Hello Fintech Friends,

When I'm not writing about great fintech startups, I spend my time investing in them.

If you're an early-stage founding team, we have a few more checks to write out of our Fund I, so feel free to reach out! (Fund II coming soon.)

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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.

💸 Venture Financing

1. Tipalti, an accounting software firm, raised $150 million in growth financing from JP Morgan Chase.
2. PhonePe, the Indian payments giant, added another $100 million to its now-$850 million fundraise.
3. TymeBank, a South African neobank launched by the Singapore-headquartered Tyme Group, raised a $77.8 million pre-Series C.
4. Nymbus, a digital transformation solutions provider for banks, raised a $70 million Series D.
5. OpenFin, a financial interface used by 3,800 banks and wealth and asset management firms in 60+ countries, raised a $35 million Series D from backers including Bank of America.
6. Episode Six, a payment processing and digital ledger infrastructure, raised a $48 million Series C.
7. FlowX.ai, a Romanian digital transformation provider for the financial sector, raised a $35 million Series A.
8. Paydock, a UK payments orchestration software provider, raised a £25 million Series A.
9. Kapital, a Mexican SMB lender, raised a $20 million Series A.
10. Checkmate, an automated savings platform for online shopping, raised a $15 million Series A.
11. Pesto, an asset-backed consumer credit card, raised $11 million.
12. XFlow, an Indian B2B cross-border payment provider, raised a $10.2 million pre-Series A.
13. Novisto, an ESG data management software company, raised a $20 million Series B.
14. Nue, a pricing, sales, and finance tooling provider for Salesforce, raised a $9 million seed extension.
15. Unlimited Funds, an ETF investing product, raised $8 million.
16. Ballerine, an open-source risk decisioning platform, raised $5 million in seed funding.
17. VePay, an acquiring and payments orchestration technology, raised $5 million.
18. Kiwi, a startup that lets LatAm consumers build their credit histories, raised a $4.5 million pre-Series A and $75 million credit facility.
19. Onyx, a neobank for affluent professionals, raised $4.1 million.
20. Trade Ledger, a working capital platform, raised £3 million from Barclays.
21. Trébol, a business identity verification startup for Latin America, raised a $3 million seed round.
22. Plenty, a wealth management app for couples, raised a $2.75 million pre-seed.
23. Skorlife, an Indonesian credit-scoring application, raised a $2.2 million pre-seed.
24. Num Finance, a decentralized finance stablecoin protocol for Latin America, raised $1.5 million.
25. Freemarket, a regulated B2B cross-border payments and currency exchange startup, raised growth capital.

💵 Debt Financing

• Real estate investing platform Fundrise is raising a $500 million credit fund for distressed real estate acquisitions.
• Cardless, a co-branded credit card as a service company, secured a $75 million credit facility.

💰 Venture Funds

• Fintech venture capital firm QED Investors raised $925 million across two new funds.
• European financial services investor Anthemis is targeting $200 million for a third fund, of which it has secured $36.4 million.

Pssst - if you like early-stage fintech investing, come join our angel syndicate.