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Starling Bank completes £130.5m internal fundraise

27th April 2022

26 April 2022: Starling Bank has completed an internal fundraise of £130.5 million. The new investment values the company at more than £2.5 billion pre-money. All existing investors of Starling participated. “This will enable us to continue our growth and to build a war chest for acquisitions. We are looking at a number of potential targets,” a spokesperson said.

The fundraise follows a period of sustained growth for the bank. Since launching its app five years ago in May 2017, Starling has opened nearly three million accounts, including more than 450,000 SME accounts, accounting for 7.5% of the UK SME banking market.

The bank has reported monthly profitability every month since October 2020 and completed a £322 million Series D funding round in April 2021. Starling made its first acquisition in July 2021 of specialist buy-to-let mortgage lender Fleet Mortgages.


About Starling Bank

Starling Bank is an award-winning, fully-licensed and regulated bank built to give people a fairer, smarter and more human alternative to the banks of the past. It offers personal, business, joint, euro and dollar current accounts alongside a children’s card. Starling also offers a B2B Banking as a Service and Software as a Service proposition, based on the proprietary technology platform that it uses to power its own bank. The Starling Marketplace offers customers in-app access to a selection of third party financial services. Headquartered in London, the bank has offices in Southampton, Cardiff and Dublin.

Contacts:

Alexandra Frean
alexandra.frean@starlingbank.com
+44 7973 668363

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