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continues to have a good year. Six months after announcing an initial $45 million Series B, the payments infrastructure company is coming back with a $30 million extension to close a $75 million round.

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Founded in 2016, San Francisco-based Finix has developed a payment processing infrastructure-as-a-service聽platform allowing聽startups to bring their聽e-commerce payments infrastructure聽in-house.

This service counters costly third-party partnerships, or burdensome 鈥渇rom scratch鈥� mentalities, in which startups try to build an API on their own with engineering talent. Those methods can cost anywhere from $3 million to $5 million in upfront costs and take two to three years to complete.

Finix knows this timeline from experience.

鈥淲e are growing fast, but when we say it takes two to three years to build, it absolutely does because we did it,鈥� said , Finix鈥檚 CEO, in an interview with 附近上门 News.

Serna phrases it as 鈥渆nabling the new鈥檚 and鈥� of the world, nodding to two behemoths which help businesses handle e-commerce payments. By becoming your own Stripe or Square, the processing fee goes to you instead of a middleman, Serna said.

After racking up an investor group over the past year that includes , , , and , Finix鈥檚 latest investment was led by and . Including the new funding, Finix has raised a total of $96 million since the company was founded, Serna said. We also reported on the company鈥檚 Series A round in July 2019.

The global digital payments industry is already a $4 trillion market and is , according to data from LearnBonds.com. Meanwhile, Finix鈥檚 , and the company experienced over 450 percent year-over-year growth, Serna said.

Similar to its other rounds of funding, this new investment will enable Finix to double its team as it pursues a goal of turning all software companies into payment companies, he added.

As for next steps, Finix will continue to stay focused as it scales.

鈥淲e want to set ourselves up with a strong foundation,鈥� Serna said. 鈥淭hink about other technology-enabled paradigm shifts, for example, the impact of the internet, mobile and cloud. They鈥檙e ubiquitous and therefore expected. We take them for granted. We believe financial services, especially payments, will be the next ubiquitous paradigm shift. This is exactly the time for us to double down.鈥�

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