Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Remitly First Quarter 2024 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to Stephen Shulstein, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you. Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us for Remitly First Quarter 2024 Earnings Call. Joining me on the call today are Matt Oppenheimer, our Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Remitly; and Hemanth Munipalli, our Chief Financial Officer. Our results and additional management commentary are available in our earnings release and presentation slides, which can be found at ir.remitly.com. Please note that this call will be simultaneously webcast on the Investor Relations website. Before we start, I'd like to remind you that we will be making forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws, including, but not limited to, statements regarding Remitly's future financial results and management's expectations and plans. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to vary materially from those presented here. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. Please refer to our earnings release and SEC filings for more information regarding the risk factors that may affect our results. Any forward-looking statements made in this conference call, including responses to your questions, are based on current expectations as of today and Remitly assumes no obligation to update or revise them, whether as a result of new developments or otherwise, except as required by law. The following presentation contains non-GAAP financial measures. For a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP metrics, please see our earnings press release and the appendix to our earnings presentation, which are available on the IR section of our website. Now I will turn the call over to Matt to begin.

Thank you, Stephen, and thank you all for joining us to discuss our strong first quarter results and our outlook for 2024. We are pleased with our results as our value proposition of delivering trust and peace of mind throughout the cross-border payment security continues to resonate with our new and existing customers. You will see this in our first quarter financial results on Slide 4. Our consistent execution continued with a strong start to the year. We are pleased to deliver $269 million of revenue, a 32% increase year-over-year. Our top line results and scale efficiencies across transaction costs and operating expenses resulted in a strong adjusted EBITDA of $19 million, a more than 250% increase year-over-year and ahead of our expectations. Our digital first positioning and increasing scale allowed us to deliver the improvements in adjusted EBITDA profitability in the quarter, demonstrating the structural profitability potential of our business while continuing to make targeted investments to deliver both long-term growth and strong returns. As a result, we are reaffirming our 2024 revenue outlook and raising our 2024 adjusted EBITDA outlook. In the first quarter, our quarterly active customers grew 36% year-over-year, as you can see on Slide 5. We now serve 6.2 million quarterly active customers, up $1.7 million from last year, and we continue to outpace the overall growth in the remittance industry and our digital peers. We also continue to benefit from record new customer acquisition due to our investments in creating a seamless customer experience, efficient performance marketing and brand awareness across key markets. Our customers are highly resilient and have a deep sense of responsibility to support their families. And this is key to understanding their predictable and durable behavior. A significant majority of our customers send money home on a regular basis and…

Thank you, Matt. I'm very pleased with the strong results that we delivered in the first quarter and the progress we're making on continued strong revenue growth and driving efficiencies throughout the organization. I'll begin by reviewing some high-level drivers of our financial performance. I will then discuss the priorities we're focusing on to ensure we can deliver sustainable growth and high returns for many years to come, and I'll finish with our updated outlook for 2024. With that, let's turn to our first quarter results. As a reminder, I will discuss only non-GAAP operating expenses and adjusted EBITDA in my remarks. These metrics exclude items such as stock-based compensation, the donation of common stock in connection with our Pledge 1% commitment, acquisition, integration, restructuring and other costs and foreign exchange gain or loss. Reconciliations to GAAP results are included in the earnings release. Let's begin on Slide 10 with our high-level financial performance in the quarter. We were pleased to deliver a high active customer and revenue growth in what is typically a seasonally weaker quarter for customer activity. Our adjusted EBITDA profitability also improved substantially as we benefited from scale and a deliberate focus on driving efficiencies through all parts of the business. Quarterly active customers grew by 36% year-over-year to $6.2 million. Spend volume grew 34% year-over-year to approximately $11.5 billion, resulting in revenue growth of 32% year-over-year to $269 million, which was in line with our expectations. Our GAAP net loss was $21 million in the quarter and included $34 million of stock compensation expense. Strong revenue growth, combined with significantly lower transaction expense as a percentage of revenue and efficiency across operating expenses led to higher-than-expected adjusted EBITDA of $19.3 million in the quarter. Our focus for 2024 and beyond remains on 4 key areas…

[Operator Instructions] And it comes from the line of Andrew Schmidt with Citi Global.

I want to dig into the first quarter performance a little bit. I understand that there's normal seasonality there, but historically, you guys have done a great job of delivering upside expectations. So I'm wondering if maybe you could elaborate if there was anything else as normal seasonality that surprised you? It sounds like customer behavior was pretty consistent, but would love to kind of peel back the layers here better understand if anything played out differently versus your initial expectations?

Yes, so, thanks, Andrew, for the question. Really excited. I think we've had a really strong start to the year. Q1 was well within our expectations. We expected obviously, seasonal patterns are known to us historically. So nothing different in Q1 than we've seen in some of the other quarters as well. So very consistent and just to reinforce the customer behavior patterns have been as well as super consistent. We've seen increased engagement, transaction intensity, all these patterns that we track our activity rates and so on with our customers, very consistent. We had record new customer acquisition as well. So we've seen a lot of consistent patterns in Q1, and we continue to be excited about the year.

Yes, Andrew, the only thing I'd add is having built this business over the last 10-plus years, there is seasonality to the business and Q1 has less seasonal activity, as I mentioned in the opening remarks, just due to fewer holidays. But if you look at the overall performance of our cohorts, if you look at the overall fundamentals of our business, things are looking very strong. And so excited about the rest of the year and excited about the fact that out of the gate, we grew 32% year-on-year for a business that now trailing 12 months is at over $1 billion in annual revenue. And that's something that -- those 2 metrics in combination, combined with the improvement on adjusted EBITDA gives us a great start to the year that we're really proud of.

No, it's a great growth rate. That's fair. Maybe to dig into marketing expense just a little bit. So I understand, again, the seasonality in the first quarter, but it's a little bit lower versus our expectations. Has the strategy around performance marketing changed at all? Were you able to deploy as much marketing as you wanted to in the quarter given CAC levels. And then as we think about the full year, understand that there's some scale in the back half potentially with marketing expense. How should we expect at least what you're thinking about right now marketing expense trends?

Again, I think when we look at marketing, again, the whole quarter was very much in line with our expectations. Same applies to marketing. To your point, we did sequentially reduced marketing expense as we can expect it and in plan, and we're able to acquire record new customers in the quarter as well. So we look at unit economics very closely, and I think that's one of our competencies that we've built over the years. When we look at lifetime values of our customers, we look at cost of acquisition and look at those ratios, very consistent across the board. We've seen, again, on the LTV front, consistent behavior from our customers. So it gives us continued conviction that the investments we're making in marketing makes a lot of sense for us when we think about payback and these investments have less than 12 months payback as we called out in the prepared remarks as well. In terms of trends, similar to what we called out last quarter, we do think that as we get to the back half of the year, some of the growth rates in marketing will decelerate in the back half of the year, which is also reflected in our guide for the year. So no change in our strategies around marketing investment, excited about the customers we're acquiring and the paybacks that we're seeing.

And it comes from Ramsey El-Assal with Barclays.

This is Allison on for Ramsey. So it seems like customer acquisition is a key focus here. And you have some really interesting marketing initiatives in the works. Do you think you could give some updated thoughts on where you're seeing new users come from? And maybe how that was apparent as shown in today's results. So just where are you taking share from when you're acquiring a customer? Is it a customer who's brand new to ruminants? Are they coming from a digital channel or brick-and-mortar? Just some updated thoughts here on what your general view is would be really helpful.

If you look at where our customers are coming from, it's a wide range of competitors -- it's a very fragmented market of which, as we've mentioned, we're only 2% of the overall market. Most customers, it really depends on the market, but most customers are not necessarily new immigrants given that there are 250-plus million immigrants that live and work outside the country they are born. And so lots of room to grow within that customer base. And lots of marketing opportunities that ties a little bit to Andrew's question, but we have no shortage of opportunities of high-return marketing channels to invest in. And we're seeing some of the channels that I talked about in the opening remarks in terms of being able to focus in certain geographies like L.A. seeing good returns from marketing channels like that. And our product continues to get better and better every day in terms of the reliability and speed and so that also creates a word-of-mouth effect that we're really excited about. So while you do see the net adds being lower in Q1 because of seasonality of the retention, the number of new customers coming in at record numbers is really exciting for what it holds for the rest of the year.

And from of Will Nance with Goldman Sachs.

I wanted to ask about maybe some of the interplay between the revenue yield on volume and the transaction costs that you mentioned, just knowing you guys have very dynamic pricing, and it seems like there's been a lot of mix shift just in terms of the rates of digital versus in-person disbursement. I'm just wondering if there's anything to be aware of as we think about kind of the continued reduction in transaction costs and sort of your reaction function to gross revenue when you see these shifts to either lower cost payment methods or you gain scale, I guess, said a different way, like are you guys passing on any of the benefits to transaction costs to the customers? And if we see benefits to transaction costs, should we also expect all the equal to see the gross take rate come down?

There's a lot in there to unpack. But maybe just beginning with underpinning it around LTV, we really focus on making sure that we're improving, growing the LTV with our customers, and that's where the real value is. And we look at, obviously, customer behavior trends, which we talked about. And I think you called out the digital trend there as well. And we've seen improved mix towards digital transactions, which again, the 500 basis points this quarter, similar to last quarter as well. So as a digital first player now at significant scale globally, we're excited about that trend. And that certainly has a degree of impact in terms of the mix shifts that we're seeing. But I would say broadly on when you asked about take rate, there's other mix factors in there. We're obviously in multiple geos, et cetera. And when we see our overall take rate with an average of an average, we continue to remain in a band that we're comfortable with. It's in the 2% to 2.5% range, it was very close to what we had sequentially last quarter as well. So no real changes. There is obviously some underpinning mix shifts that we called out, particularly digital trend there. On the transaction cost side, yes, we continue to improve. We think that having more direct connects reducing friction with friction in the entire process are all things that will help us reduce transaction costs and Matt talked about that in his prepared remarks as well. So I would kind of disconnect a little bit around kind of the take rate percentage and the transaction margin percentages. I think they are somewhat not completely directly related. We're seeing great value we're providing to our customers reflected in what you're seeing in terms of revenue growth and activities and an improvement on the transaction expense side as well. Anything further to add, Matt?

I think the punchline answer to the take rate question is mix shift. So that's within the normal band. There's nothing that's happening from a competitive standpoint in Q1 that changed that. And then I love your question around digital disbursement because I think that we have a strategic advantage with our digital-first approach at scale to continue to drive variable costs out of the system. And as we do that, we can decide how much we pass along to customers versus how much we pass along to improving transaction expense, but lots of room for us to continue to differentiate there. And we're leading the way when it comes to digitization, and we're really, really excited and proud of that and excited about what it will hold for our customers as we look forward.

And then just maybe as a follow-up, the seasonality kind of dynamics, I think, kind of be coming up every other quarter. And I hear the commentary on sort of the cadence in the back half of the year, which is, I guess, great to hear the confidence. And I guess I wanted to follow up on the commentary that the growth rate should actually be stronger in the second half of the year on easier comps. And I guess maybe can you just expand a little bit more on that? Like, I guess, when we think about seasonality, it kind of seems like in every other quarter type of thing. And so when you talk about the stronger growth rates in the back half of the year, is that mostly a comment on the third quarter? Or are you generally expecting to see acceleration even as we lap what was a pretty stellar performance in the fourth quarter last year? Sorry to be so nitty-gritty on the quarters here.

Yes. I mean I think the way that we were trying to frame up this to help people understand seasonality. Of course, there are seasonal patterns, which largely relate to sort of holidays and gift-giving periods. And we kind of see that again in Q2 with some of the holidays coming up or have come up earlier this quarter. Now to your question on growth rates, yes. I mean I think when we look at last year, first half, second half and this year, first half, second half, we're really exceptionally strong first half of 2023. So when we think about sort of in terms of growth rates, I think that's kind of why we wanted to share a little bit more around how we think about Q2 as you already have the numbers for Q1, but we do think that Q3 and Q4 will have improved revenue growth rates from that context. We're within the guidance range, again, reinforcing the 30% to 32% for the full year. So that's how it sort of plays out there is the year-over-year comparison and then there's sort of the seasonal elements underpinning all of that. Also, I just want to point out that we've had record new customers. We continue to be excited about adding a lot of new customers. Our bases continue to grow, and we're seeing really strong active customer growth. We talk about QAUs and the metric that we share, but we're excited that we're continuing to build a very strong base of customers here.

And it comes from the line of Tien-Tsin Huang with JPMorgan.

I just want to clarify on the new marketing efforts. I know you mentioned something here in L.A. Do you think some of these investments will be more focused in the second quarter? Or is this more spread out? Do you see it spreading protest other cities or regions as well based on what you learned? I'm just trying to understand what's new versus structurally change in your approach on marketing.

I would say it's a continuation. So this is not something that's dramatically new or different. It's more rolling out what we've done in new geographies. So I wouldn't expect there to be large spikes quarter-to-quarter, and we've got a lot of confidence in the playbook that we've rolled out. So I just mentioned the L.A. example is one, but we've got a lot of other performance marketing channels that are great acquisition channels, especially during times that customers send like Mother's Day and other seasons like that. So continuation and proven channels that we're excited about the continued return from this.

And then just quickly on the -- I know a lot has been asked around seasonality. Just how about -- with the volatility in foreign currency, especially strong dollar here. Is there anything to consider with respect to pull forward of growth? I know it will be transient, but just figured I'd ask. And also FX volatility call out with respect to take rate or fees, monetization, that kind of thing?

When we look at on a global basis, we don't see we have an increasingly diversified portfolio of corridors, and we see FX sort of impacts everywhere. And generally speaking, on a constant currency basis, as you can see, our revenue growth rate was flat. And so nothing specific to call out in terms of FX there. There's always going to be some degree of FX sensitivity for short periods of time at certain transaction sizes, and we see that as well. But on an aggregate basis, as we look across, we haven't seen anything that is material or significant to the results.

And it comes from the line of Rufus Hone with BMO.

I wanted to ask about the broader competitive environment and really just whether you're seeing any incremental change in competitive intensity? Any extra color there would be great.

And the headline there is, as you do, we look at the competitive dynamics, and we haven't seen any material changes in Q1. I think that's indicative of the fact that it's a very large market, as we've mentioned, we're 2% of that very large market. And we're outperforming that market. If you look at the scale and size and growth rate combined of the $1 billion in trailing 12 months' revenue and 32% year-on-year growth. And when you look at why that's the case, we tend to be more customer than competitor-led. And when you look at the products that we have built and that continues to get better every day in terms of reliability, in terms of speed, in terms of a lot of those descriptors that we called out that our customers use to describe our product. That results in strong retention in an industry-leading product, and we're excited about continuing to have the kind of growth that I mentioned as we look forward. So no changes to note in the competitive dynamics other than the structural benefit that we believe we have as a digital-first player at scale and how that resonates in our product.

And just a quick kind of unrelated follow-up on Remitly Circle. I was wondering whether there was any sort of update on progress there?

We continue to be really excited about the ability to offer broad financial services for our customers. And as I mentioned during last earnings call, we're investing in what we call our technology platform, and that has paid dividends when it comes to the efficiency and velocity of our engineering team in terms of taking what's more of a monolith to a more decoupled platform that we're using to not only deploy code and deliver faster for our remittance customers, but also we're making very targeted investments that are more efficient to make those investments on top of that technology platform in what we call complementary products and services. And so Circle is one of those and given our scale and size of the business and just our approach in general, we like to have products get to more materiality before we talk about them broadly, but excited about what's to come with Circle and another area that we're investing in when it comes to complement crude products. More to come there in the future, but excited as ever about the opportunity.

And is from the line of Chris Kennedy with William Blair.

Matt, you talked about the structural profitability of the business. Can you give us your updated views on the long-term margin opportunity here?

I think when you think about, first of all, maybe stepping back in here, I mean we -- I think, we reiterated that we have a significant growth opportunity in cross-border and remittances, and we're excited about that. So we're really anchor around the growth trajectory, and we expect to be in sort of having that as being the primary focus of all of our investments that we're making. But as we look across the P&L, as you've seen, we've been delivering improvements in transaction expense reduction. And frankly, also really excited about the work that's been done in reducing our customer service expenses, which has been reducing year-over-year basis quite substantially with both processes as well as bringing some of the AI and other technologies into it. We've renewed or have even more focus on operational efficiencies, and you've seen that now with our EBITDA performance in the quarter and our increase in our conference for rest of the year in terms of increasing our EBITDA. So we are making progress on improving our margin, to your question, but I think it's a little bit too early for us to talk about long-term margin profile. The business fundamentally has very strong unit economics, and we've seen that to continue to play out. We've seen strong retention and those aspects of customer behavior. So we want to make sure we're taking a balanced approach. But keeping in mind there is a cost of the capital and delivering the returns, both for the near and mid and long term. So early to talk about long-term margins, but making good progress on that front.

Yes. And Chris, the only thing that I would add on that front is remittance businesses, our payments business is inherently and payments business is at scale are -- get a lot of leverage and cash flow when done effectively and correctly, especially digital payments companies. And I think you're seeing that if you look back, I mean, even a year ago, it's easy to lose that we had just over $5 million in adjusted EBITDA a year ago. We're $19 million in the first quarter of this year, and we've guided to $85 million to $95 million in adjusted EBITDA for the year. So that kind of ramp gives you a sense of how the business is getting leveraged. Now we're still growing at 32% year-on-year, while getting that leverage because we want to balance growth and profitability. I will tell you, having again run this business for the last 10-plus years, 5, 10 years ago is really hard to start getting leverage out of the business because we just weren't quite large enough. Now we really have the dials around how much we want to drive down to the bottom line versus how much we want to grow. And we're excited about the momentum on both the top and the bottom line and what's to come.

And then just you mentioned April. Can you give any more color on kind of the trends that you saw in that month?

Yes, I'm happy to take that one, Chris. I think that it's a really important and good question because I think that we've been pleased with the activity -- customer activity in April as we've seen, given the seasonality points that we've made. And obviously, we look at monthly active rates and addition to quarterly active rates. And so as we look at our QAU goals for Q2, we're feeling good about those. And it reinforces that there's seasonality to the business and customer retention continues to be strong. The customer acquisition continues to be strong, which gives us confidence in the rest of the year, as we mentioned. And the one other thing I'll make on this because I think it is related is we don't internally use the term net adds. We do obviously look at quarterly active users, but net adds somehow would signal that these are like new customers coming into the business. And different customers are active in different quarters, hence the seasonality. And when you look at the activity rate in April, it further reinforces that we're excited about our continued retention and the great product that we're continuing to deliver for our customers.

And it comes from the line of Darrin Peller with Wolfe Research.

Can we just circle back to the digital dispersed transaction trends in terms of the amount of the volume per transaction and the trend line it's been dropping a bit for a little some time now. I just kind of want to understand some of the dynamics there and what you see in terms of stabilization or maybe when you could see stabilization on that front? And maybe a little more on the dynamics driving that?

I think that we do see in some markets an increase in digital disbursement trends, which we view as a real positive for our business. And it might mean that customers transact more frequently but a lower average transaction amount, given how easy it is and the variable cost and effort of sending to a mobile wallet as opposed to cash pickup, both take cost out of the system and makes it easier for customers. And so we feel very well positioned to lead some of those transitions in some markets. But I can't emphasize enough that it really varies depending on the market. We're in 170 countries. Some markets remain predominantly cash pickup. Some markets are mobile wallet. Some markets are bank deposit. A few markets are even home delivery, where a courier will come deliver cash to one's home. And what we're good at is getting customers the funds the way that they want to receive them looking very intentionally at the variable costs that feed into that lifetime value and then offering a great product to customers that meet their needs. And given our scale and size, we also have more and more leverage to drive down those costs and do more direct integrations to make that experience more affordable and much faster and more seamless. So we see these trends as positive for our business, and they do very though, depending on the country that customers are sending money to.

AI guess maybe just one quick follow-up would be on the corridor ad potential. It just looks roughly flat if I'm reading it right. And curious to hear what the opportunity in the pipeline is there. And then just, I guess, also a quick follow-up on Circle. I didn't hear anything around timing expectations more than just -- obviously, it's a big opportunity. Just any more color you can give us on potential cadence or timing around it?

On the first question, we are now at over 5,000 corridors and there is no shortage of opportunity for us to grow in both the corridors that we're in as well as new corridors that we can add. And so I mentioned sub-teen Africa as one region, and I've mentioned a few others in the past. But it's not like we need to launch new corridors to drive even short or medium-term growth. We will still launch new corridors because we're in this for the long term, and that is how we have had the compounding growth over the last decade plus. But the point on corridors is there is no shortage of room to grow in corridors that we're in, including corridors we've been in for the last 10-plus years. And so lots of opportunity to grow in new and existing corridors. And on Circle, I broaden it the complementary products, and it's a fair question around timing. We'll talk more about it once it gets to the material point that we think it makes sense to talk about it. But I would view that as a complementary product and a way that we're deepening relationships with our existing customers and excited about the early results we're seeing there and more to come in the future.

Any comes on the line of Alexander Markgraff with KeyBanc Capital Markets.

Just a couple for me. First, Matt, on the accelerated ACH offering that you mentioned going live later this year, any sort of considerations around the economics of that payment method versus what exists today for Remitly?

Yes, we're excited about launching Fast ACH later this year. And the economics are favorable in the sense that we can offer a faster product without having to pay some of the card processing fees. And so that's something we're exciting to be able to offer to our customers later this year.

Sorry to belabor the point on net adds or that's not the right metric, just quarterly actives. But I guess I'm trying to sort of square some of the comments on seasonal opportunity to add customers with the comments around record new customers. And then what I think a lot of folks do look at externally the net adds. So just I guess I'm struggling to sort of piece that all together and if quarterly net adds is not the right metric to look at? Just any sort of guidance on how to better think about that and capture how you all are thinking about it internally, it would be helpful.

Obviously, with the metrics we share, we understand the math that's being done there. But we just wanted to make sure there is clarity in the sense that there are customers who are active in different periods of time and the seasonality there plays into effect. And in terms of record, so when you think about Q1 in particular, maybe this is the simplest way to answer, January and February are generally much lighter months than most months in the year. And March is where activity starts picking up. And so when we looked at that and saw a significant portion of new customer acquisition would come in later part of -- came in the later part of Q1. So I think this is around -- you have to look at almost monthly active users to look at what's going on in terms of the rates there. So that's probably one of the better metrics, and we track that internally and pretty excited about how our marketing and other efforts are helping us acquire new customers.

And is from Andrew Bauch with Wells Fargo.

Sorry to ask duplicative questions at the back end here. But I guess looking at the yield trajectory that you're seeing in the business now, I know it's -- we've been talking about the digital piece of the business and the like. But is there any way to get comfortable on how we should be modeling this gross yield trajectory through the remainder of the year? And what -- is it mix that you kind of anticipate shifting back into higher-yield corridors? Or is it -- are we all looking at this kind of on the wrong way? Because I think that's the key piece that people are trying to focus in on.

Yes. I don't think there's necessarily an easy way here, Alex, to model that out because there are quite a few mix effects when you look at the take rate, if you will, effectively but largely depends on the average transaction price, and that sort of changes by corridor, it changes based on obviously the digital trend that we talked about or other options that customers might choose to prefer. So we do look at it on an aggregate average basis, which just tends to operate in a range. And I think the best way to model that going forward is to keep it within the range. Yes. And the only thing I'd add is I don't -- we've talked about some digital trends, when you're saying yield, I think you're referring to take rate. And I think that there hasn't really been trends in terms of take rate as much as there is a mix shift a bit quarter-to-quarter, but it's not hugely material when you look at that amount of mix. And what we're focused on is things like ARPU and specifically average revenue per transaction, the profit per transaction and fewer trends there as much as how we think about modeling the business. So no big trends on the take rate side, outside of mix year.

And then, look, it's been 2, 3 quarters now where we've had this higher levels of marketing spend. And I'm trying to understand on when you do ramp up investments in marketing. What are those LTV curves look like? Should we be anticipating some more returns in the way of customers, be it on a gross or a net basis in 2024? I'm just trying to wrap my head around that comment around new customers added in '24 relative to '23 is still something we should be relying on.

Nothing fundamentally has really changed in terms of our marketing return profile remains very strong and consistent. We've previously shared ratios of LTV to CAC and they tend to be in the is sort of range and with payback period less than 12 months. So there's a lot of consistency in that, and so there's really no change in that. Now when we think about sort of sequential growth Q1 to Q2 in terms of quarterly active users, given the trends that we've seen in April that Matt talked about very much in line with our expectation. We do expect an increase in terms of sort of seasonal growth and other growth with even the new customer acquisitions we're doing for Q2 versus what we had in Q1.

And it comes from Matthew O'Neill with FT Partners.

I think most of the questions have been asked and answered, and I'll follow up real quick on Darrin’s quarter question. Just curious, philosophically, around 5,000 I think some competitors are a few multiples of that. Is that something that you guys collectively think about internally as a number that is a target to achieve on a quarterly basis or more of an outcome that just kind of happens over time, recognizing that all corridors are not created equal.

Thanks, Matt. I view us getting into that many corridors in the future. But it's in our DNA, given how corridor-specific this business is and how unit economic focus this business is to do it in a really intentional way. And so if you go back to the early days of Remitly, we spent a couple of years just focused on the U.S. Philippines, and we got that right and then we scaled them the right way. And the good thing is about where we're at now is we have a portfolio of 5,000 corridors to be able to grow in, all of which there's growth opportunity. And we also have corridors that we can continue to launch over the coming quarters and years. So no shortage of growth opportunities, as I mentioned, lots of new corridors to be able to grow in currently and a playbook to launch new corridors in a really intentional way. So we launched them in the right time with the right efficiency, with the right playbook as we've always done to be able to fuel long-term growth.

And if I could just squeeze in one more follow-up to fully belabor the marketing questions. Would you say you're still operating in a bit of a heightened kind of marketing spend, paradigm, like you have communicated over the last couple of quarters? And if so, is it maybe more of a structural shift that as you're seeing scale come through in the business and transaction and other costs are coming down structurally that on a more permanent basis, you'll want to sort of put more money towards the marketing going forward?

And not belaboring at all. I think marketing in the data-driven way that we do is one of our competitive advantages. And so Matthew talk about it all day. I wouldn't say that there's a heightened marketing competitive environment right now. I think that there's continuation in terms of stability on that front. I think our marketing team is continuing to execute very well across multiple channels and multiple geographies. And we're excited about payback. We're excited about the record number of new customers. And given the kind of cohort way that our business works with the seasonality, we're excited about what that means for QAUs and revenue and ultimately, profit growth in the quarters to come.

And that was the final question. I will now turn the call back to Matt Oppenheimer for closing remarks.

Thanks again, everyone, for the really thoughtful questions. As we always do at Remitly, I'd like to end the call by highlighting another one of our amazing customers, Remil. And Remil money from the United Kingdom to his family in the Philippines. He was one of the many customers who shared their feedback with us last year, and Remil commented trustworthy, reliable, fast and most of all, I feel safe. We want to thank Remil for placing his trust, which is ultimately what our product is all about in Remitly and for his recognition of the safety, reliability and speed of our service. And we want to thank all of you for joining us, and we appreciate your continued support. We are excited about the opportunities ahead, and we look forward to sharing our progress as we continue to execute on our vision of transforming lives with trusted financial services that transcend orders.

Thank you all for participating, and you may now disconnect.