Company

CurrencyFair

Dublin

Disclosed deals

Every published round CurrencyFair took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
No published deals recorded yet.

Portfolio

Companies CurrencyFair has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
No portfolio companies recorded yet.

Funds

Fund closes reported for CurrencyFair, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for CurrencyFair yet.

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies CurrencyFair has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal CurrencyFair did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of CurrencyFair is recorded as having been acquired.

What CurrencyFair bought

Companies CurrencyFair acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
Assembly Payments	Merger	8 Apr 2021	-	Startup Daily (Thu 4 Nov 2021), Startup Daily (Sun 11 Apr 2021), Startup Daily (Thu 8 Apr 2021)

People

Name	Role	Sources
Paul Byrne	Boss (former)	Startup Daily (Thu 4 Nov 2021), Startup Daily (Thu 8 Apr 2021), Australian FinTech
Will Prendergast	Chairman	Australian FinTech

Coverage

Stories naming CurrencyFair. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

12 deals

Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Canva’s rise, Clubhouse plays Twitter, Slack’s Australian slog

Ignition Lane's weekly roundup covers Canva's US$71 million raise, several Australian payments acquisitions and mergers, local raises by Cyble, Enboarder, Rendr and Basiq, plus overseas deals including Plaid, Box, Ramp and Coinbase's listing.

Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily

Exit / M&A

Australian fintech Assembly Payments is merging into Irish forex marketplace CurrencyFair

Melbourne payments firm Assembly Payments is set to merge into Irish cross-border payments platform CurrencyFair, driven by backer Standard Chartered. Terms undisclosed, approval pending, and CurrencyFair's chief executive will run the combined business.

Startup Daily Thu 8 Apr 2021 Assembly Payments CurrencyFair SC Ventures Standard Chartered Westpac Alex Manson Bill Winters Darren McMurtrie Paul Byrne Simon Jones Simon Lee

Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily

Exit / M&A

Standard Chartered turbocharges digital payments proposition with investment and the merger of CurrencyFair with Assembly Payments

Standard Chartered, via SC Ventures, has made a strategic investment prompting payments companies CurrencyFair and Assembly Payments to announce a merger, to be led by CurrencyFair's CEO, pending shareholder and regulatory approval.

Australian FinTech Wed 7 Apr 2021 Assembly Payments CurrencyFair SC Ventures Standard Chartered Alex Manson Bill Winters Paul Byrne Will Prendergast

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