Services/Finance/Analysis/ Raisin eyes acquisitions after raising €25m from Goldman Sachs The savings marketplace company wants to diversify into new areas. By Maija Palmer 16 July 2019 \Fintech “Everyone’s a fintech now”… or are they? Why embedded finance is harder than it looks By Tom Ritchie 14 September 2021 Services/Finance/Analysis/ Raisin eyes acquisitions after raising €25m from Goldman Sachs The savings marketplace company wants to diversify into new areas. By Maija Palmer 16 July 2019 Raisin, the Berlin-based savings marketplaces, says it is on the lookout for new acquisitions after raising an additional €25m from Goldman Sachs. The new capital comes just after Raisin closed a €100m Series-D round in May, and brings the total amount raised by the company to €195m. Admittedly, much of the cash will be swallowed-up by Raisin’s planned US launch next year, and an expansion into two more European markets. But Frank Freund, cofounder and chief financial officer, says the company, which acquired PBF Solutions, a provider of bank onboarding and marketing services, in the UK in 2017 and MHB Bank in Germany earlier this year, is looking for acquisitions, too, in order to expand the range of products it offers. “We always said the savings space was just the beginning for us,” he says. “These acquisitions have proven very successful and we would like to expand the portfolio into areas like retirement planning, for example,” he says. Raisin started in 2013 by offering savers the ability to make deposits across European banks, wherever they could get the best interest rates. Since then it has expanded into areas like investment management through a partnership with Vanguard last year, Related Articles Credit Karma makes a move into the UK fintech market By Maija Palmer Click here to read more E-money “onslaught” hits Lithuania By Carly Minsky Click here to read more OakNorth calls out “clueless fintech people” By Kitty Knowles Click here to read more Most Read 1 \Startup Life Tech company layoffs in Europe: the list 2 \Consumer Gorillas halves its headcount at HQ 3 \Startup Life From Revolut to Back Market: the European startups still hiring despite the tech downturn 4 \Venture Capital Ranking: UK tech startups to watch in 2022 5 \Startup Life Why startup founders should always pay themselves a fair market salary Join the conversation Subscribe Notify of new follow-up comments new replies to my comments