Shift, a supplier of credit score and fee platforms for Australian small companies, has introduced the closing of a $27 million Sequence C funding spherical, led by Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia.
This newest spherical comes after a latest $140m improve in Shift’s debt funding capability, together with a interval of report progress for the corporate because it noticed each funding and income exceeding 50% progress in every of the final three years.
Since its founding in 2014, Shift has offered greater than $2bn in tailor-made monetary options to assist Australian companies, which incorporates capital for progress, gear finance, and commerce fee options.
Along with Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia’s involvement, the vast majority of Shift’s present shareholders additionally participated within the Sequence C fairness spherical.
Shift mentioned the brand new capital raised can be used to boost the corporate’s suite of credit score and fee merchandise and ship additional worth to its community of dealer companions, retailers, and direct clients.
“Shift’s robust efficiency over the previous three years speaks to the chance in disrupting the extremely underserved market of enterprise credit score and funds, which has lagged behind the wave of innovation in shopper finance,” mentioned Shift CEO Jamie Osborn (pictured above).
“With this funding, we’re well-positioned to scale our enterprise and unlock progress for our companions and enterprise clients. In Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia, we discovered a companion with shared values and a shared appreciation for the chance to disrupt an antiquated trade by product and repair innovation.”
“Whereas giant corporates can entry financing based mostly on their earnings or money flows and customers can entry financing through bank card or private loans, many companies in Australia need to depend on mortgaging their properties or automobiles,” mentioned Rohit Agarwal, Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia’s principal.
“Greater than $3 trillion is excellent in credit score to companies and greater than 90% of it’s backed by actual property or car. Shift is fixing this by offering sensible finance options – credit score anytime, anyplace – to hundreds of thousands of companies utilizing knowledge and expertise. We’re glad to be part of this journey.”