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INTELLIGENCE · COMPANY DOSSIER

SAMPLE RELEASE UPDATED 2026-07-28

Conduit

Cross-border B2B stablecoin settlement for payment service providers.

Status

Private - Series B

Sector

Payments

HQ

London, United Kingdom

TOTAL RAISED

$48M

ANNUALISED VOLUME

$4.2B

Company Facts

HQ

Shoreditch, London

UK-incorporated

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Incorporated

England & Wales, 2021

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Status

Private, venture-backed

Series B closed Jan 2026

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Product

PSP settlement corridors

single product line with treasury tools attached

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Headcount

70-100

as reported on the company profile

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Fiscal year

Ends 31 December

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What It Does

Corridor settlement

a stablecoin settlement rail PSPs plug into for cross-border B2B volume; 27 corridors live.

Corridor treasury

liquidity forecasting and rebalancing for corridor float.

Compliance tooling

screening and reporting hooks corridor partners inherit.

Units & Brands

Conduit Rail

core settlement network

Conduit Treasury

corridor liquidity dashboard

Financial Metrics

Annualised volume

$4.2B

AS OF 2026-06-30 COMPANY RELEASE (SAMPLE)

Live corridors

27

AS OF 2026-06-30 COMPANY RELEASE (SAMPLE)

Settlement uptime

99.98%

AS OF 2026-06-30 COMPANY METHODOLOGY NOTE (SAMPLE)

Total raised

$48M

AS OF 2026-01-31 FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENTS (SAMPLE)

Net revenue run-rate

$26M

AS OF 2026-06-30 SAMPLE ESTIMATE

Headcount

85

AS OF 2026-06-30 SAMPLE ESTIMATE

Key People

3 executives
Amara Okafor

CEO and founder

No. 1 on the Fintechly Index

Tunde Balogun

CTO

built the corridor matching engine

Sofia Almeida

Head of Compliance

owns the licensing map

Ownership Structure

Founders and team

Amara Okafor

~24% of equity (sample)

Employee option pool

~12% (sample)

Institutional investors

Meridian Capital

earliest institutional backer (sample)

Growth and venture funds

~58% combined across seed to Series B (sample)

Structure note

Single share class

no super-voting stock; board of five with two founder seats (sample)

Company History

2021

Founded in London by Amara Okafor to settle cross-border PSP volume over stablecoin rails

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2022

First corridor goes live; first full month settles without a failed window

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2024

$14M Series A; corridor count reaches three

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2025

27 corridors live; annualised volume passes $4.2B

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2026

$30M Series B; climbs to No. 12 on the Fintechly 47

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M&A History

1 transactions

Corridor OS (team acquisition)

four-engineer settlement-tooling team; terms undisclosed (sample)

2025

Headcount

2026

85

mid-year (sample)

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2025

71

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2024

52

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2022

18

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Competitive Landscape

4 competitors
Cobalto Pay

stablecoin settlement at the point of sale

Rampa

southern-European acquiring; partner on one corridor

Clearbank EU

BaaS rails; integration partner and occasional rival

Ledgr

the ledger primitive underneath several corridor banks

Licences & Regulation

3 licences
LOW UK · E-money supervisor (sample)

E-money institution authorisation

SINCE 2022-05-01 SAMPLE
LOW EU · National competent authority (sample)

EMI passporting notification

SINCE 2024-02-01 SAMPLE
MED UAE · Financial free-zone regulator (sample)

Payments licence application

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Notable Coverage

6 items
Milestone 2022

First corridor settles a full month of PSP volume

The rail's first PSP pair completed a month of settlement without a failed window.

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Deal 2024

Closes a $14M Series A

Funded the jump from one corridor to three and the first treasury tooling.

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Legal 2024

Passporting filing returned for clarification - RESOLVED

An EMI passporting notification was returned with questions on safeguarding arrangements.

RESPONSE

Resubmitted with the requested detail and approved the following quarter.

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Allegation 2025

Uptime methodology questioned - RESOLVED

A competitor claimed the published 99.98% settlement uptime excluded scheduled maintenance windows.

RESPONSE

Conduit published its measurement methodology in full; the figure stood.

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Deal 2026

Closes a $30M Series B

Total raised reaches $48M; the round priced the corridor network ahead of its 30th market.

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Milestone 2026

Climbs to No. 12 on the Fintechly 47

Moves up three places on the editorial list of the companies defining fintech.

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