Paidy is a Japanese financial tech startup that gives instant credit to customers in Japan.

It has recently announced that it has accumulated a total of $143 million in new financing. 

This involves an $83 million Series C expansion from investors, including PayPal Ventures and debt funding of $60 million. 

More About The Funding

The funding will be utilized to advance Paidy’s goals of hiring large-scale merchants, giving new financial services, and increasing its user base to 11 million accounts by the end of 2020.

Adding to PayPal Ventures, investors in the Series C extension also involve Soros Capital Management, JS Capital Management and Tybourne Capital Management, and another undisclosed investor. 

The debt funding is from Goldman Sachs Japan, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Mizuho Bank, and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank. 

Beginning of this month, Paidy and Goldman Sachs Japan built a warehouse department valued at $52 million. 

Paidy also secured a credit facility worth $8 million with these three banks.

This is the most significant funding to date in the Japanese financial tech industry, according to data quoted by Paidy and takes the total investment the company has raised so far to $163 million. 

A spokesperson for the startup states that it chose to extend its Series C rather than moving onto a D round to maintain the equity ratio for current investors and issue the same selected shares as its prior funding rounds.

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The Story of Paidy

Started in 2014, Paidy was built because many Japanese customers don’t use credit cards for e-commerce purchases.

Even though the credit card insertion rate, there is comparatively high, many favour to pay cash on delivery or at service stores and different pickup locations. 

While this makes online shopping simpler for customers, it offers many challenges for sellers, as they need to meet the cost of merchandise that has not been paid for still or deal with uncompleted deliveries.

Paidy’s solution is to get it feasible for people to pay for merchandise online without requiring to create an account or use their credit cards.

 Paidy includes the cost of the items and bills the consumers every month. 

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