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.
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."
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
The funding round was backed by a consortium of global financial heavyweights to expand the reach of its merchant services technology.
"Retail banks around the world are facing common issues, but they remain the only ones in the payment chain who can connect directly with both merchants and consumers. They are therefore best placed to help SME’s process transactions, support their balance sheets, and grow their businesses, creating a virtuous circle between the bank, merchants, and consumers. As we know consumers increasingly expect a more personalised service from the businesses they interact with, regardless of their size, so at its heart Pollinate is about relationships and growth through connection – our platform enables relationships to be strengthened through fantastic digital experiences, and real-time data processing analytics and integrations."
The financing round was led by Mastercard and will support accelerated growth across Europe.
"The RegTech market is growing at 45%+ per annum and with 9,000+ Financial Institutions in Europe that must deliver PSD2 open banking, the demand for the Konsentus service is significant and this investment will support an accelerated growth plan across Europe. With plans to launch new related services later in 2019 and international expansion in due course, we will be pursuing a Series A financing round in late 2019"
