{"id":22062,"date":"2021-08-25T07:43:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T07:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavca.org\/lightspeed-leads-usd57m-series-b-for-mexican-trading-platform-flink\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T07:43:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T07:43:36","slug":"lightspeed-leads-usd57m-series-b-for-mexican-trading-platform-flink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavca.org\/lightspeed-leads-usd57m-series-b-for-mexican-trading-platform-flink\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightspeed Leads USD57m Series B for Mexican Trading Platform Flink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lightspeed led a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USD57m Series B<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for <\/span><b>Flink<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a Mexican consumer trading platform, with participation from Mantis Venture Capital, and follow-on from ALLVP, Accel and Clocktower. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accel led a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavca.org\/2021\/02\/04\/accel-leads-us12m-series-a-in-mexican-consumer-trading-platform-flink\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USD12m Series A<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> earlier this year. Flink was co-founded by <\/span><b>Easy Credit<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> founder Sergio Jimenez Amozurrutia.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/08\/25\/mexican-neobroker-flink-raises-57m-from-lightspeed-the-chainsmokers-to-boost-financial-inclusion-in-latam\/\">TechCrunch<\/a>) &#8211;\u00a0Flink, a Mexico City-based neobroker, has raised $57 million in a Series B round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.<\/p>\n<p>The financing comes just over six months after Flink\u00a0raised $12 million in a Series A round\u00a0led by Accel. Existing backers Accel,\u00a0ALLVP, Clocktower and new investor\u00a0Mantis Venture Capital\u00a0(founded by The Chainsmokers) also put money in the Series B. Since its 2017 inception, the startup has raised nearly $70 million.<\/p>\n<p>Neobrokers are defined as startups that are disrupting the investment industry by providing a platform for a wider range of consumers to partake in the stock market by offering them more incremental investment options and modern and easy mobile-based interfaces to manage their money. There is a growing number of them globally, including\u00a0Scalable Capital,\u00a0Bitpanda\u00a0and\u00a0Trade Republic\u00a0in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/08\/25\/mexican-neobroker-flink-raises-57m-from-lightspeed-the-chainsmokers-to-boost-financial-inclusion-in-latam\/\">TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightspeed led a USD57m Series B for Flink, a Mexican consumer trading platform, with participation from Mantis Venture Capital, and follow-on from ALLVP, Accel and Clocktower. Accel led a USD12m Series A earlier this year. Flink was co-founded by Easy Credit founder Sergio Jimenez Amozurrutia. (TechCrunch) &#8211;\u00a0Flink, a Mexico City-based neobroker, has raised $57 million<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavca.org\/lightspeed-leads-usd57m-series-b-for-mexican-trading-platform-flink\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Lightspeed Leads USD57m Series B for Mexican Trading Platform Flink&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lightspeed Leads USD57m Series B for Mexican Trading Platform Flink - LAVCA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lavca.org\/lightspeed-leads-usd57m-series-b-for-mexican-trading-platform-flink\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lightspeed Leads USD57m Series B for Mexican Trading Platform Flink - LAVCA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lightspeed led a USD57m Series B for Flink, a Mexican consumer trading platform, with participation from Mantis Venture Capital, and follow-on from ALLVP, Accel and Clocktower. 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