Thunes is a global B2B payment infrastructure platform established in 2016, specializing in cross-border payment solutions. It facilitates seamless fund transfers between various payment systems, catering to a diverse range of clients, including major players in the gig economy and fintech sectors. The platform enables businesses and consumers to send and receive payments in 80 currencies across 132 countries, supporting 300 payment methods. Thunes offers a suite of services including remittance processing, mass payouts, virtual accounts, and payment collection, utilizing application programming interfaces (APIs) to enhance accessibility and reduce transaction costs. In April 2022, the company expanded its capabilities by acquiring a controlling stake in Tookitaki, a compliance platform that strengthens its anti-money laundering and fraud prevention measures. Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes operates regional offices in key global cities such as London, Paris, and Dubai, positioning itself as a vital player in the international payment landscape.
Options Technology
Acquisition in 2024
Options Technology provides managed services and IT infrastructure solutions tailored for the global financial sector. Established in 1993, it offers Core, a comprehensive cloud-based technology service; Velocity, enabling access to key liquidity centers; Momentum, an application management solution; technical support; and consultancy services. Serving investment banks, hedge funds, and other financial institutions worldwide from offices across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australasia.
carwow
Venture Round in 2024
Carwow is an online platform that connects car buyers directly with dealerships, facilitating transparent comparisons of offers on configured cars. It provides comprehensive buying advice and enables seamless transactions between consumers and official dealers.
Entrepreneur First
Series C in 2022
Entrepreneur First is a London-headquartered platform and early-stage technology investor that helps ambitious individuals form technology startups by connecting them with potential co-founders, helping develop ideas, and accelerating funding from leading investors. The organization operates across six cities on three continents, supporting high-potential founders to build globally important tech companies. Since inception it has supported hundreds of ventures and built a network of thousands of alumni, with a portfolio valued in the billions. It is backed by prominent tech founders and investors who provide mentorship and capital to accelerate growth.
MFS Africa Limited is a leading provider of mobile money interoperability in Africa, facilitating seamless money transfers and payments across the continent. Established in 2009 and headquartered in Accra, Ghana, the company connects mobile network operators through a unified API, enabling a range of services including remittances, merchant and bulk payments, as well as bank-to-wallet transfers. MFS Africa serves various stakeholders, including money transfer operators, banks, and mobile money operators, by offering alternatives for remittances, micro-lending, micro-insurance, and micro-savings. With additional offices in key African cities and London, MFS Africa plays a crucial role in enhancing financial connectivity and promoting financial inclusion across the region.
carwow
Venture Round in 2022
Carwow is an online platform that connects car buyers directly with dealerships, facilitating transparent comparisons of offers on configured cars. It provides comprehensive buying advice and enables seamless transactions between consumers and official dealers.
Vestiaire Collective
Venture Round in 2021
Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform specializing in the buying and selling of luxury pre-owned fashion items. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, the company promotes sustainable fashion by encouraging the circular fashion movement, which aims to reduce overproduction and waste in the industry. Vestiaire Collective boasts a unique inventory of approximately 3 million items, with around 140,000 new listings added weekly, catering to a community of over 7.5 million fashion enthusiasts across 50 countries. The platform offers a curated selection of vintage and luxury clothing, jewelry, accessories, and footwear, enhancing the shopping experience through verified and desirable products. By fostering a highly engaged community, Vestiaire Collective empowers its members to actively participate in a more sustainable fashion economy.
Marqeta
Private Equity Round in 2020
Marqeta operates a modern card issuing and payment processing platform that enables businesses to create customized payment solutions using open APIs. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Oakland, California, with an additional office in London, Marqeta's platform allows users to build, issue, and manage digital, physical, and tokenized payment cards. The company provides a range of services including virtual cards, real-time fund transfers, spend controls, and data analytics solutions. Marqeta serves various industries such as e-commerce, lending, on-demand services, and digital banking by offering flexible and scalable payment infrastructure. It is certified to operate in 40 countries globally.
Vestiaire Collective
Venture Round in 2020
Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform specializing in the buying and selling of luxury pre-owned fashion items. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, the company promotes sustainable fashion by encouraging the circular fashion movement, which aims to reduce overproduction and waste in the industry. Vestiaire Collective boasts a unique inventory of approximately 3 million items, with around 140,000 new listings added weekly, catering to a community of over 7.5 million fashion enthusiasts across 50 countries. The platform offers a curated selection of vintage and luxury clothing, jewelry, accessories, and footwear, enhancing the shopping experience through verified and desirable products. By fostering a highly engaged community, Vestiaire Collective empowers its members to actively participate in a more sustainable fashion economy.
WalkMe Inc., founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, develops a cloud-based guidance and engagement platform designed to enhance user experience and productivity. Their Digital Adoption Platform adapts software to meet the needs of employees and customers, while WalkMe Automation simplifies user experiences by automating complex tasks. The company also offers solutions for modernizing legacy desktop applications and enhancing security. WalkMe's platform integrates with various systems, including Salesforce and Workday, and serves sectors such as financial services, healthcare, insurance, retail, software, utility, and education. With additional offices in New York, Raleigh, London, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Sydney, and Tokyo, WalkMe is a subsidiary of WalkMe Ltd.
Marqeta operates a modern card issuing and payment processing platform that enables businesses to create customized payment solutions using open APIs. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Oakland, California, with an additional office in London, Marqeta's platform allows users to build, issue, and manage digital, physical, and tokenized payment cards. The company provides a range of services including virtual cards, real-time fund transfers, spend controls, and data analytics solutions. Marqeta serves various industries such as e-commerce, lending, on-demand services, and digital banking by offering flexible and scalable payment infrastructure. It is certified to operate in 40 countries globally.
Wise
Secondary Market in 2019
Wise is a company that specializes in international money transfer services, facilitating easy and low-cost transactions for individuals and businesses. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in London, Wise offers a core money transfer product and a borderless account designed for expats, freelancers, and travelers, which currently holds over £2 billion in deposits. The company also provides a mobile application that allows users to track their transfers and initiate new transactions conveniently. With additional offices in Tallinn and New York, Wise aims to simplify the process of sending money abroad swiftly and affordably.
Trustpilot
Series E in 2019
Trustpilot operates a global review platform that enables consumers to discover and share reviews of businesses across various categories. It facilitates direct engagement between consumers and companies, fostering trust and improvement in services. Established in 2007, Trustpilot has grown to employ over 700 people across offices in Copenhagen, London, New York, Denver, Berlin, Melbourne, and Vilnius.
Carwow is an online platform that connects car buyers directly with dealerships, facilitating transparent comparisons of offers on configured cars. It provides comprehensive buying advice and enables seamless transactions between consumers and official dealers.
Vestiaire Collective
Series E in 2017
Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform specializing in the buying and selling of luxury pre-owned fashion items. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, the company promotes sustainable fashion by encouraging the circular fashion movement, which aims to reduce overproduction and waste in the industry. Vestiaire Collective boasts a unique inventory of approximately 3 million items, with around 140,000 new listings added weekly, catering to a community of over 7.5 million fashion enthusiasts across 50 countries. The platform offers a curated selection of vintage and luxury clothing, jewelry, accessories, and footwear, enhancing the shopping experience through verified and desirable products. By fostering a highly engaged community, Vestiaire Collective empowers its members to actively participate in a more sustainable fashion economy.
SnapLogic
Series F in 2016
SnapLogic is a cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that provides an AI-powered Intelligent Integration Platform to connect data from any source, in any environment and at any speed. The platform enables unified data and application integration across applications, databases, data warehouses, big data streams, and IoT, whether on-premises or in the cloud, with a drag-and-drop interface and pre-built workflow templates. It supports procurement automation and spans domains such as human capital management, customer experience, finance, mergers and acquisitions, and cloud data warehousing. SnapLogic serves Global 2000 companies, developers, enterprise IT markets, HR, online marketing, and sales operations, often through resellers, and maintains partnerships with Planview and Solita Oy. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in New York, London, Hyderabad, and Melbourne.
Big Health
Series B in 2016
Big Health is a digital therapeutics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, that specializes in developing and marketing innovative behavioral health programs. The company's flagship product, Sleepio, is a digital sleep improvement program that employs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to address and personalize sleep disorders. By offering a fully automated healthcare portal, Big Health delivers highly personalized digital therapeutics and behavioral programs aimed at tackling various mental health issues. Their approach combines medical consultation with user-friendly technology, enabling individuals to effectively manage and overcome sleep-related disorders in an efficient manner.
Ebury
Private Equity Round in 2015
Ebury is a financial services company focused on empowering small and medium-sized businesses to engage in international trade. It offers an integrated platform that supports cross-border payments, risk management, and funding, allowing businesses to make and receive payments in over 100 foreign currencies. Ebury provides competitive exchange rates, facilitates the use of emerging-market currencies, and offers solutions for hedging currency risk, thereby enabling companies to manage their financial transactions more effectively. The company also provides white-label products through partnerships with brokers and accountants. With over 170 employees across offices in London, Madrid, and Amsterdam, Ebury serves more than 3,000 mid-sized clients and is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Trustpilot
Series D in 2015
Trustpilot operates a global review platform that enables consumers to discover and share reviews of businesses across various categories. It facilitates direct engagement between consumers and companies, fostering trust and improvement in services. Established in 2007, Trustpilot has grown to employ over 700 people across offices in Copenhagen, London, New York, Denver, Berlin, Melbourne, and Vilnius.
Vestiaire Collective
Series C in 2013
Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform specializing in the buying and selling of luxury pre-owned fashion items. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, the company promotes sustainable fashion by encouraging the circular fashion movement, which aims to reduce overproduction and waste in the industry. Vestiaire Collective boasts a unique inventory of approximately 3 million items, with around 140,000 new listings added weekly, catering to a community of over 7.5 million fashion enthusiasts across 50 countries. The platform offers a curated selection of vintage and luxury clothing, jewelry, accessories, and footwear, enhancing the shopping experience through verified and desirable products. By fostering a highly engaged community, Vestiaire Collective empowers its members to actively participate in a more sustainable fashion economy.
Dojo is a financial technology company that specializes in providing card payment solutions to small and medium-sized businesses in the UK and Ireland. The company offers a range of services, including contactless card machines, online payment systems, and integrated solutions, allowing over 100,000 businesses to accept payments in-store, online, via phone, and on the move. Founded in 2008 and based in London, Dojo focuses on delivering flexible and efficient payment processing options tailored to the needs of its clients. The company's offerings aim to enhance the payment experience for both merchants and their customers, thereby facilitating smoother transactions across various platforms.