Vela
Travel money without the surprise
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- Sector
- Consumer fintech
- Location
- Doha, Qatar
- Year
- 2025
- Kickoff to production
- 14 weeks
A travel wallet and card where the conversion, the fee and the rate reach the customer's wrist before the receipt prints.
Vela's customers learned what a holiday had cost when the statement arrived, because charges were converted overnight at a rate nobody could see. Weekend spending abroad became Monday's support queue.
Priced at the terminal
Every authorisation is converted, priced and pushed to the phone and watch within a second, with the rate used and the fee charged stated in full.
A wallet per trip
Balances, budgets and shared costs group by trip rather than by calendar month, so a trip closes with a number instead of an argument.
One tap to dispute
Every notification carries a 'not me' action that freezes the card, opens the case and attaches the evidence without a phone call.
Statement-shock complaints effectively ended, and card use abroad rose because customers trusted the price at the point of sale.
What changed
- FX before receipt
- Wrist-side
- At authorisation
- Clear fees
- Card use
- Trusted abroad
- Swift
- Kotlin
- Go
- Postgres
- Kafka
Tell us what's slowing you down.
Fifteen questions, one screen at a time, and a verdict at the end. No call needed to get it.