19 July 2023

Ex-Swile and Qonto product chiefs raise €5m for new FinTech Pivot

Written By FinTech Alliance in Investment

Ex-Swile and Qonto product chiefs raise €5m for new FinTech Pivot

Former executives of French FinTech unicorns Qonto and Swile have raised €5m for their new startup Pivot.

In brief:

-Berlin-headquartered VC firm Visionaries Club is leading the fintech's first fundraising round, with participation from London’s micro fund Cocoa VC and a number of French business angels.

-The €5m round gives Pivot a pre-money valuation of €20m, according to the sources

-Pivot’s founders are Marc-Antoine Lacroix, former chief product officer of business banking startup Qonto, and Romain Libeau, who held the same role at employee benefits fintech Swile.

What does this mean?

Pivot adds to a growing list of CFO stack startups founded by operators in Europe. Just last week, Capchase ex-general manager Henrik Grim announced that he and a group of other European operators were building a new startup, Mimo, focused on automating business payments and cashflow. 

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