The funding round was led by IAG SilverStrip to support business growth and future acquisitions.
"Today’s financing is a clear market validation of Zopa Bank’s financial performance, pointing to strong investor confidence in its growth and in its ability to deliver strong financial performance despite the economic uncertainty. As a profitable business, it is also a seal of approval for our responsible and sustainable business model, our strong unit economics, and our vision to build Britain’s best bank. We are happy to have investors who share our excitement at the opportunity to serve more customers across more product categories as we get even closer to reaching full-year profitability in 2023 for the first time."
The pre-seed round was co-led by Connect Ventures and Jigsaw.
"In my previous role as a CTO at a fast-growing insurtech, I’ve seen first-hand how unnecessarily complex and time-consuming it can be to push a simple price change live. Whether it’s due to disjointed collaboration, poor back-end systems or simply fighting with other tasks to get to the top of the priority queue, pricing operations all over the world are using platforms and processes that slow them down, introduce errors and ultimately cause their businesses to lose money by making the wrong decisions. We’re redefining the pricing operations category with our new platform. We believe the product speaks for itself, so pricing professionals can use it to implement, optimise and test pricing models for free. Unlike a legacy enterprise solution, companies can switch to us with minimal hassle and cost, improving the speed and confidence of pricing changes for greater growth and profitability."
KKR and Infracapital have taken joint majority stakes in the battery storage specialist.
"Securing substantial further equity is a significant vote of confidence in our business, its achievements to date and future aims. KKR provides Zenobē with a leading international strategic partner to support our expansion plans into North America, Europe and Australasia and other markets. It supports our ability to raise further debt funding for these plans. It is also an acknowledgement that boosting battery storage and clean transport is just common sense to help us reach net zero."
The seed round was led by Insurtech Gateway with participation from One Planet Capital, the University of Surrey, and angel investors.
"We are thrilled to have secured this significant funding round, led by Insurtech Gateway. This investment not only validates the tremendous potential of Renew Risk, but it also propels us forward on our mission to help improve the financial processes key for the transition to green energy. With this support, we are now poised to accelerate our product development, expand our market reach, and continue driving innovation in the industry. We are grateful to our esteemed consortium of investors for their trust and belief in our vision and we are excited about the transformative impact we will make in the insurance industry."
Neuberger Berman provided a $1bn off-balance sheet asset purchase programme to support online merchants.
"The global eCommerce sector is expected to continue growing rapidly in the coming years. We’re always looking for innovative partners that provide genuine value in the space and have been thoroughly impressed by Wayflyer’s model and experienced team. We’re thrilled to partner with Wayflyer on its mission to be the growth partner of choice to ambitious e-commerce businesses."