Payments Infrastructure Firm MoonPay Raises $555M at a $3.4B Valuation

Payments Infrastructure Firm MoonPay Raises 5M at a .4B Valuation
MoonPay, a payment infrastructure provider for crypto companies, has raised $555 million in an all-equity Series A round led by Coatue and Tiger Global that values the firm at $3.4 billion. The funds will be used to hire people, expand geographic coverage and add more payment methods.Ivan Soto-Wright, MoonPay’s co-founder and CEO, told CoinDesk in an interview that the firm will also be looking at mergers and acquisitions.“There are companies that can help us move faster in certain geographies or help improve certain components of the infrastructure stack,” Soto-Wright said. “We want to bring a billion people into the crypto…