Ajay serves as President of the World Bank Group. His background includes leading Mastercard as President and Chief Executive Officer and executive roles at Citigroup and General Atlantic.
Kelly brings extensive financial services and payments experience, having held senior leadership roles at Mastercard, Vocalink, and the Financial Inclusion Commission.
The Manchester fintech raised £18.9m in a round backed by True Ventures, Praetura Ventures, NatWest, Mastercard, Route 66 Ventures, and Beringea.
"AccessPay simplifies corporate and institutional banking processes by streamlining all bank and finance apps into a shared interface. This astute merging of automation, fintech, and tooling that improves processes for a massive market is what drew us to invest in this team since its seed investment, and we continue to feel excitement for the company’s next phase of growth and expansion."
Evolution Equity Partners led the seed round with backing from AlbionVC, Cambridge Enterprise, and Mastercard.
"We are thrilled to be working with a group of investors that share our view that the world is rapidly entering into a period of regulatory uncertainty, requiring interoperable content to power the next generation of regulatory applications for the digital economy,"
Goldman Sachs Asset Management led the Series C round to support international expansion and platform development.
"Financial institutions are increasingly turning to modern, cloud-based technologies in order to handle growing payment volumes efficiently and in real-time. We are delighted to be leading this investment round and look forward to working together with Form3 and other shareholders to help realise their ambitious global roadmap and strategic growth plan."
The London software business has closed a Series C round backed by Insight Partners and existing shareholders to fund international growth.
"At Insight Partners, we invest in fast-scaling software companies. The Pollinate platform creates white-labelled digital marketplaces for the business customers of the world’s largest banks"
— Emmet Keeffe III, Operating Partner at Insight Partners and Founder of Insight IGNITE
