Rob is the founder and managing partner at Motive Partners and previously served as corporate executive vice president at FIS. He also holds board positions at Accordion, BetaNXT, FNZ Group, and InvestCloud.
The Series A round was led by Apollo and Motive to expand the alternative asset management platform.
"We have reached an inflection point where alternative asset managers now need their own operating system to power the industry’s next growth phase. We are thrilled to welcome Apollo as an enterprise-scale client and investor as we bring a new standard to the alternative asset management space. We purpose-built Vega AltOS to meet the complex client infrastructure needs of high growth, private markets asset managers. Similar to our experience in the core banking and payments revolution, demand and volumes across all client channels for private markets investments have outstripped the industry’s infrastructure of generic, sub-scale point solutions. We are excited to partner with Apollo and Motive to innovate and solve this industry challenge. Apollo’s contribution of Edna – one of the largest alternative employee investment platforms in the market – accelerates Vega’s AltOS vision for GPs. Edna was incubated at Apollo, in partnership with Motive, and epitomizes the innovative approach to global wealth solutions at Apollo. We are excited to continue expanding our range of GP solutions with the addition of Edna’s employee investment capabilities."
The London fintech firm raised the capital from backers including Bain Capital and Unusual Ventures to satisfy tier-one regulatory requirements.
"International payments are a pain point across a range of industries including e-commerce, marketplaces, and online platforms such as payroll and pensions to name just a few. These are sectors that need to cater for complex layers of incoming and outgoing payments, to and from large volumes of businesses and individuals, and across multiple jurisdictions. Getting the licences in Ireland and the UK sets us up wonderfully for 2024 and means that international businesses can now use our solution to remove these headaches in a regulated environment."
The funding round was led by Motive Ventures to support the development of institutional-grade wealth management products.
"As a new generation of high-net-worth individuals emerges, we are building the financial products and technological infrastructure the wealth management industry needs to serve them,"
The round was led by Stride with participation from high profile funds and angel investors.
"But at Triver, we’ve cracked the code. Using Open Banking and artificial intelligence we are revolutionising how SMEs access finance and are partnering with digital service providers already trusted by these businesses."
The investment was co-led by Unusual Ventures, Motive Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures to fuel international expansion and product development.
"High-potential companies struggle to cope with large volumes of international payments and there is a huge gap in the market — at one end you have inefficient local solutions; at the other, you have the tier-one global providers, inaccessible to all but the world’s biggest businesses. Businesses have no option but to stitch together a costly and complex patchwork of service providers and this is the pain point that Paytrix is stepping in to solve."
