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Alan is a provider of an online digital insurance service intended to unlock frictionless, fair, and friendly healthcare for everyone. The company's service offers simple and seamless insurance coverage with reimbursements, easy claim handling, and gives users access to medical professionals, both through in-person appointments and by video calls, enabling users to easily and conveniently get medical advice and manage their claims and reimbursements.
Company
Alan
Key people
Founders: Charles Gorintin, Jean-Charles Samuelian
Founded
2016
Funding
Total funding £268.2m Post Money valuation £1.2Bn April 2021
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 22-Apr-2021)
The company raised EUR 185 million of Series D venture funding in a deal led by Coatue Management on April 19, 2021. Dragoneer Investment Group, Exor, Ribbit Capital, Index Ventures, and Temasek Holdings also participated in the round. The funds will be used to fuel the recruitment efforts of an additional 400 staff and reach 1 million members in Europe by 2023. Also, Undisclosed investors sold a stake in the company for EUR 35 million on April 19, 2021. Previously, the company raised EUR 50 million through the combination of debt and Series C venture funding in a deal led by Temasek Holdings on April 20, 2020.
Index Ventures and other undisclosed investors also participated in the round. The funds will be used to push its growth via 4 main avenues: offering better health insurance coverage to its members; digitizing healthcare for companies; becoming the leading app for instant health info; and, expanding internationally (following the opening of two new offices in Spain and Belgium this summer, Alan aims to expand in most European countries over the next 5 years).HQ
Paris, France
FRSector
Digital Health Insurance
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Provider of asset management services intended to make sustainable investments attractive and available to all investors. The company's services provide self-learning quant models and big data to assess the performance and sustainability of globally listed companies, enabling investors to make proper and informed investments.
Through machine learning and big data, Arabesque S-Ray systematically combines over 200 environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics with news signals from over 50,000 sources across 15 languages.
It is the first tool of its kind to rate companies on the normative principles of the United Nations Global Compact: Human Rights, Labor Rights, the Environment, and Anti-Corruption (GC Score).
Company
Arab
Key people
CEO: Andreas Feiner
Founded
2017
Funding
Total funding: $20M; Latest funding: $20M Series A, Jan 2019 - Allianz X, Land Hessen, Commerz Real AG and DWS Group
HQ
Frankfurt, Germany
DESector
ESG investing / sustainability / machine learning / Big Data
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Developer of an online platform designed to provide a better way to transfer money around the world.
Azimo is created with the explicit mission of cutting the costs of sending money home. Its international money transfer platform allows to send money either to a bank account or to over 270,000 cash pick-up points around the world and is accessible via mobile devices to send money to over 190 countries from any internet-connected device in a secure and efficient manner.
Company
Azimo
Key people
CEO: Richard Ambrose; Founder(s): Ricky Knox, Michael Kent, Marta Krupinska
Founded
2012
Funding
Total funding: $66M; Latest funding: $20M Series C May 2018
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Money transfer, Remittances, Financial inclusion
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Netherlands-based neobank, Bunq, developer of a banking system designed to offer a clean alternative to traditional banking.
Immediate access from a mobile device individuals can setup dedicated bank accounts, request their money back for something they paid upfront for and use one card for multiple bank accounts, enabling businesses to offer debit cards to their employees for them to make real-time payments or turn their smartphones into a mobile contactless payment terminal.
Bunq promotes itself as being “sustainable by default”, because they only invest ethically.
Company
Bunq
Key people
CEO & Founder: Ali Niknam
Founded
2013
Funding
Total funding raised to date £175.5m as of June 2021 post money valuation £1.42Bn
Most Recent Financing Status
(as of 17-Jun-2021)
The company received EUR 160 million of development capital from undisclosed investors on June 17, 2021. The transaction values the company at EUR 1.65 billion.HQ
Amsterdam, Netherlands
NLSector
Mobile banking
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Calastone is an independent, cross-border transaction network for the mutual fund industry. The company is the largest global funds transaction network, connecting many of the world’s leading financial organisations.
Their mission is to make funds accessible to everyone by reducing the frictional cost of trading. They use smart technology solutions and industry collaboration to lower operational risk and enhance client profitability through digitisation and automation.
Over 1,700 customers in 40 countries and territories benefit from Calastone’s services, processing over 9 million messages and £170 billion of transactions each month.
Company
Calastone
Key people
CEO: Julien Hammerson; Founders: Kevin Lee, Ian Taylor, Philip Goffin
Founded
2011
Funding
Total funding: $22.8M; Latest funding: Venture October 2013
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Trading
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Chainalysis designs and develops anti-money laundering software for Bitcoin businesses. Its products include REACTOR, an interactive and investigation tool that identifies offenders, visualizes data, and shares results with people and organizations, and API, a transaction based risk scoring solution that contains source and destination of funds to measure risk.
The company's software offers transfer of value over the Internet and new methods of data analysis, visualization and actionable intelligence to protect the integrity of cryptocurrency transactions, enabling financial institutions to interact with businesses that transact on the blockchain and meet compliance requirements.
Jan Moller, Jonathan Levin, and Michael Gronager founded Chainalysis in 2014. It has its headquarters in New York City with an additional office in Copenhagen in Denmark.
Company
Chainalysis
Key people
Founders: Jan Moller, Michael Gronager, Jonathan Levin
Founded
2014
Funding
Latest funding: Feb 2019 $30M / April 2019 $6M; Total funding: $53.6M
HQ
Copenhagen, Denmark
DKSector
Blockchain, AML, bitcoin, trust
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ClauseMatch is an award-winning financial technology company that provides a software-as-a-service platform for smart document management.
The company's platform applies machine learning to help compliance, legal, finance, operations and risk departments to automate impact assessments, streamline the implementation of regulatory change and to collaborate on thousands of documents across the entire organization, enabling companies to standardize and automate processes and workflows across teams, reduce costs, speed up implementation and demonstrate compliance.
They received $2.5 million of debt financing in the form of venture debt funding from Silicon Valley Bank on May 28, 2019. The funds will support the company's continued growth in Europe and Asia.
Company
ClauseMatch
Key people
CEO: Evgeny Likhoded; Founder: Evgeny Likhoded, Andrey Dokuchaev
Founded
2012
Funding
Latest Funding: $2.5M - Venture Debt, May 2019; Total Funding: $9.3M
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
RegTech, Smart Document Management
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ClearBank is a next generation UK clearing and agency banking platform built with the customer in mind. The Company’s innovative platform serves FinTech businesses and banks, and offers the UK banking industry’s first and only real-time, straight-through clearing capability.
The company's clearing banking system offers a core banking platform and helps in liquidity management and transaction analysis, enabling businesses and individual customers to move money between different accounts and clear cheques via any authorized UK payment system.
Company
ClearBank
Key people
Executive Chairman / Founder: Nick Ogden; CEO: Charles McManus
Founded
2016
Funding
Total funding: £154.9M with a post money valuation £342.32m as of March 2021
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 28-May-2021)
The company raised GBP 18.00 million of venture funding from undisclosed investors on March 29, 2021, putting the company's pre-money valuation at GBP 324.32 million.
Investors include Northern Private Capital based in Toronto.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Banking as a service, payment processing, core banking
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Clearmatics is developing next-generation clearing machines for financial OTC markets. Its blockchain platform brings together custodians and end-users on a single platform, where members can settle securities trades and automate the performance of derivatives and other financial contracts using Clearmatics’ Decentralised Clearing Network (DCN) technology.
Company
Clearmatics
Key people
CEO & Founder: Robert Sams
Founded
2015
Funding
Total funding: $13.3M; Latest funding: $12M, Series A - Oct 2018
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Blockchain
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Provider of free access to credit scores and reports intended to help users achieve greater financial well-being.
The company's credit scores and reports help users to consolidate their personal debts and repay them via a low-interest, fixed-rate loan, enabling users to plan for the future and make more informed and responsible decisions about how they manage their debt.
Company
Clearscore
Key people
Founders: Justin Basini (CEO), Dan Cobley, Nigel Morris
Founded
2014
Funding
Total raised to date £154M with a post money valuation £503m as of June 2021
Most Recent Financing Status(as of 28-Jun-2021)
The company raised GBP 144 million of venture funding from Invus Opportunities on June 25, 2021, putting the company's pre-money valuation at GBP 359 million. The funds will be used to expand ClearScore's workforce, product portfolio and customer base.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Credit Reporting
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CloudMargin was formed in 2014, inspired by the power of new technology and driven by the belief that existing collateral management solutions were over-priced, inefficient, and inaccessible, the founders decided to change things for the better.
Developer of a cloud-based collateral and risk management platform designed to centralize, connect, automate, and optimize collateral management for everyone. The company's platform offers real-time reports on all collateral positions in order to facilitate straight-through processing through settlement, enabling financial institutions to meet time-critical regulatory deadlines and reduce costs associated with collateral requirements.
Company
Cloudmargin
Key people
CEO: Stuart Connolly
Founded
2014
Funding
The company raised GBP 15.80 million of Series B venture funding from Deutsche Börse Group, DB1 Ventures and Citigroup on September 22, 2020, putting the company's pre-money valuation at GBP 25.98 million. Deutsche Bank also participated in the round. The funds will be used by the company to further innovate the platform and technological capability to deliver an enhanced product and service for clients and partners. In addition, the firm intends to expand its sales and client service capabilities in the U.S. and Asia to meet greater demand.
Series A investors included: Illuminate Financial, IHS Markit, JefferiesHQ
London, UK
GBSector
RegTech, Risk Management, Business Productivity
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ComplyAdvantage provide data intelligence to help firms understand the risk of who they’re doing business with, while automating compliance and risk processes.
The company's platform provides real-time insights into the risk of companies globally and changes how companies assess who they're doing business with, while automating compliance and risk processes, enabling firms make intelligent risk decisions faster. ComplyAdvantage’s suite of plug-and-play configurable cloud services seamlessly integrate to help automate and comply with Sanctions, AML and CTF regulations.
Company
Comply advantage
Key people
CEO / Founder: Charles Delingpole
Founded
2014
Funding
Total funding: $38.2M; Latest funding: $30M, Series B, Jan 2019 - Index Ventures, Balderton Capital
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
AML, Compliance, RegTech
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Cuvva provides insurance services designed to connect customers directly with insurers. The company's services offer an application based, pay-as-you-drive and motor insurance platform offering comprehensive cover within minutes and 24/7 customer support, enabling users to use a new kind of insurance which is fast, easy and friendly.
The company raised GBP 15 million of Series A venture funding from LocalGlobe, Tekton Ventures and Seedcamp on December 3, 2019
Company
Cuvva
Key people
Founders: James Billingham, Freddy Macnamara (CEO)
Founded
2014
Funding
Total funding: $17.7M; Latest funding: $15M Series A Dec 2019 Local Globe, Tekton Ventures, Seedcamp
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London, UK
GBSector
Insurance
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Cytora founded in 2014 transforms underwriting for commercial insurance. The Cytora Risk Engine uses artificial intelligence to learn the patterns of different risks and loss outcomes over time and computes a rank, score and price for every property and organization, enabling insurers to target the most profitable risks, improve risk selection and pricing as well as deliver fairer prices to their customers.
The company raised GBP 25 million of Series B venture funding in a deal led by EQT Ventures on April 16, 2019. Parkwalk Advisors, Adfisco and Cambridge Innovation Capital also participated in the round.
Company
Cytora
Key people
Founders: Aeneas Wiener, Andrzej Czapiewski, Joshua Wallace, Richard Hartley
Founded
2019
Funding
Total funding: $41.4M; Latest funding: $25M, Series B, April 2019 - EQT Ventures, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Parkwalk Advisors
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Insurance, underwriting, AI
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Based in London and New York, Eigen is a research-led artificial intelligence company whose mission is to help individuals and organisations make the right decisions by unlocking the value of their qualitative data.
Eigen automates the extraction and classification of information from documents. Its simple, flexible Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology accurately extracts information from diverse types of documents at scale and can be integrated into clients’ workflows. The start-up uses state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to recognize patterns in text and give accurate answers to unique questions. This enables clients to use data in new ways to make the right business decisions: driving down costs, finding opportunities, calculating risks, and meeting regulatory requirements. Clients include leading names in finance, law, and professional services.
Company
Eigen
Key people
Founders: Jonathan Feuer, Lewis Z Liu
Founded
2014
Funding
Total funding: $17.5M; Latest funding: $17.5M, Series A, Jun 2018 - Goldman Sachs, Principal Strategic Investments, Temasek
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London, UK
GBSector
AI / NLP / Qualitative Data
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Developer of a global digital ledger platform designed to track and protect valuable assets. The company's digital ledger uses blockchain technology and a distributed ledger system to reduce fraud-related instances of valuables and generate more leads or provide evidence of compliance to industry standards, enabling manufacturers and jewelry retailers to gain digital asset analysis.
The platform combines a rich forensic approach to identify and track asset provenance to provide confidence in the transparency driven across global supply chains.
The company has raised $30M to date as of July 2020. Post valuation £46.99M as of March 2018.
Company
Everledger
Key people
CEO: Leanne Kemp
Founded
2015
Funding
Total funding: $30.4M; Latest funding: $20M Series A, September 2019 Most Recent Financing Status
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The company raised $7 million of convertible debt financing from Tencent Holdings, Government of UK and other undisclosed investors on July 15, 2020. Outrun Ventures also participated in this round.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Blockchain
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Farewill is a digital, all-in-one financial and legal services platform for dealing with death. The company offers an online personalized will-writing, will management and probate services enabling clients to manage their wills online using simple and affordable digital tools through round-the-clock customer service operations.
The company raised GBP 7.68 million of Series A venture funding from dmg ventures, M&C Saatchi and Augmentum (London) on January 14, 2019, putting the company's pre-money valuation at GBP 11.74 million. It is backed by the founders of Zoopla and Wonga, along with Kindred Capital and M&C Saatchi.
Company
Farewill
Key people
Founders: Dan Garrett, Tom Rogers
Founded
2015
Funding
Total funding: £8M; Latest funding: £7.5M, Venture round, Jan 2019
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London, UK
GBSector
Online wills
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Featurespace is the world-leader in Adaptive Behavioural Analytics and creator of the ARIC™ platform, a machine learning software system.
The ARIC™ platform uses anomaly detection to analyse complex behavioural data in real time, spotting anomalies to block new fraud attacks as they occur. At the same time, Featurespace recognises genuine customers without blocking their activity. ARIC™ reduces the number of genuine transactions incorrectly identified as fraud by over 70%, enabling businesses to accept more revenue.
Featurespace has deployed the ARIC™ platform to organisations that have services or products deployed in over 180 countries. Customers include Betfair, Vocalink/Zapp, Worldpay, and TSYS, the largest third-party processor of Visa® and MasterCard® credit cards in the U.S.
Company
Featurespace
Key people
CEO: Martina King; Founders: Bill Fitzgerald, David Excell
Founded
2012
Funding
Total funding: $71.2M; Recent funding: $32.6M Venture Jan 2019
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Adaptive Behavioural Analytics
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Fluidly provides intuitive cashflow forecasting and management powered by AI. Cashflow forecasting and management is the gateway to financial decision-making.
Fluidly takes transaction data from your accounting system and uses this to automagically forecast your financial future in minutes and down to invoice-level detail, it is for modern businesses that want to know exactly what their financial future holds and how to optimise it.
The company was awarded a GBP 5 million of grant funding from Royal Bank of Scotland on June 14, 2019.
Company
Fluidly
Key people
Founders: Caroline Plumb (CEO)
Founded
2017
Funding
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 10-Feb-2021)
The company received GBP 5 million of grant funding from NatWest Group on June 14, 2019.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Data Analytics
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Developer of a cloud-based payment technology platform designed to offer payment processing, clearing, and settlement services. The company's platform facilitates agency payment services that can be accessed through an application program interface on a per transaction commercial model with no upfront costs, enabling financial institutions and businesses to get reliable and secure access to various payment schemes and bank partnerships.
Customers include a wide range of regulated financial institutions, including leading banks, non-bank financial institutions, and FinTech companies (payment institutions, e-money providers, and pre-paid card providers).
Partnerships with Pockit to give their 500,000 UK customers access to faster payments.
Company
Form3
Key people
Founder: Michael Mueller
Founded
2016
Funding
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 15-Apr-2021)
The company received an undisclosed amount of financing from MasterCard on December 16, 2020.
Previously, the company raised GBP 24.11 million of Series C venture funding from Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide Building Society and 83North on August 18, 2020, putting the company's pre-money valuation at GBP 68.69 million. Draper Esprit also participated in the round.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Payments
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Provider of a digital mortgage platform offering mortgage products from a range of over 90 lenders. The digital mortgage broker has helped over 180,000 homebuyers to source a mortgage or switch to a better rate.
The company's platform makes use of chatbot interfaces and machine learning designed to make the process more efficient, enabling consumers to find the suitable deals for themselves in order to choose lowest to highest monthly payments and to apply for mortgages and avoid overpaying of interest rates and monthly cost.
Company
Habito
Key people
CEO & Founders: Daniel Hegarty
Founded
2015
Funding
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 22-Feb-2021)
The company received an undisclosed amount of debt financing in the form of a loan from Bootstrap Europe on February 8, 2021.
The additional funding will allow the company to confidently boost its ambitious growth targets and continue to deliver ground-breaking and innovative digital experiences and products to its customers.
On August 12, 2020 the company raised GBP 35 million through a combination of debt and Series C venture funding in a deal led by Mojo Capital, Augmentum (London) and SBI Insurance Group, putting the company's pre-money valuation at GBP 117.87 million.
Mosaic Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Mahr Projects, VentureFounders, Atomico, and Regah Ventures also participated in the round. The funds will be used to continue digitising aspects of home financing and buying which still remain a pain-point for homebuyers and sellers.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Online Mortgages
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The implementation of new bank regulations for liquidity, mandatory clearing, and margin requirements for OTC derivatives have caused a significant increase in demand for High Quality Liquid Assets (HQLAs).
The vision behind HQLAx is to provide market participants with a platform that helps improve collateral fluidity by creating a new, more efficient, more transparent and more cost effective marketplace for liquidity transfers.
Company
Hqla
Key people
Founders: Guido Stroemer (CEO), Olly Benkert
Founded
2016
Funding
Total funding: €10M; Latest funding: €10M, corporate round, Aug 2018 - Deutsche Boerse
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Luxembourg
LUSector
Payments
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IDnow provides advanced machine-learning technology for its Identity-as-a-Service platform that can verify identities in real time. The company's solutions guarantee legal security throughout Europe and the highest level of data security. The company provides a legally secure solution without additional hardware in the area of video identification of customers and electronic signatures.
Its customer portfolio includes renowned firms such as Commerzbank, UBS, Sixt neuwagen, Telefónica, and N26.
The company raised EUR 36 million of venture funding in a deal led by Corsair Capital on November 8, 2019. Plug and Play Tech Center also participated in the round.
Buyside mandates include: Identity Trust Management (Mar 21) and Wirecard Communication Services (Sep 20)
Company
IDnow
Key people
Founders: Armin Bauer, Dennis von Ferenczy, Felix Haas, Sebastian Baerhold; CEO: Andreas Bodczek
Founded
2014
Funding
Total funding raised to date £55.17m as of Dec 2020.
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 09-Dec-2020)
The company received EUR 15 million of debt financing in the form of a loan from European Investment Bank on December 8, 2020. The funds are to be put into research and development activities and into the company's international expansion.
The company raised EUR 36 million of venture funding in a deal led by Corsair Capital on November 8, 2019. Plug and Play Tech Center also participated in the round. Other investor in the company include: HW Capital, Seventure Partners, Digital Opportunity FundHQ
Munich, Germany
DESector
AML, Identity Management
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The world's leading subscription management platform.
Minna Technologies are building a platform that can manage any kind of subscription, meaning that you can cancel you phone subscription or gym membership with a single click.
Minna raised $6.2M to expand subscription management for European Banks in May 2019.
Company
Minna
Key people
Founders: Joakim Sjöblom, Jonas Karles, Marcus Lönnberg
Founded
2014
Funding
Total funding: $6.2M; Latest funding: $6.2M, Series A, May 2019 - Zenith Group, Visa and Swedbank
HQ
Gothenburg, Sweden
SESector
Payments
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Provider of a payments-as-a-service API platform intended to offer a faster, easier and more reliable way to move money for digital businesses. The company's platform integrates into any product or system and automate payment flows, embed payments into their platforms and build entirely new payment products and services themselves, enabling businesses to streamline existing services, launch new products and scale more efficiently.
Modulr’s new type of payment accounts are built for businesses that need a faster, easier and more reliable way to move money. Once integrated, businesses can instantly set up as many accounts as they need. Getting paid, reconciling and making payments is fully automated and can be managed in real-time, 24/7 through their existing software applications.
Company
Modulr
Key people
Founders: Myles Stephenson, Ritesh Tendulkar
Founded
2015
Funding
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 25-May-2021)
The company raised GBP 12.66 million of venture funding from PayPal Ventures and FIS Ventures on April 13, 2021, putting the company's pre-money valuation at GBP 103.75 million.
The funds will be used by the company to build its market share and payment infrastructure across the UK. Previously, the company raised GBP 18.82 million of venture funding in a deal led by Highland Europe on May 13, 2020, putting the company's pre-money valuation at GBP 83.77 million. Blenheim Chalcot and Frog Capital also participated in the round.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Payments
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Monese provides instant on-demand UK current accounts and European IBAN accounts in 20 countries regardless of the customer's citizenship.
Monese's breakthrough technology can validate the identity of customers in real time enabling customers to open an account in a matter of minutes, using a mobile app
Revolutionizing banking for expats, digital nomads and new residents as ‘residency restrictions’ imposed by traditional high street banks are one of the single greatest barriers to accessing the banking system when arriving in a new country.
Company
Monese
Key people
Founder & CEO: Norris Koppel
Founded
2013
Funding
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 07-Jun-2021)
SmartCap sold its stake in the company for an undisclosed sum. Previously, the company raised GBP 32.55 million of venture funding from PayPal Ventures, Outrun Ventures, Kinnevik and Augmentum Fintech on July 1, 2020, putting the company's pre-money valuation at GBP 75.53 million. Veljo Otsason, Baris Aksoy and João Monteiro also participated in the round.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Digital Banking, Financial Inclusion
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Monzo (previously Mondo), developers of a mobile banking application designed to offer banking services.
The company's application uses smartphone technology to update balances instantly, give intelligent notifications and track day-to-day financial transactions without any usage fees, enabling customers to get a graphical timeline of their overall expenditures and get control over their spending.
Company
Monzo
Key people
CEO: Tom Blomfield; Founders: Tom Blomfield, Gary Dolman, Paul Rippon, Jonas Huckestein, Jason Bates
Founded
2015
Funding
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 02-Jun-2021)
The company raised GBP 202.44 million of Series G venture funding in a deal led by Novator Partners on December 2, 2020, putting the company's pre-money valuation at GBP 1.04 billion.
Orange Ventures, Stripe, TED, Kaiser Investments, AME Cloud Ventures, TriplePoint Venture Growth, Vetamer Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, Goodwater Capital, Passion Capital, Thrive Capital, Reference Capital (Switzerland), Y Combinator, Vanderbilt University and Octahedron Capital also participated in the round. The deal was led by Novator Partners, Annox Capital with 14 other investors also participating in the round.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Digital Banking
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Mosaic Smart Data delivers the insight and real-time intelligence that FICC market participants need to increase business opportunities and meet regulatory requirements.
Financial institutions are facing a challenging period in the FICC markets, largely as a result of the constraints from new regulatory initiatives, high fixed costs and a fragmented market structure.
Developer of a data analytics platform designed to harness and analyse trading activity and interactions data. The company's data analytics platform provides granular insight and analysis of client trading flows around core metrics which, include product, instrument and venue to effectively monitor trading behaviour, enabling financial institutions to harness their data intelligently to predict and service their client needs.
The company raised $9 million of Series A venture funding in a deal led by CommerzVentures and Octopus Ventures on April 16, 2019. JPMorgan Chase also participated in the round.
Company
Mosaic Smart Data
Key people
CEO & Founder: Matthew Hodgson
Founded
2014
Funding
Latest Funding: $9M Series B - April 2019: CommerzVentures, Octopus Ventures, JP Morgan Chase
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London, UK
GBSector
Data Analytics
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N26 offers mobile banking solutions to customers in the European Union through its subsidiary. It provides international money transfer, investment, overdraft, and cash withdrawal and deposit at stores.
The company's mobile banking services offers online banking that include making and handling of current accounts, fixed accounts and other banking services, enabling customers to manage and control their banking details via a smartphone application in a hassle free way.
The company raised $470 million of Series D2 venture funding in a deal led by Insight Partners on July 18, 2019.
Company
N26
Key people
CEO: Valentin Stalf; CEO N26 Bank: Markus Gunter; Founders: Valentin Stalf, Maximilian Tayenthal
Founded
2013
Funding
The company raised an undisclosed amount of Series D3 venture funding from Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital and other undisclosed investors on January 2, 2021. Post valuation £2.82Bn as of May 2020.
Investors include: Draper Esprit, Hedosophia, Rancilio Cube, EarlyBirdHQ
Berlin, Germany
DESector
Banking
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Provider of an online document management platform intended to automate legal and regulatory documents.
The company's platform automates legal and regulatory document structuring, marketing, distribution, execution, clearing, settlement and administration, enabling banks, brokers, exchanges and funds to drive automation, compliance and improved client experience.
The company joined Tech Nation as a part of Fintech 2.0 cohort program on September 5, 2019.
Company
Nivaura
Key people
CEO: Avtar Sehra; Founder: Dr Avtar Sehra
Founded
2016
Funding
Total Funding: $20M; Latest Funding: $20M seed - March 2019
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London, UK
GBSector
Blockchain, compliance
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OakNorth Bank is a UK bank for small and medium sized companies that provides business and property loans of £0.5-£50 million.
The bank invested in Bright Minds Daycare in December 2019, this investment was valued at £750K.
Company
OakNorth
Key people
Founders: Rishi Khosla (CEO), Joel Perlman
Founded
2015
Funding
Total Funding: $1Bn; Latest Funding: £440M, Venture Round, February 2019
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London, UK
GBSector
Lending / Debt Finance for fast-growth businesses
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Onfido, developer of a verification platform intended to automate the identity verification process.
Deploying AI and using Government IDs and facial biometrics to ensure that IDs are a genuine match with the users presenting them. Onfido powers over 1,500 fintech, banking and marketplace clients globally—helping them onboard more users while reducing risk.
The company raised GBP 65.19 million of Series C2 venture funding in a deal led by Salesforce Ventures and SBI Investment in April 2019.
The funds will be used to consolidate the company's core market in the USA, accelerate expansion into high-growth regions including Europe and South-East Asia, as well as advance product development.
Company
Onfido
Key people
CEO: Husayn Kassai; Founders: Husayn Kassai, Eamon Jubbawy, Ruhul Amin
Founded
2012
Funding
Latest Funding: $50M Series C, April 2019; Total Funding: $110.3M - Lead Investors: Augmentum, SoftBank
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London, UK
GBSector
Compliance, Risk, Regulation
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PensionBee has developed an online platform that provides pension plans, pension management and employment history, enabling their customer to track various pension plans and make investment decisions accordingly.
Its features allow customers to track the pension progress and includes a pension calculator to set retirement goals and add new contributions.
Company
PensionBee
Key people
Founders: Romi Savova and Jonathan Lister
Founded
2015
Funding
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 23-Apr-2021)
The company raised GBP 59.65 million in its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol of PBEE on April 21, 2021. A total of 36,149,229 shares were sold at GBP 1.65 per share. After the offering, there was a total of 221,213,333 outstanding shares at GBP 1.65 per share, valuing the company at GBP 365.00 million. The total proceeds, before expenses, to the company was GBP 55 million and to the selling shareholders was GBP 4.65 million. In the offering, the company sold 33,333,333 shares and the selling shareholders sold 2,815,896 shares.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Pensions
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Pleo offers an all-in-one business spending platform intended to simplify the business expense process.
The platform provides smart company cards paired with software and mobile apps to automatically match receipts and track all company spending in real-time with detailed analytics, it also eliminates expense reports and automates bookkeeping tasks as it integrates directly with accounting software providers, enabling companies to save time and money.
In May 2019 a deal led by Stripes Group raised $56 million of series B venture funding to be used to expand more than triple its headcount by the end of 2020 and to accelerate product development as it aims to service the entire purchase process for SMEs across the whole of Europe.
Company
Pleo
Key people
Founders: Jeppe Rindom, Niccolo Perra
Founded
2015
Funding
Total funding: $78.3M; Latest funding: $56M, Series B, May 2019
HQ
Copenhagen, Denmark
DKSector
Smart payment cards for employees
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Previse, provider of a financial platform designed to analyse contract payments of various entities utilizing artificial intelligence.
The company's platform uses advanced machine learning tools and numerous data points to determine how likely a corporate buyer will be to eventually pay a supplier's invoice, enabling the SMEs to receive a credit score including banks and asset managers, so that they can pay the supplier on the buyer's behalf based on the credit score.
Previse has pioneered algorithm-driven invoice payment decisions.
Company
Previse 01 1024x660
Key people
Founder: Paul Christensen
Founded
2016
Funding
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 08-Jun-2021)
The company raised GBP 8.26 million through the combination of debt and Series A venture funding in a deal led by MasterCard, Augmentum Fintech and Bessemer Venture Partners on April 16, 2020, putting the company's pre-money valuation at GBP 38.82 million.
Hambro Perks and VentureFounders also participated in the round. The funds will be used to expand its InstantPay product to more corporate buyers around the world.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Payments, e-Invoicing
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Founded in 2015, RailsBank is a BaaS banking and compliance platform designed to connect a global network of partner banks with businesses who want API access to global banking.
The platform simplifies on-boarding services and offers access to services such as creating digital ledgers, connecting digital ledgers to real bank accounts, issuing IBANs for ledgers, receiving money, sending money, converting money (FX), collecting money (direct debit), issuing cards and managing credit via the API, enabling banks and business customers to transact business digitally and in a compliant way.
In September 2019 a deal led by Moneta Capital for $10 million of a Series A venture funding will be used to further expand beyond Europe, including the U.S., Australia and South East Asia.
Company
Railsbank
Key people
Founders: Nigel Verdon (CEO), Clive Mitchell (COO)
Founded
2016
Funding
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 21-Jun-2021)
The company raised $37 million of venture funding in a deal co-led by MiddleGame Ventures, 31Ventures and Ventura Capital on November 12, 2020. Mitsui Fudosan, alongside 5 other investors also participated in the round. The funding will be used to continue to expand the company's global footprint, further strengthen its core product proposition, and launch Credit Cards as a Service.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
BaaS, Open-Banking, API platform
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Raisan is a financial marketplace that provides customers with access to the profitable deposit rates across Europe.
The companys platform allows users the option to choose savings and investments products, ranging from overnight flexible savings to long-term deposits and other offers from dozens of institutions across Europe, enabling individuals and businesses to earn higher returns by depositing money in different countries with higher interest rates.
Company
Raisin
Key people
CEO: Tamaz Georgadze; Founders: Tamaz Georgadze, Frank Freund, Michael Stephan
Founded
2013
Funding
Total Funding: $206M; Latest Funding: $28M, Venture Round - July 2019, Goldman Sachs
HQ
Berlin, Germany
DESector
Savings, Investment marketplace
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Revolut is digital banking application designed to help in global money transfer.
The application compares live exchange rates for multiple currencies and makes transfers directly to other's bank accounts, as well as helps its users to track and optimize their monthly expenses, buy and sell crypto currencies, enabling consumers to send, spend and exchange money instantly across a secured environment.
Previously, the company raised $250 million of Series C venture funding in a deal led by DST Global in April 2018, putting the company's pre-money valuation at $1.45 billion.
Company
Revolut
Key people
Founders: Nikolay Storonsky (CEO), Vlad Yatsenko
Founded
2015
Funding
Total Funding: $336.4M; Latest Funding: Venture round, March 2019
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Digital Banking, peer to peer payments, currency exchange
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The company's platform offers salary-linked savings, and affordable loans - all underpinned by accessible and engaging financial education to improve financial wellbeing, enabling employees around the world become financially healthier and happier.
By helping employees manage debt, build a savings habit and access earned pay, they have created a more accessible alternative to traditional financial services providers.Company
Salary finance
Key people
Founders: Asesh Sarkar, Dan Cobley, Daniel Shakhani
Founded
2015
Funding
Most Recent Financing Status(as of 03-Mar-2021)
The company raised GBP 20 million of venture funding from Experian and Legal & General Group on December 16, 2020. The new funding will support the continued growth of the UK and US platforms, with the UK platform set to hit profitability next year. It will also fund new products the team is working on.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Employee finance
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Simudyne helps financial organisations to understand their world and make the best possible decisions.
The company's simulation platform intends to map the real world into a safe and virtual environment to facilitate decision making. It utilizes big data, human intelligence and artificial intelligence to generate machine learning driven simulation results, enabling financial institutions to visualize and predict market instabilities and make high impact decisions to mitigate risks and reduce loss.
Simudyne has achieved a 600% year on year increase in revenue in 2018 following the addition of new global banking clients and intends to build on that growth to become a multi-billion-dollar market within the next 5 years.
Company
Simudyne
Key people
Founder: Justin Lyon
Founded
2017
Funding
Total funding: $10.1M; Latest funding: $6M, Series A April 2019 - Barclays Ventures
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Enterprise simulation, AI, agent-based modeling
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SolarisBank is the first banking-as-a-service platform with a full banking license, which enables companies to offer their own financial products.
The company's platform uses blockchain technology and provides an easy-to-integrate customizable platform for digital banking, card-based payment aggregation, consumer lending, SME lending, payments automation, virtual payments and KYC document verification, enabling businesses to create and customized their own digital banking portal for facilitating cashless and online mode of payments and customer engagement.
Company
solarisBank
Key people
CEO: Roland Folz; Founders: Andreas Bittner, Marko Wenthin
Founded
2016
Funding
Total funding: €95.1M; Latest funding: €56M Series B March 2018, Lead Investors: BBVA, SBI Group
HQ
Berlin, Germany
DESector
Open Banking, API Accessible banking platform
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Sonect is a location based matchmaking platform connecting those who want to withdraw cash, with those who want to deposit it - typically a local shop owner. It builds a community around local businesses and helps them generate physical leads.
SONECT enables every shop in the neighborhood to act as a “virtual ATM” using just a smartphone or its POS-system. It democratizes the process of cash distribution in order to reduce the “cost of cash”.
The company closed it's oversubscribed series A round in 2018, with CHF8.45 million from existing investors.
Since 2018, Sonect has established the largest network of cash withdrawal points in Switzerland and Portugal. They have also established a partnership with Arca Continental, one of the largest beverage manufacturing and distribution companies in Latin America, giving Sonect access to over 300,000 points of sale in Mexico alone.
Company
Sonect
Key people
Founders: Arindam Bajpayee, Rik Krieger, Sandipan Chakraborty
Founded
2016
Funding
Latest funding: CHF 8.5M Series A, Nov 2018 - SixThirty
HQ
Zürich, Switzerland
CHSector
Payments
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Starling Bank provides a mobile banking application and a debit card that enable users to manage their finances.
The company's platform offers commercial banking services that can be managed with a mobile device, including real-time spending intelligence, personalization of services and same-day payment service that transformed electronic money, enabling depositors to transact in a paperless and branchless manner.
In Oct 2019, the company raised £30 million of venture funding in a deal led by Merian Chrysalis. Existing investor JTC also participated in the round.
The funding will enable Starling to accelerate its expansion into Europe and build on its rapid success: since launching its app in May 2017, Starling has opened one million accounts.
Company
Starling
Key people
CEO & Founder: Anne Boden
Founded
2014
Funding
Total Funding: $280m; Latest Funding: $39M Series C - Merian Chrysalis & JTC
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Digital bank, business bank
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Tessian provides a next-generation email security platform designed to detect and prevent inadvertent data loss.
Their technology system uses machine learning to eliminate the huge security vulnerabilities surrounding enterprise email including spear phishing and misdirected emails. By analysing historical email data in order to understand the context of human relationships and communication and by knowing what normal email activity looks like, it can automatically detect any anomalies that may imply a security threat.
Tessian serves a global customer base across the legal, financial, technology and healthcare sectors. Clients include international law firms Clifford Chance and Dentons, financial institutions Schroders and Investec and FTSE 100 company Rightmove.
In Jan 2019, they raised $42M in a series B funding, led by Sequoia, with participation from Latitude and existing investors Balderton Capital and Accel.
Company
Tessian
Key people
Founders: Edward Bishop, Thomas Adams, Tim Sadler
Founded
2013
Funding
Total funding: $58.7M; Latest funding: Venture round, Jan 2019
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
AI, Cyber Security, Email, Machine Learning
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Thought Machine is a UK-based growth stage technology company which builds cloud native technology for banks.
The company's cloud-based technology platform provides Vault OS that runs in the cloud providing a secure, fast, reliable end to end banking systems, capable of managing users, accounts, savings, loans, mortgages, sophisticated financial products and can configure any type of loan or deposit account, thereby providing banking institutions with a software as a service platform to scale from one customer to tens of millions without having to incur any hard costs.
Thought Machine became a Google Cloud Partner in November 2019.
Company
Thought Machine
Key people
Founder/CEO: Paul Taylor
Founded
2014
Funding
Total funding: $22.3M; Latest funding: $22.8M Series A, Nov 2018 - Lloyd Banking Group
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Core Banking, Retail Banking System
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Tink is a cloud-based platform that provides the infrastructure and data products that are enabling the future of financial services.
The company offer products such as Account Aggregation, Payment Initiation, Data Enrichment and Personal Finance Management that can be used to develop standalone services or be integrated into existing banking applications. Its partners include ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas Fortis, Nordea, Klarna and SEB.
In June 2019, Tink received $11.3m strategic investment from PayPal to continue its expansion across Europe.
Today, Tink has more than 250 employees globally and is Europe’s leading open banking platform, enabling customers to connect to more than 2,500 banks in 14 markets including the UK, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Company
Tink
Key people
Founder(s): Daniel Kjellén (CEO), Fredrik Hedberg
Founded
2012
Funding
Total investment: $90.5M
Latest investment: May 2019 $11.3M Corporate Round - Paypal VenturesHQ
Stockholm, Sweden
SESector
Open Banking
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Tokeny have developed an end-to-end tokenization platform to issue, manage and transfer securities on the blockchain.
Their platform enables mid-cap companies, investment banks, funds, asset managers and distributors to dematerialize assets on the blockchain, allowing for the issuance, transfer and servicing management of tradable digital assets/security tokens, such as tokenized loans, structured notes, equity and funds.
Tokeny was founded in 2017 and has issued multiple tokenized offerings across five continents with further security offerings imminent.
Company
Tokeny
Key people
Founders: Luc Falempin, Daniel Coheur
Founded
2017
Funding
Total funding: €5M; Latest funding: €5M, Series A, July 2019 - Euronext
HQ
Luxembourg
LUSector
Asset Management, Tokenization, ICO, Capital Markets
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Tractable develops artificial intelligence for accident and disaster recovery.
The company's deep learning automation platform automates visual damage appraisal by looking at photos of damage and predicting repair costs. Tractable provides its AI to the largest insurers worldwide, helping to settle claims quickly and efficiently, which in turn impacts livelihoods.
Tractable's AI solutions have processed over $1 billion in auto insurance claims, across Europe, North America and Asia.
Company
Tractable
Key people
Founders: Adrien Cohen, Alexandre Dalyac, Razvan Ranca
Founded
2014
Funding
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 29-Jun-2021)
The company raised $60 million of Series D venture funding in a deal co-led by Insight Partners, Ignition Partners, Zetta Venture Partners and Georgian on June 16, 2021, putting the company's pre-money valuation at $940 million.
Other undisclosed investors also participated in the round. The funds will be used to expand deeper into areas adjacent to that: natural disaster recovery and used car appraisals.
The investment comes after the $25 million Series C funding it raised back in 2020. This funding round takes the total funding raised by the company to $115 million (nearly £82 million) and values it over $1 billion, thereby making it the first computer vision unicorn in the UK.
Tractable will use the funds to double down on accident recovery, its core business. Also, it will fund new AI solutions for assessing the condition of a car, allowing users to understand vehicle damage down to individual parts, thereby enabling transparent sale and purchase decisions. It will also be used to fund the application of Tractable’s technology to assess homes.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Insurtech, AI, Machine Learning
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TrueLayer provides a platform to build financial apps that connect to bank data, verify accounts, and access transactions in real time.
The company's platform helps companies to securely and efficiently access their customers' bank accounts to share financial data, make payments and validate their identity, enabling companies to initiate payments directly from user's bank account and offer frictionless payments without interrupting the user experience.
Company
TrueLayer
Key people
Founders: Francesco Simoneschi and Luca Martinetti
Founded
2016
Funding
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 08-Apr-2021)
The company raised $70 million of Series D venture funding in a deal led by Addition on April 8, 2021. 10 other investors also participated in the round.
The funds will be used to fuel global expansion and accelerate the development of premium open banking-based services.
Previously, the company raised $60 million of Series C venture funding in a deal led by Tencent Holdings and Temasek Holdings on September 21, 2020. 7 other investors also participated in the round. The funds will be used to grow the company's business.
TrueLayer had raised $35M Series C in June 2019, led by Tencent and Tamasek, with participation from Northzone, Anthemis and Visa.
In October 2019, the company announced a strategic and commercial relationship with Visa.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
BaaS, Open Banking / Faster payments / PSD2
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Zego is a global insurtech business providing flexible commercial insurance for businesses and professionals.
The company's platform provides pay-as-you-go insurance for drivers and riders who work flexibly with their own vehicles, providing mobility service providers with a range of policies from minute-by-minute insurance to annual covers, thereby providing more flexibility than traditional insurers, with pricing based on usage data from vehicles.
In June 2019 Zego raised $42M (total funding of $51M since 2016) to continue expansion across Europe.
Company
Zego
Key people
Founders: Harry Franks (CEO), Sten Saar, Stuart Kelly
Founded
2016
Funding
Total Funding: $51.7M; Latest Funding: $42M Series B June 2019 - Balderton Capital, Tom Stafford (DST Global) and Latitude
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Insurance
Website
Hall of Fame 2019:
Each year we invite our international panel to select The Fintech50 by secret ballot. These ten companies, presented here in order of ranking. secured the most votes in 2019. Congratulations to Onfido - this year’s top-ranked Fintech.
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Alan is a provider of an online digital insurance service intended to unlock frictionless, fair, and friendly healthcare for everyone. The company's service offers simple and seamless insurance coverage with reimbursements, easy claim handling, and gives users access to medical professionals, both through in-person appointments and by video calls, enabling users to easily and conveniently get medical advice and manage their claims and reimbursements.
Company
Alan
Key people
Founders: Charles Gorintin, Jean-Charles Samuelian
Founded
2016
Funding
Total funding £268.2m Post Money valuation £1.2Bn April 2021
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 22-Apr-2021)
The company raised EUR 185 million of Series D venture funding in a deal led by Coatue Management on April 19, 2021. Dragoneer Investment Group, Exor, Ribbit Capital, Index Ventures, and Temasek Holdings also participated in the round. The funds will be used to fuel the recruitment efforts of an additional 400 staff and reach 1 million members in Europe by 2023. Also, Undisclosed investors sold a stake in the company for EUR 35 million on April 19, 2021. Previously, the company raised EUR 50 million through the combination of debt and Series C venture funding in a deal led by Temasek Holdings on April 20, 2020.
Index Ventures and other undisclosed investors also participated in the round. The funds will be used to push its growth via 4 main avenues: offering better health insurance coverage to its members; digitizing healthcare for companies; becoming the leading app for instant health info; and, expanding internationally (following the opening of two new offices in Spain and Belgium this summer, Alan aims to expand in most European countries over the next 5 years).HQ
Paris, France
FRSector
Digital Health Insurance
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Monese provides instant on-demand UK current accounts and European IBAN accounts in 20 countries regardless of the customer's citizenship.
Monese's breakthrough technology can validate the identity of customers in real time enabling customers to open an account in a matter of minutes, using a mobile app
Revolutionizing banking for expats, digital nomads and new residents as ‘residency restrictions’ imposed by traditional high street banks are one of the single greatest barriers to accessing the banking system when arriving in a new country.
Company
Monese
Key people
Founder & CEO: Norris Koppel
Founded
2013
Funding
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 07-Jun-2021)
SmartCap sold its stake in the company for an undisclosed sum. Previously, the company raised GBP 32.55 million of venture funding from PayPal Ventures, Outrun Ventures, Kinnevik and Augmentum Fintech on July 1, 2020, putting the company's pre-money valuation at GBP 75.53 million. Veljo Otsason, Baris Aksoy and João Monteiro also participated in the round.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Digital Banking, Financial Inclusion
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Monzo (previously Mondo), developers of a mobile banking application designed to offer banking services.
The company's application uses smartphone technology to update balances instantly, give intelligent notifications and track day-to-day financial transactions without any usage fees, enabling customers to get a graphical timeline of their overall expenditures and get control over their spending.
Company
Monzo
Key people
CEO: Tom Blomfield; Founders: Tom Blomfield, Gary Dolman, Paul Rippon, Jonas Huckestein, Jason Bates
Founded
2015
Funding
Most Recent Financing Status (as of 02-Jun-2021)
The company raised GBP 202.44 million of Series G venture funding in a deal led by Novator Partners on December 2, 2020, putting the company's pre-money valuation at GBP 1.04 billion.
Orange Ventures, Stripe, TED, Kaiser Investments, AME Cloud Ventures, TriplePoint Venture Growth, Vetamer Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, Goodwater Capital, Passion Capital, Thrive Capital, Reference Capital (Switzerland), Y Combinator, Vanderbilt University and Octahedron Capital also participated in the round. The deal was led by Novator Partners, Annox Capital with 14 other investors also participating in the round.HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Digital Banking
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N26 offers mobile banking solutions to customers in the European Union through its subsidiary. It provides international money transfer, investment, overdraft, and cash withdrawal and deposit at stores.
The company's mobile banking services offers online banking that include making and handling of current accounts, fixed accounts and other banking services, enabling customers to manage and control their banking details via a smartphone application in a hassle free way.
The company raised $470 million of Series D2 venture funding in a deal led by Insight Partners on July 18, 2019.
Company
N26
Key people
CEO: Valentin Stalf; CEO N26 Bank: Markus Gunter; Founders: Valentin Stalf, Maximilian Tayenthal
Founded
2013
Funding
The company raised an undisclosed amount of Series D3 venture funding from Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital and other undisclosed investors on January 2, 2021. Post valuation £2.82Bn as of May 2020.
Investors include: Draper Esprit, Hedosophia, Rancilio Cube, EarlyBirdHQ
Berlin, Germany
DESector
Banking
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OakNorth Bank is a UK bank for small and medium sized companies that provides business and property loans of £0.5-£50 million.
The bank invested in Bright Minds Daycare in December 2019, this investment was valued at £750K.
Company
OakNorth
Key people
Founders: Rishi Khosla (CEO), Joel Perlman
Founded
2015
Funding
Total Funding: $1Bn; Latest Funding: £440M, Venture Round, February 2019
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Lending / Debt Finance for fast-growth businesses
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Onfido, developer of a verification platform intended to automate the identity verification process.
Deploying AI and using Government IDs and facial biometrics to ensure that IDs are a genuine match with the users presenting them. Onfido powers over 1,500 fintech, banking and marketplace clients globally—helping them onboard more users while reducing risk.
The company raised GBP 65.19 million of Series C2 venture funding in a deal led by Salesforce Ventures and SBI Investment in April 2019.
The funds will be used to consolidate the company's core market in the USA, accelerate expansion into high-growth regions including Europe and South-East Asia, as well as advance product development.
Company
Onfido
Key people
CEO: Husayn Kassai; Founders: Husayn Kassai, Eamon Jubbawy, Ruhul Amin
Founded
2012
Funding
Latest Funding: $50M Series C, April 2019; Total Funding: $110.3M - Lead Investors: Augmentum, SoftBank
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Compliance, Risk, Regulation
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Raisan is a financial marketplace that provides customers with access to the profitable deposit rates across Europe.
The companys platform allows users the option to choose savings and investments products, ranging from overnight flexible savings to long-term deposits and other offers from dozens of institutions across Europe, enabling individuals and businesses to earn higher returns by depositing money in different countries with higher interest rates.
Company
Raisin
Key people
CEO: Tamaz Georgadze; Founders: Tamaz Georgadze, Frank Freund, Michael Stephan
Founded
2013
Funding
Total Funding: $206M; Latest Funding: $28M, Venture Round - July 2019, Goldman Sachs
HQ
Berlin, Germany
DESector
Savings, Investment marketplace
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Revolut is digital banking application designed to help in global money transfer.
The application compares live exchange rates for multiple currencies and makes transfers directly to other's bank accounts, as well as helps its users to track and optimize their monthly expenses, buy and sell crypto currencies, enabling consumers to send, spend and exchange money instantly across a secured environment.
Previously, the company raised $250 million of Series C venture funding in a deal led by DST Global in April 2018, putting the company's pre-money valuation at $1.45 billion.
Company
Revolut
Key people
Founders: Nikolay Storonsky (CEO), Vlad Yatsenko
Founded
2015
Funding
Total Funding: $336.4M; Latest Funding: Venture round, March 2019
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Digital Banking, peer to peer payments, currency exchange
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SolarisBank is the first banking-as-a-service platform with a full banking license, which enables companies to offer their own financial products.
The company's platform uses blockchain technology and provides an easy-to-integrate customizable platform for digital banking, card-based payment aggregation, consumer lending, SME lending, payments automation, virtual payments and KYC document verification, enabling businesses to create and customized their own digital banking portal for facilitating cashless and online mode of payments and customer engagement.
Company
solarisBank
Key people
CEO: Roland Folz; Founders: Andreas Bittner, Marko Wenthin
Founded
2016
Funding
Total funding: €95.1M; Latest funding: €56M Series B March 2018, Lead Investors: BBVA, SBI Group
HQ
Berlin, Germany
DESector
Open Banking, API Accessible banking platform
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Tink is a cloud-based platform that provides the infrastructure and data products that are enabling the future of financial services.
The company offer products such as Account Aggregation, Payment Initiation, Data Enrichment and Personal Finance Management that can be used to develop standalone services or be integrated into existing banking applications. Its partners include ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas Fortis, Nordea, Klarna and SEB.
In June 2019, Tink received $11.3m strategic investment from PayPal to continue its expansion across Europe.
Today, Tink has more than 250 employees globally and is Europe’s leading open banking platform, enabling customers to connect to more than 2,500 banks in 14 markets including the UK, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Company
Tink
Key people
Founder(s): Daniel Kjellén (CEO), Fredrik Hedberg
Founded
2012
Funding
Total investment: $90.5M
Latest investment: May 2019 $11.3M Corporate Round - Paypal VenturesHQ
Stockholm, Sweden
SESector
Open Banking
Website
The Hot 10 2019:
We launched our companion list, The Hot Ten, in 2015 to recognise ten exceptional innovators in earlier stage Fintechs. Based in Switzerland, Denmark, The UK (Manchester and London), Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Germany and Israel, this year’s Hot Ten are bringing innovation to core banking, regulation, digital cash, open banking, debt management, crop insurance in emerging markets and the circular economy.
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Apiax enables financial institutions to map existing regulatory requirements and quickly adjust changing licensing regimes for different legal entities. The uncertainties surrounding Brexit are increasing the need for efficient compliance solutions and Apiax believes it is well equipped to meet these challenges, as its solution enables financial institutions to map existing regulatory requirements and quickly adjust changing licensing regimes for different legal entities.
In March 2019, Apiax opened in London and hired former Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) expert on RegTech, Alan Blanchard. In May, Apiax joined the third cohort of Allen & Overy’s fuse accelerator to kickstart its business activities in the UK.
The Regtech was named early stage startup of the year at the Swiss FinTech Awards 2019.
Former UBS Chairman Peter Kurer acts as an investor and advisor to the firm.
Company
Apiax logo oxford blue R
Key people
Founders: Nicolas Blanchard, Philip Schoch, Ralf Huber, Thomas Suter
Founded
2017
Funding
Last funding: $1.5M seed - Sept 2017
HQ
Zürich, Switzerland
CHSector
Regtech, Compliance, Machine Learning
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Denmark'‘s ARYZE want to solve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal Number 10 by lowering the global average cost of sending money abroad from 7.2 per cent to 3 per cent.
Their vision is to create a global infrastructure for e-money with prices fixed to its traditional counterparts
Backed by 283 investors from 15 different countries in a private token sale, ARYZE is a team of entrepreneurs, former bankers, marketing specialists and developers based in Copenhagen, Denmark. They bridge the gap between conventional money and digital currencies by creating a true digital representation of cash. ARYZE aims to provide payment infrastructure that enables individuals, businesses, and IOT devices to make instant payments globally in a modular ecosystem.
Built on distributed ledger technology, ARYZE features include:
- Zero transaction fees, and affordable currency exchange services
- Programmable money transfers, enabled by Smart contracts
- Digital Cash backed by government risk
- Enabling global commerce with an extensive financial solution designed for businesses
- Consumer app with support for crypto and FIAT currencies
Company
ARYZE
Key people
Founders: Jack Nikogosian (CEO), Morten Nielsen, Carl Jenster
Founded
2017
Funding
Last funding: ICO $1.6M; Total funding: $1.6M
HQ
Copenhagen, Denmark
DKSector
Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, Payments, Digital Cash
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Founded and advised by highly experienced industry ‘names’, BankiFi enables banks to go ‘beyond an open experience’ promise with relevant offerings to their client base in terms of time, location and context. Its data-driven distributed banking model allows financial service providers to manage, consume, distribute and monetise data through a suite of API driven micro services.
BankiFi and its solutions (ConsentBox, PocketTreasurer, PocketCollector, and PocketConsent) are offered as a managed service that can run either in a private or public cloud. This set of consumable services has been designed to store as little data as possible outside the bank environment. BankiFi combines the core strength of the bank – customer relationships and a regulated environment – with the fast, agile development skills of a robust FinTech partner.
This combination is a win on three counts: the bank gets new net income and offers its customers a relevant business experience, reduced risk and lower cost of R&D and integration. The FinTech community get an amazing developer experience and avoid the complexity of dealing with consent in their apps and thirdly the empowered customer has access to relevant services and full data control.
Bankifi operates out of the UK (Manchester) and the Netherlands (Amsterdam).
Company
Bankifi
Key people
Founders: Conny Dorrestijn, Mark Hartley - Advisor David Birch
Founded
2017
Funding
Last funding: self-funded with additional resources from thestartupfactory
HQ
Manchester, UK
GBSector
Open banking, payments
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Created by challenger consultancy 11:FS, Foundry is a complete banking architecture that offers a modular, ledger-first set of components to deliver secure, digitally-native propositions quickly and to scale.
In October 2018, Norwegian bank DNB took 5% stake for $3M and increased its investment in June 2019.
11:FS Foundry aims to bring digital, personalised services and experiences to market far faster than traditional methods and at significantly less cost. It uses cloud-based technology and a modular approach, allowing customers to deploy an entire banking stack, or select services, depending on their strategy.
Foundry also claims to improve service development efficiency and deliver a lower total cost of ownership for digital services. It offers a higher level of IT security, based on a “zero-trust security” model, built to be encrypted and GDPR compliant.
Banks that have already invested in banking systems, or cannot easily build on their underlying infrastructure, can also use 11:FS Foundry to launch new digital offerings in a gradual and modular way.
Company
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Key people
CEO: Dr Leda Glyptis
Founded
2017
Funding
Funding: $3M (DNB)
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Digital modular banking
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Winner of this year’s NadiFin Accelerator, Gardenia Technologies improves companies' bottom-line and profitability through the use of proprietary advanced analytics and systematic working capital finance solutions.
Gardenia’s fully systematic, automated data-driven solutions provide finance along the entire supply chain lifecycle - and algorythms analyse transactional data to assess the actual risk in payments and underwrite financing decisions.
In July 2019, Gardenia Technologies was voted by its cohort peers as the winner of the 2019 NadiFin Acceleration Program, paving the way for a €100,000 investment from MiddleGame Ventures.
Company
Gardenia Technologies
Key people
Founders: Jonathan Schneider, Rupert Schneider
Founded
2016
Funding
Last funding: €100k; Total funding: €100k - awarded by NadiFin Accelerator, Luxembourg
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Supply Chain Finance
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Globechain is a reuse marketplace that connects corporates to charities, smes and people to redistribute unneeded items, generating ESG data. Sectors Globechain focuses on include banking, retail and the construction industry. In 2013 May Al-Karooni set up Globechain after seeing a demand for a new online circular economy within the waste management industry after her own bank employer expressed a need to reuse items in a more collaborative way.
Globechain has over 10,000 members working with some of the world’s largest brands as well as growing a large network of charities nationally and internationally. Last year 5,100,000 kilos were diverted from landfill items being re distributed within the UK as well West Africa and Ukraine providing savings of over £2,000,000 to charitable causes.
Company
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Key people
CEO & Founder: May Al-Karooni
Founded
2017
Funding
Last funding: $725k seed - April 2019
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Circular economy, ESG data
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Neufund’s mission is “enabling ownership for all” through making ownership more transparent, accessible and efficient. The Berlin start-up’s source set of protocols for enhanced ownership allows anyone to give real-world assets a representation on the Ethereum Blockchain in form of legally-binding security tokens.
The first application of the company’s tech and legal architecture are “Equity Tokens” which enable companies to conduct regulated offerings on Blockchain. Neufund advises governments on DLT regulation, supports open-source dev projects and educates financial communities around the world. Neufund’s mission is “Enabling ownership for all” through making ownership more transparent, accessible and efficient.
In December 2018 Neufund closed its first Equity Token Offering, becoming the world’s first issuance platform to host an offering of tokenized equity on Blockchain available to general public.
Company
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Key people
Founders: Zoe Adamovicz, Marcin Rudolf
Founded
2016
Funding
Total funding: €15M; Last funding: €3M ICO - Dec 2018
HQ
Berlin, Germany
DESector
Blockchain, Tokenized equity, Open-source protocols, Security tokens
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OKO creates and distributes crop insurance to smallholder farmers in emerging countries, helping them to secure their income. The service is accessible to anyone with a phone, and automates claim verification using satellite data and images.
In addition to insurance, farmers can benefit from weather alerts, farming tips and access to affordable micro-credit.
With 500 million unbanked smallholder farmers in the world, the market is worth $7.5 billion globally and it is growing at a rate of 20% per year.
Company
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Key people
Founders: Simon Schwall
Founded
2017
Funding
Total funding: USD 225k from private investors (Barclays, Techstars, RaSa Future Fund and ImpactAssets) / USD 365k in grants / USD 90 as a loan
HQ
Tel Aviv, Israel
ILSector
Agritech, Insurance, Farmers, Emerging Markets, Weather, Micro Credit
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Founded by Andrea Reynolds and Ciaran Burke, Swoop acts as a virtual CFO for SMEs, supporting them through the funding, saving and financial advice landscapes.
Swoop’s matching algorithm connects SMEs to suitable and viable options. Customers have their own financial dashboard to keep up to date on their financial and liquidity metrics and Swoop alerts them when they become eligible for new funds. Swoop commits to reducing the funding disparity between London and the rest of the UK, particularly for equity finance.
In June 2019, following an initial investment by Enterprise Ireland and NESTA (€1.5M), Swoop was awarded €5.6 million by the UK Banking Competition Remedies (BCR) – an independent body working on behalf of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). BCR aims to ensure RBS is continually promoting competition within banking, and fair access for SMEs to the banking services market, with funds becoming available when an alternative body can better deliver this goal...
At present, Swoop boasts over 1,000 funding providers on its active database, and has committed to onboarding 540,000 SMEs, approximately 15% of the business current account market.Company
Swoop
Key people
Founders: Andrea Reynolds, Ciaran Burke
Founded
2017
Funding
Last funding: $5M Capability & Innovation Fund; Total funding: $6.5M - investors include Enterprise Ireland / NESTA
HQ
London, UK
GBSector
Funding
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Tully launched in April 2019 to help the UK’s consumer debt problem: specifically the 23 million people in who are worried about money. Tully uses Open Banking technology to give people a fast, accurate, realistic picture of their financial position in minutes – all done online and completely free.
Every user receives a personalised financial plan, tailored advice and the option to choose a flexible debt repayment plan that adjusts to the user’s financial situation every month.
Following a successful trial with E.ON Tully is rolling out across the business and is in the process of onboarding with HSBC, Monzo and Clearscore (amongst others). Earlier this year, Tully was selected by Nationwide as part of their Open Banking for Good programme.
Company
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Key people
Founders: Stuart Bangay, Steve Bradford
Founded
2018
Funding
Last funding: Jan 2019 - Seed
HQ
Nottingham, UK
GBSector
Financial wellbeing, Financial education, consumer debt
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