A multi-disciplinary team from BDO led by Thorsten Zwiener (Corporate Finance, Frankfurt) together with Elmar Hiltner (Corporate Finance, Cologne) and Michael Brauer (Transaction Tax, Düsseldorf) advised MAMBU, the Berlin based SaaS banking platform provider, on its most recent Series D financing raising $135 million. The investment is led by TCV with participation from existing investors, including Acton Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Runa Capital, as well as new investors Arena Holdings and Tiger Global. The new round brings the company’s valuation to over $2 billion.
Mambu is a market-leading SaaS cloud-based banking platform that accelerates and simplifies the way financial products are built and serviced by any financial institution. Mambu’s platform is used by traditional banks, fintech startups, financial institutions, nonprofits and other businesses to power their financial products and services. With customers such as ABN AMRO, N26, OakNorth, Orange and Santander, Mambu is powering both the building of new fintechs as well as the migration of existing financial institutions onto a tech stack fit for the fintech era. With this new round of financing, Mambu will continue to accelerate its rapid growth by deepening its footprint in the more than 50 countries in which it already operates and continuing to expand both the breath and depth of its platform.
BDO’s multi-disciplinary team with specialists from Corporate Finance and Transaction Tax acted as an integrated, cross-border accounting and tax advisor to Mambu GmbH, supporting the transaction with the prepraration of financial and tax fact books and throughout the due diligence process.