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💸 Venture Financing

• GoTo Group, the merged entity of Indonesia’s Gojek and Tokopedia, which provides a payments superapp, raised a $1.3 billion pre-IPO round.
• Socure, a KYC and ID verification provider, raised $450 million at a $4.5 billion valuation.
• Inspiration, a financing platform for electric vehicles, raised $200 million.
• Stori, a Mexican credit card app for the masses, raised a $200 million Series C.
• Zenwork, a tax management and regulatory compliance software, raised $162.5 million.
• isaac, a Brazilian financing platform for schools, raised a $125 million Series B.
• JUMO, a South African banking-as-a-service provider, raised $120 million at a $400 million valuation from investors including Visa and Fidelity.
• Zilch, a UK-based buy-now-pay-later startup, raised $110 million at a $2 billion valuation.
• Wrapbook, an entertainment industry payroll provider, raised a $100 million Series B.
• Drata, which manages ISO and SOC certification for financial services firms, raised a $100 million Series B.
• Alt, which - depending how you look at it - is a marketplace for trading cards or a “remote-first alternative asset investing platform,” raised a $75 million Series B.
• MFS Africa, a Ghanaian digital payments network, raised $70 million in Series C funding and $30 million in debt.
• AscendEX, a hybrid crypto - financial platform, raised a $50 million Series B.
• Atomic, an embeddable investing and trading API platform, raised $25 million.
• Novata, an ESG rating platform for investments, raised a $21 million Series A.
• Lendtable, a corporate retirement-matching lending platform, raised an $18 million Series A.
• Traive, a Brazilian agricultural fintech, raised $17 million.
• Founders First, a revenue-based financing service, raised an $11 million Series A.
• Notabene, a crypto compliance startup, raised a $10.2 million Series A.
• Ziglu, a UK crypto payments app, crowdfunded £7.19 million.
• Zak, a restaurant payment terminal for Latin America, raised a $15 million Series A.
• FLOWX, a Romanian infrastructure platform for banks, raised an $8.5 million seed.
• Payitoff, a student loan debt management provider, raised an $8.5 million seed.
• Cacheflow, a buy-now-pay-later for SaaS provider, raised $6 million.
• Zebec Payroll, a Solana-based payroll provider, raised $6 million.
• Meow, a cash-based bridge between corporate treasuries and crypto, raised a $5 million seed.
• Udhaar Book, a Pakistani SMB bookkeeping app, raised $6 million in seed funding.
• Options AI, an options spread brokerage platform for retail investors, raised a $4.1 million seed.
• Savyour, a Pakistani cashback app, raised $3.3 million.
• Enzo, a spending and wealth optimization platform, raised a $3 million seed round.
• Tot, an Italian freelancer and SMB banking platform, raised €2 million.
• Castor, a Mexican earned wage access and payroll platform, raised a $1.8 million pre-seed.

Over 800 African startups have raised funding in the past three years. (Source)

💰 Venture Funds

• Digital Horizon is launching its second fund, a $200 million fund focused on fintech.

☯️ Exits

💻 IPOs

• Expensify gave employees a surprise 10% grant on listing day, which could make all of them paper millionaires.

📈 SPACs

• Europa Growth Acquisition, a Swiss SPAC targeting European financial services, filed for a $235 million IPO. The IPO soared on the back of the platform’s profitability, raising $263 million.

🤝 M&A - Fintech

• Private equity firm CVC is in talks to buy out Dutch financial services provider Intertrust for €1.63 billion.
• Asset manager Abrdn is in talks to acquire UK brokerage Interactive Investor for £1.5 billion.
• Nigerian payments firm Flutterwave acquired Disha, a platform that allows creators to curate and sell digital content.
• Australian accounting platform Xero will acquire LOCATE Inventory, a US-based inventory management provider.

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🌎 Fintech Around the World

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