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Marcel's #DoneDeal FinTech Funding Newsletter | 2025 #13 Weekly Funding news up to Friday, 4th of April 2025. HEADLINES/Featuring: Atomic, Revolut, Mendel, Fat Zebra, WANNME, smallcase, axiTrust, Freetrade And more! #fintech #donedeal #funding #investment #investors #venturecapital #venturecapitalist #angelinvestor #angelinvesting #bnpl #openbanking #banks #banking #payments #paytech #fintechinnovation #fintechstartup #fintechnews #fintechstartups

Israel-based payments and loyalty platform Nayax has acquired its Dutch 🇳🇱 distribution partner inepro Pay as part of a regional expansion across Europe. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Inepro Pay operates as a subsidiary of Inepro Group in the Netherlands, and provides cashless payment solutions for vending machines and point-of-sale (POS) systems. Since 2015, Inepro Pay has distributed Nayax's products throughout western Europe. Now, Nayax says bringing Inepro Pay under its direct ownership will help "eliminate duplicate processes" and "expand direct outreach". Inepro Pay will now become a full-service Nayax office in the Netherlands, joining its existing offices in the UK and Germany. Source/more info: https://lnkd.in/dYGbFy6e #payments #paytech #digitalpayments

Marcel's #DoneDeal FinTech Funding Newsletter | 2025 #12 Weekly Funding news up to Friday, 28th of March 2025. HEADLINES/Featuring: Mercury, Ualá, Solaris SE, SQUID, Firenze, Lumber, Rain, Multiply Mortgage And more! #fintech #donedeal #funding #investment #investors #venturecapital #venturecapitalist #angelinvestor #angelinvesting #bnpl #openbanking #banks #banking #payments #paytech #fintechinnovation #fintechstartup #fintechnews #fintechstartups

Marcel's #DoneDeal FinTech Funding Newsletter | 2025 #11 Weekly Funding news up to Friday, 21st of March 2025. HEADLINES/Featuring: Versa Asia, BNY, Curve, RedotPay , NymCard, ALT21, ORO Labs, Ribbit Capital, QED Investors And more! #fintech #donedeal #funding #investment #investors #venturecapital #venturecapitalist #angelinvestor #angelinvesting #bnpl #openbanking #banks #banking #payments #paytech #fintechinnovation #fintechstartup #fintechnews #fintechstartups

🚨 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: Ualá raised an extra $66M in its Series E, reaching $366M total—the largest LATAM growth round in 3 years. Ualá, the LATAM neobank, has extended its Series E funding round due to strong investor demand, raising an additional $66 million and bringing the total to $366 million. The initial close in November 2024, led by Allianz X, valued the company at $2.75 billion post-money—marking the largest growth equity fundraising in Latin America over the past three years. The second close saw participation from TelevisaUnivision, the leading Spanish-language media company in Mexico and globally. The new investment reaffirms global investor confidence in Ualá’s growth strategy and financial ecosystem and further underscores the company’s commitment to accelerating its expansion in Mexico, Argentina and Colombia while continuing to innovate in digital financial services. “We are proud of the investor demand to be part of our story, which reaffirms their trust in our long-term vision of creating better and fairer financial services for Latin America,” said Pierpaolo Barbieri, Founder & CEO of Ualá. “The future is inspiring. We will continue to develop world class financial products, increasing investment, and exploring new growth opportunities across Latin America. Ualá is uniquely positioned for this revolution, being the only neobank with full bank licenses approved and operational in every market where we operate, combined with cutting-edge technology that allows us to scale efficiently and deliver an unparalleled user experience”. In only seven years since launch, Ualá has built a comprehensive suite of financial services, serving over nine million users with a broad range of offerings, including debit and credit cards, loans, investments, payment solutions, and acquiring services for merchants. The company’s proprietary credit scoring technology, UaláScore, leverages AI-driven insights to expand access to credit and financial inclusion throughout the region. A look back at Ualá’s growth in numbers as of November 2024, at the initial close of the round: ✅ +8 million users in less than 7 years. (now reached 9 million) ✅ +7 million loans granted. ✅ +17% of the adult population in Argentina have a Ualá account. ✅ +2.7 million users have invested via Ualá. ✅ Total Payment Volume (TPV) for Ualá’s merchant acquiring vertical grew by 55% in the last 12 months. Read more: https://lnkd.in/d2zNGw5S Find this helpful? [ 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 ] Anything to add about this subject? [𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁] Nice story. Next! [ 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 ] #fintech #digitalbanking #payments #funding #LATAM

🚨 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: Curve FinTech has secured £37m in funding, bringing its total funding to £230m since launch. This follows a reported £36m loss and a temporary pause on its US operations. The new funding round was led by Hanaco Ventures, marking its first investment in Curve and has a focus on Israeli startups. Existing investors, including Fuel Ventures 🚀, IDC Ventures, Outward VC, and Lord Stanley Fink, also participated in the round. Earlier this week new figures showed that Curve, an all-in-one payment fintech, reported a £36m loss in 2023, a 48% improvement on the year before. The fintech says its goal is to break even in the “near term”. Source: https://lnkd.in/d3hfEbQJ Curve, founded in 2015 by Israeli entrepreneur Shachar Bialick, allows customers to use their banks and loyalty cards through one app, and says it has more than 5.5m customers. Curve said its latest funding will help it on the road to make a full-year profit and new product launches. Curve has partnerships with Samsung, PayPal and Visa and is also planning to launch Curve Pay what it is billing as a rival to Apple Pay, a move in which it claims could save banks “millions of euros” that are paid to Apple in transaction fees. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e6Pw9un9 Find this helpful? [ 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 ] Anything to add about this subject? [𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁] Nice story. Next! [ 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 ] #fintech #digitalbank #digitalpayments #payments #funding

Marcel's #DoneDeal FinTech Funding Newsletter | 2025 #10 Weekly Funding news up to Friday, 14th of March 2025. HEADLINES/Featuring: Mimo, Plata Card, UniCredit, American Express, SQUID, Stax Payments, And more! #fintech #donedeal #funding #investment #investors #venturecapital #venturecapitalist #angelinvestor #angelinvesting #bnpl #openbanking #banks #banking #payments #paytech #fintechinnovation #fintechstartup #fintechnews #fintechstartups

🚨 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: Mexican fintech Plata Card reaches unicorn status 🦄 after raising $160M in a Series A at a $1.5B valuation. 🇲🇽 Mexico-based fintech Plata joined the ranks of Latin America’s most valuable startups following a $160 million Series A equity round at a $1.5 billion valuation. The round was led by Kora and saw participation from Moore Strategic Ventures LLC and other US and European investors. The company, which received approval for a banking license from Mexico’s regulators in December and focuses on consumer credit products, also disclosed it has one million active credit card users. The round comes amid a challenging funding environment for Latin American startups as interest rates in the US remain high relative to recent years. Mexico counted eight unicorns before Plata’s round, and had not seen a new entrant join the club since 2022, when fintech Stori and logistics operator Nowports reached the milestone, according to data from Tracxn. Plata was launched in April 2023 by Neri Tollardo, an alum of Russian lender Tinkoff Bank. The company has secured $750 million in equity and debt since its inception, including a $200 million warehouse facility from London-based Fasanara Capital. The pool of fintechs in Mexico has grown in recent years, with several Latin American companies, including Argentine MercadoLibre Inc.’s fintech arm and Brazil’s Nubank investing heavily in growth in the country and starting the process for a banking license. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g3HxAEGm Find this helpful? [ 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 ] Anything to add about this subject? [𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁] Nice story. Next! [ 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 ] #fintech #digitalpayments #payments #digitalbank #unicorn #funding

🚨 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: Zolve, the digital bank for global citizens, raises $251M at an $800M valuation to accelerate its U.S. expansion 🇺🇸 Zolve raised $51M and secured $200M debt in a new funding round as the startup aims to expand its presence and enter new geographies. The round was led by Indian private equity firm Creaegis, with participation from HSBC and SBI Investment. The latest funding, by far the largest in the Houston, Texas-based company's history, has given it a valuation of around $800 million, a source close to the deal told Reuters. The funding for cross-border company Zolve comes at a time when venture funding in the United States has remained subpar, while activity in India has seen a significant bump. Zolve seeks to end credit woes for new entrants to the U.S. who are considered high-risk borrowers, by helping them access financial services from their first day in the country. "When talented people move countries, their financial history is erased overnight. We're changing that by giving global citizens access to credit and banking from day one," said Zolve's founder and CEO Raghunandan G. The neobank, which was launched in 2021 has over 750,000 customers and processing over $1.2 billion in transactions to date. Zolve plans to expand into Canada, the U.K. and Australia, and incorporate sectors like auto, personal and education loans into its business portfolio. The startup ultimately aims to serve not only global users relocating to the U.S. and Canada but also individuals in the West moving between countries or shifting to Asia and other regions by building a connected financial network, the founder said. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dyFKbrKn & https://lnkd.in/dZJajmd5 Find this helpful? [ 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 ] Anything to add about this subject? [𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁] Nice story. Next! [ 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 ] #fintech #digitalbank #payments #funding

Marcel's #DoneDeal FinTech Funding Newsletter | 2025 #9 Weekly Funding news up to Friday, 7th of March 2025. HEADLINES/Featuring: Fintech Meetup, Ramp, Klarna, myTU, Hands In, Belong, PassEntry, Quantexa And more! #fintech #donedeal #funding #investment #investors #venturecapital #venturecapitalist #angelinvestor #angelinvesting #bnpl #openbanking #banks #banking #payments #paytech #fintechinnovation #fintechstartup #fintechnews #fintechstartups