Nova Credit

Nova Credit is a credit infrastructure and analytics company that enables businesses to grow responsibly through alternative credit data.

Lending and creditFintechData and analyticsY CombinatorPear VC

TIMELINE · MONEY RAISED

Nova Credit | 1569 days from X account to first raise on record

@nova_credit·Raised $130M in 3 sourced rounds·1 signal before the first raise

Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.

Funding rounds

1. October 15, 2025
   Series B+ · $35M
   SSocium Ventures (lead), GGeneral Catalyst, HHarmonic Growth Partners, IIndex Ventures, KKleiner Perkins, NNational Bank of Canada, NNAventures, RRadiate Capital, XXYZ Venture Capital, YY Combinator
   Source: fundraisingfox.com
2. October 18, 2023
   Series B+ · $45M
   CCanapi Ventures (lead), CCohen Circle, GGeneral Catalyst, GGeodesic Capital, HHarmonic Growth Partners, IIndex Ventures, KKleiner Perkins, RRadiate Capital, SSocium Ventures, XXSeed Capital, YY Combinator
   Source: business.sohu.com
3. February 12, 2020
   Series B+ · $50M
   KKleiner Perkins (lead), CCanapi Ventures, DDavid Evans, EEndeavor Catalyst, GGeneral Catalyst, IIndex Ventures, NNyca Partners, SSound Ventures, SSusa Ventures, TTheo Osborne
   Source: techcrunch.com
4. Summer 2016
   YY Combinator · batch
   Source: ycombinator.com
5. October 27, 2015
   X account created
6. July 28, 2000
   Website created
7. Date unknown
   PPear VC · accelerator or program
   Source: pear.vc

Founders and team

• ME
  Misha Esipov Co-Founder and CEO

  @mishaesipov · LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
• LJ
  Loek Janssen Co-Founder & CTO

  @janssen_loek · LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
• NG
  Nicky Goulimis Co-Founder & COO & Board Member

  @nickygoulimis · LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
• CG
  Collin Galster COO
• MR
  Mani Ramezani Chief Technology Officer
• NN
  Nicole Newlin Chief Customer Officer
• NC
  Nikki Cross Data Science Consultant
• RT
  Remi Trang Customer Success Manager - Enterprise Partnerships
• TH
  Tracey Hsu Head of Customer Success

Investors

• CCanapi Ventureslead investor
• CCohen Circle
• DDavid Evans
• EEndeavor Catalyst
• GGaingels
• GGeneral Catalyst
• GGeodesic Capital
• HHarmonic Growth Partners
• IIndex Ventures
• KKleiner Perkinslead investor
• NNational Bank of Canada
• NNAventures
• NNyca Partners
• PPear VCaccelerator
• RRadiate Capital
• SSocium Ventureslead investor
• SSound Ventures
• SSusa Ventures
• TTheo Osborne
• XXSeed Capital
• XXYZ Venture Capital
• YY Combinatoraccelerator

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