AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 1, 2025 — Significo, a leader in health AI and digital therapeutics, today announced the close of its Series B financing round led by JSTAR Capital Investments‘ Horizon Fund II, a premier growth investor in healthcare innovation. The raise brings Significo’s valuation to $100 million and positions the company to accelerate its strategy of acquiring and integrating synergistic digital health companies.

With this financing, Significo will expand its portfolio, strengthen its market presence, and act as a consolidating force in an increasingly fragmented industry. The company is actively evaluating acquisitions that complement its existing products, including Balm, its digital therapeutic and condition management platform, and Recco, its personalized health recommendation engine.

“Digital health is at an inflection point,” said Rick McCartney, CEO of Significo. “Patients, providers, and payors are looking for scalable, clinically validated solutions that deliver real outcomes. With JSTAR Capital Investments’ backing, Significo is not only poised to scale our own platforms but also to bring together best-in-class digital health innovations under one roof. Our goal is to simplify technology adoption for healthcare providers to drive meaningful health outcomes at the population scale.”

The Series B financing follows a period of strong commercial traction for Significo, including partnerships with leading insurers, health systems, and distribution networks. By consolidating proven digital therapeutics into a unified, comprehensive platform, Significo reduces fragmentation, improves patient engagement, and proves out a sustainable model for digital therapeutic reimbursement and adoption.

“We are excited to lead this financing round and support Significo in its mission to transform the digital health landscape,” said Jared Leger, Managing Director at JSTAR Capital Investments.  “The team has a proven track record of execution, and their vision for consolidation and clinical impact is exactly what the industry needs” adds Evan Pritchard, Managing Director of JSTAR Capital Investments.

This Series B will fuel growth initiatives across product development, global expansion, and strategic acquisitions, furthering Significo’s mission to make digital therapeutics accessible, effective, and integrated into everyday healthcare delivery.

About Significo
Significo is a global leader in health AI and digital therapeutics, building solutions that empower patients, providers, and payors with clinically validated interventions and personalized care. Its flagship platforms include Balm, a digital therapeutic delivery and reimbursement solution, and Recco, a personalized health recommendation engine. Significo partners with health systems, insurers, and employers worldwide to deliver scalable, effective, and engaging digital health experiences.
For more information, visit www.significo.com

About JSTAR Capital Investments
JSTAR Capital Investments is a growth-focused investment firm with a proven track record of supporting transformative companies in the healthcare, technology, and life sciences sectors. Through its Horizon Fund II, JSTAR provides capital and strategic support to entrepreneurs building the next generation of industry leaders.
For more information, visit jstarinvestments.com

Contact:
Christian Koha, Chief Operating Officer
E-mail: [email protected]

SOURCE Significo

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 1, 2025 — Apricot, the AI-native documentation platform transforming post-acute care, today announced its Series A funding round led exclusively by global software investor Insight Partners. The funding will accelerate hiring, product innovation, and go-to-market expansion.

“Apricot addresses the most expensive and painful problem in post-acute care: the SOC (Start of Care) visit,” said Trent Smith, Founder and CEO of Apricot. “The SOC visit is supposed to set the tone for care, yet it typically means close to two hours of a nurse tapping through hundreds of required fields and checkboxes while the patient waits for meaningful interaction.”

Smith continued, “Before founding Apricot, I started and ran my own home health and hospice agency for seven years. I saw firsthand, day in and day out, how painful this problem was for nurses, agencies, and patients. It’s not just inefficient—it undermines the very spirit of patient care. That’s why solving it is so personal for me.”

Apricot exists to change that dynamic. Its mission: free clinicians from hours of documentation so they can focus on patients, with user-friendly technology that ensures cleaner records, stronger compliance, and a more intimate clinician and patient experience.

The company began with SOC documentation because it’s the most complex and time-consuming part of home health. Addressing this challenge first allowed Apricot to build and refine a core product that delivers on the highest standards of compliance, reliability, and workflow integration. Today, Apricot’s platform is used by agencies ranging from regional operators to national leaders, proving its ability to scale across diverse care models.

The Series A marks Insight Partners’ first investment into an Oklahoma-based company. With this new funding, Apricot is preparing to release support for the remaining visit types in the post-acute space, including other OASIS, therapy, and routine visits.

Sophie Beshar, Investor at Insight Partners and newly appointed Apricot board member, said:

“We believe Apricot is the clear category leader in post-acute care technology. Their AI-native documentation platform strikes directly at the biggest cost centers for agencies and generates immediate ROI for clinicians and back-office teams alike. It’s exciting to see a company with this level of product clarity, customer advocacy, and founder vision. We’re beyond thrilled to join the entire Apricot team on this journey.”

Trent Smith, Founder and CEO of Apricot, said:

“We chose Insight because of their reach, influence, and ability to scale category-defining companies. This investment confirms what the market already knows: Apricot is leading the way in this space. With Insight Partners’ backing, we’re accelerating our lead and more quickly delivering on our mission to free clinicians from documentation and put the focus where it belongs: on patient care.”

About Apricot

Apricot streamlines home health care documentation with AI, enabling clinicians to focus on patient care by reducing paperwork time. It offers a user-friendly platform that integrates seamlessly into existing workflows, improving efficiency and care quality while empowering clinicians to handle more patients effectively. Learn more at apricothealth.ai.

About Insight Partners

Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. As of June 30, 2025, the firm has over $90B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 875 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight has a global presence with leadership in London, Tel Aviv, and the Bay Area. Insight’s mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with tailored, hands-on software expertise along their growth journey—from their first investment to IPO. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit insightpartners.com  or follow us on X @insightpartners.

SOURCE Apricot

Lavrock Ventures leads funding for modular guidance technology that delivers GPS-independent strikes at ultra-low cost

HERNDON, Va., Oct. 1, 2025 — Aventra, a defense technology startup developing low-cost glide and guidance systems for ultra long-range precision strikes, today announced its emergence from stealth mode with $3 million in seed funding led by Lavrock Ventures. Founded by former Army officers and defense tech entrepreneurs Michael Weigand, Brian Retherford, and Jessup Meng, the company’s modular guidance kits transform standard unguided munitions into AI-powered precision weapons capable of engaging targets as far away as 3000 miles, addressing America’s critical need for affordable mass fires in peer adversary conflicts.

Aventra’s breakthrough technology wraps a wing and guidance system around existing munitions to create long-range weapons that harness high-altitude winds, traveling extended distances via high-altitude balloons without relying on GPS navigation. The company’s Piranha glider kit costs 100-400 times less than comparable long-range precision munitions, enabling the volume of sustained fires necessary for modern warfare while operating effectively in contested, electronic warfare environments.

The timing aligns with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s directive “Unleashing U.S. Military Drone Dominance,” which called for rapidly scaling domestic drone production and emphasized that “our adversaries collectively produce millions of cheap drones each year” while criticizing previous delays in fielding affordable systems to U.S. forces.

The modular design accepts both kinetic warheads and non-kinetic payloads including electronic warfare packages, allowing forces to conduct precision strikes, harassment fires, and multi-domain operations from distributed positions. This capability addresses a fundamental military challenge: traditional cruise missile inventories would be exhausted within days of sustained peer conflict, leaving forces without the persistent fires needed to deny adversaries use of critical infrastructure.

“The U.S. government has made clear the urgent need for affordable, rapidly deployable weapons that can operate in contested and degraded environments,” said Michael Weigand, Aventra Co-founder and CEO. “Our extensive firsthand experience working with operators both domestically and directly on the front lines in Ukraine has validated this demand signal. We’ve seen how conflicts are won through speed, volume, and persistence, and our technology finally makes that economically viable for American forces.”

The founding team brings deep operational experience from both successful technology ventures and direct warfighting expertise. Their collective background spans leading defense startups, hands-on combat operations, and developing innovative solutions for modern warfare requirements – providing the technical depth and operational understanding essential for delivering mission-critical capabilities to military customers.

“What immediately stood out about Mike, Brian, and Jessup was the rare combination of proven startup leadership, extensive warfighting experience, and exceptional technical capabilities. These guys are not amateurs – they’re proven leaders,” said Alex Poulin, Partner at Lavrock Ventures. “They understand both the battlefield realities driving demand for distributed fires and the engineering challenges of delivering reliable, cost-effective solutions at scale. Their depth of experience across operations and technology makes them uniquely positioned to solve one of defense’s most pressing problems.”

Aventra’s AI-powered terminal guidance operates independently of GPS, ensuring effectiveness against sophisticated adversaries employing electronic warfare. The system’s high-altitude deployment provides unique attack vectors that circumvent traditional air defense detection and interception, while simple assembly and deployment enable distributed operations from austere environments without heavy infrastructure requirements.

The seed funding will accelerate product development, expand testing operations, and grow the team as Aventra prepares to deliver its transformative guidance technology to defense customers facing evolving warfare requirements.

About Aventra

Aventra develops low cost, long range modular guidance kits that transform unguided munitions into guided weapons deployable on a global scale. The company’s AI-powered systems enable precision strikes and sustained harassment fires at a fraction of traditional costs, supporting America’s military through innovative guidance technology and deep operational understanding of modern warfare requirements. For more information, visit aventra.io.

About Lavrock Ventures 

Lavrock Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in software, deep tech, and national security companies. The firm partners with entrepreneurs developing transformative capabilities that address critical challenges across commercial and defense markets while strengthening America’s security and technological leadership. For more information, visit lavrockvc.com/.

SOURCE Aventra

SEATTLE, Oct. 1, 2025 — Phaidra, the company building AI agents for AI factories, announced today a Series B funding round of more than $50 million led by Collaborative Fund, with participation from Helena, Index Ventures, NVIDIA, Sony Innovation Fund, and others. The funding will be used to make AI factories — the data center infrastructure purpose-built for AI workloads — radically more resource-efficient via AI agents.

At the heart of this mission lies a simple truth: we live in an energy-constrained world. Our ability to generate intelligence, and therefore revenue, is fundamentally limited by the energy available to power these grid-scale computing systems. We must therefore maximize the tokens generated by every watt of energy that enters the AI factory.

This in turn requires careful orchestration of the complex power, cooling, and workload management systems that underpin modern AI factories. Historically, these systems are designed and operate independently with minimal coordination, leading to large inefficiencies. In a world where every watt is precious, this waste is unacceptable. These systems must operate seamlessly as a single integrated system of compute.

Phaidra addresses this challenge by building AI agents to optimize large-scale compute facilities. Today, the company collaborates with industry leaders like NVIDIA to design the next generation of AI infrastructure. Phaidra is developing a portfolio of AI agents — from liquid cooling to chiller plants to workload management — that are trained to orchestrate complex systems that exceed the capability of human intuition or hard-coded controls logic, thereby unlocking efficiency gains that were previously unobtainable.

“Every breakthrough in AI requires an equally ambitious breakthrough in infrastructure efficiency,” said Jim Gao, CEO of Phaidra. “Our technology enables AI data centers to run smarter, not just harder, cutting costs while dramatically reducing their environmental footprint.”

“Collaborative Fund has always believed that the most transformative companies are those that marry profit with purpose,” said Sophie Bakalar, Partner at Collaborative Fund. “Phaidra is tackling AI’s biggest bottleneck, energy consumption, in collaboration with NVIDIA, the global leader in compute.”

With the new capital, Phaidra will accelerate development of its agent ecosystem, deepen its collaboration with NVIDIA, and expand to additional global operators.

About Phaidra

Phaidra builds intelligent control systems for the world’s most complex industrial facilities. By combining reinforcement learning and domain expertise, Phaidra helps operators achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency, reliability, and sustainability.

The company was founded by Jim Gao, who previously led Google DeepMind’s industrial AI efforts; Vedavyas Panneershelvam, a primary engineer on AlphaGo; and Katherine Hoffman, an operations leader with experience at Trane and Raytheon. Together, they launched Phaidra to bring cutting-edge AI into real-world infrastructure at a moment when the energy demands of AI itself are skyrocketing.

For more information, visit www.phaidra.ai

SOURCE Collaborative Fund

• Following 900% growth, Baselane has raised a $20M Series B to scale its financial platform
• Company debuts Baselane Smart, a new AI-powered subscription suite for real estate investors

NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2025 — Baselane, the banking and financial platform purpose-built for real estate investors, today announced it has raised a total of $34.4 million in new funding, including a recently closed $20 million Series B led by Thomvest Ventures and a previously unannounced $14.4 million Series A led by Matrix Partners. The funding milestone coincides with the launch of Baselane Smart, a subscription-based suite of AI-powered automation tools designed to give landlords greater control, efficiency, and insight into their rental property finances.

Launched in 2022, Baselane has experienced more than 900% growth since its Series A financing and now supports more than 50,000 real estate investors across the United States. Individual investors own more than 25 million rental units — half of the U.S. residential rental supply — and represent a growing class of sophisticated, tech-savvy landlords scaling beyond single properties. Baselane has emerged as the new financial backbone of the evolving rental economy, replacing a fragmented landscape of non-specialized tools that forced landlords to juggle between spreadsheets, payment apps like Zelle^®, accounting software, personal checking accounts, and more. Baselane consolidates and simplifies financial workflows with its powerful, purpose-built platform for real estate investing, integrating everything from banking and bookkeeping to rent collection and tax reporting.

“Real estate investors don’t want to be accountants; they want to focus on building passive income without drowning in manual admin work,” said Mathias Korder, Co-Founder and CEO of Baselane. “We built Baselane to give landlords back time and control. By automating the financial back-office, we’re helping them save 5, 8, even 12 hours a week — while still staying on top of cash flow and helping them manage larger portfolios without adding more work.”

Baselane will use the new round of funding to scale its go-to-market efforts and accelerate product innovation, transforming how individual real estate investors operate and make decisions. Starting with the launch of its first subscription-based product, Baselane Smart, the company will introduce AI and automation to streamline tasks like transaction categorization, receipt matching, and proactive fund transfers to cover bills. Empowered by software that delivers institutional-grade insights traditionally reserved for large-scale investors, individual landlords will gain deeper financial visibility, reduce manual financial busywork, and make faster, more informed property decisions, freeing up time to focus on what matters most.

Baselane Smart builds on the success of Baselane Core with these benefits:

• Auto-Tag Assistant: Baselane’s AI automatically categorizes every transaction the moment it comes in, so you never fall behind on bookkeeping.
• Advanced Tagging Rules: Set smart rules that tag your transactions based on who you paid, how much, or which account you used.
• Auto-Receipt Match: Email or upload your receipts, and we’ll take care of the rest — auto-matched, organized, and ready for tax time.
• Smart fund transfers: Prevent overdrafts, missed payments, and maximize your savings with automatic top-ups when your balance gets too low.
• Time back, without sacrificing oversight: Save 5-12+ hours per week on manual financial tasks while gaining deeper visibility into property finances.

Baselane started with a simple mission: make it easier for individual real estate investors to thrive. In just three years, it’s done just that, saving the average investor more than 150 hours and $5,000 per year through automation, visibility, and built-in financial tools.

“One of the most frustrating, overlooked problems in real estate investing is the financial management, and Baselane is using software and AI to solve this for tens of thousands of customers,” said Don Butler, Managing Director at Thomvest Ventures. “By deeply understanding this niche and building a beautifully integrated product, Baselane has created something that real estate investors can truly depend on and love.”

The Series B round included participation from Matrix Partners, Diagram Ventures, Starwood Capital, Parameter Ventures, Activant Capital, RXR ARDEN Digital Ventures, and Watershed Ventures. Baselane has raised $44.3 million to date.

About Baselane
Baselane is a financial platform purpose-built for rental property owners, offering integrated banking with bookkeeping, tax reporting, and rent collection. Baselane is trusted by over 50,000 independent real estate investors who process more than $2 billion annually through the platform. Baselane automates core financial tasks to help users save time, operate more efficiently, and grow their rental portfolios. Learn more at www.baselane.com.

Baselane is a financial technology company and is not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Thread Bank, Member FDIC. FDIC deposit insurance covers the failure of an insured bank. Certain conditions must be satisfied for pass-through deposit insurance coverage to apply.

SOURCE Baselane

AI-powered audio separation technology working with major film studios, music labels, and Big Tech companies

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1, 2025 — San Francisco startup AudioShake announced today it has raised $14 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Shine Capital, with participation from Thomson Reuters Ventures, Origin Ventures, Background Capital, and existing investors Indicator Ventures and Precursor Ventures. The company, which uses AI to separate any audio recording into its individual components, is building the infrastructure to make sound as flexible and programmable as text or images, unlocking entirely new forms of creative expression and interaction.

Until now, most of the world’s audio has been effectively “read-only”—you could listen to it, but couldn’t easily edit its component parts. AudioShake can take any recording—a movie soundtrack, podcast, sports broadcast, or phone call—and split it into separate tracks for voices, music, and sound effects, with professional-grade quality. This makes all audio content editable, searchable, and programmable for the first time.

While other technologies have enabled audio separation or created “stems” before, AudioShake is unique in that it works on any existing audio recording—including decades-old content and physical-world audio that was never designed to be separated—and delivers broadcast-quality results through simple APIs.

AudioShake has grown rapidly over the past year, with 40+ enterprise contracts across media and AI driving nearly 400 percent year-over-year revenue growth and over 100 million minutes of audio processed. Its business model combines annual access fees with usage-based pricing, and its customer base already includes some of the world’s largest film studios, broadcasters, music labels, sports leagues, and technology companies–including Universal Music, Disney Music Group, Warner Music Group, Warner Bros Discovery, BET, NFL Films, and several “Mag 7” companies.

The applications span industries. Some notable use cases include music labels BMG and Reservoir Media splitting the voices and instruments for albums from Nina Simone and De la Soul, in order to make the work available in immersive format. Film and post-production studios like Deluxe are using AudioShake to isolate dialogue, music, and effects, for editing and foreign-language dubs. Radio, newsrooms, podcast platforms, and Voice AI companies can remove unwanted background noise and disentangle overlapping speakers. And sports leagues and organizations are using the technology to remove unlicensed music from clips, in order to avoid copyright fines.

Beyond entertainment, AI companies are using AudioShake to create vast training datasets of structured audio data, by separating mixed audio sources into individual components. The company is currently working with most of the “Mag 7” tech companies and leading AI model labs to prepare their audio data for multimodal AI training, processing millions of hours of licensed audio content to power the next generation of AI models.

“From the beginning, we’ve built AudioShake hand-in-hand with content owners—helping them unlock new creative opportunities for their work,” said Jessica Powell, Co-Founder and CEO of AudioShake. “At the same time, we’ve seen immense potential for our technology to help machines make sense of the physical world through sound. This funding enables us to advance on both fronts.”

“AudioShake is building the foundational layer that makes audio as flexible as text or images,” said Alex Hartz, General Partner at Shine Capital. “Every audio file contains multiple layers of information that were previously inaccessible. AudioShake unlocks that value.”

“Thomson Reuters Ventures invests in innovative companies that align with our strategic objectives and the markets we serve. In the media sector – and more broadly – audio represents one of the last frontiers of unstructured data that organizations struggle to fully leverage,” said Tamara Steffens, Managing Director, Thomson Reuters Ventures. “AudioShake’s technology transforms audio from a static asset into actionable data. We see tremendous potential for this capability across industries where audio content contains critical business intelligence that was previously locked away. We are thrilled to be partnering with this highly talented team.”

The new funding will accelerate product development, hiring, and go-to-market expansion, including broader access to AudioShake’s APIs and real-time SDKs for developers and enterprises.

AudioShake was launched in 2021 by Jessica Powell, former Google VP, and Luke Miner, former head of data science at Plaid. Roughly half of its team of 18 hold PhDs.

About AudioShake
AudioShake  helps make sound usable for both humans and machines. Our technology separates sound into its different components to power a wide range of creative, workplace, and machine tasks that are dependent on the ability to edit sound.

Contact
Media: April Anderson ([email protected])
Website:www.audioshake.ai

SOURCE AudioShake

JAKARTA, Indonesia, 1 de octubre de 2025 — Honest, el emisor de tarjetas de crédito de más rápido crecimiento de Indonesia, ha cerrado una ronda de financiación de crecimiento con sobresuscripción, liderada por Orico, lo que eleva la financiación total de capital de la compañía a 100 millones de dólares. La ronda contó con el respaldo continuo de XYZ Venture Capital, SV Pacific Ventures y Village Global, junto con la participación de otros importantes inversores estadounidenses, como Gilgamesh Ventures. Honest también obtuvo 40 millones de dólares en financiación de deuda de Mizuho Bank.

Con menos del 3% de los indonesios con tarjeta de crédito, Honest facilita el acceso al crédito a millones de consumidores. La compañía utilizará el nuevo capital para expandir su tarjeta insignia, Honest Card, a tarjetas corporativas y de marca compartida, inspirándose en Nubank, Ramp e Imprint en América, pero diseñadas para Asia. Honest puede lanzar tarjetas de marca compartida en cuestión de semanas y aprueba a más del 90% de los solicitantes, en comparación con los bancos indonesios tradicionales, que suelen tardar años en lanzarlas y aprueban menos del 5%.

Makoto Umemiya, presidente y director representante de Orico, afirmó:
“El mercado de tarjetas de crédito de Indonesia tiene un enorme potencial, y Honest está bien posicionada para liderar este crecimiento con su enfoque innovador. Nos entusiasma respaldar a la compañía como socio estratégico a largo plazo, apoyándola en su camino para convertirse en un referente del mercado y transformar los servicios financieros para millones de indonesios.”

Orico es uno de los principales emisores de tarjetas de crédito de Japón y la división de financiación al consumo de Mizuho Financial Group, uno de los bancos más grandes del mundo con billones de dólares en activos.

Ross Fubini, socio director de XYZ Venture Capital, añadió:
“Nunca habíamos visto nada como Honest: es la primera tarjeta de crédito verdaderamente digital de la región que entusiasma genuinamente a los clientes. Honest ha resuelto problemas que los bancos tradicionales no podían abordar, y se nota la diferencia en cómo la gente habla del producto: les encanta utilizarlo.”

XYZ Venture Capital es un fondo multimillonario de Silicon Valley fundado por Fubini, quien ha sido reconocido en la Lista Forbes Midas. Fubini también se unirá a la junta directiva de Honest, y XYZ se convertirá en el segundo mayor inversor de la compañía, después de Orico.

Acerca de Honest

Fundada en 2023, Honest es el emisor de tarjetas de crédito de más rápido crecimiento de Indonesia, con la ambición de lanzar una oferta pública inicial en EE.UU. antes de 2030. La compañía fue fundada por Peter Panas, exvicepresidente de Producto de Apple Card en Goldman Sachs, y Will Ongkowidjaja, cofundador de Alpha JWC, la principal firma de capital de riesgo de Indonesia.

Honest es la única fintech en Indonesia con licencia de tarjetas de crédito, tras la adquisición de GE Finance Indonesia en 2022. Entre sus inversores se incluyen empresas líderes de Silicon Valley como XYZ, Village Global y Goodwater, así como los líderes japoneses en pagos Orico, Rakuten y GMO. Entre los inversores ángeles más destacados se encuentran David Vélez, fundador de Nubank.

Contacto: [email protected]

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JAKARTA, Indonesien, 1. Oktober 2025 — Honest, Indonesiens am schnellsten wachsender Kreditkartenaussteller, hat eine von Orico angeführte, überzeichnete Wachstumsrunde abgeschlossen, wodurch sich das Gesamtkapital des Unternehmens auf 100 Millionen USD erhöht. Die Finanzierungsrunde wurde weiterhin von XYZ Venture Capital, SV Pacific Ventures und Village Global unterstützt, während sich weitere führende US-Investoren, darunter Gilgamesh Ventures, neu beteiligten. Honest sicherte sich außerdem eine Fremdfinanzierung in Höhe von 40 Millionen USD von der Mizuho Bank.

Da weniger als 3 % der Indonesier eine Kreditkarte besitzen, eröffnet Honest Millionen von Verbrauchern den Zugang zu Krediten. Das Unternehmen wird das neue Kapital nutzen, um seine Flaggschiff-Karte „Honest Card” auf Firmen- und Co-Branding-Karten auszuweiten, wobei es sich von Nubank, Ramp und Imprint in Amerika inspirieren lässt, die aber speziell für Asien konzipiert sind. Honest kann Co-Branding-Karten innerhalb weniger Wochen auf den Markt bringen und genehmigt mehr als 90 % der Anträge, während traditionelle indonesische Banken oft Jahre für die Einführung benötigen und weniger als 5 % der Anträge genehmigen.

Makoto Umemiya, Präsident & Representative Director von Orico, sagte:
„Der indonesische Kreditkartenmarkt birgt ein enormes Potenzial, und Honest ist mit seinem innovativen Ansatz gut positioniert, um dieses Wachstum anzuführen. Wir freuen uns, das Unternehmen als langfristiger strategischer Partner zu unterstützen und es auf seinem Weg zum Marktführer zu begleiten, der die Finanzdienstleistungen für Millionen von Indonesiern revolutionieren wird.”

Orico ist einer der führenden Kreditkartenaussteller Japans und der Verbraucherkreditarm der Mizuho Financial Group, einer der weltweit größten Banken mit einem Vermögen in Billionenhöhe.

Ross Fubini, Managing Partner bei XYZ Venture Capital, fügte hinzu:
„Wir haben noch nie etwas wie Honest gesehen – es ist die erste wirklich digitale Kreditkarte in der Region, von der die Kunden wirklich begeistert sind. Honest hat Probleme gelöst, an die traditionelle Banken nicht herankommen konnten, und man merkt den Unterschied daran, wie die Leute über das Produkt sprechen – sie lieben es, es zu nutzen.”

XYZ Venture Capital ist ein milliardenschwerer Fonds aus dem Silicon Valley, der von Fubini gegründet wurde, der auf der Forbes Midas List aufgeführt ist. Fubini wird auch dem Vorstand von Honest beitreten, wobei XYZ nach Orico zum zweitgrößten Investor des Unternehmens wird.

Informationen zu Honest

Honest wurde 2023 gegründet und ist Indonesiens am schnellsten wachsender Kreditkartenaussteller mit dem Ziel, bis 2030 einen Börsengang in den USA zu erreichen. Das Unternehmen wurde von Peter Panas, ehemaliger Vizepräsident für Apple Card bei Goldman Sachs, und Will Ongkowidjaja, Mitbegründer von Alpha JWC, Indonesiens führender Risikokapitalgesellschaft, gegründet

Honest ist das einzige Fintech-Unternehmen in Indonesien mit einer Kreditkartenlizenz, nachdem es 2022 GE Finance Indonesia übernommen hat. Zu seinen Investoren zählen führende Unternehmen aus dem Silicon Valley wie XYZ, Village Global und Goodwater sowie die japanischen Zahlungsdienstleister Orico, Rakuten und GMO. Zu den namhaften Angel-Investoren gehören David Vélez, Gründer von Nubank.

Kontakt: [email protected]

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JAKARTA, Indonésie, 1er octobre 2025 — Honest, l’émetteur de cartes de crédit à la croissance la plus rapide d’Indonésie, a clôturé une levée de fonds de croissance sursouscrite, menée par Orico, portant les fonds propres de la société à 100 millions de dollars. Ce tour de table a vu le maintien du soutien de XYZ Venture Capital, SV Pacific Ventures et Village Global, ainsi que la participation d’autres investisseurs américains de premier plan, dont Gilgamesh Ventures. Honest a également obtenu 40 millions de dollars de financement par emprunt auprès de Mizuho Bank.

Alors que moins de 3 % des Indonésiens possèdent une carte de crédit, Honest ouvre l’accès au crédit à des millions de consommateurs. L’entreprise utilisera ce nouveau capital pour étendre sa carte phare Honest Card aux cartes d’entreprise et aux cartes cobrandées, en s’inspirant de Nubank, Ramp et Imprint en Amérique, mais en les concevant pour l’Asie. Honest peut lancer des cartes cobrandées en quelques semaines et approuve plus de 90 % des demandeurs, alors que les banques indonésiennes traditionnelles mettent souvent des années à les lancer et en approuvent moins de 5 %.

Makoto Umemiya, président et directeur délégué d’Orico, a déclaré :
« Le marché indonésien des cartes de crédit présente un énorme potentiel, et Honest est bien placé pour mener cette croissance grâce à son approche innovante. Nous sommes ravis de soutenir l’entreprise en tant que partenaire stratégique à long terme, en l’aidant à devenir un champion du marché et à transformer les services financiers pour des millions d’Indonésiens. »

Orico est l’un des principaux émetteurs de cartes de crédit au Japon et la branche “crédit à la consommation” du groupe financier Mizuho, l’une des plus grandes banques au monde avec des milliards d’actifs.

Ross Fubini, associé gérant chez XYZ Venture Capital, a ajouté :
« Nous n’avons jamais rien vu de tel que Honest – c’est la première carte de crédit véritablement numérique de la région qui suscite l’enthousiasme des clients. Honest a résolu des problèmes que les banques traditionnelles ne pouvaient aborder, et vous pouvez voir la différence dans la façon dont les gens parlent du produit – ils adorent l’utiliser. »

XYZ Venture Capital est un fonds de la Silicon Valley valorisé à plus d’un milliard de dollars, fondé par M. Fubini, qui a été distingué dans la liste Midas de Forbes. M. Fubini rejoindra également le conseil d’administration de Honest, XYZ devenant le deuxième plus grand investisseur dans la société après Orico.

À propos de Honest

Lancé en 2023, Honest est l’émetteur de cartes de crédit à la croissance la plus rapide d’Indonésie. La société, qui ambitionne de s’introduire en bourse aux États-Unis avant 2030, a été fondée par Peter Panas, ancien vice-président des produits pour Apple Card chez Goldman Sachs, et Will Ongkowidjaja, cofondateur d’Alpha JWC, la principale société indonésienne de capital-risque.

Honest est la seule fintech en Indonésie à posséder une licence de cartes de crédit, suite à son acquisition de GE Finance Indonesia en 2022. Ses investisseurs comprennent des entreprises de premier plan de la Silicon Valley telles que XYZ, Village Global et Goodwater, ainsi que les leaders japonais des paiements Orico, Rakuten et GMO.1 Parmi les investisseurs providentiels notables, citons David Vélez, fondateur de Nubank.

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