Swift is building instant international payments to replace the archaic correspondent banking infrastructure. Their first product is an instant deposit API for brokerages and digital banks, eliminating the legacy 2-3 day ACH process and associated fraud risk.
David started his first company, Virra, when he was 16, before working at Intercom, then dropping out of Stanford to start Swift. He also consulted for a large real estate fund in Ireland that booked FX orders of up to $1B at a time. From a small village in Ireland, he is now building Swift.
Rakeeb is an engineer from the University of Waterloo, worked at Snap and Tesla Autopilot, and previously built brokerage infrastructure at Finary. He is now building Swift – an instant deposit API for brokerages and digital banks. He also previously worked on Memsnap (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3620666.3651334).