We spent years working at the heart of global payments in global firms and the same three problems kept showing up everywhere.

Payroll kept breaking in the places that needed it most. Emerging markets, where some of the world's most talented people live and work, were consistently let down by banking rails that simply weren't built for them.

FX was a black box. Companies would send $2,500 with no idea what actually landed on the other side. Hidden spreads and forced conversions meant contractors paid the price every month.

Even as crypto went mainstream, most companies still rely on legacy providers built for a different era. Workflows patched together with Payoneer, PayPal, and wires create friction, delays, and unpredictable costs at scale.

We kept asking: why does this have to be so hard?

The answer wasn't a better workaround. It was infrastructure built from the ground up for the way global teams work today. So we built Sigma: transparent FX you can forecast, payout rails that hold up where others stall, and a pricing model that rewards growth instead of punishing it.

We believe where someone was born shouldn't determine how reliably they get paid. And that the companies building the future deserve a payroll platform that can keep up with them.