ID Finance arranges €545m in debt and equity for credit platform Plazo
HQ: ES
Founded: 2015
Series Unknown
Sector: Financial Services, FinTech, Legal Tech
Investment Raised: EUR 545m €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: The round was led by international investors Spice Expeditions, WashU, Kingsway Capital, and i80 Group. The exact split between equity and debt in this round has not been disclosed. Repeat investor i80 Group is known to have provided asset-based financing in this round, after providing $150 million (then around €138.21 million) in debt in 2024.
Distributed energy co Zola Electric secures USD 90M in funds
HQ: NL
Founded: 2012
Series Unknown
Sector: Energy
Investment Raised: USD 90M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Vulcan Capital Total Energies Ventures (https://ventures.totalenergies.com/en) Helios Investment Partners Electron Capital Partners (http://www.electroncapital.com/) DBL Partners (https://www.dbl.vc/)
SoftBank jumps into Secondhand Market with Vestiaire Collective Investment
HQ: FR
Founded: 2009
Series Unknown
Sector: e-commerce
Investment Raised: EUR 178M €
EUR 1.5B
Valuation
Investors: SoftBank Vision Fund (https://visionfund.com/) Korelya Capital Eurazeo (https://www.eurazeo.com/en) Condé Nast (https://www.condenast.de/de) BPI France (https://www.bpifrance.com/)
MarketFinance raises GBP 280M in Debt and Equity, approved for Flex Loans
HQ: UK
Founded: 2011
Series Unknown
Sector: Finance
Investment Raised: GBP 280M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Black River Ventures (https://www.google.com/search?q=Black+River+Ventures&oq=Black+River+Ventures&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l6.158j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) Barclays Bank (https://www.barclays.de/)
Atheneum nabs $150M to build out its ‘research as a service’ platform for virtual surveys and interviews
HQ: DE
Founded: 2010
Series Unknown
Sector: Business Intelligence / IT
Investment Raised: USD 150M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Vogel Communication Group (https://www.vogel.de/) Michael Brehm (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbrehm?originalSubdomain=de) Guidepost Growth Equity (https://guidepostgrowth.com/) Crosslantic Capital (https://www.crosslantic.com/)
Investors: Patient Square Capital (https://patientsquarecapital.com/) Rock Springs Capital (http://www.rockspringscapital.com/) Reimagined Ventures (https://reimaginedventures.com/) UCL Technology Fund (https://www.ucltf.co.uk/)
Uncapped, which provides upfront revenue to digital companies, raises $80M in funding
HQ: UK
Founded: 2019
Series Unknown
Sector: FinTech
Investment Raised: USD 80M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Lakestar (http://www.lakestar.com/) All Iron Ventures (http://www.alliron.vc/) White Star Capital (https://www.whitestarcapital.com/) Global Founders Capital (http://www.globalfounders.vc/) Mouro Capital (https://www.mourocapital.com/)
Investors: Stone Ridge Asset Management (http://stoneridgeam.com/) Soros Fund Management New York Life Insurance (http://www.newyorklife.com/) Morgan Stanley (http://www.morganstanley.com/) MassMutual (https://www.massmutual.com/) FS Investments (https://www.fsinvestments.com/about) FinTech Collective and Bessemer Venture Partners