$4.5 million in a seed round<\/a> a month prior to the SVB news.<\/p>\n\u201cAfter SVB, after Signature and after First Republic, a lot of those institutions came together and said, \u2018We need a better solution here. We don\u2019t think regulators are going to make changes, and we don\u2019t think that the current solutions or the current incumbents have moved fast enough to support this,\u2019\u201d Paolo Bertolotti, co-founder and CEO of ModernFi, told TechCrunch. \u201cFortunately, some of the Canapi Ventures\u2019 folks were in those discussions, and they knew about us, so we started talking.\u201d<\/p>\n
That continued relationship eventually led to a new funding round that ModernFi announced today of $18.7 million in Series A funding.<\/p>\n
Canapi Ventures led the round and was joined by Andreessen Horowitz, Remarkable Ventures and a group of banks including Huntington National Bank, First Horizon and Regions. In total, the company has raised over $23 million in venture capital.<\/p>\n
Bertolotti labeled 2022 and 2023 as \u201cunique and pretty substantial\u201d years, citing rising interest rates that resulted in \u201csome of the most aggressive deposit runoff in history,\u201d along with SVB and others collapsing.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re left with a situation that disproportionately impacted small and mid-sized banks,\u201d he said. \u201cOn this whole notion of deposit growth, retention management became first, second and third priority for a lot of institutions. We were very fortunate to be in a position to help deposit networks and institutions weather that storm and continue their growth and trajectory.\u201d<\/p>\n
ModernFi makes money from basis points based on deposits in the network, and Bertolotti said\u00a0 2023 was \u201ca very good year,\u201d but declined to go into specifics beyond that. Between the seed and Series A rounds, the company doubled its headcount, and the number of institutions supported \u201chas grown very meaningfully.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the new capital will be invested in growth \u2014 the team and organizational structure. Bertolotti plans to grow in engineering, new product development, compliance and regulatory adherence and in business development. Some of that product development will include more integrations and API development.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will expand and double down on those initiatives while also making sure that our analytics suite is very fully functional,\u201d Bertolotti said. \u201cWe\u2019re also doing some work on asset liability management and account level deposit analytics, so there\u2019s a huge range of features and products that we\u2019ll be working on. The larger goal is to support the entire lifecycle and workflow for bank CFOs. It\u2019s a huge undertaking, but it\u2019s a path that we\u2019re very excited about.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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