GapMinder makes a follow-on investment in FintechOS which raises USD 14m in total
- FintechOS raises USD 14 million to continue its hyper-growth across Europe and expansion in US and South East Asia.
- GapMinder makes a follow-on in Series A investment in FintechOS, after leading the previous seed round.
- The company focuses on hyper-personalised and true end-to-end automated financial technology, non-expensive and easily integrated with existing systems, allowing financial products and services delivery at unprecedented speed – weeks rather than months or years.
FintechOS has announced today that it has raised a USD 14M Series A round to continue its hyper accelerated growth and further development of the platform.
The financing was been led by the Digital East Fund of Earlybird Venture Capital (early investor in UiPath) and OTB Ventures, with follow-on participation from existing investors Gapminder Ventures and Launchub.
In 2018, GapMinder led the Seed round of investment for the same company which totaled USD 2 million.
The Series A additional capital will be used by FintechOS to continue the company’s 450% Annual Recurring Revenue growth and expansion across Europe, South East Asia and the US markets. The company will also invest heavily in the continued development of more pre-built, ready-to-deploy apps, services and solutions to further reduce products’ time to market.
FintechOS technology empowers traditional banks and insurance companies to adapt to rapidly changing customer expectations and match the speed and flexibility of Fintechs, their new and technology-driven competitors. Their platform provides a true end-to-end digital automation for all insurance and banking products, in an inexpensive way and working seamlessly alongside the existing technology infrastructure.
The platform can be deployed both as part of multi-cloud SaaS, helping clients transition to the cloud, and on premises deployments.
FintechOS offers more than 150 integrated sources of data out-of-the-box (from social and contextual to the cloud and enterprise systems), more than 20 automated financial processes (AI-enabled areas like KYC, Customer 360, pricing, risk analytics), and a marketplace with more than 50 open sources, ready-made apps to kick start the use of the technology in the field of client onboarding, lending, savings, insurance, pensions and wealth management. Existing partnerships with Microsoft, EY, Deloitte, Publicis Sapient and Capgemini allow fast deployment in multiple markets.
„GapMinder is in the unique position of identifying the best high-tech companies in the early stage born in Romania and Central Europe and scaling them up globally. One of the best examples is FintechOS which evolved dramatically towards a growth stage company. FintechOS is changing paradigms. It is transformative for the financial services industry and possibly other industries in the future. Its vision and state-of-the-art technology help today’s banks and insurance companies to dramatically speed up the implementation of new and fully automated ways to deliver their own services to their customers or to interact with their own employees and ecosystems. And all these in a non-expensive way and easily interacting with existing systems.
Their mature and high-achieving team has a great vision and strategy paired with a very aggressive execution which provided a hyper-growth scaling on international markets, right after the Seed investment round which we led in 2018.
For the Series A investment round we are confident to follow on and see their international hyper-growth going further”, declares Dan Mihaescu, Founding Partner of GapMinder.
On his turn, Teodor Blidăruș, CEO and Co-Founder of FintechOS, added: “Our disruptive approach is customer, not technology is driven. We created FintechOS to transform the financial industry, empowering banks and insurance companies to act and react faster than fintechs, to create a smarter, slicker customer experience. As a result, hyper-personalized services and elevated customer experiences are now available almost plug and play.”
Since January 2018, when it was created, until now, GapMinder invested in 31 companies and reached a threshold of EUR 40 million as fund size.
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About GapMinder Venture Partners BV
GapMinder is a 45 Million dollar venture capital fund investing in high technology companies born in Romania and Central Europe and scaling up at an international level, at Seed or Series A-stages. GapMinder’s partners have a hands-on approach as investors, enhancing companies’ growth via strategic advisory and direct involvement in operational streamlining, corporate governance, and financial discipline.
GapMinder’s portfolio includes companies such as FintechOS, TypingDNA, SmartDreamers, Deepstash, Frisbo.
The fund is co-financed through the Competitiveness Operational Program 2014-2020.
About FintechOS
FintechOS believes in changing the way people engage with financial technology. The company’s centrepiece technology FintechOS 20, puts automation and personalisation at the heart of innovation, allowing financial services providers to transform the digital customer experience quickly and affordably.
The FintechOS portfolio of global clients includes Nationale-Nederlanden, ERSTE, Vienna Insurance Group, Orange Money, Hyperion Group, TBI Bank, Transylvania Bank and Idea Bank. With offices in London, Amsterdam, Vienna, Copenhagen, as well as Bucharest and expanding operations to the United States and Asia in 2020. For more information, please visit: www.fintechos.com.
About the European Investment Fund
European Investment Fund (EIF) is part of the European Investment Bank Group and is the main venture capital for SMEs in Europe, via venture capital instruments, guarantees and microfinance. In Romania, the EIF implements financial instruments funded through structural and investment funds: JEREMIE 2007-2013, SME Initiative, and financial instruments from PO Competitiveness, Regional Operational Program, and NRDP.
About the Competitiveness Operational Program
The Competitiveness Operational Program 2014-2020 (POC) supports investments to meet the needs and challenges of low levels of economic competitiveness, in particular with regard to (a) insufficient support for research, development, and innovation and (b) infrastructure developed by Technology Information and Communication. POC benefits from a € 1.33 billion allocation from the European Regional Development Fund.