Matt Oppenheimer

Remitly is stronger than ever. In 2025, we surpassed 9 million active customers, reached $75B in send volume, generated $1.6B in revenue (up 29% y/y), and achieved our first full year of sustained profitability.  We have scale, we’re rapidly growing, and we’re a growth company with no shortage of growth opportunities. From that position of strength, I’m announcing a leadership transition that I initiated through proactive, long-term succession planning. I’m stepping up into the role of Chairman of the Board. Sebastian J Gunningham will become our next CEO. As we look ahead to delivering the strategy outlined at our recent Investor Day, including expanding beyond global money movement to also serve customers in broader, more ambitious ways, this is the right moment to bring in a leader with deep product instincts, global operating experience, a hunger to leverage AI, and a track record of scaling platforms to serve hundreds of millions. Sebastian brings exactly that. He has built and operated global marketplace and payments businesses at Amazon at massive scale and led digital transformation at Santander. He pairs that experience with humility, rigor, and a deep commitment to customers. I’m not going far. I remain fully committed as one of Remitly’s largest shareholders. As Chairman, I will focus on long-term strategy, bringing a founder’s long-term perspective, and supporting Sebastian as he steps into the CEO role. I also plan to devote more time to additional board service and to cross-industry efforts where Remitly’s experience and platform can help address systemic challenges in global financial services. I have never been more optimistic about Remitly’s future. The full note that I sent to the Remitly Team and video are linked below. We’re just getting started.

I handed Archbishop Desmond Tutu a thank-you card in 2002, as he walked out of a room at Dartmouth. I was 20. I never expected a reply. He wrote back. By hand. "I am very impressed with what you have wanted to do & done in Nairobi & elsewhere in Kenya. God is proud of people such as yourselves who help God to achieve God's dream. Reach for the stars. Thank you & go on going on." He was in the US for a residency at Harvard and had come to campus to give a talk. I was part of a small group of students who got to meet with him afterward, and the card was all I had to offer... thanks, for inspiring me and for the enormous good he was doing in the world. He was one of the most beloved people on earth. I was a kid from Idaho. The Kenya he mentioned: I had spent time volunteering in East Africa, helping people get access to healthcare. What's uncanny is that he wrote those words seven years before I moved to Nairobi... which is where the idea that became Remitly was born. He saw a thread in my life long before I could see it myself. Archbishop Tutu passed away in 2021. His note is framed in my home office, and I think about it more now, not less. One of the busiest, most consequential people alive took five minutes to write back to a student... and I've carried those five minutes for 24 years. That was the lesson inside the lesson: the people with the least time and the least obligation to be generous often are anyway. In his words... go on going on.

I'm looking forward to joining the @fintechassoc and @semafor at their Banking on the Future: The Next Era of Fintech convening. This will be an important conversation on the steps we need to take together to modernize and transform our financial system.

Thanks to @QEDInvestors for hosting #QEDCEOSummit this week - always an outstanding event! Grateful to share the stage with Nigel Morris to discuss culture, purpose, and my journey as @remitly CEO.

Our inaugural @remitly Impact Report is out today. Excited to share how we’re delivering on our mission thru impact priorities, w/ stories highlighting our progress in 2022. Grateful for the opty to stand alongside the people & communities we serve 🙏 bit.ly/2022remitlyimpactrepo…

It was an honor to welcome @RepStricklandWA to @remitly HQ in Seattle this week. A true pleasure to discuss her priorities in Congress and share Remitly’s vision of transforming the lives of immigrants and their families with the most trusted financial services on the planet.

It was a pleasure joining @OJRenick on @TDANetwork to discuss @Remitly Q2 ‘23 earnings + how we continue to see growth by: - Increasing speed/volume of remittances delivered - Cutting through complexity - Staying close to emerging tech   tinyurl.com/5n8s4xk8

Grateful for the oppty to sit down w @LloyedLobo & discuss the topics I'm most passionate about: customers, culture, scaling a global business. Thx for having me @TractionConf_io. tinyurl.com/2f5jzc26

For @AmerBanker, I wrote about how, amid recent events with SVB, it is important to also remember and preserve the benefits of a diverse and robust banking system that includes small and mid-sized banks bit.ly/3YOugzs

It’s been an amazing journey at Remitly as we’ve grown to serve more than 3.8 million active customers and offer trusted #financialservices in more than 170 countries. Now, I’m excited to build upon our strong foundation with Remitly Israel (formerly #Rewire)!

Honored to share I’ve been selected as the recipient of the 2022 Individual International Service Excellence Award for Customer Service CEO of the Year. Thank you to @CSIA_Institute and @Christine_CSIA for the opportunity to showcase @Remitly’s commitment to our customers.