Jeremy Almond, CEO & Founder of Paystand: $100M Raised to Power the Future of B2B Payments

Episode notes

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries - the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with Jeremy Almond , CEO & Founder of Paystand , a B2B payment network that has raised over $100 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Venmo for Enterprise: Paystand is a next-gen B2B payment network that saves companies millions of dollars by providing radically better economics, processing over $10 billion in payments and supporting around a million businesses. Building Through Focus: Jeremy emphasized the importance of staying focused. Paystand's growth is attributed to a brick-by-brick approach, first targeting specific markets like Oracle and Microsoft ecosystems before expanding. Scaling Milestones: Key company milestones were centered around unlocking the next stage of growth - from securing initial customers to making sales repeatable, and then scaling the business through focused enterprise sales strategies.

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