Ben Milne Net Worth 2026

No reputable publisher has estimated Ben Milne's net worth, so the $27 million figure this page used to show has been removed. Milne is the Des Moines entrepreneur who co-founded the payments company Dwolla in 2008, ran it as CEO until March 2020, and now leads Brale, a stablecoin infrastructure company. His wealth is tied to private stakes in those two companies, and neither has disclosed a valuation that would let anyone calculate it.

What is Ben Milne's net worth?

Forbes, Bloomberg, Celebrity Net Worth and the major business papers have not published a figure. Dwolla and Brale are both privately held, so the value of his shares is not public, and he has not discussed his personal finances in any interview we found. Any precise number on the web is a guess.

What can be said is that he founded a company that grew into a large piece of U.S. payments plumbing, and that he is now building a second one in a fast-growing part of fintech.

Ben Milne's yearly earnings, monthly income and salary

The previous version of this page listed income of $1.1 million a year, $91,000 a month and $3,000 a day. There is no source for those numbers and they have been removed. Neither Dwolla nor Brale publishes executive pay. As a founder, most of his financial upside comes from equity rather than salary.

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Dwolla: the company he built

Milne and Shane Neuerburg founded Dwolla in Iowa in 2008, according to Wikipedia's company history. After raising $1.31 million, it launched nationally in December 2010, first with a few small banks and retailers. By June 2011 it had 15 employees, 20,000 users and about $1 million a week in payment volume.

Dwolla's pitch was cheaper, faster bank transfers built on the ACH network, as an alternative to card fees. It added government customers: the Iowa Department of Revenue began taking tax payments through it in 2013, and in February 2015 the U.S. Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service added it to the system federal agencies use for electronic payments.

There were setbacks. In 2016 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau brought its first data-security enforcement action against Dwolla, saying the company's security practices did not match what it told customers; Dwolla settled. That same year it changed its model and became a business-to-business software company, selling payment APIs to other firms. Wikipedia reports that by 2022 Dwolla had about 650 clients and processed about $45 billion in payments that year, up from $20 billion in 2019.

Stepping back from Dwolla

In March 2020 Dwolla named Brady Harris, formerly of Payscape, as CEO, replacing Milne. The Fintech Times reported that Milne stayed on to support the company, including as a board member. In August 2025 FinTech Futures reported that he had left Dwolla's board, ending a 17-year tenure with the company he founded.

Brale: his current company

Milne is founder and CEO of Brale, based like Dwolla in Des Moines. In a 2026 Stellar Development Foundation interview, he described Brale as letting companies issue and run their own regulated, dollar-backed stablecoins without building the banking, compliance and blockchain systems themselves. He said he chose to build inside existing regulation from the start.

• Scale: Milne told CoinDesk in July 2026 that Brale supports more than 100 stablecoin programs across over 30 blockchains.
• ION Protocol (July 2026): Brale launched a testnet for ION, a system that moves participating stablecoins between blockchains by burning tokens on one chain and minting them on another, without pre-funded liquidity pools.
• Visa pilot (June 2026): Visa and Brale began testing settlement with SBC, a dollar-backed stablecoin, on the Canton Network, The Defiant reported.

The timing matters for his wealth. CoinDesk put the stablecoin market at over $300 billion in July 2026, with more than 350 tokens tracked. If Brale keeps winning issuers, his stake could become worth far more than anything he earned at Dwolla. But Brale has not published a valuation, so that remains unquantified.

Career timeline

Early life, education and family

The old page said Milne came from a family of entrepreneurs, that he completed a college degree, that he founded Lincoln Savings Bank, and that his wife is named Jami. We could not confirm any of this, and the bank claim is wrong: he founded Dwolla and Brale, not a bank. Those statements have been removed. Milne lives in Des Moines, Iowa, according to the Stellar interview.

Age, height and weight

His date of birth, height and weight have not been published by a reliable source, so the old figures (41 years, 5 feet 7 inches, 89 kg) were removed.

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Why no number is given

Founders of private companies are the hardest people to value. Milne's stake in Dwolla was diluted over years of funding rounds, the company's valuation has not been reported, and Brale's investors and valuation are not public in any source we could verify. Until an outlet such as Forbes or Bloomberg reports those numbers, we say plainly that his net worth is unknown.