Airwallex
Worth-Joining Index · Scorecard
v2.1 ALPHA · 2026-08Career Score
71/100
Coverage
89%
Verified
40%
Stage cohort
Late
Vibe Check
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Latest valuation
$11B (Series H, 2026-06)
Team size
Over 2,300 employees across 27 offices
Traction · Key numbers
Funding
Rounds
2
Valuation pace
$6.2B → $8B → $11B
$330M
Series G · 2025-12 · valuation $11B post (Series H, 2026-06) · led by Addition
With: Activant, T Rowe Price Associates, Lingotto, Robinhood Ventures, TIAA Ventures · A 30% jump from the May valuation; company established San Francisco as a dual global HQ
$300M
Series F · 2025-05 · valuation $6.2B post
With: Square Peg, DST Global, Lone Pine Capital, Blackbird, Airtree, Salesforce Ventures, Visa Ventures · Includes $150M in secondary share sales; brought total funding raised to $1.2B
▸Valuation nearly doubled in 13 months ($6.2B→$11B) while ARR growth decelerated from 90% to 74% YoY — the valuation is now running ahead of the fundamentals growth rate
▸Addition led back-to-back rounds, signaling strong existing-investor conviction, but also narrowing room for new-investor price discovery
▸$1.3B ARR is a rare real-scale number among fintech infra players — this is past cold-start and now competing at platform scale
Founders
Jack Zhang CEO
University of Melbourne grad, former algorithmic trader at ANZ and Aviva, started a Melbourne cafe with Max Li before founding Airwallex
Lucy Liu President
University of Melbourne finance graduate who invested $1M as an early angel and became co-founder and President
Max Li Head of Design
Trained architect who co-ran a cafe with Jack Zhang before co-founding the company
Jacob (Xijing) Dai CTO
Co-founder overseeing technical architecture
Reality · Working here
Signals & Risks
Editorial ✎
Good fit for
· Engineers who want to build genuinely global, multi-licensed payments infrastructure — cross-border clearing, multi-currency accounts, and compliance systems are the real, hard problems here
· People who like scaling work at an already-validated high-growth company — $1.3B ARR means the systems carry real production traffic, not a pitch deck
· Candidates interested in embedded finance / business banking who want a seat in the Stripe/Adyen-adjacent race
Not for
· People chasing early-stage equity upside / high-variance payoffs — after a 13-month valuation doubling, future-round equity return potential is already compressed
· Engineers/PMs who dislike heavy multi-jurisdiction financial regulation — product velocity here is gated by licensing and compliance cadence
Ask in the interview
1. Valuation went from $6.2B to $11B in 13 months while ARR growth slowed from 90% to 74% — how does the company justify the next round's valuation multiple?
2. Against established players like Stripe, Adyen, and Wise, what is Airwallex's actual differentiation moat — beyond a generic 'faster and cheaper'?
3. As a multi-jurisdiction licensed institution, which licenses were added in the past 12 months, and were any markets delayed or exited due to regulatory issues?
Data changelog
Community corrections → editorial review → applied, fully on the record
data as of 2026-06 · Source: Airwallex newsroom (company press release) ↗
data as of 2026-06 · Source: Airwallex newsroom (company press release) ↗
data as of 2026-06 · Source: Airwallex newsroom (company press release) ↗
data as of 2026-03 · Source: Airwallex newsroom (company press release) ↗
data as of 2026-03 · Source: Airwallex newsroom (company press release) ↗
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