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Embedded banking fintech startup Clever, that provides enterprise banking through partnerships has introduced that it has closed a $12M Collection A.

This funding spherical was led by e.ventures, with participation from Grishin Robotics, and with continued funding from seed traders – Base10 Companions and Techstars.

Six months after a $5.7 million seed spherical, Clever raised the Collection A funding to speed up development and partnerships throughout a number of verticals and to increase its breakthrough know-how to assist a fully-managed, first-of-its-kind embedded banking expertise. The fintech has raised $18 million thus far.

“We constructed banking so our companions don’t should,” mentioned Arjun Thyagarajan, Co-Founder and CEO at Clever. “By embedding banking, Clever unlocks deep product choices and higher buyer experiences for our companions. e.ventures constructed a thesis on precisely this, and we agree 100%.”

“Enterprise banking has been damaged for a lot too lengthy. Poor person interfaces, funds delays, pointless charges, a scarcity of integrations, the listing goes on and on,” mentioned Brendan Wales, Accomplice at e.ventures.

“The group at Clever is bringing an Apple-like expertise to the world of enterprise banking with an embedded product that brings banking to the place one’s enterprise is managed.”

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Along with this spherical, Clever has additionally introduced that it has signed new partnerships, with B2B corporations which might be drastically increasing the worth to their enterprise clients.

“In a world the place extra persons are working remotely than ever earlier than, it will be significant for RemoteTeam to supply its clients with a contemporary, immediate payroll expertise. Embedding banking solves a serious ache level that makes RemoteTeam a standout providing within the payroll trade,” says Sahin Boydas, CEO at RemoteTeam and a Clever associate.

“Embedded experiences drive product engagement by way of the roof! It’s a win-win-win proposition for everybody concerned – Clever, its associate, and the small enterprise that lives contained in the associate ecosystem,” mentioned Raghav Lal, President at Clever.

“We’re thrilled by Clever’s continued progress creating strategic partnerships with giant SaaS companions,” added Rexhi Dollaku, Principal at Base10 Companions.

“This funding will speed up Clever’s product and go-to-market efforts, in order that they will proceed to redefine the enterprise banking expertise for a lot of extra actual financial system companies.”