Raising a Unicorn from Australia to Hong Kong with Lucy Liu of Airwallex

On this episode of RISE Offstage I welcome co-founder and president of AirWallex Lucy Liu to the podcast - Airwallex is one of the fastest growing fintech startups in Asia having raised a new $160mm Series D round in April with investors like Tencent, Sequoia China and Horizon Ventures.

On this episode (which was shot in person back in January 2020 as a pilot to a video version of this podcast) Lucy and I start at Airwallex’s super cool offices in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong….and then we walk over to one of Lucy’s favorite coffee shops nearby and I get a chance to learn more about her startup journey as a female founder in fintech, being a young mother managing a unicorn-level startup and starting a new tech company in Australia and then growing internationally from their Hong Kong headquarters.

Please welcome co-founder and CEO of Airwallex Lucy Liu to RISE Offstage.

Airwallex
https://www.airwallex.com

Airwallex - Your Passport to Global Business
https://youtu.be/Wg0NZhD5HH4

Airwallex gets $160 million Series D to launch more cross-border financial products
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/15/airwallex-raises-160-million-series-d-to-launch-more-cross-border-financial-products/

What is 996?
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