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Madhani founded Stax in 2014 to kill percentage-based credit card processing fees, replacing them with a flat-rate subscription model that has since processed $23 billion in payments and made her one of the few South Asian female founders to reach unicorn status.
Suneera Madhani is the Founder and CEO of Worth AI, her current venture applying AI to financial services and small business decisioning.
She previously founded Stax (formerly Fattmerchant) in 2014, introducing a subscription-based pricing model for credit card processing that disrupted the percentage-based status quo, and grew it past $23 billion in processed payments. She has been recognized by Forbes' 30 Under 30 and EY Entrepreneur of the Year.
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