Ben serves as co-founder and chairman at Essor and partner at Target Global. He brings board-level investing and angel experience from firms including YuLife, Flink, and Zego.
Ricardo brings venture capital experience from his time as a partner at Target Global and founder of Zone II Ventures. He also maintains an active angel portfolio including investments in Revolut and Maven Clinic.
The seed round was led by Speedinvest and Target Global to support team expansion and international growth.
"Imagine your electricity getting cut because of insufficient funds due to not moving money to your current account in time. Now imagine that across hundreds of accounts and dozens of countries. That’s the daily challenge for treasury teams – juggling multiple systems to track and predict cash flow across global operations. Having implemented incumbent solutions three times to solve this without seeing meaningful change, we knew it was time to build something better"
The pre-seed round was led by Target Global with backing from angel investors and creative partners.
"We believe everyone has the ability to take control of their money and build a buffer against the world, so long as they’re given the right conditions, tools and support to do so. We created Communion for people to fix their relationship with money and live life with more autonomy and less fear."
Target Global led the seed financing round to support the payment platform's European expansion and product development.
"We are excited to offer our customers an unrivalled experience when it comes to accessing a reliable and transparent tool for cross-border payments. Our value lies in our ability to remove hurdles when it comes to opening business bank accounts and offering payment services at a fraction of the cost versus high street banks and legacy providers. We aim to board and activate customers in under 48 hours, start to finish. All of this is now available through one application and one dashboard to stay in control of your payments."
The Series A round was led by Target Global to fuel international expansion and team growth.
"Our bold ambition is to make payroll invisible. We believe that 10 years from now, 'payroll software' will be eliminated from the dictionaries. Invisible payroll will be a crucial element across broader platforms and thanks to our vision, we will be at the forefront of this new trend. We are also extremely pleased to have investors like Target Global join us in carrying out this vision and helping us shape the future of payroll together."
The online learning platform raised the pre-seed round from a group led by Target Global and various angel investors.
"Our vision at Edukoya is to redefine online education for the next generation of Africans. Africa has the fastest-growing school-age population globally, with over 260M students and counting. Our goal is to democratize access and make high quality instruction and content accessible and affordable to every student, regardless of where he or she lives on the continent"
