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Podcast calendar    Feb 18, 2026

Electrifying Growth Episode 66: Innovating Payments for Blue-Collar Businesses

How Payra is transforming B2B payments for legacy ERP users, and what founders must do to scale with focus and systems

Chris Sugden
Chris Sugden

 

 

On this episode of Electrifying Growth, Chris Sugden sits down with Riley Lovingood and Thomas Cecil, co-founders of Payra, to unpack what it really takes to modernize invoicing and payments for blue-collar B2B businesses, especially when those companies are running on legacy, server-based ERPs that weren’t built for today’s payment methods.

They share how Payra found its wedge by chasing real pain points, why high-ticket B2B payments require a different risk and integration model, and what’s hardest about scaling fast—staying focused, building systems, and resisting “good idea” distractions.

Tune in for a candid founder conversation on discipline, execution, and building fintech infrastructure where it actually matters.

 

 

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Chris Sugden

Chris is Managing Partner and Chairman of the firm's investment committee. A leading fintech executive and investor for over 25 years (before fintech was fintech), Chris' investment expertise and exits span payments, capital markets and wealth management segments, and track record includes leading dozens of new investments and over 60 rounds of financing.