Company
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Visa raised.
Companies Visa acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Ben Pfisterer | Forbes Australia, Square Peg Capital, Square Peg Capital portfolio, Australian FinTech, Startup Daily | |
| Liza Gillooly | Global Director of FinTech BD | Forbes Australia, Australian FinTech |
| Julian Potter | Group Country Manager, Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific | Australian FinTech |
| Anthony Jones | Head of Innovation and Partnerships | Wholesale Investor |
| Cietan Kitney | Head of Strategy, Asia Pacific | Australian FinTech |
| Laura Long | Senior Director, Network Applications | Australian FinTech |
Stories naming Visa. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Pismo announces Australian fintech Vivi Money will build its AI-driven financial platform on Pismo's core banking infrastructure, with Visa card services via Novatti's BIN sponsorship, ahead of a May/June launch.
Melbourne fintech pay.com.au has banked $25 million for a US push, Morgans Corporate leading, with Wilson Asset Management, Thorney Group and Ophir participating, at a pre-money valuation of $633 million.
TDM's podcast revisits Rokt chief executive Bruce Buchanan, covering the company's pandemic-era rebound, retail push, AI product suite and two-sided marketplace strategy, plus its early-2019 purchase of OfferLogic.
Also Startup Daily
JellyC announces the Bluebottle Multi-Strategy Fund has invested in Redbelly Network, a layer-one blockchain built for tokenising real-world assets, citing transaction speeds far exceeding major payment networks.
British Pay by Bank firm Banked has bought Australian payments startup Waave, deepening its Australian market push and gaining Waave's merchant pipeline, led by Chemist Warehouse, which plans a launch in early 2025.
Spend management firm Weel has expanded Damon Hauenstein's role to cover both chief financial and operating duties, alongside recent executive appointments and a new partnership with Nium and Visa.
Karta, an Australian gift-card platform, has struck a US deal with Visa, having earlier raised a pre-seed round above $21 million, most of it from Commonwealth Bank.
Australian gift card startup Karta has signed a multi-year deal with Visa, making it the first non-bank private label issuer able to transact over Visa's US network.
Spend management provider Weel has hired Marten Jagers as chief revenue officer and Nina Putica as head of marketing, weeks after unveiling a partnership with Visa and Nium.
Ten13's year-end post recaps nine new portfolio additions, follow-on support for existing holdings, the Mr Yum and Me&U merger, Go1's Blinkist acquisition, Smileyscope's FDA clearance, and community events.
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Weekly roundup of funding rounds at eleven Australian startups, including a $28 million Series B, a $14 million raise paired with an acquisition, and a neural-implant company appointing a new chief executive.
Startupbootcamp Australia profiles Redgrid, an energy software startup founded by Simon Wilson, recounting its equity crowdfunding raise, backing from Mirvac Ventures, a Microsoft partnership, and work for Monash University's microgrid project.
Payments company Cuscal is acquiring open banking data firm Basiq for an undisclosed price, letting backers NAB Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Reinventure and Visa cash out.
Also Australian FinTech·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Australian FinTech
US fintech investor Michael H. Giles has invested A$6.9 million in Brisbane-listed payments provider Change Financial, taking a 19.99% stake via his vehicle FinTech HQ to support its US expansion.
Sydney crypto card startup CryptoSpend, whose cofounders met in the UTS Startups hub, is seeking a Series A and new backers to expand into New Zealand and Asia; no money has been committed yet.
Home equity retirement funder Household Capital has completed a Series C raise, bringing Genworth in alongside Legal & General as strategic investors, while a Genworth executive joins its board.
Also Techboard
Payments sales leader Alexi Paxinos has been hired by Sydney fintech Shaype as Head of Business Development, with CEO Andrew Laycock welcoming him as the embedded finance platform accelerates growth.
Australian crypto card startup CryptoSpend has launched its first national advertising campaign and recently closed another funding round, with its founders reporting strong trading and everyday crypto spending despite market dips.
Banking SaaS firm Pismo has hired Simon Keys to lead business development across Oceania. The article also recalls the company's $108 million Series B, led by Amazon, SoftBank and Accel, in October 2021.
Podcast interview with Slyp co-founder Paul Weingarth on digitising receipts and loyalty, with all four major Australian banks having invested in the company.
Melbourne neobank Yondr Money plans a capital raise to fund expansion, and reports commitments already gathered from an initial angel round; former ANZ chief Mike Smith advises the company.
Australian comparison website Finder has raised $30 million from Future Now Capital after 15 years bootstrapped, valuing it at $650 million, as it pursues cryptocurrency and Web 3 opportunities.
Also Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily
Payments company Visa has taken a stake in open data platform Basiq to speed its API growth, with Visa and Touch Ventures each adding a representative to the company's board.
Weekly venture roundup covering Scalapay's giant series A, numerous Australian raises, acquisitions of Clipchamp, Paidy and CipherTrace, Houseparty's closure, crypto regulation developments, and Atlassian appointing a Cloudflare founder as director.
Melbourne fund manager Salter Brothers led a $6.5 million Series A in payments platform Verrency, with Perennial Value Management and existing shareholders also investing; Simon Jones joins the board.
Also Startup Daily
ASX-listed payments company Zip Co has announced plans to take full ownership of South African buy-now-pay-later provider Payflex, intending to grow the local business and expand into other African markets.
Book extract by the Equity Mates hosts urging investors to look beyond Australia, mentioning their podcast's December 2020 seed backing from Stake's founder for a reported six-figure sum in return for 8%.
Square Peg's podcast interviews Zeller chief executive Ben Pfisterer about building the Melbourne payments fintech, his path through NAB, Visa and Square, and challenging Australia's major banks.
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.
Roundup: Airwallex wins approval to acquire Hong Kong fintech UniCard; Vestiaire Collective raises €178 million to become a unicorn; Hopin announces a US$400 million Series C at a $5.65 billion valuation; Google ends user tracking.
Payments firm Novatti has launched Lifepay, a consumer mobile banking and payments platform using Novatti's technology, which has secured a Series A round of up to $2.5 million at a $20.5 million pre-money valuation.
Also Cut Through Venture
Square Peg investor Ben Hensman argues conditions favour Australian fintech founders despite COVID-19, citing the firm's seed backing of Zeller and more than $100 million invested in local fintech businesses.
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Payments firm Novatti has attracted $18 million from two cornerstone investors into its banking subsidiary, supporting its push for an Australian restricted banking licence and planned digital banking launch.
Melbourne travel payments startup Pelikin has gone to market with card partners including Visa and Heritage Bank, having raised $400,000 mid-year, and has added a payments executive to its advisory team.
Pelikin has added travel insurance to its app and reports its growth funding round remains open, with a fifth of its two-million-dollar goal already secured.
Also Wholesale Investor
Tech roundup: WeWork pulls its US float, a listed VC writes down its Stackla stake, Investible closes its debut fund, NAB loses its cloud chief, and a payments firm's shares surge.
Challenger banks Xinja and 86 400 reach APRA licensing milestones and launch app-based retail transaction and savings accounts, becoming the first neobanks to offer Australian retail deposit products.
Melbourne travel fintech Pelikin has locked in A$400,000 from one sophisticated investor toward a minimum A$2 million raise, ahead of its planned Q4 2019 launch backed by Heritage Bank and Visa partnerships.
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Cashback platform ShopBack has raised US$45 million from EV Growth, Ebates and Qualgro, taking total funding to US$83 million, with two investors joining its board after strong Asia-Pacific growth.