The financing values Airwallex at $8 billion, a ~30% increase since its Series F six months ago. The investment will fuel Airwallex’s continued growth in the U.S. and key markets worldwide, while driving expanded AI hiring and product development. Underscoring its strong momentum and deep commitment to the U.S. market, Airwallex has established a second global headquarters in San Francisco and will deploy more than $1 billion from 2026-2029 to scale its U.S. operations, attract top talent, and expand its physical and brand footprint.

 
Jack Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Airwallex

“We believe the future of global banking will be borderless, real-time, and intelligent,” said Jack Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Airwallex. “Legacy providers are fundamentally incompatible with how modern businesses operate, and our investors understand that we're pulling ahead in the race to define this category. We’re building a modern alternative, a single platform that powers global banking, payments, billing, treasury, and spend on top of proprietary financial infrastructure. This capital will accelerate our growth, extend our technical leadership, and strengthen our position in the U.S. and across key markets worldwide.”

The company’s 2025 operating performance drove strong inbound interest in the round. Highlights include:

• Annualized revenue surpassed $1 billion in October, up 90% YoY.
• Annualized transaction volume doubled YoY to more than $235B in October.
• Approximately half of Airwallex's customer base now uses multiple products, underscoring expanding product-market fit.
• 80 licenses and permits worldwide, enabling customers to operate in 200+ countries and regions, and power multi-currency checkout at scale.
• In 2025, Airwallex extended its regulated footprint and local capabilities in 12 new markets – securing new licenses and launching products across France, the Netherlands, Israel, Canada, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brazil, Mexico, the UAE, and more.

“Airwallex is reshaping the global business banking landscape,” said Lee Fixel at Addition. “The traditional financial system wasn’t built for borderless businesses, and Airwallex is uniquely equipped to solve this challenge. With its global financial infrastructure, software and AI capabilities, the company is exceptionally well positioned to lead the future of global business banking.”

Airwallex establishes second headquarters in San Francisco

In conjunction with the fundraise, Airwallex also announced a second global headquarters in San Francisco to position core product, engineering, strategic partnerships and go-to-market teams at the epicenter of global AI innovation and talent.

The U.S. market is a key focus within Airwallex’s global strategy – the company plans to double its U.S. headcount to more than 400 employees over the next 12 months and is doubling its San Francisco office space to support this growth.

Founded in Australia in 2015, Airwallex currently has a global workforce of over 2,000 employees and plans to expand its team by more than 50% by the end of 2026. This growth will fuel continued investment in its infrastructure and partnerships worldwide.

Accelerating the next era of intelligent financial operations

Airwallex is building a team of specialized AI agents to execute real financial workflows, which will collectively form an autonomous finance department. These agents leverage contextual signals across payments, treasury, and spend activity to automate high-value, multi-step operations—from expense approvals and policy checks to end-to-end task orchestration. Hundreds of purpose-built agents will soon expand across the platform, enabling businesses to operate with greater speed, accuracy, and significantly less manual effort.

“As AI lowers software costs, infrastructure and data become the ultimate differentiator,” Zhang added. “Airwallex connects the full spectrum of a customer’s financial operations—money in, money out, and everything in between—giving our agents the contextual data to execute with precision. This proprietary visibility, built on our scalable financial infrastructure, is what powers agentic finance.”

First to launch is the suite of AI agents within Airwallex's spend management platform. The Expense Submission Agent, live today, collects receipts from various sources, automatically matches them to transactions, categorizes the expense, and populates all required fields for seamless submission. The Expense Policy Agent, available in the coming weeks, verifies the receipt's validity, reviews the submission against company policy, and flags any potential exceptions for manual review before final approval. Whether managing expenses or executing procure-to-pay workflows, the Spend Agents are designed to deliver stronger controls, significantly fewer manual workflows, and shorter month-end cycles for customers.