LONDON: The Board of Augmentum Fintech plc, Europe’s leading publicly listed fintech fund, announced the appointment of William Reeve as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company and Chairman of the Board, with effect from 1 November 2024. He will also serve on the Company’s Nominations, Audit, Valuations and Management Engagement & Remuneration Committees.…
LONDON, UK: Augmentum Fintech plc (LSE: AUGM), Europe’s leading publicly listed fintech fund, announces that it has made a £2.6 million investment into London based LoopFX. LoopFX (www.theloopfx.com) is the new independent venue for large spot FX trades with a unique matching solution for market participants. LoopFX enables traders to match, in real-time, with…
LONDON, UK: Onfido, a UK-based fintech company that provides identity verification solutions using artificial intelligence and machine learning, is in exclusive negotiations with Entrust, a US-based company that specializes in payments, identities and data security, for a possible acquisition. The deal, if finalized, would be the sixth exit for Augmentum Fintech, Europe’s leading publicly…
LONDON, UK: Augmentum Fintech plc, Europe’s leading publicly listed fintech fund, has made a £4 million investment into London based insurtech Artificial Labs. Augmentum has led Artificial’s £8 million Series A+ round, which also includes participation from existing investors MS&AD Ventures and FOMCAP IV, alongside other investors. Insurtech Artificial is an established underwriting technology…
LONDON, UK: Augmentum Fintech plc, the UK’s only publicly listed investment company focussing on the fintech sector, is making a further £10 million investment into digital bank Zopa, as part of Zopa’s latest funding round. Zopa’s £220 million round is being led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with participation from Chimera Abu Dhabi, and…
LONDON, UK: Augmentum Fintech plc, the UK’s only publicly listed investment company focussing on the fintech sector, announces that it has made a US$10 million (c. £7.3 million) investment into Stockholm based consumer credit refinancing company AnyFin, marking Augmentum’s first investment into Sweden. This investment follows Anyfin’s US$30 million Series B round in May…