Mara Lindqvist
Co-founder and CEO
Ran finance operations at a marketplace for six years, closing every month by hand until she stopped.
About Basis
Every finance team we came from had the same problem: the money had moved, and nobody could explain how without opening four systems and a spreadsheet. Basis exists so that question has one answer.
Why teams move their treasury
Basis started inside a marketplace finance team that closed every month by hand. We rebuilt the settlement layer we wanted: one ledger of record, balances that hold in 24 currencies, and a payout engine that tells you why a transfer is late before support does.
Platforms settling on Basis
380+
Ledger API uptime, 12-month
99.99%
A settlement layer should let a controller answer any question about any movement of money without asking an engineer to run a query first.
How we got here
Built inside a marketplace
Two of us ran finance operations at a marketplace that closed every month by hand. We wrote the first ledger to stop doing that, for ourselves.
2019
The first external platform
A payroll company asked whether they could use it. We rebuilt the payout engine for multi-entity flows and applied for our first money licence.
2021
Local rails, 24 currencies
Direct rail access replaced correspondent banking on the eight corridors our customers used most. Settlement times fell from days to seconds.
2023
SOC 2 and 380 platforms
Type II attestation, PCI DSS Level 1, and a ledger of record closing 4.1 million payouts a month across 38 markets.
2025
Who you will work with
Idris Fenwick
Co-founder and CTO
Built payment infrastructure at two banks. Wrote the first version of the ledger over one long winter.
Yuki Tanaka
Head of Treasury
A group treasurer before Basis. Knows which corridor is about to become a problem before it does.
Samuel Adeyemi
Head of Compliance
Led licence applications in four jurisdictions. Reads regulation the way engineers read logs.
