| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.04.2022 | How Lydia wants to make payments more personal and social | Yesterday, fintech startup Lydia unveiled a brand new design for its financial super app. And it’s an opinionated take on mobile payments — not just a fresh coat of paint. I sat down with the company’s founders to discuss the thinking and v... |
| 19.01.2022 | Insurtech startup Luko acquires Coya and gains insurance license | French startup Luko is acquiring German startup Coya in order to grow its European presence and get an insurance license from German regulator. While Luko isn’t disclosing terms of the deal, the company says it’s a 100% share deal, which me... |
| 09.12.2021 | Paris-based Lydia banks $100M Series C | Lydia, a mobile payments and savings app provider, has raised $100 million at a valuation of over $1 billion, TechCrunch reported. Investors in the round include Tencent, Accel, Founders Future, Dragoneer Investment Group and Echo Street.
V... |
| 09.12.2021 | France based Fintech Lydia Secures $100M+, Achieves Unicorn Status | After introducing its 100% mobile trading solution two weeks ago, Lydia has announced that it secured $100 million in capital.
Lydia‘s investment round is led by existing investors (Accel, Founders Future and Tencent), who are taking the op... |
| 08.12.2021 | French Fintech Lydia Attains Unicorn Status With $100M Series C Funding | French fintech Lydia has raised $100 million in Series C funding, attaining unicorn status with a valuation of over $1 billion.
The funding round includes new investors Dragoneers and Echo Street along with existing backers Tencent, Accel a... |
| 07.12.2021 | Lydia grabs another $100 million for its European financial super app | Just a few weeks after announcing stock and crypto trading, French fintech startup Lydia is announcing that it has raised a $100 million Series C round. With this funding round, the startup has reached a unicorn valuation, which means that ... |
| 23.11.2021 | Lydia adding trading is a small step to super app status | The news: The France-based fintech partnered with digital broker Bitpanda to offer users access to fractionalized shares, ETFs, and crypto trading from €1 ($1.14).
Why add trading? Lydia started out as a peer-to-peer payments platform but h... |
| 21.11.2021 | Lydia adds stock and crypto trading to its payment app | French startup Lydia is entering a whole new category by adding trading to its financial super app later this year. The company is partnering with Bitpanda for this feature. Lydia users will be able to buy, hold and sell American and Europe... |
| 21.10.2021 | Health assessment company Lydia AI raises $8 million | Toronto-based Lydia AI Lydia AI
Founded: 2013
Headquarters: Toronto, Canada
Total Funding: $13.78M
See full company profile "> , formerly known as Knowtions Research, closed an $8 million Series A funding round led by existing inves... |
| 19.10.2021 | Lydia AI : Raises $8 Million in Series A+ Funding Round to Insure the Next Billion People | Lydia AI, formerly known as Knowtions Research, has announced the closing of $8 million USD in a Series A+ funding round. Led by existing investor, Information Venture Partners, and with participation from new investors, including 500 Globa... |
| 19.10.2021 | Lydia AI raises $8M Series A+ | Lydia AI, a deep learning risk scoring engine trained for generating precise health benchmarks, announced raising a $8 million Series A+ led by Information Venture Partners, according to a press release.
The company says it will use the fun... |
| 19.10.2021 | Lydia AI raises $8M Series A+ | - |
| 15.06.2021 | French fintech eyes super app status with savings account partnership | Lydia, which started out as a peer-to-peer payments platform, teamed up with French fintech Cashbee to offer savings accounts, per TechCrunch. Users can open savings accounts through a mobile app and transfer money back and forth between ba... |
| 11.06.2021 | Lydia partners with Cashbee to add savings accounts | French startup Lydia is better known as the dominant app for peer-to-peer payments. But the company has been adding more features, such as a debit card, account aggregation, donations, money pots and more. This week, the company is adding s... |
| 09.04.2021 | Vybe raises $2.9 million for its challenger bank for teens | French startup Vybe has raised a $2.9 million funding round (€2.4 million) to build a challenger bank for teens. The company is currently testing its product with a soft launch. Users get a Mastercard payment card paired with an e-wallet.
E... |
| 16.02.2021 | Founders Future launches new fund: These are the high-impact sectors it’s looking to finance | Paris-based Founders Future, a venture studio providing network, support, and productive capital, has announced the launch of a new fund. According to the studio, the objective of this fund is to finance new high-impact sectors such as circ... |
| 15.02.2021 | Founders Future : raises an additional 50 million to accelerate its Tech for Good investments | PARIS, Feb. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Founders Future, a venture studio involved in Seed and Series A, today announced its new investment capital. With the objective of a new €50 million vehicle by the end of 2021, Founders Future has alread... |
| 15.02.2021 | Founders Future raises an additional €50 million to accelerate its Tech for Good investments | |
| 22.12.2020 | French fintech startup Lydia raises $86 million | French fintech startup Lydia raises $86 million
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Paris-based Lydia, a mobile financial services platform,... |
| 21.12.2020 | Fintech startups are increasingly focusing on profitability | Fintech startups have been massively successful over the past few years. The biggest consumer startups managed to attract millions — sometimes even tens of millions — of users and have raised some of the biggest funding rounds in late-stage... |
| 21.12.2020 | Lydia bags €70 million in an extended Series B round | - |
| 18.12.2020 | Fintech startup Lydia adds $86M to its Series B | Lydia, a French startup that has developed a mobile payments app, has secured an additional $86 million for its Series B. The Accel-led investment brings the round to $131 million. The capital will be used to fund the startup's European exp... |
| 18.12.2020 | French Mobile Payments Firm Lydia Acquires $86 Million in Additional Funding as Part of Series B Round | French mobile payments firm Lydia has extended its Series B investment round, raising an additional $86 million in capital led by Accel.
Lydia’s total Series B funding currently stands at €131 million, which reportedly makes it the largest ... |
| 18.12.2020 | Tech startups weekly: €16.3M for developing smart robotic exoskeletons; typing with hand gestures without keyboard; Cazoo to acquires Drover; and more | As a part of a weekly roundup, here is a list of some of the most important tech startups that have hit the headlines in Europe this week.Paris-based Lydia grabs €70M to expand its mobile financial app across Europe
French fintech startup L... |
| 18.12.2020 | Lydia bags €70 million Series B extension | Paris: Lydia, one of the fastest-growing mobile financial services platforms in Europe, today announced an extension of its Series B round, raising an additional approx. €70 million. The round was led by Accel, the global venture capital fi... |
| 17.12.2020 | Lydia extends Series B by a further $86 million | French mobile payments startup Lydia has extended its Series B funding round, raising an additional $86 million led by Accel.
Total Series B funding now stands at €131 million, making it the largest round ever raised by a French fintech. Pr... |
| 17.12.2020 | French fintech company Lydia lands additional $86 million from Accel, closing Series B at $131 million | French financial services platform Lydia has announced a whopping extension of its Series B round, raising an additional $86 million led by Accel. The round now rests at $131 million, which it claims is the largest round ever raised by a Fr... |
| 17.12.2020 | Paris-based Lydia lands €70 million Series B extension to expand its mobile financial app across Europe | Lydia, one of the fastest growing mobile financial services platforms in Europe, today announced an extension of its Series B round, raising an additional approx. €70 million. The round was led by Accel, the global venture capital firm, and... |
| 17.12.2020 | Lydia Secures $86M in Series B Extension Funding | Lydia, a Paris, France – based mobile financial services platform, raised an additional $86M of its Series B funding round.
The round, which now sits at $131M, was led by Accel, with participation from existing shareholders. In conjunction ... |
| 17.12.2020 | Accel leads France’s largest-ever fintech round in Lydia, closing $131m Series B | French fintech Lydia has secured an additional $86m in funds as part of its Series B, taking the total fundraise to $131m and making it the largest fintech round in the country’s history.
VC firm Accel led the extension alongside Lydia’s ex... |
| 17.12.2020 | Lydia raises an $86 million in Series B | Paris-based mobile payment app Lydia Lydia
Founded: 2013
Headquarters: Paris, France
Total Funding: $159.64M
See full company profile "> announced an extension of its Series B round, raising an additional $86 million led by Accel Ac... |
| 16.12.2020 | Lydia raises another $86 million to build a European financial super app | French fintech startup Lydia has extended its Series B round. Accel is leading the extension with all major existing shareholders also participating. Lydia first raised $45 million in January 2020 — Tencent led that investment. The startup ... |
| 07.10.2020 | Lydia partners with Tink to improve open banking features | French fintech startup Lydia is going to work with financial API startup Tink for its open banking features in its app. Lydia started as a peer-to-peer payment app and now has 4 million users in Europe.
Lydia’s vision has evolved to become ... |
| 23.09.2020 | Kard raises another $3.5 million for its challenger bank for teens | French startup Kard has added $3.5 million (€3 million) to its seed round. The company already raised the same amount last year, which means that Kard has raised $7 million (€6 million) in total for its seed round.
Founders Future is leadin... |
| 05.07.2020 | Lydia expands credit offering in partnership with Younited Credit | French startup Lydia is announcing a new partnership with Younited Credit, which lets you borrow anything between €500 and €3,000 and pay back within six to 36 months. The feature will be released in France at some point during the summer.
... |
| 18.06.2020 | Vivid is a new challenger bank built on top of Solarisbank | Meet Vivid, a new challenger bank launching in Germany that promises low fees and an integrated cashback program. The two co-founders, Alexander Emeshev and Artem Yamanov, previously worked as executives for Russian bank Tinkoff Bank.
Vivid... |
| 06.04.2020 | Lydia lets you donate to hospitals and charities | Fintech startup Lydia is the dominating mobile payment app in France with most of its 3.3 million users in its home country. That’s why the startup has been working hard over the past ten days to ship a feature that was originally planned f... |
| 04.03.2020 | Lunchr becomes Swile to expand beyond corporate lunch cards | Lunchr has rebranded to Swile in order to expand its product offering beyond meal vouchers. The company wants to focus on everything that happens at work but that isn’t technically work — money pots for a birthday, paying back your co-worke... |
| 20.01.2020 | Lydia raises €40m in Tencent-led Series B funding round | French mobile payments start-up Lydia has raised €40 million in a Series B funding round led by Chinese conglomerate Tencent.
Lydia co-founders Antoine Porte and Cyril Chiche
The round, also featuring NewAlpha Asset Management, XAnge, and p... |
| 17.01.2020 | This Paris-based mobile payment app secures €40M funding, eyes expansion | If you live in France and you are under 30 years, then there is an increased possibility that you would have heard about Lydia. Well, it is a mobile payment app, which is meant for the young users to enjoy a plethora of financial services v... |
| 17.01.2020 | Tencent leads $45m Series B round in French mobile payment platform Lydia | Premium
Tencent has led a €40 million ($45 million) Series B funding round in Paris-based mobile financial services platform Lydia as the Chinese social and gaming giant continues to actively invest in the technological innovation space aro... |
| 16.01.2020 | Tencent leads $44.7M Series B funding into Paris-based fintech Lydia | Lydia, a Paris-based fintech super app, said it raised $44.7 million (40 million euros) in Series B funding, led by Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent, to scale its mobile payments platform and expand across Europe.
Lydia, which ... |
| 16.01.2020 | Lydia raises €40 million Series B led by Tencent | French mobile payment company Lydia announced the completion of its €40 million Series B funding led by China-based tech company Tencent with participation from previous investors Open CNP by CNP Assurances, XAnge and New Alpha.
Established... |
| 15.01.2020 | Mobile payment app Lydia raises $45 million round led by Tencent | French startup Lydia is raising a $45 million Series B round (€40 million). Tencent is leading the round with existing investors CNP Assurances, XAnge and New Alpha also participating.
If you live in France, chances are you already know Lyd... |
| 25.01.2019 | Lydia launches shared accounts for its mobile payment app | French startup Lydia now lets you share your Lydia sub-accounts with other people. The company wants to make it easier to manage money when you’re traveling with friends, sharing an apartment with someone and more.
When Lydia introduced its... |
| 11.12.2018 | Lydia introduces credit lines | French startup Lydia announced a partnership with Banque Casino today for small credit lines. Starting tomorrow, Lydia users in France will be able to borrow as much as €1,000 in just a few seconds.
While Lydia started as a peer-to-peer mon... |
| 06.11.2018 | Lydia launches mobile phone insurance | French startup Lydia is launching an insurance product for your mobile phone. For €4.29 per month ($4.89), you can insure your phone from the Lydia app.
Lydia is one of the most popular peer-to-peer payment apps in Europe, with 1.5 million ... |
| 20.03.2018 | Lydia launches Lydia Premium | French startup Lydia announces two new things today. First, the company is launching a financial hub with multiple new products. Second, Lydia is announcing a new premium subscription to access those new features.
“Today, we’re lucky enough... |
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| 15.02.2018 | Lydia raises $16.1 million to become the PayPal of mobile payments | French startup Lydia is raising a $16.1 million round (€13 million) led by CNP Assurances with existing investors XAnge, New Alpha AM, Oddo BHF and Groupe Duval also participating.
Lydia isn’t the first startup that wants to replace PayPal,... |
| 18.07.2017 | N26 and Lydia announce Apple Pay support in France, but major banks are still missing | Apple Pay hasn’t really been a major success in France so far. France’s biggest banks still don’t plan to support Apple’s payment service. But two companies announced today that they were going to add Apple Pay support before the end of the... |
| 28.09.2016 | Lydia grabs $7.8 million for its peer-to-peer payment service | French startup Lydia raised $7.8 million (€7 million) from New Alpha AM and Oddo & Cie in order to expand to other European countries. The startup lets you easily pay back your friends without any fee using a mobile app — among other th... |
| 06.09.2016 | Lydia launches a good old plastic card to go beyond the peer-to-peer payment space | French startup Lydia is launching a card so that you can spend your Lydia balance in every retailer that accepts MasterCard. You can trigger a lot of features in the app. In other words, you remain in control of your card, and not your bank... |
| 05.04.2016 | Slack Users Will Be Able to Pay One Another Using This Bot | France’s answer to PayPal’s (PYPL) Venmo is an app called Lydia—it too hooks up to users’ bank cards and makes it easy for them to pay one another for things. And now it is letting them pay one another over Slack.
Lydia is hailing this as t... |
| 05.04.2016 | Lydia is launching a bot to pay back your friends directly from Slack | Lydia and Slack are two charming services and I like using them. So when I learned the two of them were having a baby together, you bet I was excited.
Lydia is a French payment app, a sort of Venmo for Europe like stealth startup Cookies. I... |
| 25.01.2016 | Lydia Becomes A Serious Alternative To Cash To Pay Back Your Friends In France | French startup Lydia has come a long way. When I first covered it two years ago, it wanted to become a sort of Venmo for France. Now, Lydia tries to cover a wide array of use cases when it comes to sending or requesting money. Today’s updat... |
| 24.04.2015 | With Lydia, Pay For Your Online Purchases Using Your Apple Watch | Step by step, Lydia is unveiling its product strategy to handle all your payments. When I last covered the French startup, it was still mostly focused on growing its user base by providing a Venmo alternative for French users. But now, Lydi... |
| 27.11.2014 | Lydia Solutions Raises €3.6M in Second Funding | Lydia Solutions, a Paris, France-based mobile payments startup, raised €3.6m in a second funding round.
Backers included XAnge Private Equity, Belcube and the family office of the Duval family.
The company intends to use the funds to expand... |
| 24.02.2014 | Lydia Is A Fee-Free Payment App That’s Like Venmo For France | French startup Lydia looks and acts a lot like Venmo — and it’s not a bad thing. Venmo is a great way to pay back your friends in a few taps without having to pay any fee. But its main issue is that it only works in the U.S. This is where L... |
| 16.09.2013 | Lydia Raises €600K in Funding | According to local reports, Lydia, a French provider of a mobile payment app, raised €600k in funding.
Some undisclosed business angels invested in the company.
The company intends to use the funds to expand the adoption of the app.
Co-foun... |
| - | Lydia adding trading is a small step to super app status | The news: The France-based fintech partnered with digital broker Bitpanda to offer users access to fractionalized shares, ETFs, and crypto trading from €1 ($1.14).
Why add trading? Lydia started out as a peer-to-peer payments platform but h... |
| - | Lydia adding trading is a small step to super app status | Lydia partners with Bitpanda to offer users access to fractionalized shares, ETFs, and crypto trading.
The self-described "super app" still pales in comparison to competitors, according to Insider Intelligence.
Insider Intelligenc... |
| - | Tencent leads €40m funding in French paytech Lydia | French mobile payment firm Lydia has lapped up €40 million Series B funding led by China-based tech company Tencent.
Previous investors Open CNP by CNP Assurances, XAnge and New Alpha also participated. Paris-based Lydia says it will use th... |
| - | French fintech eyes super app status with savings account partnership | Lydia, which started out as a peer-to-peer payments platform, teamed up with French fintech Cashbee to offer savings accounts, per TechCrunch. Users can open savings accounts through a mobile app and transfer money back and forth between ba... |
