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Keypost

Pay a regional team on time, in their own currency.

Seed 2020 · $4.8M Fintech Jakarta, Indonesia

Keypost moves payroll across Southeast Asian borders on properly licensed rails — handling the local compliance, the FX and the settlement — so employers can pay distributed teams on time and in local currency instead of stitching together consumer apps.

We met employers paying regional staff through a patchwork of transfer apps and prayer. Budi had built the licensed version of that, in the jurisdictions that are genuinely hard to get into. Licences are a moat you can't fake, and he already had four.

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Keypost

  • Seed · 2020Stage
  • $4.8MRound
  • FintechSector
  • Jakarta, IndonesiaHeadquarters
  • 36Team
The founder

Budi Santoso

Co-founder & CEO

Budi built remittance corridors across Southeast Asia before most people thought it was a business. He knows every way a cross-border payment can quietly break, which is exactly what you want in the person building the rail.

How it's gone
  • 2020

    We came in

    Seed round, licensed in two jurisdictions, first cross-border payroll runs going through.

  • 2022

    Harder to copy

    Got to four jurisdictions — each one a slog, which is the point.

  • 2024

    Growing

    A widening base of employers paying teams across the region.

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