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Parafin Secures $100M in Series C Funding to Expand Financial Services for Small Businesses

December 18, 2024
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The $100 million Series C funding for Parafin, a leader in embedded financial infrastructure, was just closed.

Notable Capital led the round, with significant investments from Redpoint Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Thrive Capital, and GIC. This demonstrated the high level of investor trust in Parafin's creative approach to financial services.

 

This business focuses on providing the backbone of financial services for payment platforms, vertical SaaS, and marketplaces. Global behemoths like Amazon, Walmart, DoorDash, TikTok, and Worldpay are among the well-known customers. Platforms can quickly roll out a whole range of financial products, including capital access, spend management, and savings options, for their small company clients thanks to Parafin's infrastructure.

 

The extra funding will go toward growing current offers, introducing new goods, entering new markets, and strengthening current alliances. These programs seek to rethink the way small companies receive financial services by making them more easily available and customized to meet their particular requirements.

 

Parafin's volumes have increased 400% since its September 2022 Series B round, and it is expected to turn a profit in the following six months. Tens of thousands of small businesses in the United States and Canada get cash from the corporation each year, which amounts to around $1 billion.

 

"Our mission has been to empower small businesses with financial services since we launched Parafin," said Sahill Poddar, CEO and co-founder of the company. Despite being the backbone of the American economy, small companies are not supported by banks. Businesses run by women and minorities are often discriminated against by incumbent techniques. Historically, this has impeded the expansion of small businesses. To address this issue, we at Parafin have put in countless hours building our whole business, from our staff and products to our procedures. For instance, instead of depending on credit ratings or personal guarantees to decide eligibility, offers, and pricing, our machine learning-based risk models are trained on millions of small company performance data. We are able to give hundreds of thousands of enterprises sustainable and ethical access by using cutting-edge strategies.

 

"What immediately drew us to Parafin was their differentiated approach to solving small business financing at scale through strategic partnerships with the world's largest platforms," said Hans Tung, Managing Partner of Notable Capital and a recent addition to the Parafin board. Building enterprise-grade infrastructure for marketplaces like DoorDash, Walmart, and Amazon, as well as its small and medium company merchants, has been expertly completed by the team. This goes beyond simply making loans; it's about giving these companies the data analytics they need to expand with the digital economy.

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