Happy New Year! To start off 2020, we’re jumping across the pond, where we took note of some London-based fintech start-ups that recently completed funding rounds:
ABAKA
Amount: $6.5 million (Series A)
Fast Facts: Provider of digital retirement tools
Investors: Thames Trust, Ace&Co, and Downing Ventures
Rebank
Amount: $2.8 million
Fast Facts: Banking automation platform for business accounts
Investors: Accelerated Digital Ventures, Oriza Ventures, and Y Combinator
The Financial Revolutionist is weekly newsletter and blog focused on the torrid pace of financial innovation. Today, thanks to the exponential rate of technological change, explosion in global trade and new regulations ushered in by the Great Financial Crisis, a new financial revolution is under way. In this battle, virtually every aspect of the greater financial services sector is subject to rigorous challenge. With the Financial Revolutionist, we are aspiring to create a boots-on-the-ground and highly opinionated assessment of important financial innovation developments in the past week.
