Existing shareholders Värde Partners, HPE Growth Capital and Blumberg Capital also participated in the round. The company is in advanced discussions for a final closing that could increase the Series C round to over EUR 100 million.
“We are excited to bring these world-class investors on board who will support us in strengthening our integrated financial services platform, bringing us closer to our vision of becoming the ‘digital bank for the underbanked,” said Kreditech’s Co-Founder and CEO Sebastian Diemer. “We are a technology company, but also a provider of consumer financial services, and we are fortunate to have a sophisticated shareholder group whose experience and network spans both areas.”
“We view the addition of JC Flowers, Peter Thiel and Amadeus as a major validation of our business model. They are important partners in building our capital markets story,” added Kreditech’s CFO Rene Griemens. “The company has now raised cumulative equity and debt funds of more than EUR 300 million, of which EUR 160 million are unused debt facilities available to finance further growth.”
Loren Felsman of JC Flowers, who will join the company’s board, said “There are people without access to fair and affordable credit in every market we have analyzed, and technology is enabling new and better ways of offering credit to these customers. Kreditech has developed a remarkably sophisticated approach to real-time consumer banking, and focuses on markets that are relatively less well-served by traditional credit bureaus and financial services providers. Most lenders, including those built on modern technology, may not crack these markets for years.”
“We are very impressed by Kreditech’s speed of execution; its business model, in combination with its innovative scoring and underwriting technologies, has enormous potential to overtake traditional banking models in the future,” said Andrea Traversone, Partner of Amadeus.
Jefferies and Berenberg acted as financial advisors on the transaction.
About Kreditech
Kreditech Group is a technology company that delivers a range of custom-tailored financial services with a focus on underbanked consumers across the globe. Kreditech uses big data, proprietary algorithms and automated workflows to acquire, identify and underwrite customers within seconds. Automated processes combined with self-learning algorithms ensure fast and convenient customer service, minimizing cost and human error while continually improving by incorporating new customer data. Since its founding, Kreditech has scored more than two million individual loan applications, using up to 20,000 data points per application. Kreditech’s global subsidiaries offer products from individually tailored installment loans and microloans to payment and other financial services. Kreditech’s Monedo brand provides an integrated suite of financial products, including a digital wallet and a personal finance manager designed to help customers manage their credit score and plan their spending. Founded in 2012 by Sebastian Diemer (CEO) and Alexander Graubner-Müller (CTO), Kreditech Group has a team of over 200 passionate employees with over 40 nationalities.
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