases. TrueBiz's comprehensive risk assessments identified high-risk businesses early in the process, significantly reducing the risk of fraud.
“Meow is really meant to be the curation and then the steering through technology of being able to move money between options,’’ he adds.