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Gothenburg, Sweden-based Juni, a fintech agency that develops a banking app and platform for e-commerce and on-line advertising and marketing entrepreneurs, introduced on Thursday that it’s shedding one-third of its workforce throughout the enterprise.
The announcement comes 5 months after elevating $206M (roughly €198M) in Sequence B and enterprise debt funding in June to construct out an e-commerce-focused neobank.
Why?
The Swedish firm introduced its intention to re-evaluate its organisational construction and operational mannequin to climate a turbulent market.
“We’re grateful to stay in a robust monetary place and set as much as climate a turbulent market, having raised $282M in funding so far. Juni stays on a wholesome development trajectory and continues to point out actual worth to e-commerce companies in mild of the tough financial local weather,” says Samir El-Sabini & Anders Orsedal, co-founders of Juni, in a LinkedIn publish.
Juni says its transaction volumes on its platform have grown over 100 per cent since June this yr and likewise witnessed document development in transaction volumes processed so far.
“We, together with our management group, are sorry to see mates and colleagues go away. We thank them for his or her nice contributions to Juni, and we’ll spend the approaching days and weeks supporting these departing, offering them with honest exit packages and assist by way of this transition. Then we’ll reset and refocus, collectively,” says the co-founders.
Juni: What you’ll want to know
Based by Anders Orsedal, Jonathan Sanders, and Samir El-Sabini in 2020, Juni is a fintech firm that develops a banking app and platform for e-commerce and on-line advertising and marketing entrepreneurs.
The platform goals to empower digital entrepreneurs to make higher choices, enabling them to scale up their operations. The fintech platform integrates with banks, and main cost suppliers and automates routine features, permitting enterprise house owners to focus on creating worth for the corporate as a substitute of managing advert spend and invoices.
In response to the Dealroom, Juni has raised $176M in funding so far from varied buyers, together with Cherry Ventures, Sophia Bendz, Jarno Vanhatapio, Johan Bendz, DST International Companions, Felix Capital, Cherry Ventures, EQT Ventures, Mubadala Capital Ventures, and TriplePoint Capital.