Tagged: financing

March 18, 2024 @ 2:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HeavyFinance is raising €50 million for a private credit fund that will support European agricultural small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) with tailor-made finance. The funding will be available to finance solutions “to advance the decarbonization of agriculture in Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal.” EIF… Read More

March 11, 2024 @ 7:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GetVantage, India’s alternative-financing fintech platform, announced the launch of its Rise-Up Fund, dedicated to supporting women entrepreneurs with inclusive capital. This non-dilutive fund with an initial corpus of $12 million. The fund aims to deploy the capital in “the next 12 months to help over… Read More

February 28, 2024 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Helcim reports that it just raised a CA$27 million Series B financing round, following their Series A raise in 2022. The Helcim team has highlighted some of their experiences through this process and what it means for the future of Helcim and their merchants. Helcim… Read More

February 9, 2024 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Assetz Capital and Aros Kapital have announced an expansion of their partnership in the UK lending market. This is expected to see Assetz Capital deploy more than £200m of Aros Kapital’s funding across various sectors in 2024, “as part of their overall lending volumes.” Having… Read More

February 7, 2024 @ 12:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kin, the digital, direct-to-consumer home insurance company, announced the closing of $15 million in financing from new investor Activate Capital, a growth-stage VC firm focused on the sustainable, resilient transformation of the global economy. Raising at an increased valuation, greater than $1 billion, is an… Read More

January 30, 2024 @ 10:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Phoenix Merchant Partners, LP, an independent investment firm focused on providing broad financing solutions to the middle-market universe of companies, announced the closing of its first transaction, an innovative financing to Gryphon Holdings, a company involved in quota share non-catastrophic property and casualty reinsurance services…. Read More

January 27, 2024 @ 4:42 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Targeted Lending Co, a player in the equipment finance industry, has announced the successful closure of a $50 million credit facility with Wells Fargo Capital Finance. This strategic financial move underlines the company’s commitment to providing essential liquidity to small businesses, especially during times when… Read More

January 14, 2024 @ 7:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CaixaBank and KfW IPEX-Bank are jointly providing HOCHTIEF financing for the interim construction financing of the PPP project Frankfurt (Germany) judiciary center. The project volume is in the low three-digit million range and “includes the parallel construction of two new judicial buildings in the Frankfurt… Read More

January 13, 2024 @ 10:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lendable is pleased to announce a $10 million debt investment in Validus, an SME lending platform with operations in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Validus drives SME financial inclusion “across Southeast Asia by leveraging proprietary data to provide supply-chain financing to under-served SMEs, thereby empowering… Read More

January 9, 2024 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Financing a new business can be one of the biggest hurdles entrepreneurs face, according to an update shared by UK’s Starling Bank. Some 85% of UK startups launched in the last three years “have relied on the founder’s personal capital as the initial source of… Read More

December 22, 2023 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Centi is announcing the successful completion of its seed financing round led by Archblock and Bloomhaus Ventures with continued investments from existing shareholders and founders. Recognized for its proficiency in processing transactions as small as a cent, Centi claims that it  is now poised “for… Read More

December 14, 2023 @ 6:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In November 2023, investors invested a total of €2.24M  in agricultural projects through HeavyFinance. €1.90M was reportedly paid out for the farmers “with the capital spread across 54 different loans.” As of November 2023, HeavyFinance has “successfully issued a total of 46.63 million EUR in… Read More

December 14, 2023 @ 6:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Climate finance was central to discussions at COP28 in Dubai and funding to reach net-zero and restore biodiversity is still falling short, according to an update shared by the World Economic Forum (WEF). New research published by WEF highlights priorities “for action and shows how… Read More

December 13, 2023 @ 2:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) has led a strategic investment round in Supra. Far Out Ventures and H20 Capital also participated in the financing round. Supra is a Colombian fintech that “enables cross-border payments and treasury solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that participate in import… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Scalable Capital, a digital investment platform in Europe, announced the closing of a €60 million in equity financing. The Series E extension was led “by European venture capital firm Balderton Capital with participation from existing investors, including HV Capital – underscoring their strong support for… Read More

December 1, 2023 @ 3:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With affordability remaining top of mind throughout the automotive industry, new data shows the average loan amount “for new and used vehicles decreased in Q3 2023, an optimistic sign that things are continuing to level out for vehicle shoppers.  ” According to Experian’s State of the… Read More

November 27, 2023 @ 5:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, has launched Capital, a product that enables businesses on Adyen for Platforms offer timely access “to funding for their small and medium-sized business (SMB) users in Australia.” Research conducted in partnership with Boston… Read More

November 25, 2023 @ 2:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), the UK’s SME lending platform, and Atom bank, the UK’s first app-based bank, announce a new lending partnership that “will provide up to c.£150m of funding to small businesses.” Atom bank is a “long-standing” and returning investor in the Funding Circle… Read More

November 24, 2023 @ 5:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MPOWER Financing, a mission-driven fintech firm and the leading provider of non-cosigned loans to promising students from around the world, recently announced that it has closed on debt financing that “has propelled the firm’s overall lending capacity to over $300 million.” Active funding includes commitments… Read More

November 16, 2023 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank launches a new £70million commitment to support smaller businesses from all sectors right across Northern Ireland. The Investment Fund for Northern Ireland (IFNI) aims “to drive sustainable economic growth by supporting innovation and creating local opportunities for new and scaling businesses… Read More