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State Of Fintech Q3’20 Report:

Investment & Sector Trends To Watch
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Q3’20 Fintech In Review Sector Trends Appendix

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WHAT THE STATE OF FINTECH COVERS

PAYMENTS BANKING ALTERNATIVE LENDING WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Payments processors, Digital-first banks or Companies creating new Personal finance tools,
card developers, money companies digitizing banking solutions for personal or investment and wealth
transfer platforms, and services for credit and debit commercial lending management platforms, and
tracking software analytics tools

INSURANCE CAPITAL MARKETS SMB REAL ESTATE

Companies selling or distributing Sales and trading, analysis, Companies focused on Mortgage lending, transaction
insurance digitally or providing and infrastructure tools for providing solutions to small- digitization, and financing
data analytics and software for financial institutions and medium-sized platforms
(re)insurers businesses

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Fintech
In Review:
Q3’20

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Summary of findings
Mega-rounds drove fintech funding in Q3’20. The 25 Funding and deal activity both grew in Europe and South America.
mega-rounds ($100M+ deals) in the quarter accounted for Europe and South America were the only regions to show QoQ increases
60% of total fintech funding — the highest percentage in both funding and deal activity. North America, Europe, and South
share since Q2’18 (68%), when Ant Financial raised a America all saw increased funding QoQ, while funding to Asia- and
$14B round. Funding represented by mega-rounds Australia-based companies fell 12% and 84%, respectively. Deal activity
increased 24% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) to $6.4B, while in South America, Africa, and Europe grew in Q3’20. Notably, Africa and
non-mega-round funding declined 16%. South America are the only regions with continuous quarterly deals
Deal activity declined for the fourth consecutive quarter. growth in 2020 year-to-date (YTD).
Deal activity declined to 451 deals, down 24% year-over- FAMGA activity in fintech is taking many forms. The FAMGA companies
year (YoY). However, angel/seed rounds were a bright — Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon — were active in
spot, with deals increasing 20% QoQ and reversing a 3- fintech this quarter with patent approvals, partnerships, and investment
quarter contraction. activity. Most notable was Apple’s acquisition of Canada-based mobile
The sustained multi-quarter decline in deal activity payments company Mobeewave for $100M. In addition, Facebook,
mirrors investor consolidation into mature, later-stage Microsoft, and Amazon all received approval for payments-related
fintechs such as Klarna, Affirm, and Bright Health. Since patents.
the decline in deal activity began in Q4’19, the average Mortgage companies and brokerages were popular acquisition targets.
deal size has increased from $18.8M to $23.6M. Mortgage analytics firm Black Knight acquired Optimal Blue for $1.8B,
ICE acquired EllieMae for $11B, and United Wholesale Mortgage is set to
go public in a $16B SPAC deal. In the brokerage space, NuBank acquired
Easynvest, while Neon Pagamentos bought Magliano Invest.

Note: This report focuses on equity rounds to VC-backed fintech companies. This report does not cover companies funded solely by angels, private equity firms, or 10
any debt, secondary, or line of credit transactions. All data is sourced from CB Insights. Unicorns are private companies with a $1B+ valuation
Sector investment trends
Payments: Payments companies raised almost $4B in Insurance: Insurtech funding rose 52% QoQ while deals ticked up 6%.
Q3’20 across 109 deals, a QoQ increase of 4% and 5%, Five mega-rounds drove over $1.2B of funding in the quarter,
respectively. Notably, mega-rounds accounted for 65% of representing 47% of total funding.
total funding to the space in the quarter. Capital markets: Funding dipped slightly this quarter to $2.2B while deal
Banking: Funding to banking companies grew for the third activity grew 53% to 84. The average deal size fell 36%, reflecting greater
consecutive quarter to $2.4B, up 8% QoQ, while deals activity in the early- to mid-stage range.
ticked up 5% to 58. SMB: SMB funding has been uneven over the past 5 quarters and fell in
Alternative lending: From Q1’20 to Q3’20, alternative Q3’20 by 21%. However, deal volume grew for the third consecutive
lending deal activity increased by 42%. Quarterly funding quarter to reach 71.
reached $1.8B in Q3’20, though this was still below the Real estate: Deals to real estate tech companies fell 8% to 97, a 5-quarter
high mark over the past 5 quarters ($2.7B in Q3’19). low. Funding also dropped QoQ, down 25% to $951M.
Wealth management: Wealth tech companies drew $1.5B
in funding across 62 deals in Q3’20, a more than 5x
increase in quarterly funding compared to the space’s
recent low in Q4’19.

Note: This report focuses on equity rounds to VC-backed fintech companies. This report does not cover companies funded solely by angels, private equity firms, or 11
any debt, secondary, or line of credit transactions. All data is sourced from CB Insights. Unicorns are private companies with a $1B+ valuation.
Q3’20 FINTECH SPOTLIGHT #1

Embedded fintech momentum continues in Q3’20

Across multiple areas of fintech, business-to-business (B2B) companies are raising funds
and launching new products to enable non-financial companies to offer financial products.

Payments Savings & Lending Banking-as-a-service Insurance

(Q3’20 $30M Series B) (Q3’20 launch of Gusto Wallet) (Q3’20 $32M Series A) (Q3’20 $12M Series B)

These companies help non-financial businesses to…

Set up in-house payments Offer payment advances to their Launch branded debit and Provide insurance products to
infrastructure. This is an employees. In Q3, Gusto launched credit cards by connecting their customers. For example,
alternative option to a service a wallet service that allows them to Bond’s bank partners. Element partnered with telecom
such as Stripe, which charges employees to save with an provider Vodafone to provide its
processing and transaction fees. interest-bearing cash account and mobile phone and tablet
spend with a Gusto-branded debit customers with a cyber-crime
card. insurance product.

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Q3’20 FINTECH SPOTLIGHT #2

Fintechs are rebundling

Companies are adding products and services outside of their original focus to find new
monetization opportunities. In the process, they are blurring the lines between verticals.

Initial beachhead Q3’20 rebundling moves…

Payment processing (Alipay) Launched a neobank in Hong Kong

Challenger bank Commission-free stock trading

Third-party payroll software Added savings and spending product, Gusto Wallet

Challenger bank Announced plans for in-app trading for US customers

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Q3’20 FINTECH SPOTLIGHT #3

SPAC-mania: What’s driving the activity?

What is a SPAC? A special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) is formed
with the purpose of merging with one or more unspecified businesses or
assets using the proceeds from an IPO and private placement(s). Check out
our SPAC primer for more.
Why now? Amid Covid-fueled market uncertainty, SPACs provide an alternative
and expedited path for companies to raise capital in the public markets over
the traditional IPO.

Select Q3’20 fintech-focused SPAC announcements

• 8/3 — FinTech Acquisition III merged with Atlanta-based payment SPAC IPOs have spiked in 2020
processor Paya
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• 8/27 — FG New America Acquisition Corp to raise $225M led by Joe
Moglia, former TD Ameritrade CEO
• 8/29 — FTAC Olympus Acquisition raised $750M led by Betsy Cohen
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(founder and former CEO of The Bancorp)
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• 9/23 — Gores Holdings IV, Inc. merger with United Wholesale Mortgage 15

• 9/24 — FinTech Acquisition Corp. IV priced $200M

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 YTD

Note: Earnings call mentions of “SPAC” or “special purpose acquisition company” or “blank check company”; count of SPAC IPOs in 2020 as of 14
10/15/20.
Q3’20 FINTECH SPOTLIGHT #4

Opportunities abound with older demographics

Percentage of adults aged 60+ using online/technology Primetime Partners will invest in
tools in past 2 weeks companies serving older adults
77% Paid bills or made Paid bills or made fin. transactions online
fin trans. online “There aren’t enough private-sector solutions to the
Shopped online
70% questions that face older adults…We believe that the
Downloaded a new app
right answer is to really spur innovation by building an
Ordered food or grocery delivery online
investment platform focused on early-stage investing.”
Worked from home on a computer
Abby Miller Levy | Primetime managing partner
Used new video conferencing app
Signed up for new service online
None

28%
24% 25%
True Link offers payment cards,
investment products, and trust services
7% 6% 8% to older adults, people with disabilities,
and adults recovering from illness.

Source: SeniorList 15
Q3’20 FINTECH SPOTLIGHT #5

Ant Group nears public debut

Key Highlights:
• On August 25, Ant Group (formerly known as Ant Financial), the
parent of super app Alipay, filed for IPOs in Shanghai and Hong
Kong.
• Ant Group reported $3B in net profit on $10.5B in revenue in
the first half of 2020.
• Alipay’s payment platform has been an effective hook into
cross-selling financial services products and fueling a robust
ecosystem of financial institution partners.
• In H1’20, the company’s share of revenue coming from digital
finance tech grew to 63%, compared to only 36% for its core
digital payments.

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FAMGA IN FINTECH

FAMGA in fintech Q3’20 updates

• Patent granted: “Facilitating sending and receiving of payments using message-based contextual prompts”
• Product: Launched new Accounts Center to enable unified payments across Facebook properties

• Acquisition: Acquired mobile payments company Mobeewave for $100M

• Partnership: Pleo, which offers smart company credit cards for business, partnered with Apple to offer
Apple Pay for its customers

• Patent granted: “Service hosted payment request”

• Partnership: Fintech API provider Codat began hosting its platform on Microsoft Azure

• Investment: Participated in a $20M seed round to mobile-based investment advisory app Pingan Huixin
• Product: Announced that Google Pay app in India will receive a design revamp based on its open-source
development kit Flutter
• Partnership: Partnered with 8 banks to offer co-branded accounts
• Investment: Participated in a $60M Series D round to digital insurance provider Acko General Insurance
• Patents granted: “Widget-based integration of payment gateway functionality into transactional sites”,
“Offline payment processing”

Source: CB Insights 17
 M&A ACTIVITY

Selected consolidation activity in Q3’20

M&A-led expansion into the mortgage space… Neobanks bought brokerages in Brazil… Fintech lenders bought at a discount…
Black Knight, a software data Nubank, a digital bank and Enova, a lender targeting small
and analytics firm for mortgage credit card issuer in Brazil businesses and non-prime
lending and servicing, acquired with over 30M users, consumers, acquired online
Optimal Blue, an online acquired online broker lender OnDeck for $90M — a
mortgage marketplace for Easynvest, which touts 1.5M steep discount from OnDeck’s
secondary investors, for $1.8B users, to become a full- $1.3B valuation at the time of its
service financial ecosystem IPO in late 2014
July 27, 2020
September 11, 2020 July 28, 2020

Intercontinental Exchange Group Neon Pagamentos, a digital American Express acquires

(ICE), the owner of the New York bank based in Brazil with Kabbage, an online lender and
Stock Exchange, agreed to buy over 9M users, acquired cash flow management tool for
mortgage software company stock brokerage Magliano SMBs. Notably, American Express
Ellie Mae for $11B to expand Invest to expand into wealth didn’t acquire Kabbage’s pre-
into the mortgage business management existing loan book

August 6, 2020 July 16, 2020 August 17, 2020

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Deal activity has declined for 4 consecutive
quarters and by 24% since Q3’19…
Quarterly global VC-backed fintech deals, Q1’17 – Q3’20 -24%
601 590 593 591
567
539
490 485 497
474 543 466
523 451
483

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3
2017 2018 2019 2020

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…But funding has steadily risen in 2020
Quarterly global VC-backed fintech financing ($M), Q1’17 – Q3’20

$14,000
4%
7%
$3,524

$12,537

$10,139

$10,209

$10,631
$6,236

$7,431

$6,024

$6,648

$8,534

$8,240

$9,475

$9,964

$9,560

$9,543
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3
2017 2018 2019 2020
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Mega-rounds dip from Q2’20 record but average deal
size grows for third consecutive quarter
Global number of fintech mega-rounds ($100M+) and average fintech deal size, Q1’17 – Q3’20

Mega-rounds Average deal size ($M)

35 $40
29 $35
30 27
24 25
25 $30
20 21
19 18 $25
20 17 17
16 $20
15 11 10 12
$15
10 4 $10
5 $5
13.2

15.3

12.5

11.1

39.7

14.0

17.4

16.8

18.3

21.2

18.8

19.2

21.9

23.6
7.2

0 $0
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3
2017 2018 2019 2020
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Early-stage deal share gains in Q3’20…
% of quarterly deal activity by deal stage, Q1’18 – Q3’20

100%
5% 5% Series E+
90% 5% 8% 8% 7% 7%
9% 7% 9% 10%
13% 8% Series D
80% 14% 15% 15%
17% 14% 16% 18% Series C
18% 16% 18%
70% Series B
20%
26% Series A
60% 28% 31%
27% 28% Seed / Angel
32% 24% 30% 32% 25%
50%
26%
40%
30%
49% 45% 44%
20% 42% 43% 42% 39% 40%
38% 37% 32%
10%
0%
Q1'18 Q2'18 Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19 Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20
Note: “Early-stage” includes seed/angel and Series A deals. 22
 …As seed/angel deals bounce back following 3
consecutive quarters in decline
Quarterly deal activity by deal stage, Q1’18 – Q3’20
275 Seed / Angel
250 Series A
225 Series B
200 Series C
175 Series D
150 147 Series E+
125
100 94
75 65
50 29
25 19
16
0
Q1'18 Q2'18 Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19 Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20

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Europe, S. America, and Africa see QoQ deal increases
Global VC-backed fintech deals, Q3’19 – Q3’20

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250 21 South
229 19 19 America
207
183 16
188 179
North 14 Africa
149 America
133 136 11
114 117 10
Asia 9
126 9
121 115 Europe
111 6 6
5 Australia

Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3
2019 2020 2019 2020

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Funding increased in North America, Europe,
and South America in Q3’20
Quarterly funding ($M) by continent, Q3’19 – Q3’20
$66
$319 $15
$95 $15
$710 $49
$134 $43 $314
$1,862 $342 $721
$221 $398
$1,225 $1,936 $2,170
$2,071
$4,670 $2,904 $1,617
$1,828
$3,472

$5,440 $5,719 $6,059

$4,910
$3,735

Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3
2019 2020
North America Asia Europe South America Australia Africa
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Annualized dollars and deals in 2020 are 4%
and 16% below 2019 totals, respectively
Global VC-backed fintech financing trends, 2015 – 2020 YTD (as of 9/30/20)

Total Funding ($M) # Of Deals

$50,000 2301 2246 2,500
1932 $40,510
$40,000 2,000
1568 1,885
$30,000 1384 1,500
1414

$20,000 1,000

$10,000 500
$18,334 $22,679 $23,215 $46,897 $42,201 $30,382
$0 0
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Note: Projections for deals and dollars are annualized based on the YTD numbers as of 9/30/20 26
Point-of-sale lending rivals raise the largest rounds
Q3’20 fintech funding rounds of $200M or higher (continued on next page)
Deal Date // Total Disclosed
Company HQ Select Investors Description
Amount Raised Funding

$1,833M Northzone Ventures, Technology Crossover

Sweden Sept '20 // $650M Point-of-sale lending
($10.7B valuation) Ventures, BlackRock, GIC

Lightspeed Venture Partners, Spark Capital,

US – CA Sept '20 // $500M $1,775M Point-of-sale lending
Founders Fund, Wellington Management

New Enterprise Associates, T. Rowe Price,

US – MN Sept '20 // $500M $1,575M Health insurance
Bessemer Venture Partners

$1,494M Tiger Global Management, General Atlantic,

US – CA Sept '20 // $485M Digital challenger bank
($14.5B valuation) DST Global, ICONIQ Capital

$2,172M Sequoia Capital, DST Global, Andreessen

US – CA Sept ‘20 // $460M Commission-free online brokerage
($11.7B valuation) Horowitz, Ribbit Capital, D1 Capital Partners

US – IL Sept '20 // $317M $928M Onex Corporation Insurance broker

Vulcan Capital, General Atlantic,

Brazil Sept '20 // $300M $420M Digital challenger bank
BlackRock, Monashees+, BBVA

$393M Bain Capital Ventures, Elaia Partners,

France Sept '20 // $300M B2B e-commerce platform
($1.5B valuation) Permira, 83North, Felix Capital

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Nearly 60% of top deals took place in the US
Q3’20 fintech funding rounds of $200M or higher (continued)
Deal Date // Total Disclosed
Company HQ Select Investors Description
Amount Raised Funding

$631M
US – CA Sept '20 // $250M capitalG, Munich Re Ventures, FinTLV Small business insurance
($2B valuation)

$480M Tencent Holdings, Swiss Reinsurance Company,

China Aug '20 // $230M Health insurance
($2.9B valuation) IDG Capital, Meituan Dianping

$1,241M Madrona Venture Group, Sequoia Capital,

US – NY July '20 // $225M Robotic process automation
($10.2B valuation) Accel, Tiger Global Management, T. Rowe Price

$297M DST Global, TTV Capital, Relay Ventures,

US – GA Sept '20 // $215M Digital challenger bank
($1.2B valuation) Goodwater Capital

$429M T. Rowe Price, BlackRock, TPG Capital,

US – NY July '20 // $200M Corporate bond trading
($1B valuation) Hillhouse Capital Management, Thiel Capital

$2,172M
US – CA Aug ‘20 // $200M D1 Capital Partners Commission-free online brokerage
($11.2B valuation)

Singapore Sept ‘20 // $200M $9,856M STIC Investments On-demand transportation and mobile payments

$200M
Uruguay Sept ‘20 // $200M General Atlantic, Addition Online payments
($1.2B valuation)
Note: Robinhood raised two separate equity rounds in Q3’20. 28
The most active fintech VCs from Q3’19 – Q3’20
By unique fintech company investments (new or follow-on)

Rank Investor Select Fintech Investments

1*

*Sequoia includes its US, China, and India funds. 29

The most active fintech VCs from Q3’19 – Q3’20
By unique fintech company investments (new or follow-on)

Rank Investor Select Fintech Investments

10

30
Globally there are

70 FINTECH UNICORNS
Valued in aggregate at

$248B
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Q3’20
Fintech
Sector
Trends

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GLOBAL VC-BACKED FINTECH Q3 2020

PAYMENTS BANKING ALTERNATIVE LENDING WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Payments processors, Digital-first banks or Companies creating new Personal finance tools,
card developers, money companies digitizing banking solutions for personal or investment and wealth
transfer platforms, and services for credit and debit commercial lending management platforms, and
tracking software analytics tools

INSURANCE CAPITAL MARKETS SMB REAL ESTATE

Companies selling or distributing Sales and trading, analysis, Companies focused on Mortgage lending, transaction
insurance digitally or providing and infrastructure tools for providing solutions to small- digitization, and financing
data analytics and software for financial institutions and medium-sized platforms
(re)insurers businesses

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GLOBAL VC-BACKED FINTECH Q3 2020

PAYMENTS BANKING ALTERNATIVE LENDING WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Payments processors, Digital-first banks or Companies creating new Personal finance tools,
card developers, money companies digitizing banking solutions for personal or investment and wealth
transfer platforms, and services for credit and debit commercial lending management platforms, and
tracking software analytics tools

INSURANCE CAPITAL MARKETS SMB REAL ESTATE

Companies selling or distributing Sales and trading, analysis, Companies focused on Mortgage lending, transaction
insurance digitally or providing and infrastructure tools for providing solutions to small- digitization, and financing
data analytics and software for financial institutions and medium-sized platforms
(re)insurers businesses

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 Payments fundraising activity increases slightly
Global VC-backed payments financing trends, Q3’19 – Q3’20

Total Funding ($M) # Of Deals

$6,000 180
161
160
$5,000 141
140

$4,000 104 109 120

100
$3,000
$5,334 80
78
$2,000 $3,825 $3,792 $3,959 60
$2,927 40
$1,000
20

$0 0
Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20

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Real-time payments infrastructure is top of mind
for governments and central banks

Note: News mentions of “Real-time payments” OR “faster payments” OR “RTP”. 36

Business payments startups focus efforts on
speeding up B2B payments infrastructure

Q3’20 Funding: $31M Series D Q3’20 Funding: $80M Series C Q3’20 Funding: $12M Series A
Select Investors: Kleiner Perkins, Select Investor: Bessemer Venture
Select Investors: Y Combinator, Liquid 2
Google Ventures, Truist Ventures Partners, Accel, General Catalyst,
Ventures, BoxGroup, Lee Fixel
Coatue Management
Revenue Model: Veem charges a fixed
per-transaction rate and does not Revenue Model: Melio charges a 2.9% Revenue Model: Routable offers flat rate
charge account, sending, or receiving fee for credit card payments. pricing for businesses beginning at $99 per
fees. month.
Focus: Melio is a B2B payments
Focus: Veem is a global B2B payments startup that helps businesses pay
Focus: Routable helps companies manage
network that helps businesses send vendors with a bank transfer or with a
business payments using an invoice and bill
and receive funds. The company is credit card to defer payments and earn
payment platform.
targeting the international business rewards.
transfer market.

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Covid-19 has accelerated the shift away from cash
with contactless and digital payments
“Visa and Mastercard reported 40% year-
over-year global growth for tap-to-pay or
contactless transactions..”
August 14, 2020

Note: Earnings call mentions includes “digital payments” and “contactless”. 38

International payments players are emulating the
business models of Stripe and Square

Q3’20 Funding: $200M Growth Equity Q3’20 Funding: $57M debt financing Q3’20 Funding: $106M Series B
HQ: Montevideo, Uruguay HQ: London, UK HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Select Investors: General Atlantic, Select Investors: Rocket Internet Select Investors: TCV
Addition
SumUp is a financial technology company that Mollie is a Dutch payments services provider
dLocal is a global payments platform used helps businesses to receive payments both in- (PSP) that builds payment products, commerce
in Latin America and other emerging store and online. services, and APIs that let users accept online
markets across APAC and MENA. It was and mobile payments. The company was last
last valued at $1.2B. valued at $1B.
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GLOBAL VC-BACKED FINTECH Q3 2020

PAYMENTS BANKING ALTERNATIVE LENDING WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Payments processors, Digital-first banks or Companies creating new Personal finance tools,
card developers, money companies digitizing banking solutions for personal or investment and wealth
transfer platforms, and services for credit and debit commercial lending management platforms, and
tracking software analytics tools

INSURANCE CAPITAL MARKETS SMB REAL ESTATE

Companies selling or distributing Sales and trading, analysis, Companies focused on Mortgage lending, transaction
insurance digitally or providing and infrastructure tools for providing solutions to small- digitization, and financing
data analytics and software for financial institutions and medium-sized platforms
(re)insurers businesses

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 Funding to banking startups rose in Q3’20
for the third-straight quarter
Global VC-backed banking financing trends, Q3’19 – Q3’20
Total Funding ($M) # Of Deals

$4,000 90

$3,500 74 80
81
$3,000 65 70
58 60
55
$2,500
50
$2,000
$3,766 40
$1,500
30
$2,255 $2,427
$1,000 $2,085 $2,180
20
$500 10
$0 0
Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20

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Covid-19 continues to test UK challenger banks

Covid-19 Casts ‘Significant Doubt’

on Ability to Continue Operating

July 31, 2020 |

Note: Earnings call mentions of “loan loss” or “delinquency” or “default”. 42

Digital banks in LatAm are growing user bases
rapidly and serving the underbanked

Q3’20 Funding: $300M Series C Q3’20 Funding: $96M Q3’20 Funding: $14M Seed
Select Investors: Vulcan Capital, General Select Investors: N/A Select Investors: Monashees+, Ulu Ventures,
Atlantic, BlackRock, Endeavor Redpoint e.ventures, FJ Labs
User Growth: C6 Bank has gained over 2.5M
User Growth: Neon has grown its user users since launching publicly in 2019
base from 2M active users in Q4’19 to over User Growth: Not disclosed, but in Q3’20 Oyster
9M in Q3’20 Focus: C6 Bank is a mobile-only bank based in reported topline growth of ~500%
Brazil. The company was founded in 2018 by a
Focus: Neon Pagamentos is a Brazilian former chairman of BTG Pactual. The fresh Focus: Oyster aims to approve business bank
digital bank that launched in 2016. The capital will be used to help grow C6’s loan book accounts in 24-72 hours, compared to a process
company has since expanded its product and expand its customer base. that can last up to 6 months for incumbents.
suite to include investment products,
credit cards, and personal loans, serving
both consumer and business clients.

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Despite monetization challenges, challenger
banks show sustained user growth
Users (M)
10 10.0

9
8.0 8.0
8
7.0
7
6.2
6.0
6
5.0 5.0
5
4.0 4.0
4 3.3
3.0
3
2.0 2.0
1.7
2 1.5
0.9 1.0 1.0 1.0
0.8
1 0.5
0.3 0.2
0.5

0
2017 2018 2019 2020

Source: Company filings, press releases 44

Note: Users updated as of 9/30/20.
US consumer banking fintechs are moving from
mono-line to multi-line product offerings

45
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PAYMENTS BANKING ALTERNATIVE LENDING WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Payments processors, Digital-first banks or Companies creating new Personal finance tools,
card developers, money companies digitizing banking solutions for personal or investment and wealth
transfer platforms, and services for credit and debit commercial lending management platforms, and
tracking software analytics tools

INSURANCE CAPITAL MARKETS SMB REAL ESTATE

Companies selling or distributing Sales and trading, analysis, Companies focused on Mortgage lending, transaction
insurance digitally or providing and infrastructure tools for providing solutions to small- digitization, and financing
data analytics and software for financial institutions and medium-sized platforms
(re)insurers businesses

46
Lending deal activity has grown 42% since Q1’20
Global VC-backed alternative lending financing trends, Q3’19 – Q3’20

Total Funding ($M) # Of Deals

$3,000 100
87
42%
90
$2,500 71
75 80

59 70
$2,000
60
50
$1,500 50
$2,715
40
$1,000
$1,713 $1,798 30
$1,320 20
$500 $886
10
$0 0
Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20

47
The long-term credit effects of increasingly popular
‘buy now, pay later’ products are unclear

Note: Media mentions of “buy now pay later”. 48

Established fintechs launch lending products to
capitalize on pandemic-boosted e-commerce

Q3’20 Developments: Square added a Q3’20 Developments: PayPal Q3’20 Developments: The Southeast Asia-
peer-to-peer service through its Cash introduced an installment lending based on-demand transportation and
App product that allows users to feature called “Pay in 4.” The service mobile payments giant launched a buy now,
access short-term loans. Cash App will offers customers the option to pay for pay later product. The service allows users
offer loans between $20 and $200, purchases interest-free in 4 to shop for products online and make
charging a 5% fixed rate with a payback installments. They can do this over a 6- payments in interest-free installments.
period of 4 weeks. week period for purchases between Users can also defer payments until the
$30 and $600. next month or a future date.

49
Big retailers and e-commerce giants partner with
financial services firms to enable installment lending

Partnership Focus: Citigroup Partnership Focus: Sezzle is an Partnership Focus: Macy’s took a percent Partnership Focus: Shopify partnered with
partnered with Amazon to allow installment payments platform that stake in Klarna as part of a partnership in Affirm to facilitate Shop Pay Installments in
credit card customers to finance partnered with Target to test buy now, which the retailer will offer its customers the US, allowing Shopify to offer buy now,
big purchases over longer pay later services. interest-free payments on online pay later options to customers. Affirm
periods of time. purchases. stated that offering a pay-over-time model
The pilot program will focus on a limited has led to a bump in average order value
Shoppers will need to spend at number of product categories to The giant retailer is hoping to boost and overall sales. The partnership is
least $100 on transactions and evaluate the Sezzle platform against online sales with its Klarna partnership — intended to help merchants on Shopify
can choose to pay it off over a Target’s retail operations. Klarna’s US users have grown 6x in the grow their business by connecting them to
longer period of time at a lower first half of 2020 compared to 2019. new customers.
APR.

50
GLOBAL VC-BACKED FINTECH Q3 2020

PAYMENTS BANKING ALTERNATIVE LENDING WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Payments processors, Digital-first banks or Companies creating new Personal finance tools,
card developers, money companies digitizing banking solutions for personal or investment and wealth
transfer platforms, and services for credit and debit commercial lending management platforms, and
tracking software analytics tools

INSURANCE CAPITAL MARKETS SMB REAL ESTATE

Companies selling or distributing Sales and trading, analysis, Companies focused on Mortgage lending, transaction
insurance digitally or providing and infrastructure tools for providing solutions to small- digitization, and financing
data analytics and software for financial institutions and medium-sized platforms
(re)insurers businesses

51
 Wealth tech deal activity rebounds alongside
sustained funding growth
Global VC-backed wealth management financing trends, Q3’19 – Q3’20
Total Funding ($M) # Of Deals
$1,600 70
63
$1,400 62 60
$1,200 47 50
$1,000 39 38
40
$800
$1,491
$1,355 30
$600

$835 20
$400

$200 $477 10
$275
$0 0
Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20

52
Several wealth tech startups raise
mega-rounds in Q3’20

Most Recent Funding: $215M Series C Most Recent Funding: $460M Series G Most Recent Funding: $200M Series E
extension Valuation: $1B
Valuation: $1.2B
Valuation: $11.7B HQ: New York, NY
HQ: Atlanta, GA
HQ: Menlo Park, CA Select Investors: T. Rowe Price, BlackRock, TPG
Select Investors: Relay Ventures, J.P. Capital, Thiel Capital
Morgan Chase & Co, Canapi Ventures, DST Select Investors: Sequoia Capital, Ribbit
Global Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, Traction: Trumid’s corporate bond trading
Thrive Capital business grew 500% in 2020, fueled by its
Traction: Greenlight’s smart debit card partnership with Citigroup Inc.
is designed for children to use with Traction: Robinhood says it has 13M users,
oversight from their parents. The including 3M new accounts added in 2020.
company says it currently serves more
than 2M parents and kids.

Source: CB Insights 53
Early-stage retirement planning startups offer
alternative means to manage retirement…

Q3’20 Funding: $4.7M seed Q3’20 Funding: $0.5M Unattributed Q3’20 Funding: $2M seed
Select Investors: Vestigo Ventures, Select Investors: N/A
Select Investors: Bling Capital, Greycroft,
Diagram Ventures, Primetime Partners
Revenue Model: Various subscription- RRE Ventures, Walkabout Ventures
Revenue Model: Premium $49 based options for financial advisors
subscription-based membership for and financial professionals Revenue Model: Capitalize earns money
pre-retirees when a user opens up an IRA account with
Focus: Income Lab is a retirement
partner providers (like Betterment)
Focus: Retirable is a digital investment income planning and management
advisor that helps US-based pre- platform that’s targeted at financial
Focus: Capitalize offers a platform that
retirees get access retirement advice, professionals.
helps people transfer a 401(k) into a new
tools, and education resources.
account at another financial institution. The
company finds legacy accounts, opens new
ones, and initiates rollovers online.
54
…While late-stage digital wealth managers focus
on customized long-term investment planning

Most Recent Funding: $16M Series C Most Recent Funding: $30M Series D Most Recent Funding: $57.9M Series D
Select Investor: Eight Roads Select Investors: Francisco
Select Investor: Holtzbrinck
Ventures, Asia Capital & Partners, IA Capital Group, Oak HC/FT
Ventures, Tengelmann Ventures, BlackRock
Advisors, Square Peg Capital Partners
Focus: StashAway is a digital wealth Focus: NextCapital provides Focus: Scalable Capital is an online wealth
manager and financial planning personalized planning and managed manager that offers investments across
platform. accounts to individual investors. asset classes that include equities, bonds,
real estate, and more.
55
Personal finance companies are targeting lower-
income earners, minorities, and teenagers

Most Recent Funding: $0.12M seed Most Recent Funding: $2.3M seed Most Recent Funding: $3M Unattributed Most Recent Funding: $2M seed

HQ: Lagos, Nigeria HQ: New York, NY HQ: Oakland, CA HQ: Montreal, Canada

Select Investors: Western Union Select Investors: Impact America, Next Select Investors: N/A Select Investors: Diagram Ventures
Accelerator Play Ventures, Zeal Capital Partners
Focus: CNote is a financial platform for Focus: Wingocard is a personal finance
Focus: Rise is a mobile-first Focus: Esusu is a mobile platform investing in the causes and platform that aims to empower teens to
personal asset manager that allows designed to help lower-income communities. CNote directs take control of their personal finances by
users to invest in portfolios that consumers save, access capital, and investments toward funding women- and developing financial literacy from a young
include asset classes like US real build credit. minority-led small businesses, age.
estate and bonds with a $10 affordable housing, and economic
minimum investment. development.

56
GLOBAL VC-BACKED FINTECH Q3 2020

PAYMENTS BANKING ALTERNATIVE LENDING WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Payments processors, Digital-first banks or Companies creating new Personal finance tools,
card developers, money companies digitizing banking solutions for personal or investment and wealth
transfer platforms, and services for credit and debit commercial lending management platforms, and
tracking software analytics tools

INSURANCE CAPITAL MARKETS SMB REAL ESTATE

Companies selling or distributing Sales and trading, analysis, Companies focused on Mortgage lending, transaction
insurance digitally or providing and infrastructure tools for providing solutions to small- digitization, and financing
data analytics and software for financial institutions and medium-sized platforms
(re)insurers businesses

57
 Quarterly insurtech funding up 162% from Q1’20
Global VC-backed insurtech financing trends, Q3’19 – Q3’20

Total Funding ($M) # Of Deals

$3,000 140
127
$2,500 114 120
105
99
100
$2,000
87 80
$1,500
$2,558 60
$2,172
$1,000 $1,957
$1,684 40

$500 $978 20

$0 0
Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20
58
The strong get stronger: over $1.2B of funding
from 5 mega-rounds ($100M+)
Deal Date //
Amount Raised Total Disclosed
Company ($M) Funding ($M) Select Investors Description

New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Bright Health offers individual & family and Medicare Advantage health
09/22/2020 // $500M $1,575M Venture Partners, Greycroft, Redpoint insurance plans. The company leverages technology and health systems
Ventures partnerships with the aim of offering more affordable plans.

Ribbit Capital, capital G, Munich Re

Next Insurance provides an online commercial insurance product targeted
09/23/2020 // $250M $631M Ventures, Markel, Nationwide Ventures,
at small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the US.
American Express Ventures

Waterdrop, also known as Shuidi Huzhu, is a China-based insurance

08/20/2020 // $230M $480M Tencent Holdings, Swiss Re, IDG Capital platform that aims to help users facing high medical fees by crowdfunding
contributions.

Propel Venture Partners, Fifth Wall Home insurance provider Hippo looks to use data, like municipal building
07/21/2020 // $150M $359M Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Munich Re records, and technology, such as satellite imagery, to streamline providing
Ventures quotes and onboarding.

SoftBank Group, Tencent Holdings, India-based PolicyBazaar helps users compare financial products like life
07/06/2020 // $130M $558M and general insurance, loans, and credit cards.
Tiger Global Management, Ribbit Capital

59
Despite Covid-19, insurers continue to invest
heavily in companies
New and follow-on deal activity from top 25 US P&C insurers, Q1’15 — Q3'20

25
Record high YTD
20 deal activity
15

10

0
Q1'15
Q2'15
Q3'15
Q4'15
Q1'16
Q2'16
Q3'16
Q4'16
Q1'17
Q2'17
Q3'17
Q4'17
Q1'18
Q2'18
Q3'18
Q4'18
Q1'19
Q2'19
Q3'19
Q4'19
Q1'20
Q2'20
Q3'20
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Source: CB Insights, Where The Top 25 Property And Casualty Insurers Are Investing 60
Note: Top 25 US P&C insurers as determined by volume of direct written premiums.
Southeast Asia sees boost in insurtech funding

Most Recent Funding: $130M Most Recent Funding: $60M Series D Most Recent Funding: $54M Series B
Corporate Minority
Country: India Country: Indonesia
Country: India
Select Investors: Accel, Amazon, Select Investors: Gojek, Xiaomi Ventures,
Select Investors: SoftBank Group, Munich Re Ventures Intudo Ventures
Tencent Holdings, Tiger Global
Focus: Acko General Insurance is a Focus: PasarPolis is a comparison
Management
digital insurance company that shopping site for insurance products such
Focus: PolicyBazaar helps users provides a variety of insurance policies as motorcycle, item, health, and life.
compare financial products like life and ranging from car to two-wheeler
general insurance, loans, and credit (scooters, motorcycles) to mobile
cards. phone to ride-sharing.

61
Big tech continues to creep into insurance

• In July, Amazon began selling auto and • Verily, a life sciences and healthcare subsidiary of
motorcycle insurance in India through a Alphabet, formed an insurance company called
partnership with insurtech Acko, of which Coefficient Insurance. It aims to provide stop-loss
Amazon is an investor. coverage for self-funded employer health plans.
• The policies are available through Amazon Pay • The insurance will be backed by Swiss Re, which
on its mobile app and website. The company is also a minority investor in the initiative. Verily
also said it was looking to expand its wants to apply its experience in healthcare
insurance offerings to health, travel, and taxis. hardware, software, and data science to create
more personalized products for employers.
62
GLOBAL VC-BACKED FINTECH Q3 2020

PAYMENTS BANKING ALTERNATIVE LENDING WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Payments processors, Digital-first banks or Companies creating new Personal finance tools,
card developers, money companies digitizing banking solutions for personal or investment and wealth
transfer platforms, and services for credit and debit commercial lending management platforms, and
tracking software analytics tools

INSURANCE CAPITAL MARKETS SMB REAL ESTATE

Companies selling or distributing Sales and trading, analysis, Companies focused on Mortgage lending, transaction
insurance digitally or providing and infrastructure tools for providing solutions to small- digitization, and financing
data analytics and software for financial institutions and medium-sized platforms
(re)insurers businesses

63
Capital markets deals grow while funding dips as
average deal size falls 36% in Q3’20
Global VC-backed capital markets financing trends, Q3’19 – Q3’20 $26.5M average
deal size
$41.6M average
Total Funding ($M) deal size
# Of Deals

$2,500 90
78 84
80
$2,000 69
70
59
55 60
$1,500
50
$2,290 $2,224 40
$1,000 $1,967
$1,627 30
$1,512
$500 20
10
$0 0
Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20

64
The focus on digital identity tools to fight fraud
grows
European FIs prioritizing investment in compliance-
related use cases, Tink research finds
9/16/20 |

Note: Media mentions of “digital identity” and “compliance”. 65

Companies automating fraud and compliance
gain traction
57% of funding from the space’s Series C rounds in Q3’20 went to companies automating compliance processes
such as KYC/AML checks. Series C rounds are typical of companies that have started to find product-market fit.
Q3’20 Series C
Company Funding ($M) Select Investors Fraud/Compliance Focus

Dawn Capital, Evolution Equity Partners,

$65 Financial crime
ABN AMRO Ventures, AlbionVC

Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Ontario

$50 AML, CFT, and sanctions monitoring
Teachers' Pension Plan

Connect Ventures, Temasek, Northzone

$25 Account verification, KYC, credit scoring
Ventures, Anthemis

Citibank, National Australia Bank, HSBC, Behavioral authentication for mobile and
$20
Barclays Bank web applications

Bullpen Capital, FinTech Collective,

$12 File tampering detection, KYC, auditing
ValueStream Ventures, QED Investors

66
Cloud technology for asset management
workflows emerge in early-stage funding rounds

Q3’20 Funding: $15M Series B Q3’20 Funding: $2.3M seed

HQ: London, UK HQ: Luxembourg
Select Investors: Deutsche Bank, Citi Ventures, Deutsche Select Investors: MiddleGame Ventures, Pascal Bouvier, Expon Capital
Boerse
Focus: Next Gate Tech’s software-as-a-service platform automates middle
Focus: CloudMargin’s software-as-a-service model helps and back office processes for the asset management industry.
financial institutions meet regulatory deadlines and reduce
costs associated with collateral requirements.

Source: WSJ 67
GLOBAL VC-BACKED FINTECH Q3 2020

PAYMENTS BANKING ALTERNATIVE LENDING WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Payments processors, Digital-first banks or Companies creating new Personal finance tools,
card developers, money companies digitizing banking solutions for personal or investment and wealth
transfer platforms, and services for credit and debit commercial lending management platforms, and
tracking software analytics tools

INSURANCE CAPITAL MARKETS SMB REAL ESTATE

Companies selling or distributing Sales and trading, analysis, Companies focused on Mortgage lending, transaction
insurance digitally or providing and infrastructure tools for providing solutions to small- digitization, and financing
data analytics and software for financial institutions and medium-sized platforms
(re)insurers businesses

68
 SMB funding falls but deal activity continues to grow
Global VC-backed SMB financing trends, Q3’19 – Q3’20

Total Funding ($M) # Of Deals

$3,000 80
71
63 70
$2,500
56 60
$2,000 46 50
38
$1,500 40
$2,542 $2,521
30
$1,000 $2,000
20
$500 $1,105
$903 10

$0 0
Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20

69
Late-stage companies automating the finance
function for SMBs gain traction
Three of the 4 largest deals centered around automating the accounts payable
function for businesses

Q3’20 Funding Round /

Company Amount ($M) Select Investors SMB Finance Focus

Foundry Group, Bain Capital Ventures, QED

Series G / $185M Accounts payable automation
Investors, NYCA Partners

Greenoaks Capital Management, 01 Advisors,

Series E* / $150M Accounts payable automation
Durable Capital Partners

Trinity Ventures, Matrix Partners, J.P. Morgan & Co, Billing, expense management, and
Series F / $60M
Ping An Ventures procurement

.406 Ventures, Great Hill Partners, Eight Roads

Series D / $50M Accounts payable automation
Ventures

*Tipalti’s funding was announced on October 6, 2020. 70

SMB fintech saw mega-rounds across financing,
insurance, HR, and payments
Top SMB fintech mega-rounds ($100M+) by deal size ($M), Q3’20

Deal Date // Amount

Company Raised ($M) Valuation ($M) Select Investors Description

9/15/20 // $650M $1,065M Ant Group, TCV, Northzone Venture Partners, Klarna offers buy now, pay later options for online
BlackRock, Macy’s storefronts.

Ribbit Capital, Munich Re Ventures, TLV Next Insurance is a small business insurance company.
9/23/20 // $250M $631M Partners, Markel, Zeev Ventures, Nationwide
Ventures

8/4/20 // $145M $197M Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Founders Rippling is an employee management platform, offering
Fund, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, services such as payroll, benefits, HR, and IT.
Greenoaks Capital Management, Coatue
Management, Bedrock Capital

8/13/20 // $100M $133M SoftBank Capital, Eldridge, ARCH Venture PayActiv is an HR software platform for employees. The
Partners, Plug and Play Ventures company offers salary advances, as well as savings and
budgeting tools, bill payment, and financial health
management tools.

Source: CB Insights 71
Remote hiring companies attract interest amid a
prolonged work-from-home environment

Most Recent Funding: $11M seed Most Recent Funding: $30M Series A Most Recent Funding: $400K
Select Investors: Two Sigma Ventures, Select Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Select Investors: Angels
General Catalyst, Index Ventures Spark Capital
Focus: RemoteTeam is an HR platform
Focus: Remote helps users build Focus: Deel aims to simplify compliance for “remote first” teams that helps
remote teams compliantly. and payments for companies hiring automate payments and HR tasks.
contractors.

72
Larger SMB players look to expand their markets
Both Gusto and Intuit moved to help users access and manage cash, while providing
digital tools for savings and financial management

Gusto launches Gusto Cashout to Intuit launches QuickBooks

help employees cover costs Cash to expand into small
between paydays business banking
• Gusto launched free earned wage • QuickBooks Cash is a business bank
access for employees of its small account for QuickBooks customers
business clients. that offers 1% APY on deposits.

• Gusto Cashout is part of the • QuickBooks Cash offers customers

company’s newest product, Gusto a physical debit card, a goals-based
Wallet. The wallet helps employees savings tool called Envelopes, and a
manage their finances, such as cash flow dashboard to manage
saving a certain portion of their business finances.
paycheck which is then deposited
• Intuit partnered with Green Dot Bank
to a Gusto branded debit card.
to launch QuickBooks Cash
• Gusto is aiming to use this accounts.
approach to create a direct brand
relationship with the employee.

Source: Gusto, Business Insider, Intuit 73

HR and payroll companies are aiming to improve the
HR/finance functions in emerging markets

Q3’20 Funding: $3M seed Q3’20 Funding: $2.1M seed

HQ: Mexico City, Mexico HQ: Nairobi, Kenya
Select Investors: QED Investors, LEAP Global Partners Select Investors: Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Musha Ventures,
P1 Ventures
Focus: Worky is an integrated HR and payroll platform
for SMBs in Mexico. It helps employers offer benefits, Focus: WorkPay is a cloud business management tool for small
automate employee files, and manage payroll. businesses with integrated modules for applications like
accounting, payroll, and CRM.
74
GLOBAL VC-BACKED FINTECH Q3 2020

PAYMENTS BANKING ALTERNATIVE LENDING WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Payments processors, Digital-first banks or Companies creating new Personal finance tools,
card developers, money companies digitizing banking solutions for personal or investment and wealth
transfer platforms, and services for credit and debit commercial lending management platforms, and
tracking software analytics tools

INSURANCE CAPITAL MARKETS SMB REAL ESTATE

Companies selling or distributing Sales and trading, analysis, Companies focused on Mortgage lending, transaction
insurance digitally or providing and infrastructure tools for providing solutions to small- digitization, and financing
data analytics and software for financial institutions and medium-sized platforms
(re)insurers businesses

75
 Real estate deal activity falls to 5-quarter low
Global VC-backed real estate financing trends, Q3’19 – Q3’20

Total Funding ($M) # Of Deals

$4,000 140
123
119
$3,500 120
104 105
$3,000 97 100
$2,500
80
$2,000
60
$1,500 $2,981
40
$1,000
$1,679
$1,199 $1,260 20
$500 $951

$0 0
Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20
Note: Q1’20 funding was driven predominantly by Ziroom’s $1B Series C and Beike Zhaofong’s $1.5B Series D extension. 76
Low interest rates and moves to suburbs have
raised questions of extended de-urbanization

“We are pretty confident that this is

going to be a lasting, multiyear
meaningful trend.”
Rich Barton, CEO of Zillow on de-
urbanization, Aug 6, 2020

Note: Earnings call mentions of “deurbanization” or “de-urbanization”. 77

As cash runway shortens amid the pandemic,
Opendoor looks to a SPAC for a capital infusion
Key Highlights:
• Opendoor and Social Capital Hedosophia II have
agreed to a reverse merger valuing the company at
$4.8B.
• The deal will bring over $1B of cash to Opendoor’s
balance sheet, including a $414M injection from Social
Capital and a $600M PIPE from other shareholders.
• As of Q1’20, the company says it has a 2% market
share and a run-rate revenue of $5B.
• Opendoor plans to use proceeds to expand its property
inventory and support new business arms focused on
title, escrow, and financing services.

Source: Opendoor investor presentation, CB Insights 78

Opportunity to improve the homebuying
experience expands beyond the US market
US startups continue to attract capital Early-stage international companies are ramping up
Gottingen, Germany-based Insta Immo offers homesellers
preliminary offers through its valuation model and a binding offer
upon a final walk through. It purchases residential apartments on
behalf of institutional investors.

Insta Immo raised a $17M Series A in Q3’20 from Talis Capital,

New York-based Orchard (formerly Perch) is a residential Holtzbrinck Ventures, among others.
real estate platform focused on helping homebuyers who
are also in the process of selling their existing home. The
company plans on expanding its teams in existing
markets — including NY, TX, CO, and GA — as well as Bogota, Colombia-based Habi leverages its own centralized
expand to new states. database of residential real estate prices to feed its automated
pricing algorithm. Habi buys, renovates, and sells homes —
Orchard raised a $69M Series C in Q3’20 led by generating revenue from the spread.
Revolution Growth, with participation from existing
investors FirstMark, Navitas, Accomplice, and others. Habi raised a $10M Series A in Q3’20 led by Inspired Capital, with
participation from 8VC, Clocktower, Homebrew, and others.

79
Early-stage companies simplify real estate
investing for non-accredited investors

Most Recent Funding: $0.74M seed Most Recent Funding: Seed Most Recent Funding: $2.2M angel
HQ: San Francisco, CA HQ: Toronto, Canada HQ: London, England
Select Investor: Mucker Capital Select Investor: DMZ Ventures Select Investor: Seedrs, Revolt Ventures
Focus: Doorvest is a real estate Focus: BuyProperly is an online Focus: CapitalRise is a UK-based property
investing platform that enables marketplace that allows individuals to investment platform that caters to small
individuals to invest in rental homes. access fractional real estate investing. investors.

80
Digital mortgages continue to accelerate during
the pandemic

Most Recent Funding: $75M Series F Most Recent Funding: Series C Most Recent Funding: $570K seed
($1.7B valuation) HQ: London, England HQ: Antwerp, Belgium
HQ: San Francisco, CA Select Investors: Augmentum Fintech, SBI Group, Select Investors: Barclays Ventures, Pitchdrive
Select Investors: Canapi Ventures, mojo.capita Focus: Oper Credits is a mortgage software
Temasek, General Atlantic, 8VC, Greylock Focus: Habito is a digital mortgage lender. The provider that digitizes mortgage processes for
Focus: Blend is a digital lending software company offers a service that attempts to handle lenders.
provider. The company says its mortgage the end-to-end process of homebuying and also
refinances volumes jumped 1,000% in runs a broker portal.
March and that purchase applications
have increased over 100% every month
since May.

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What is included: What is excluded:
― Equity financings into emerging fintech companies. Fundings must be put into VC- — No contingent funding. If a company receives a commitment for $20M subject to hitting
backed companies, which are defined as companies that have received funding at certain milestones but first gets $8M, only the $8M is included in our data.
any point from venture capital firms, corporate venture groups, or super angel
— No business development/R&D arrangements, whether transferable into equity now, later,
investors.
or never. If a company signs a $300M R&D partnership with a larger corporation, this is
― Fundings of only private companies. Funding rounds raised by public companies of not equity financing, nor is it from a venture capital firm. As a result, it is not included.
any kind on any exchange (including Pink Sheets) are excluded from our numbers,
— No buyouts, consolidations, and/or recapitalizations. All three of these transaction types
even if they received investment by a venture firm.
are commonly employed by private equity firms and are tracked by CB Insights. However,
― Only includes the investment made in the quarter for tranched investments. If a they are excluded for the purposes of this report.
company does a second closing of its Series B round for $5M and previously had
— No private placements. These investments, also known as PIPEs (Private Investment in
closed $2M in a prior quarter, only the $5M is reflected in our results.
Public Equities), are excluded even if made by a venture capital firm(s).
― Round numbers reflect what has closed — not what is intended. If a company
— No debt/loans of any kind (except convertible notes). Venture debt or any kind of
indicates the closing of $5M out of a desired raise of $15M, our numbers reflect only
debt/loan issued to emerging startup companies, even if included as an additional part of
the amount which has closed.
an equity financing, is not included. If a company receives $3M with $2M from venture
― Only verifiable fundings are included. Fundings are verified via various federal and investors and $1M in debt, only the $2M is included.
state regulatory filings, direct confirmation with firms or investors, or press releases.
— No government funding. Grants, loans, or equity financings by the federal government,
― Previous quarterly VC reports issued by CBI have exclusively included VC-backed state agencies, or public-private partnerships to emerging startup companies are not
rounds. In this report, any rounds raised by VC-backed companies are included, with included.
the exceptions listed.

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