Request Finance

Christophe Lassuyt is the co-founder and CEO, overseeing product and go-to-market from Paris. Christophe Fonteneau, the other co-founder, focuses on the underlying protocol and technical architecture. Both previously ran YEX, a crypto exchange, and the Request Network Foundation, giving them deep operational experience across both the trading and protocol sides of Web3.

The company operates a SaaS subscription model with a free tier for individuals and paid plans for businesses, DAOs, and enterprises. Plans scale based on organization size, user count, and access to advanced features like batch payments and multi-entity management. It does not take custody of funds or charge transaction fees on payments.

Request Finance is built specifically for on-chain payment settlement. Invoices are created as cryptographic proofs on Ethereum and Polygon, enabling automated on-chain payment detection — when a DAO sends USDC to a contractor, the invoice status updates without manual reconciliation. Standard tools treat crypto payments as a bank-reconciliation exception; Request Finance treats them as the primary settlement method.

Publicly confirmed users include The Sandbox, Decentraland, MakerDAO, Aave, and Chainlink. The firm reports serving over 2,000 Web3 organizations overall, concentrated among DAOs and venture-backed crypto startups that need to pay contributors, suppliers, and service providers in stablecoins and tokens.

No. Request Finance is a non-custodial software layer. It integrates with wallets like Gnosis Safe and Ledger Enterprise to read and verify on-chain transactions, but it never takes possession of client assets. Payments are executed directly from the user's wallet, and Request Finance simply records and reconciles them.

Request Finance is the commercial application built on top of the Request Network protocol, which has its own REQ governance token. The protocol handles the decentralized invoicing infrastructure, while Request Finance provides the user-facing SaaS interface. The two entities are organizationally distinct, though both trace back to the same founding team.

Yes. The company raised a $4 million seed round in August 2021. It has not disclosed subsequent funding rounds publicly. The firm's operational posture — surviving the 2022-2023 crypto downturn without a bridge round or layoff headlines — suggests it operated conservatively with that capital and may have reached or approached profitability on its SaaS revenue.