Flamefinch Partners led the pre-seed round for the social note-taking platform.
"Although we've had computers for a long time, digital note taking hasn't progressed much beyond its pen-and-paper counterpart. The problem is that the fundamental format hasn't really changed — notes are taken in long-form documents, burying information in a mass of text in a mess of files. This makes it difficult to find what you need, when you need it."
The seed round was backed by participants including Alan Howard, FinTech Collective, and NYDIG.
"Raising £11 million and reaching a post-money valuation of £51 million is a testament to the scale of Bottlepay’s ambition, and an illustration of the effort and resources invested to build and design a revolutionary payments infrastructure of this magnitude."