{"id":49969,"date":"2021-09-22T18:18:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T15:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49969"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:30:23","slug":"tiger-global-leads-130-million-investment-round-in-open-banking-startup-truelayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/tiger-global-leads-130-million-investment-round-in-open-banking-startup-truelayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Global Leads $130 Million Investment Round in Open-Banking Startup TrueLayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The open-banking startup TrueLayer <a href=\"https:\/\/truelayer.com\/blog\/130m-fundraise-to-accelerate-open-banking-payments\/\">closed<\/a> a $130 million funding round led by Tiger Global and Stripe.<\/p>\n<p>The company did not disclose other investors. Its valuation reached $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the startup <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/04\/08\/truelayer-70m\/\">raised $70 million<\/a> from Addition and other investors.<\/p>\n<p>TrueLayer offers a set of <span data-descr=\"application programming interface\" class=\"old_tooltip\">APIs<\/span>, which enable interbank payments, bypassing traditional payment networks. Crypto startups use this solution to create seamless interactions with customers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cTrueLayer is creating a new payments infrastructure for fast, secure and user-friendly transactions,\u201d<\/em> said Francesco Simoneschi, CEO of the company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/linked\/118127\/tiger-global-leads-130-million-raise-open-banking-startup-truelayer\">The Block<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The funds will be used to develop products, hire staff and expand geographically.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in August, Tiger Global <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tiger-global-backs-certik-in-24m-series-b-round\">supported<\/a> the CertiK smart-contract auditor in a $24 million round.<\/p>\n<p> Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 all the news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The open-banking startup TrueLayer closed a $130 million funding round led by Tiger Global and Stripe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1223,1519,2234,1133],"class_list":["post-49969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-startups","tag-stripe","tag-tiger-global","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49971,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49969\/revisions\/49971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}