UK fintech Rebank raises $2.8m seed round to help businesses bank

Written by Ruby Hinchliffe
25th December 2019

Rebank, the UK fintech start-up tackling “unintuitive interfaces and complicated payments” in the business banking industry, has raised $2.8 million in seed funding.

Led by long-term tech investor ADV, the round also saw participation from Silicon Valley seed accelerator Y Combinator, early-stage tech investor Oriza Ventures and angel investors including British internet entrepreneur Jude Gomila, who launched “the Wikipedia for tech start-ups” – Golden – earlier this year.

Rebank’s co-founder and CEO Juan Andrade

“Companies today face two major problems: janky banking interfaces and unnecessarily expensive payments,” Rebank’s co-founder and CEO Juan Andrade tells TechCrunch.

“Despite this, very few actually want to switch banks – it’s just more time wasted,” Andrade continues. “They don’t have to anymore with Rebank because we work in connection with their existing banks. This means it’s easier and faster to start using Rebank than other options out there.”

Founded in January 2018 and becoming a Y Combinator graduate the same year, Rebank offers a platform which can consolidate real-time money transfers across multiple connected bank accounts into one place and be used to initiate payments.

“A new type of company has emerged […] one that expects immediate financial insights and demands simple, cost-effective ways to pay worldwide,” says Andrade. “These companies don’t want to become banking experts – they want banking to adapt to them.”

The start-up charges a subscription fee for its business customers to use the service starting at $50 per month. Rebank is currently serving customers in the US, Canada and the UK, which it says amount to 70 start-ups and mid-size companies that generate $50 million in total transactions.

Andrade says the fintech will use the new capital injection to “scale with the growing demand” for its offering.