Company

Sphere is an operating system for the transfer of money over the internet. Digital payments of all modalities are paving the way for merchants from under-addressed emerging markets to access cost-effective, secure, and near instant cross-border payments. In the same way that an operating system is the fundamental interface between a computer and a user. Sphere is building the software that connects end-users with these payment networks.

Through beautiful and accessible graphic user interfaces (GUIs), Sphere orchestrates financial service providers to make digital payments accessible.

People

Sphere began with a global hackathon win sponsored by Stripe. Co-founders Arnold Lee and Luigi Charles met as Columbia undergrads in 2015. Bonding over shared experiences of financial upheaval, they became best friends and built software together. Arnold grew up with parents born during the Korean War, who would eventually emigrate during South Korea's Third Republic dictatorship and after the Vietnam War.

Luigi's grew up in the Caribbean, seeing the effects of financial exclusion locally, he started his career at traditional asset managers such as Vanguard and Franklin Templeton. Given a family background in construction, Arnold got his first taste of distributed systems engineering at IoT startups. Accelerating global financial inclusion is at the heart of what brings Sphere together.

  • Arnold Lee

    Arnold Lee — CEO

    arnold@spherepay.co

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  • Luigi Charles

    Luigi Charles — CTO

    luigi@spherepay.co

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  • Anthony Serio

    Anthony Serio — CRO

    anthony@spherepay.co

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  • Angel Herrera

    Angel Herrera — Chief of Staff

    angel@spherepay.co

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  • Jeff Harpenau

    Jeff Harpenau — Creative Lead

    jeff@spherepay.co

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  • Dan Briere

    Dan Briere — Head of Operations

    dbriere@spherepay.co

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  • Victor Fields

    Victor Fields — Merchant Integration Lead

    victor@spherepay.co

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  • Audrey Leow

    Audrey Leow — Lead Product Manager

    audrey@spherepay.co

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  • Jędrzej Silczak

    Jędrzej Silczak — Founding Engineer

    jedi@spherepay.co

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  • Vinicius Kloppel

    Vinicius Kloppel — Founding Engineer

    vini@spherepay.co

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  • Marco Santos

    Marco Santos — Founding Engineer

    marco@spherepay.co

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Investors

We are backed by some of the most forward-thinking firms, angel investors, founders, and operators in fintech.

Backed by:

The Chernin Group (TCG)Jump Crypto
Hudson River Trading (HRT)Big Brain HoldingsSolana VenturesSHVSteel DAORepublic Capital
Anatoly Yakovenko

Co-Founder, Solana

Raj Gokal

Co-Founder, Solana

Jordan Sexton

Creator, Solana Pay

Robert Chen

Co-Founder, OtterSec

Abhay Kumar

CEO, Helium Foundation

Tristan Yver

Co-Founder, Backpack

Tim Wang

Principal, Hudson River Trading

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We're hiring

We're assembling a group of exceptional individuals, each bringing unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds to carve out the destiny of Sphere.

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