Singaporean neobank Aspire raises $100 million (TWIF 2/18)

Hello Fintech Friends,
This week we saw 32 new fintech fundraises, 3 fundraises over $100 million, Metaverse commercial opportunity calls – we are so, so... back?
This week was also the thrilling conclusion of Jenny Johnston’s 3-part real-time payments overview. If you missed them, you can catch all three segments here:
- Real-time Real Talk: A Real-time Payments Download - Part 1
- Real-time Real Talk: A Real-time Payments Download - Part 2, Electric Boogaloo
- Real-time Real Talk: A Real-time Payments Download - Part 3, Tokyo Drift
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Please find another week of fintech financing events below.
If you’re an early-stage startup founder raising equity or debt, we may be able to help - come check out our fund, The Fintech Fund (including a link to pitch us). Are you a fintech angel investor? Come join our syndicate.
Ansaf Kareem of Lightspeed Ventures published a good writeup of fintech subsector valuations and fundraising strategy. You can read it at The Alchemy of FinTech Valuations.
Meanwhile, per KPMG, UK fintech investing fell 56% in 2022, from $39.1 billion in 2021 to $17.4 billion.
💸 Venture Financing
- Juniper Square, a partnership enablement provider for investment funds, raised $133 million in growth capital.
- PhonePe, the Indian payments provider, added $100 million to its prior fundraise of $250 million at a $12 billion valuation.
- Aspire, a Singaporean neobank, raised a $100 million Series C.
- Taurus, a Swiss crypto infrastructure provider, raised a $65 million Series B from Credit Suisse.
- Smile Identity, a Nigerian provider of ID and KYC solutions for Africa, raised a $20 million Series B.
- Shift, an Australian small business credit and payments company, raised an A$27 million Series C.
- Puzzle, an accounting software builder for data streaming and subscription tools, raised a $15 million Series A.
- Earth Finance, a corporate strategy and climate investing firm, raised a $14 million seed round.
- Landytech, an aggregation software platform for tracking investment portfolios, raised a $12 million Series B.
- Alongside*, a crypto index investing provider, raised an $11 million seed round.
- Luminary, a collaboration platform for financial advisors, raised $9.5 million.
- Ledge, an Israeli no-code payments command center, raised a $9 million seed round.
- SendOwl, a digital product checkout tool, raised €8.4 million.
- Vexi, a Mexican neobank, raised an $8 million Series A.
- AdalFi, a Pakistani end-to-end digital lender, raised $7.5 million.
- Finq, an Israeli digital marketplace for investment, pension, and insurance products, raised $6 million.
- Thatch, a benefits provider and debit card issuer for startups, raised a $6 million seed round.
- Asset-Map, an advice app for wealth managers, raised a $6 million Series B.
- C3, a decentralized crypto exchange, raised a $6 million seed round.
- Stelo Labs, a security platform to prevent malicious crypto transactions, raised a $6 million seed.
- Vaas, a Colombian debt management platform, raised a $5 million seed round.
- ModernFi, a deposit marketplace for banks, raised a $4.5 million seed round.
- Comun, a provider of modern banking solutions for Latino families, raised a $4.5 million seed round.
- Kennek, a software for alternative lenders, raised a $4.5 million pre-seed.
- Sandbox Banking, a low-code integration platform for banking, raised $4.3 million in seed funding.
- Power, a Kenyan financial wellness platform (not to be confused with credit card infrastructure provider Power), raised a $3 million seed round.
- Raison, an Estonian stockbroker app, confirmed a €1.5 million raise at a €30 million valuation.
- Fuelfinance, a Ukrainian financial management tool for startup founders, raised a $1 million seed round.
- Uplinq, a credit assessment and scoring platform for small business lenders, raised $600,000.
- Fondo, a tax prep and accounting software for startups, raised a $3 million mix of debt and equity.
- Clear Street, an independent prime broker, raised a strategic investment from proprietary trading firm and global market maker IMC.
- Infinity, a defi protocol for institutional lending and borrowing, raised a strategic round from Nomura.
++ it's not often that you see a Series B announcement in African tech.
— Benjamin Dada (@DadaBen_) February 15, 2023
Last year, I counted only 12 Series B rounds and over 100 Seed rounds.
Gorgeous. pic.twitter.com/AprCmsp4bk
— Jared Franklin (@jsfranklin221) February 15, 2023
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