| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.07.2026 | General Compute Secures $400M, Revolutionizing AI Inference Cloud | General Compute, an AI inference neocloud, secured up to $400 million in debt financing from Upper90. This capital empowers significant expansion of its specialized cloud infrastructure. General Compute focuses exclusively on high-performan... |
| 18.07.2026 | General Compute Secures Up To $400 Million Debt Facility To Scale AI Inference Neocloud | General Compute has secured a committed debt facility of up to $400 million from Upper90 Capital Management to expand its cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence inference workloads.
The financing begins with an initial commitment ... |
| 06.05.2026 | The 48-month phone contract trap | The four-year smartphone contract is becoming South Africa’s quiet answer to unaffordable phones – and a costly one for buyers who don’t read the fine print.
A R30 000 purchase, spread over 48 months, can commit a buyer to more than R60 000... |
| 12.02.2026 | /C O R R E C T I O N -- PayJoy/ | In the news release, PayJoy Launches in Indonesia to Advance Inclusion through Credit Access, issued 26-Nov-2025 by PayJoy over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the boilerplate, first sentence, should read "PayJoy expand... |
| 15.12.2025 | PayJoy Secures $140M for Emerging Market Credit Expansion | PayJoy, a financial technology firm, received $140 million in debt financing. Neuberger Berman Funds provided the capital. This funding fuels expansion into Latin America, Africa, and Asia. PayJoy focuses on providing credit access to under... |
| 10.12.2025 | PayJoy: $140 Million Debt Facility Secured To Advance Global Expansion | PayJoy has secured a $140 million corporate debt facility from funds managed by Neuberger Berman, marking a significant step in the company’s ongoing global expansion efforts. The financing deepens a partnership that began in 2022 with Neub... |
| 03.12.2025 | PayJoy Receives $140M Debt Facility from Neuberger Berman Funds | PayJoy, a San Francisco, CA-based markets credit provider, raised $140M in Debt Facility from Neuberger Berman Funds.
The amount will support the company’s geographic and product expansion, ongoing investments in point-of-sale financing and... |
| 24.11.2025 | PayJoy cashes in on Indonesia’s smartphone financing gap | - |
| 14.10.2025 | Instant Financial Wins Best Payments App for Tearsheet's 2025 Power of Payments Award | Award Recognizes Instant for Modernizing Pay and Expanding On-Demand Wage Access for Hourly Workers
ATLANTA, Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Instant Financial, the fintech company modernizing payments and earned wage access (EWA) for ho... |
| 30.06.2025 | Smart and PayJoy Partner to Expand Access to Credit, Empowering More Filipino Consumers | SAN FRANCISCO and MANILA, Philippines, June 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The number of smartphone users in the Philippines is forecasted to grow in the next four years, reaching more than 80 million consumers. To keep up with this demand, mobil... |
| 23.01.2025 | PayJoy Report Reveals How Mexico's Working Mothers Leverage Mobile Finance | 92% of working mothers credit smartphones as employment enablers
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- PayJoy, the top financial service provider to the underserved in emerging markets, today released its latest report "Unlockin... |
| 12.12.2024 | PayJoy Powers Progress: Smartphone Finance Unlocks Credit Access for 13 Million | Ethical lending ensures greater financial stability for millions of underserved around the world
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- PayJoy, a top financial service provider to the underserved in emerging markets, has announced key... |
| 05.12.2024 | PayJoy Named to Inc.'s 2024 Best in Business List in the Financial Services Category | PayJoy logo
The annual list recognizes the industry-leading companies that are the best at what they do
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- PayJoy is proud to announce its inclusion on the Inc. 2024 Best in Business list. Inc.... |
| 20.11.2024 | The Financial Technology Report Announces The Top 100 Financial Technology Companies of 2024 | The Financial Technology Report
The Financial Technology Report is pleased to announce The Top 100 Financial Technology Companies of 2024.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Financial Technology Report is pleased to announce ... |
| 18.09.2024 | PayJoy's New CTO: A Game Changer for Financial Inclusion | In the bustling world of fintech, where innovation meets necessity, PayJoy has made a bold move. The company has appointed Bharath Ramarathinam as its new Chief Technology Officer. This decision is not just a change in leadership; it’s a st... |
| 18.09.2024 | Intuit, Square Engineering Veteran Joins PayJoy as Chief Technology Officer | PayJoy Logo
A Proven Leader with Lending and Banking Expertise Tapped to Drive PayJoy's Technology Team and Product Expansion
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- PayJoy, the top financial service provider to the underserved ... |
| 30.08.2024 | PayJoy Brings Financial Empowerment to Asia, First Expansion into Philippines | Unprecedented Demand Spurs Rapid Growth, Launches with Large Retail Partners Comworks and MX MemoXpress, Jr MX MemoXpress
SAN FRANCISCO and MANILA, Philippines, Aug. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- PayJoy, the top financial service provider to the... |
| 21.08.2024 | Efficient Capital Labs: Revenue-Based Financing Provider Raises $11 Million (Series A) | Efficient Capital Labs (ECL), a leading revenue-based financing provider that provides non-dilutive capital to B2B SaaS companies operating in the South Asia-U.S. corridor, announced an $11 million Series A fundraising co-led by QED Investo... |
| 18.06.2024 | PayJoy Asset Fund Surpasses $130 Million in Assets Under Management with First Institutional Investor | PayJoy Logo
Blending Profit with Purpose, The Fund Achieves 300%+ YoY Growth in AUM driven by strong investor demand and capital inflow
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- PayJoy, Inc. (PayJoy), the leading lender to the unde... |
| 17.05.2024 | PayJoy Achieves Monumental 400% Year-Over-Year Growth in Brazil | PayJoy Logo
Company Sees Clear Path to Quadruple Brazilian Growth by 2025 with 155 Million Potential Customers
SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- PayJoy, the leading lender to the underserved in emerging markets, today announ... |
| 14.05.2024 | PayJoy Card Named Finalist in Finance Category of Fast Company's 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards | PayJoy Logo
From a solution to repurpose cold plasma to treat seeds to 3D printed living seawalls, the eighth annual awards honor new and inspiring solutions to the most daunting challenges of today.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire-... |
| 13.05.2024 | PayJoy Launches the PayJoy Card, Helping Customers Build Credit and Achieve Economic Freedom | PayJoy Logo
With fixed total amounts and transparent terms, PayJoy Card helps the underbanked avoid debt traps and redefines how fair lending is done
SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- PayJoy, the leading lender to the unders... |
| 14.04.2024 | TechCrunch Fintech: Meet PayJoy, a fintech operating at the intersection of doing good and making money | Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at how two fintech companies serving the underserved are faring, and more!
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Sun... |
| 13.04.2024 | Automattic's Acquisition of Beeper: A Shift into Messaging | Automattic Inc., the parent company of WordPress, recently acquired Beeper for $125 million, marking a strategic shift into messaging. Beeper, known for its all-in-one messaging app, gained attention for its iMessage-on-Android solution. Th... |
| 12.04.2024 | Beeper acquired by Automattic, fintech’s decline and YC’s lack of LatAm founders | When it comes to news items that we love at TechCrunch, IPOs rank pretty darn high. Another great newsy bit that comes along less frequently than we’d like is a startup buying another startup. These deals are often very interesting as they ... |
| 11.04.2024 | How PayJoy built a $300M business by letting the underserved use their smartphones as collateral for loans | Lerato Motloung is a mother of two who works in a supermarket in Johannesburg, South Africa. After her phone was stolen, Motloung had to go without a mobile phone for nine months because she could not afford a new one. Then, in February 202... |
| 08.03.2024 | 10 Million Individuals in Emerging Markets Have Entered the Financial System Through PayJoy | PayJoy Logo
Public Benefit Corporation and Leading Fintech Crosses 10 Million Customers and Over $2 Billion Lent
SAN FRANCISCO, March 8, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- PayJoy, the leading lender to the underserved in emerging markets, today ann... |
| 06.09.2023 | PayJoy Closes $360M Capital Raise | PayJoy has provided over $2B of credit to more than 8 million customers across Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Colombia.
PayJoy, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of smartphone-based finance solutions, closed a $360... |
| 05.09.2023 | PayJoy Lands $360M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, PayJoy is excited to announce a successful $360 million capital raise, consisting of $150 million in Series C equity and $210 million in debt.
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| 26.05.2021 | ADDI | Co-authored by Hanel Baveja
While we are not the first to point this out, access to capital in Latin America remains a massive challenge. Financial infrastructure and tools are concentrated on the top earners, excluding the majority of the... |
| 04.05.2021 | alt.bank | For most of USV’s history, we focused on investments in North America and Europe. We are a small firm and there was more than enough opportunity in these regions. We also gravitated towards companies where it would be relatively easy to tra... |
| 29.05.2019 | Term Sheet — Wednesday May 29, Endeavor IPO, Women, and Robinhood | ENDEAVORING
Happy Wednesday! Lucinda here filling in for Polina until Friday. Please send deals my way: lucinda.shen@fortune.com.
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| 28.05.2019 | PayJoy Lands $20M |
NEW YORK, NY, PayJoy, a startup that has developed smartphone technology to facilitate access to credit in emerging markets, has raised $20 million.
>> Click here for more funding data on PayJoy
>> To export PayJoy funding d... |
| 27.05.2019 | PayJoy Raises $20M in Series B Funding | PayJoy, a San Francisco, CA-based startup that allows people to purchase smartphones via installment payments, raised $20m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Greylock Partners with participation from Union Square Ventures, EchoVC and... |
| 23.05.2019 | Smartphone Financing Tech Startup PayJoy Raises $20M | - |
| 23.05.2019 | U.S. smartphone financing tech startup PayJoy raises $20 million | By Anna Irrera
NEW YORK (Reuters) - PayJoy, a startup that has developed smartphone technology to facilitate access to credit in emerging markets, has raised $20 million from venture capital firm Greylock Partners, the company said on Thurs... |
| 23.05.2019 | U.S. smartphone financing tech startup PayJoy raises $20 million | By Anna Irrera
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - PayJoy, a startup that has developed smartphone technology to facilitate access to credit in emerging markets, has raised $20 million from venture capital firm Greylock Partners, the company sa... |
| 23.05.2019 | U.S. Smartphone Financing Tech Startup PayJoy Raises $20 million | - |
| 23.02.2018 | PayJoy Teams Up With Allied Mobile to Bring More Smartphones to Africans | PayJoy, a San Francisco fintech startup, announced on Friday it has teamed up with mobile distributor Allied Mobile to bring affordable smartphone payment plans to markets across the continent of Africa. According to the duo, Allied Mobile ... |
| 07.08.2016 | Africa Roundup: Kenya’s Safaricom takes on Uber, Orange expands Pan-African profile | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos
Nigeria’s Autochek raises ... |
| 13.07.2016 | Mobile Finance Startup PayJoy Raises $18M in Equity & Debt Funding | PayJoy, a Saratoga, California-based mobile finance startup, raised $18M in equity and debt funding.
The raise included:
– $8.5M Series A equity investment led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Draper Nexus Ventures, Fenway ... |
| 12.07.2016 | Payjoy | Sometime in the late 90s I picked up my first mobile phone, a Motorola StarTAC. The sound quality wasn’t great but it was a radical change to no longer be tethered to a wireline. Next up was the Blackberry, which combined voice with email, ... |
| 11.07.2016 | PayJoy Picks Up $18M for Smartphone Financing Plans | - |
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| - | PayJoy | “Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.” |
| - | Como as fintechs têm promovido inclusão financeira e conquistado os desbancarizados | Apesar de não existir um levantamento centralizado sobre o número de fintechs brasileiras, algumas pesquisas feitas pelo setor apontam que já existem cerca de 600. Do outro lado, o País possui aproximadamente 45 milhões de desbancarizados q... |
