HomeEstonia-StartupsUK-based Transferwise transfers about €1.2 million a day for its users

UK-based Transferwise transfers about €1.2 million a day for its users

TransferWise, the international money transfer platform, has today revealed it’s transferring over £1 million a day for consumers and small businesses determined to bypass banks and their hidden fees.

TranserWise was founded in 2010 by the two Estonian entrepreneurs Taavet Hinrikus (the first employee of Skype) and Kristo Käärmann. The basic idea behind this promising European startup is a simple crowd-sourced model that lets users transfer foreign exchange. TransferWise eliminates many of the common fees associated with paying bills from one currency to another.

A recent $6 million investment from Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal), has helped the company double in size in just four months, with the volume transferred via the platform growing from £125 million to more than £250 million. TransferWise has also used the investment to increase the number of its currency routes nearly fourfold – with the Indian Rupee, Australian Dollar and Turkish Lira among those recently added – so that more of its users can avoid the complexity and hidden costs associated with traditional foreign exchange providers.

The young company also just announced that it is launching an iOS app, the ability to send money to email, and a ‘Receive Money’ feature to create new ways for people to send and receive money cheaply, and easily invoice over the internet.

Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder of TransferWise, said: “We’re transferring over £1 million a day and growing at up to 30% a month because more and more people and small businesses are realising that they no longer have to put up with opaque fees and poor service from the banks when they’re sending money abroad.”

By the way: You can find out about other interesting startups from Estonia in this list.

 

- Advertisement -
Thomas Ohr
Thomas Ohr
Thomas Ohr is the "Editor in Chief" of EU-Startups.com and started the blog in October 2010. He is excited about Europe's future, passionate about new business ideas and lives in Barcelona (Spain).
RELATED ARTICLES

Most Popular