Visa

Visa is an American multinational financial services company that specializes in facilitating electronic payment systems globally. As the largest payment processor in the world, Visa operates the largest retail electronic payments network, processing nearly $15 trillion in total volume across over 200 countries and in more than 160 currencies. The company provides a variety of payment options through its brands, including credit, debit, prepaid, and commercial programs. VisaNet, its global network, offers value-added services such as fraud and risk management, dispute resolution, and rewards. Additionally, Visa supports online merchants with payment solutions and risk management services, as well as mobile financial services in developing economies. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in San Francisco, Visa is committed to promoting inclusive economies through initiatives led by the Visa Foundation, which focuses on supporting gender-diverse small and micro businesses and addressing community needs during crises.

Scott Rosenberg

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Past deals in Banks

Tarabut

Series A in 2023
Tarabut Gateway, a disruptor in its own right, is the first and only licensed Open Banking platform (AISP/ PISP) in the MENA region. By developing a single universal open banking API, Tarabut Gateway provides access to a global network of banks and FinTechs that allows money and information to flow securely, instantly, and at a low cost. Having been the first to obtain an AISP & PISP license in the Middle East and North African region, Tarabut Gateway is transforming the MENA financial services landscape by introducing new revenue streams to financial institutions and allowing Fintech to test & monetize on their solutions.

Karty

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Karty is a financial technology platform based in Msheireb that enables customers to manage their finances through a single application. The platform offers features such as real-time notifications, transaction alerts, automatic categorization, and peer-to-peer payments, ensuring banking-level security for users. Karty aims to enhance daily financial experiences by utilizing advanced technology and transaction data. The company has secured $1.2 million in pre-seed funding from prominent investors, including Visa, Qatar Development Bank, Qatar Foundation, and local angel investors. Through its partnership with Visa, Karty is focused on delivering comprehensive digital payment solutions tailored for both consumer and business expenses.

Belvo

Series A in 2021
Belvo Technologies, Inc. is a financial technology company that has developed an open banking application programming interface (API) platform designed to facilitate access to banking and fiscal information. Founded in 2020 and based in Dover, Delaware, Belvo's platform enables businesses to retrieve various financial data, including bank account statements, historical transactions, account ownership details, and tax information. This developer-first API is aimed at enhancing the creation of more efficient and inclusive financial products in Latin America, streamlining the entire process from client registration to data retrieval.

Basiq

Corporate Round in 2021
Basiq Pty Ltd provides open banking API platform. The company offers access to financial data, real time banking data, and account and transaction data through the set of APIs. It also provides SDKs, documentation, and sandbox environment to help APIs to integrate with application. Additionally the company offers secure environment, multi-factor authentication, restricted network access, data encryption, secure development practices, and real time monitoring. Basiq Pty Ltd was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Tink

Acquisition in 2021
Tink AB, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, operates as a cloud-based open banking platform that enhances financial services through its infrastructure and data products. The company offers a mobile application that allows users to track personal finances, manage money across various accounts, transfer funds, pay bills, and establish personal budgets. Key features of the application include transaction categorization, spending insights, and daily analyses. Additionally, Tink provides products such as account aggregation, payment initiation, and data enrichment, which can be utilized for standalone services or integrated into existing banking applications. The company's partnerships with major financial institutions, including ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas Fortis, Nordea, Klarna, and SEB, further bolster its position in the financial technology sector.

Greenwood Bank

Series A in 2021
Greenwood Bank is a digital banking platform for Black and Latinx people and business owners. It features best-in-class digital banking services and innovative ways of giving back to the community. The company's initial products are savings and spending accounts that come with a stunningly designed black metal debit card for customers who sign up by the end of the year. Greenwood Bank was founded in 2020 and is based in Atlanta, GA, USA.

Klarna

Venture Round in 2021
Klarna Bank AB, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, specializes in providing payment and shopping solutions for consumers and merchants both online and in-store across several countries, including Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Norway. The company offers a variety of payment options, such as card payments, direct banking, and innovative solutions like "buy now, pay later," which allows consumers to finance purchases interest-free over installments. Klarna's services extend to merchants, providing technology, credit risk management, and customer administration solutions to enhance their eCommerce capabilities. As a regulated bank, Klarna is recognized for its flexible payment solutions that empower shoppers to choose how and when they pay, thereby improving the overall shopping experience.

Minna Technologies

Series B in 2021
Minna Technologies, established in 2016, is a FinTech company that specializes in subscription management solutions for retail banks. As an EBA authorized partner, it provides Account Information Service Provider (AISP) and Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP) capabilities. The company aims to enhance customer experience by enabling banks to offer effective management of subscriptions to their clients. Minna Technologies operates in six European markets and currently supports 18.7 million active digital banking users, demonstrating its significant impact on the financial services sector.

Railsr

Series A in 2020
Railsbank Technology Ltd develops an API banking and compliance technology platform that connects together a global network of partner banks with companies. The platform provides companies with access to wholesale banking services in five lines of code. It enables users to create bank accounts, streamline technical integration with banks, and connect to payment schemes to receive and send money to/from these accounts. Railsbank Technology Ltd was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices located in Singapore, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka.

Neat

Series A in 2020
Neat Limited, founded in 2015 and based in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, operates a financial application that enables users to open mobile current accounts. The company provides a prepaid MasterCard known as the Neat Card, which facilitates payments in multiple currencies at various merchants globally. Neat offers tailored products for businesses, including dedicated Hong Kong bank account numbers, an online finance management dashboard, and expense cards for employees. For personal users, Neat provides mobile current accounts, ATM cards, and online money transfer capabilities. Designed with entrepreneurs in mind, Neat aims to offer a modern alternative to traditional banking, addressing the needs of a globalized economy and supporting seamless international business transactions.

NovoPayment

Funding Round in 2019
NovoPayment Inc. operates a cloud-based platform that provides financial and transactional services, specializing in Banking-as-a-Service solutions. The company offers mass payout and cash-in services, alongside a White-Label Platform-as-a-Service and open banking/API offerings tailored for banks and financial institutions. Founded in 2004 and based in Miami, Florida, NovoPayment has expanded its presence with offices in Mexico City, Bogota, Lima, and Quito. Its platform supports a diverse range of financial service use cases across multiple countries and currencies, boasting over 72 deployments and reaching more than 2.5 million end users. NovoPayment's innovative contributions to digital transformation have been recognized with awards for customer experience and disruptive innovation in financial services, underscoring its commitment to enhancing banking operations in the Americas.

Interswitch

Corporate Round in 2019
Interswitch is an integrated digital payments and commerce company focused on the African market. Established in 2002, it specializes in facilitating electronic money circulation and value exchange between individuals and organizations. The company has evolved from a transaction switching and electronic payments processing entity to a provider of comprehensive payment infrastructure and innovative transactional services across the continent. Interswitch's aim is to enhance the efficiency and accessibility of payment solutions, contributing to the growth of digital commerce in Africa.

Finix

Series A in 2019
Finix Payments, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides a payment infrastructure platform designed to help businesses manage and monetize their payment processes effectively. Founded in 2015, Finix offers a range of services, including a payment facilitator platform that includes features such as tokenization, merchant onboarding, reporting, reconciliation, settlements, and chargeback management. The company enables businesses to avoid the complexities and costs associated with developing an in-house payment system. Additionally, through a partnership with Visa, Finix facilitates real-time push-to-card payments, enhancing the efficiency of disbursements. Finix's solutions aim to improve the payment experience for both businesses and their customers, recognizing the critical role that effective payment technology plays in driving revenue.

Anchorage

Series B in 2019
Anchorage is the first crypto-native Qualified Custodian for institutional investors, offering a comprehensive platform complete with trading, staking, and governance. Co-founded by security engineers from Square and Docker, Anchorage has raised $57 million in funding from such leading investors as Visa and Andreessen Horowitz, and counts as clients many of crypto’s largest and best-known funds, including Blockchain Capital, BlockTower, Polychain, and Paradigm. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Minna Technologies

Series A in 2019
Minna Technologies, established in 2016, is a FinTech company that specializes in subscription management solutions for retail banks. As an EBA authorized partner, it provides Account Information Service Provider (AISP) and Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP) capabilities. The company aims to enhance customer experience by enabling banks to offer effective management of subscriptions to their clients. Minna Technologies operates in six European markets and currently supports 18.7 million active digital banking users, demonstrating its significant impact on the financial services sector.

Bankable

Corporate Round in 2019
Bankable is a global architect of innovative payment solutions for corporates, banks and retailers. Their solutions – including e-wallets, m-wallets, remittance services, P2P money transfers, and prepaid card programmes – are available in the form of white-label self-service platforms as well as via APIs. Their proprietary software assets help organisations streamline their payment processes while unlocking new revenue opportunities. While banks and retailers can quickly launch new corporate or retail financial products, their “Banking as a Service” approach enables any organisation with a large customer base to offer light banking services to their customers.

Branch International

Series C in 2019
Branch International Inc. is a digital lending company founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Mumbai, Nairobi, Mexico City, and Lagos. The company leverages smartphone data to assess creditworthiness, allowing consumers in emerging markets to access personal loans through its Android application. By utilizing data science, Branch aims to reduce the cost of financial services and provide fair access to banking options, particularly for the growing middle class. The platform offers a quick approval process for loans, enabling users to build credit irrespective of their banking history and navigate the barriers posed by traditional financial institutions. Branch is committed to driving meaningful growth in rapidly evolving markets and has raised over $100 million in funding from notable investors in Silicon Valley.

Earthport Plc

Acquisition in 2018
Earthport plc is a global financial services company providing a cross border payments service in over 50 countries and territories worldwide.

Billdesk

Corporate Round in 2018
BillDesk, founded in the early 2000s by IndiaIdeas.com Ltd., specializes in electronic payment and collections services aimed at simplifying the bill payment process for consumers. The company offers a comprehensive payment platform that facilitates online payments across various channels and methods. By providing tools for organizing and managing payments, BillDesk enables users to navigate the complexities of traditional bill payment services with greater ease and efficiency. Its focus on leveraging electronic mediums allows customers to make payments in a seamless and frictionless manner, enhancing their overall payment experience.

Behalf

Series C in 2018
Behalf, Inc. operates as a financing provider which facilitates commerce between business to business merchants and their business customers. The company allows merchant partners to offer business customers instant credit and flexible payment terms at the point of sale. It also provides working capital solutions for small businesses and flexible financing for business purchases. Behalf, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York. The company has additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel

Solaris

Series B in 2018
solarisBank AG develops a banking platform. Its platform enables startups, fintechs, and established digital companies to create custom solutions for their unique financial needs. The company also provides various compliant payment services, including e-money issuing and escrow solutions; support services for account creation and maintenance, and transaction services, as well as deposit and credit business. solarisBank AG is based in Berlin, Germany.

Klarna

Corporate Round in 2017
Klarna Bank AB, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, specializes in providing payment and shopping solutions for consumers and merchants both online and in-store across several countries, including Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Norway. The company offers a variety of payment options, such as card payments, direct banking, and innovative solutions like "buy now, pay later," which allows consumers to finance purchases interest-free over installments. Klarna's services extend to merchants, providing technology, credit risk management, and customer administration solutions to enhance their eCommerce capabilities. As a regulated bank, Klarna is recognized for its flexible payment solutions that empower shoppers to choose how and when they pay, thereby improving the overall shopping experience.

Visa Europe

Acquisition in 2015
Visa Europe Limited operates as a payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and governments worldwide. The company manages a range of payment products under the Visa brand. It operates VisaNet, a processing network that handles transaction messages a second with fraud protection for consumers and assured payment for merchants. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. Visa Europe Limited is a subsidiary of Visa Inc.

Chain

Series C in 2015
Chain, Inc. is an enterprise software company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2012. It specializes in developing cryptographic ledger systems designed to enhance the security and efficiency of financial services. The company's key offerings include the Chain Open Standard, an open-source blockchain protocol for large-scale financial applications, Chain Core, an enterprise-grade production node, and Chain Sandbox, a prototyping environment. Chain's technology allows organizations to securely track and transfer financial assets in a token format across both private and public networks, facilitating programmatic and peer-to-peer transfers of digital assets. Its clientele includes major financial institutions such as Visa, Nasdaq, and Citigroup, as well as emerging startups focused on innovative financial products.

Fundamo

Acquisition in 2011
Fundamo (Proprietary) Limited specializes in mobile financial solutions for banks, financial organizations, and mobile network operators, both in South Africa and internationally. Founded in 2000 and based in Cape Town, the company offers a range of services, including the Fundamo Enterprise Edition, a mobile financial services platform; the Fundamo Mobile Wallet, which delivers transformative financial services; and Fundamo Mobile Banking, enabling banks to provide mobile access to existing accounts. Additionally, Fundamo provides mobile remittance options, integrated payment and purchasing modules, and facilities for issuing mobile debit cards linked to the Fundamo Mobile Account. As a subsidiary of Sanlam Ltd, Fundamo focuses on enhancing financial accessibility through mobile technology.