Hello Fintech Friends,
Fintech startups raised $4.5 billion in combined equity this week.
This doesn’t even include the CRED, Flutterwave, and Slice $100mm+ rounds in which the final amount is still undisclosed. There were 42 total equity raise announcements.
Elsewhere and much less excitingly, I did an AMA with the team at Heyday.
Please find another week of fintech financings and exits below.
Editor’s Note: If you’re an early-stage startup founder raising equity or debt, I may be able to help - reach out to [email protected].
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💸 Venture Financing
GoodLeap, a solar roof and green home financing platform, raised $1 billion.
MoonPay, a payments on-ramp for cryptocurrency investing, is raising $400 million at a $3.4 billion valuation.
Celsius Network, a decentralized earning and lending protocol, raised $400 million.
Bolt, an online one-click checkout provider, raised $389 million at a $6 billion valuation.
Global Processing Services, an API-based payments and embedded finance platform, raised $300 million.
TradingView, a financial information API, platform, and social network, raised $298 million at a $3 billion valuation.
Tripactions, a corporate employee expense management startup, raised $275 million at a $7.25 billion valuation.
Trumid, an electronic credit trading platform, raised $208 million.
Swile, a French payment card for employee benefits, raised a $200 million Series D at a $1 billion+ valuation.
Interfirst Mortgage, a mortgage originator, raised $175 million in a superheated homebuying market.
Tala, an emerging markets microlender, raised a $145 million Series E from backers including Upstart and Stellar.
Halo Investing, an investing platform for structured notes, annuities, and buffered ETFs, raised a $100 million Series C.
Open, an Indian neobank, raised a $100 million Series C.
ZoneBilling, a NetSuite billing technology provider, raised a $76 million growth investment.
Alviere, an embedded finance startup, raised $70 million (a $20 million Series A and $50 million Series B).
Beacon, a custom trading and risk management solution, raised a $56 million Series C.
Juni, a Swedish e-commerce banking provider, raised a $52 million Series A.
M2P Fintech, an Asian financial API infrastructure provider, raised a $35 million Series C.
Fount, a South Korean roboadvisory investor, raised $33.4 million.
Ramp, (the other ramp) a Polish fiat to crypto on-ramp, raised a $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation.
Atomic, a payroll API, raised $22 million in Series A funding.
Nelo, a Mexican buy-now-pay-later company, raised $20 million.
Productfy, an embedded financial services platform for fintechs, raised a $16 million Series A.
FrankieOne, an ID and fraud management service for fintechs, raised A$20 million ($16 million).
Xpansiv, an ESG commodities marketplace, raised $15 million from Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Mono, an African open banking API provider, raised a $15 million Series A.
MagicCube, a chip replacement provider for mobile payment terminals, raised $15 million.
Mondu, a German B2B payments company, raised $14 million in seed funding.
Lendflow, an embedded small and medium business lender, raised a $10.8 million Series A.
Pagos, a payments intelligence infrastructure, raised $10 million in seed funding.
Chari, a Moroccan business-to-business payment and commerce startup, raised a $5 million seed.
Niro, an Indian consumer lending startup, raised $3.5 million in seed funding.
Sparkle, a Nigerian neobank, raised $3.1 million.
Klasha, a Nigerian cross-border commerce and payments API, raised $2.4 million in seed funding.
Ejara, a Cameroonian investing and crypto trading platform, raised $2 million.
SUMA Wealth, a financial management app for young Latino users, raised a $2 million pre-seed.
Perch, a Canadian real estate investing platform, raised a $1 million seed round.
Payday, a “PayPal for Africa,” raised a $1 million pre-seed.
CRED, an Indian credit card rewards startup, is raising a new round of funding at a $5.5 billion valuation.
Flutterwave, a Nigerian financial infrastructure provider, is raising funds at a $3 billion valuation.
Slice, an Indian credit card issuer, is reportedly raising over $100 million.
Finbourne, a UK financial data management startup, raised strategic funding from the London Stock Exchange.
Forge Global Inc. also launched a new fund, D/XYZ, which raised $100 million for its first investment portfolio and aims to list it publicly as a closed-end exchange-traded fund for retail investors.
💵 Debt Financing
Atome, an Asian buy-now-pay-later platform, raised $500 million in (committed) lending capital from Standard Chartered.
Ampla, an embedded lender for consumer brands, raised a $250 million credit facility from Atalaya Capital Management.
Lendable, which provides debt financing to fintech startups across emerging markets, is raising a further $100 million.
☯️ Exits
💻 IPOs
Personal financial advice and product marketplace NerdWallet filed for a US IPO on the back of strong earnings (including a 32% jump in revenue).
AvidXchange successfully raised $660 million in its IPO.
Australian neobank Judo Bank is looking to raise A$653 million in its IPO at a valuation around A$2.3 billion.
Enfusion, an investment management software provider, set terms for a $300 million IPO that would value it around $1.9 billion.
AvidXchange,
P10, an alternative asset investment management software provider, began its IPO roadshow.
📈 SPACs
🤝 M&A - Fintech
SumUp, a European point of sale provider, acquired customer loyalty startup Fivestars for $317 million in cash and stock.
Vroom, a UK car-buying e-commerce platform, acquired auto lender United Auto Credit Corporation for $300 million in cash.
finova, a UK core banking solutions provider, acquired mortgage and savings software BEP.
Danish neobank Lunaracquired payments gateway provider Paylike.
Goodlord, a UK property tech firm, acquiredacasa, a fintech platform for tenant household bills.
Financial data platform FactSet acquired portfolio monitoring provider Cobalt Software.
European blockchain company R3 acquired stablecoin issuance platform Invo.
🏦 M&A - Bank
Bank mergers are on-track to hit their highest level since (ominously) the financial crisis.
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