{"id":83613,"title":"Blaze - Global Venmo for cross border payments","tagline":"Pay anyone, anywhere, seamlessly.","body":"**TL;DR**: Blaze is building a global Venmo for cross-border payments. For example, if you're a Californian nomad living in Mexico City, you can use Blaze to pay rent to your local landlord. Or if you're an expat living in Colombia, you can use Blaze to pay your teacher for Spanish classes. Check [us out](https://blaze.money/app-download) on iOS and Android!\\\n\\\nA [quick intro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50MMF87m3ZM) for you:\n\nA little over a year ago, we found ourselves traveling all over the world. Luc was spending time between Mexico, Colombia, and other parts of South America, while Faiyam was nomad-ing around Asia. Everywhere we went, it was a pain to transact with our new friends from other countries. We found ourselves wanting a Venmo like experience that worked for our international lives.\n\nSo we decided to build it. Blaze is the payments app we wanted for our own lives, and if you have a lot of international contacts, perhaps it is for you too.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=83613\u0026key=user_uploads/1447220/01f1684f-81c7-44be-8d51-3ae79733e27c)\n\n_from left to right:_\n\n💻 [Luc](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucsucces) studied engineering at NYU before going on to start 2 VC-backed startups, one of which went to #1 on the app store and got him sued by Drake (true story). He’s also been a tech lead at Spotify and Artsy, and has lived and worked in over 50 countries worldwide.\n\n🧘‍♂️ [Faiyam](https://linkedin.com/in/faiyam-rahman) studied mathematics at Duke, then engineering at Cornell before going on to build a $1M ARR business with Luc at his 2nd startup. He’s also an avid practitioner of yoga and meditation.\n\n🧑‍🎨 [Igor](https://linkedin.com/in/zagnienski) is a former lead designer at BitPanda, Austria’s first unicorn. Prior to that, he spent his time jumping out of planes and running Space Individuals, one of Europe’s leading platforms to find jobs in Space.\n\n# 📱 **App Preview**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=83613\u0026key=user_uploads/1447220/71549726-5f93-469a-bf32-6f2ec6d5c94d)\n\n# **🙏 Asks**\n\n* Help us beta test! [Download](https://blaze.money/app-download) on iOS and Android. You can share feedback at [founders@blaze.money](mailto:founders@blaze.money).\n* **Share this post!** If you know someone with an international lifestyle who would want to use Blaze, please share this post with them.\n* **Connect us with** **businesses** in travel, hospitality, or other spaces that could use help with cross-border payments.","slug":"Lkb-blaze-global-venmo-for-cross-border-payments","created_at":"2024-08-30T04:16:43.486Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:51:40.368Z","total_vote_count":34,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lkb-blaze-global-venmo-for-cross-border-payments","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=83613\u0026key=user_uploads/1447220/01f1684f-81c7-44be-8d51-3ae79733e27c","company":{"id":29840,"name":"Blaze","slug":"blaze-2","url":"https://blaze.money","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e4e9eaaae054562a704e2fa2c79cd662fa1de1a6.png","batch":"Summer 2024","industry":"Fintech","tags":["Fintech","Crypto / Web3","Payments","Finance","Travel"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29840"}}