Hello Fintech Friends,
For anyone in Dubai, I’ll see you soon at our first UAE Fintech Meetup 👋
For everyone in the states, I hope you’re getting a chance to enjoy great food, family, sleeping in, some A+ football matchups, early NBA season, leftovers, seeing your old high school friends, the end-of-year work wind-down, and being outdoors before it gets too cold.
Please find another week of fintech financing events below.
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💸 Venture Financing
Ant Group, the Chinese fintech payments conglomerate, raised $1.49 billion for its consumer finance unit.
Prosper, a peer to peer lending platform, raised $75 million in growth capital.
Symend, a credit and debt charge-off collections automation engine, raised $42 million.
Cobee, a Spanish employment benefits superapp with spending card and payroll integrations, raised a €40 million Series B.
Novo, a neobank for small businesses, raised a $35 million Series B extension at a $720 million valuation.
Ramani, a Tanzanian financial services provider to consumer-packaged goods supply chains, raised a $32 million Series A debt/equity round.
Taktile, a sandbox for fintech decision-making modules, raised a $20 million Series A.
Atoa Payments, a UK open banking merchant payments startup, raised a $2.2 million pre-seed.
Nine25, an Australian streaming salary and budgeting platform, raised an A$2.25 million crowdfunding round.
Waivr, a real-time recurring payment processor, raised $1.4 million.
Featurespace, which is building a privacy-enhancing artificial intelligence system to help banks and payments service providers detect financial crime, secured funding from the US and UK governments.
WeLab, a Hong Kong-based consumer credit and payments platform, plans to raise funding at a $2 billion valuation.
Ethic Adviser, a sustainable investing platform, is aiming to raise a $1 million seed round.
💵 Debt Financing
B2B payments and lending company Balance raised a $350 million credit facility from Viola Credit to lend to businesses.
UK-based asset management technology provider Fasanara Capital raised $200 million from a Canadian pension fund.
Electric vehicle and home electrification loan provider Tenet raised a $25 million credit facility from NY Green Bank.
