Rain, the Global Card Issuing Platform Powered by Stablecoins, Announces $24.5 Million in New Funding

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rain, the global card issuing platform powered by stablecoins, announced $24.5 million in new funding led by Norwest Venture Partners.

Rain, the New York-based global card issuing platform powered by stablecoins, announced today a $24.5 million funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. The round also saw participation from new investors Galaxy Ventures, Goldcrest, Thayer, and Hard Yaka. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coinbase Ventures, Vinyl Capital, Canonical Crypto, and Latitude Capital also joined the round.

This funding builds on Rain's rapid growth, processing transactions in over 100 countries and expanding its issuing footprint in Europe with principal membership at Visa.

Announced earlier this year, Rain’s partnership with Visa will allow the company to sponsor and operate card programs in many countries across the globe with transactions settling in stablecoins.

Rain is able to sponsor and operate card programs in several countries with its vertically integrated issuing stack and Visa principal membership. Transactions are settled in stablecoins.

Rain has grown more than 15x in the last twelve months.

"We have been serving large global businesses with our flexible issuing and stablecoin orchestration stack for the last several years. This new funding allows us to increase interoperability with existing rails, expand our footprint, and invest in our stablecoin authorization and settlement infrastructure that continues to unlock growth for our partners," said Farooq Malik, CEO and co-founder of Rain.

Rain's technology provides the infrastructure for stablecoin interoperability across fiat rails, enabling businesses to issue B2B and consumer cards, available in both physical and virtual options, linked directly to self-custody wallets, custodial solutions, or traditional fiat accounts.

Card users don't need to convert their crypto to pay with government-issued currency. Instead, Rain operates an omni-chain stack powering native settlement on multiple blockchain networks, including Base, Polygon, Optimism, Avalanche, Arbitrum, ZKsync, and Solana, to process stablecoin and floating-rate token settlement on a daily basis.

As a Visa Principal Member, Rain enables partners with issuing on the Visa network. As a stablecoin native enabler on the Visa network, Rain clients can develop and operate new types of programs without dependencies on fiat payment rails.

"Stablecoin adoption is accelerating as regulators have shown support and use cases have proliferated, and Rain is at the forefront of this paradigm shift," said Parker Barrile, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners. "Rain's card issuing platform combines fiat-grade compliance with the speed and flexibility of digital currency, and their traction with major financial institutions underscores their credibility, momentum, and market leadership."