Zynk, a company founded by Amazon Pay’s former CTO, has raised USD 5 million in its seed funding to make global payments instant.
Zynk is a financial infrastructure company that enables instant cross-border settlements. The recent funding round was led by Hivemind Capital, with participation from Alliance DAO, Coinbase Ventures, Transpose Platform VC, Polymorphic Capital, Tykhe Ventures, and Contribution Capital, aiming to accelerate the company’s mission to remove pre-funding and liquidity constraints for payment companies around the world.
Funding to support cross-border payments
Zynk aims to offer embedded pre-funding liquidity and improved payment rails that allow companies to settle instantly, without the need for prefunded accounts or managing complex liquidity operations. The firm’s infrastructure supports USD, EUR, AED, INR, MXN, and PHP corridors, supporting remittance providers, B2B payment platforms, trading networks, and PSPs.
It launched in 2025, experiencing a 70% month-over-month growth, which reflects the global demand for liquidity-free, real-time settlement solutions. Zynk’s infrastructure embeds liquidity directly within its network, allowing partners to enter new markets faster, scale globally without pre-funding, and access more efficient FX routes. The solution is built for a hybrid financial future, supporting both fiat and stablecoin settlements and allowing simple integrations for Web2 and Web3 payment companies.
The capital from the seed funding will be utilised to expand Zynk’s corridor coverage, improve its liquidity and compliance risk, and create partnerships with payment providers globally. As access to pre-funding becomes more and more difficult in cross-border payments, Zynk aims to help by making liquidity mobile, just like data, freeing capital, and getting rid of idle balances, pre-funding, and manual treasury operations.
The company believes that liquidity should move as freely as information, and, as cross-border payments companies are key to global commerce and finance, instant access to it, combined with compliance and transparency through blockchain-based settlements, can significantly improve operations.
