From Foundation to Flywheel: How Arch Lending Scaled a Next-Gen Credit Platform with Galaxy Ventures
“The experience with Galaxy has been fantastic. We have 17 other institutional investors, but Galaxy is definitely a standout.” - Himanshu Sahay, Cofounder of Arch Lending¹
Setting the Stage
In early 2024, Arch Lending, an overcollateralized Bitcoin lending company, had built a fully operational product, established a loyal customer set, and had growing revenue. Founded in 2022, the company had proven its model with a lean four-person team and a vision for a new era of credit infrastructure.
But even the strongest foundation has limits. To scale effectively, Arch Lending needed a deeper capital base, a brand that embodied trust, an elevated product design, and hiring support that could match the sophistication of its product.
When Galaxy Ventures invested in March 2024, our involvement was more than an injection of both equity and debt capital. It marked the beginning of an integrated partnership with the Galaxy Ventures’ Platform, delivering support across marketing and communications, design, hiring, and capital. Our team’s goal was to help Arch Lending scale beyond its inflection point and accelerate their roadmap into becoming an enduring institutional crypto lender.
Building the Brand: Narrative, Design, and Communications
“The Galaxy Platform team is hands down the best we've ever encountered. Across design, PR and communications, hiring, and lending, each has extensively worked with us as an integral member of the team and been very impactful to the business.” - Himanshu Sahay, Cofounder of Arch Lending.¹
Like all early-stage startups, Arch’s early marketing execution had been founder-led. It was scrappy, product-driven, and authentically tied to the team’s vision. As the company grew beyond its 0->1 phase, it needed a consistent narrative and a scalable communications engine.
Working in tandem with Arch’s founders, Himanshu Sahay and Dhruv Patel, the Galaxy Ventures’ Platform team began with a full brand synthesis: clarifying Arch’s mission, tone, and proof points to help shape a new narrative. That exercise became the foundation for a comprehensive communications strategy including messaging, press release writing, media training, and a robust PR framework. This work culminated in Galaxy Ventures running Arch’s funding announcement campaign, including placing an August 2024 feature story in Fortune to increase awareness of the company in the digital credit ecosystem. We built a repeatable playbook with media briefing docs, reporter mapping, launch sequencing, and ongoing market coaching so future milestones could be executed with precision.
Our work continued in October 2025 when Arch Lending prepared to launch their new product, TaxShield. Galaxy Ventures again led the communications campaign, securing a feature story in CoinDesk:
Beyond amplifying Arch’s visibility, this work freed up the founders to focus on what mattered most, building the business.
Designing for Visual Identity and Brand Experience
“CJ and Lukas were exceptional in every aspect. Our design had a huge step up thanks to Lukas and we were able to nail our messaging and secure a feature Fortune story thanks to CJ.” - Dhruv Patel, CEO and Cofounder¹
Communications must operate in tandem with strong design. Leading up to the funding announcement, Arch Lending needed an evolution in its brand design that reflected the robustness of their product offerings and growth.
Without a full-time designer, Dhruv and Himanshu turned to Galaxy Ventures’ Portfolio Design Lead, Lukas Kmoth, who embedded directly with Arch for several months. Acting as a de-facto head of design, Lukas collaborated daily with the founders and a part-time creative director to build an entirely new brand system and website.
Lukas’ design work went far beyond aesthetics. He redefined how Arch communicated its core principles of trust, precision, and performance. Every webpage was reconsidered to match the sophistication of Arch’s financial products. The impact was immediate: an elevated visual identity that resonated deeply with institutional partners and customers.
Before
After - Lukas Kmoth Design
Scaling Through Partnership: Credit Facilities and Lending Collaboration
Debt capital is a core component of Arch’s business model. The company’s ability to serve clients depends on reliable, scalable credit lines, something that most early-stage lenders struggle to secure. Galaxy’s unique position as a provider of both equity and debt capital allowed us to partner with Arch on both fronts.
Working closely with Galaxy’s lending team, led by Max Bareiss, we structured an initial credit facility that supported Arch to grow its book while maintaining operational flexibility. This partnership has expanded meaningfully since then with continuous collaboration: daily check-ins, joint problem-solving, and iterative scaling. Over time, the facility has expanded significantly, a reflection of both trust and performance.
Now, Arch and Galaxy are co-developing the next frontier: tokenizing elements of the credit facility and pursuing rating structures that resemble securitizations. Once live, this initiative would represent a meaningful evolution in onchain credit, a modern bridge between private credit and blockchain infrastructure.
Hiring for Scale: Building Teams with Precision
“Jules has been fantastic in sourcing and screening candidates for us and then following up across the interview and offer process, she's on top of it all. She has helped us secure two important hires from top-tier crypto firms in just a few months.” - Himanshu Sahay, Cofounder of Arch Lending¹
Growth isn’t possible without the right people. Historically, Arch’s hiring process had been bottlenecked by sourcing, fragmented recruiter networks, inconsistent candidate quality, and long hiring cycles. Jules Nguyen, Galaxy Ventures’ Portfolio Talent Lead, jumped in to alleviate these bottlenecks, helping Arch to make several critical hires.
Through high-intent sourcing and direct calibration sessions, Jules identified candidates who not only had the right skill sets for Arch but also understood the unique pace and rigor of onchain fintech lending. The result was two key hires, a senior software engineer and Arch’s first head of marketing.
For Arch’s founders, the impact was tangible as they had faster hiring cycles, a stronger and more aligned talent pipeline, and meaningful savings on recruiter and agency costs – all of which allowed them to stay focused on execution while still building the team with the right people.
The Platform in Motion: A Compounding Advantage For Founders
What makes Arch’s story unique isn’t just the outcome, but the breadth and integration of the partnership. Over the past year, Arch has collaborated across multiple Galaxy teams – instead of siloed touchpoints, the collaboration functioned as a single integrated solution.
Communications strengthened the brand. Brand supported sales and hiring. Hiring enabled the product build. And capital fueled loan book and revenue growth, which unlocked additional funding. These outcomes all compound on each other, and that’s what we aim to provide at Galaxy Ventures.
Arch Lending’s journey underscores a central belief of Galaxy’s Platform: when capital, brand, and execution move in lockstep, scale compounds.
“Working with Galaxy has been tremendous. Not only is the expertise and network that comes alongside an investment great, but the platform experience is invaluable.” - Dhruv Patel, CEO and Cofounder¹
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