A former Revolut duo have raised £4.3 million seed funding for their crypto startup Bleap.

Joao Alves and Guilherme Gomes worked at the FinTech giant as lead operations manager and product manager, respectively.

Alves claims to have scaled Revolut’s card issuing programme, from issuing less than 5m cards in five years to issuing 100m+ cards in the following three years. 

The duo said they saw a growing disconnect between modern user interfaces and the infrastructure moving money behind the scenes.

Bleap uses blockchain technology as the settlement layer, effectively rebuilding this infrastructure from the ground up.