He's Creating Australasia's PayPal Mafia
Mark Pavlyukovskyy and Hendrik Remigereau host TechMates, the NZVC podcast. The guest on this episode is Dominic Pym, Co-Founder of Up and Euphemia, and it went out on 17 November 2025.
Dominic Pym was SAP's youngest hire at 19, co-created Up, Australia's first cloud-hosted bank, later sold to Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, and helped spin Buildkite out of Pin Payments. He sold three companies during COVID. He shares his ecosystem thesis for New Zealand and Australia: keep IP local, go global, and seed founder mafias after exits, which he is doing through Euphemia and the Triple Bubble fund. He also introduces Caligra, an expert OS and hardware for engineers.
- Up: frustration with banks led to an infinite activity feed, merchant logos, and instant wallets; kept independent post-acquisition.
- 1.5M+ customers and billions in deposits and home loans; why he sold and how staff shared the win.
- Buildkite originated inside Pin Payments and now powers teams at Airbnb, Shopify, Slack, and Lyft.
- Euphemia and Triple Bubble: backing regulated fintech plus secondaries and publics across AU, NZ, and the Pacific.
Up, Buildkite, fintech, banking, Euphemia, Triple Bubble, founder mafias, Australasia