U.Okay.-based digital financial institution Zopa raised $87 million in an fairness spherical led by A.P. Moller Holding and present buyers.
The spherical boosts Zopa’s complete funding to $1.067 billion.
Regardless of declaring plans for a 2022 IPO throughout its 2021 funding spherical, Zopa has determined to attend for higher market circumstances.
Digital financial institution Zopa appears to be impervious to the downturn within the fintech funding atmosphere. The U.Okay.-based fintech has simply raised $87 million (€80 million), boosting its complete raised to $1.067 billion. The fairness spherical was led by A.P. Moller Holding and present buyers.
Whereas the funding comes at a time throughout which many fintechs are experiencing a funding dry spell, this isn’t the primary time Zopa has crushed the chances. In February 2023, Zopa raised a powerful $92 million (£75 million) from present buyers in addition to an undisclosed lead investor. On the time, the corporate mentioned the spherical “cements and enhances” its unicorn standing.
Zopa, which initially launched as a peer-to-peer lending platform in 2005, pivoted to turn into a digital financial institution in 2020, when it obtained its full banking license from the Monetary Conduct Authority. At present, the corporate holds greater than £5 billion in deposits for its 1.3 million clients. Zopa’s platform goals to assist customers enhance their monetary well being by way of financial savings instruments, lending merchandise, bank card choices, and varied car financing instruments. Up to now, Zopa has lent greater than $16.6 billion (£13 billion) to shoppers within the U.Okay. and presently has £3 billion in loans on its stability sheet.
“At present’s fundraise validates our monetary efficiency and progress potential,” mentioned Zopa CEO Jaidev Janardana. “Since launching our financial institution in 2020, we’ve constantly provided monetary merchandise that provide nice worth and ease to our clients, supporting our imaginative and prescient to construct Britain’s greatest financial institution. We’re thrilled to have buyers who share our pleasure on the alternative to serve extra clients throughout extra product classes as we intention to turn into the go-to financial institution for tens of millions of shoppers.”
Notably, whereas Zopa billed its 2021 funding spherical as a “pre-IPO spherical,” declaring plans to go public by the tip of 2022, it seems that plans have modified. The corporate instructed TechCrunch that it’s not presently pursuing an IPO. “We are going to watch for the markets to revive and be extra constructive,” mentioned Janardana in an interview. Apparently, Klarna, one other fintech that delayed its IPO plans, not too long ago filed to go public in 2025. The outcomes of Klarna’s public providing at the moment will both persuade Zopa that it’s time to IPO or assist to cement its choice to proceed working as a personal firm.
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