- Backbase raised $128 million (€120 million) in development fairness funding this week.
- The spherical was led by personal fairness agency Motive Companions, and gave the corporate a valuation of $2.6 billion (€2.5 billion).
- Backbase’s Engagement Banking Platform allows banks and credit score unions to leverage a cloud-based platform to supply financial institution prospects seamless digital experiences.
Engagement banking platform Backbase secured $128 million (€120 million) in development fairness funding from personal fairness agency Motive Companions. The funding offers the corporate, which made its most up-to-date Finovate look at FinovateFall 2021, a valuation of $2.6 billion (€2.5 billion). The funding additionally marks Backbase’s first-ever funding occasion since its founding in 2003.
“As we speak is a significant milestone for greater than 2,000 Backbasers and 150 prospects world wide, to have a good time the unbelievable progress we made,” Backbase founder and CEO Jouk Pleiter stated in a press release. “With this partnership, we’re even higher geared up to drive our Engagement Banking imaginative and prescient to the following stage.”
The funding from the “founder-friendly” agency will allow Backbase to commit extra assets to its Engagement Banking answer, serving to energy the corporate’s mission to “re-architect” banking in a customer-focused manner. Backbase’s expertise offers banks and credit score unions the flexibility to maneuver away from disconnected, level and channel options. As a substitute, with Backbase’s cloud-based platform, monetary establishments can construct frictionless buyer journeys throughout all levels of the client lifecycle from onboarding and servicing to lending and increasing pockets share.
With greater than 150 monetary establishments world wide utilizing its expertise, Backbase offers banks and credit score unions the flexibility to rapidly digitize and rework their customer-facing operations to satisfy the expectations of more and more digitally-savvy banking prospects. At its most up-to-date Finovate look final fall, Backbase demonstrated a buyer onboarding answer that consolidated a buyer’s funds through direct deposit, billl pay auto linking, and debit card account opening. The expertise confirmed how monetary establishments can get key insights into their prospects and empower them to take extra management over their monetary lives.
“Backbase’s confirmed monitor document of entrepreneurship and natural development will proceed,” Jouk stated. “Our components is straightforward: deal with the wants of our prospects and empower extremely expert groups to ship. We’re altering a giant business, which is difficult work. Having important mass and market momentum permits us to remain laser-focused. Collectively we’re making it occur.”
Based in 2003, three-time Finovate Better of Present winner Backbase maintains a worldwide headquarters in Amsterdam.
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