Small business finance firm SAPI lands $80m funding boost

A tiny concern financing level co-founded by a Goldman Sachs alumnus volition this week unveil an $80m (£61m) backing boost arsenic it seeks to grow its planetary presence.

Sky News understands that SAPI has secured $75m successful indebtedness financing and $5m of equity successful a circular led by Hudson Cove, a US-based alternate recognition plus manager.

Co-founded by Mai Le, formerly of Goldman Sachs, and Alexis van Lennep, who utilized to enactment for AlixPartners, SAPI has precocious tens of millions of pounds to tiny businesses, the immense bulk of which are either immigrant- oregon female-owned.

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It aims to code the diminution successful smaller British businesses capable to entree outer backing done alleged embedded finance, which the consultancy steadfast McKinsey predicts could transcend Euros 100bn by 2030.

SAPI's caller backing circular has besides been backed by existing investors Triple A Capital and Passion Capital.

"Having the close backer astatine the close clip tin fundamentally alteration someone's beingness and the trajectory of the concern they've started," Ms Le said.

"This backing circular lets america standard payment-linked financing that repays astatine root and reaches much concern owners who are excessively often overlooked by accepted lenders."

"Too often, start-ups and tiny companies, often founded by women oregon immigrants, are denied recognition astatine a important infinitesimal successful their journey."

In summation to its London office, SAPI has a beingness successful Hanoi, having precocious established a fiscal exertion entity successful Vietnam to accelerate maturation crossed Asia-Pacific markets.

Founded successful 2020, SAPI stands for Securities Application Programming Interface.