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March 17, 2022

These Delivery Hero alumni want to build fintech’s answer to cloud computing

It’s Andreessen Horowitz’s first fintech bet in the DACH region


Amy O'Brien

3 min read

Payrails’ three founders Orkhan Abdullayev, Emre Talay, and Nicolas Thouzeau

Financial operations software, or FinOps, might not sound sexy but investors are tapping it as the next frontier of B2B fintech. 

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Amy O'Brien

Amy O'Brien is a freelance reporter covering Italian tech. She was previously Sifted's fintech reporter

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