Aspire
Aspire is a financial technology company that provides an all-in-one finance platform for growing businesses.
$100M Series B+ ·
Led by Lightspeed · Source: fundraisingfox.com
Total raised: $290.5M across 3 sourced rounds
All 4 rounds ↓Signals
About Aspire
It offers products such as business accounts, multi-currency smart cards, expense management, and global payments. Aspire serves startups, SMEs, mid-sized businesses, and various industries including consulting and e-commerce.
Aspire | 2661 days on the record
Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.
Funding rounds
- X account created
- Series B+ · $100M
LLightspeed (lead),
SSequoia South East Asia (lead),
HHedosophia,
LLGT Capital Partners,
MMMV Europe & Asia-Pacific,
PPayPal Ventures,
PPeak XV,
PPicus Capital,
TTencent
Source: fundraisingfox.com - Series B+ · $158M
HHedosophia (lead),
HHendra Kwik,
HHummingbird VC,
MMMV Europe & Asia-Pacific,
MMoses Lo,
PPeak XV,
PPicus Capital, PPierpaolo Barbieri, SSteve Anavi,
TTaavet Hinrikus
Source: fundraisingfox.com - Series A · $32.5M
MMMV Europe & Asia-Pacific (lead), AArc Labs,
BBeacon Venture Capital,
HHummingbird VC,
IInsignia Ventures Partners,
PPicus Capital,
PPioneer Fund,
YY Combinator
Source: techcrunch.com - Winter 2018
YY Combinator · batch
Source: ycombinator.com - Website created
Founders and team
AB
Andrea Baronchelli Co-Founder & CEOGF
Giacomo Ficari Co-Founder & co-CEOLinkedIn · source: foundertrace.comGC
Giovanni Casinelli Co-Founder & PresidentJL
Joel Leong Chief Strategy Officer & Co-FounderLinkedIn · source: foundertrace.comSH
Stefan Hadjidetschev Co-founderLinkedIn · source: foundertrace.comSP
Stefano Pellegrino, PhD 🇺🇦 Co-founder and Country Head (Vietnam) at AspireLinkedIn · source: foundertrace.comTC
Thibaud Chommeloux Co-founder - Country Manager & Chief Marketing OfficerLinkedIn · source: foundertrace.comTM
Tim McCoy Co-FounderLinkedIn · source: foundertrace.comDH
David Harris U.S. Country HeadGJ
Gokul Jayaram Talent ManagerHJ
Hammad Jilani Lead Product DesignerMA
Muhammad Agfa AnalystNA
Navi Arora Associate Engineering Manager
Investors
- AArc Labs
BBeacon Venture Capital
FFasanara Capital
HHedosophialead investor
HHendra Kwik
HHummingbird VC
IInsignia Ventures Partners
LLGT Capital Partners
LLightspeedlead investor
MMMV Europe & Asia-Pacificlead investor
MMoses Lo
PPayPal Ventures
PPeak XV
PPicus Capital
- PPierpaolo Barbieri
PPioneer Fundaccelerator
SSequoia South East Asialead investor
- SSteve Anavi
TTaavet Hinrikus
TTencent
YY Combinatoraccelerator
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Sources and API
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