Keep Raises $78M

What we’ll cover today:

📈 Keep raises $78M to help Canadian SMBs skip spreadsheets

🏦 Acrisure bags $2.1B to eat up more of the fintech pie

🗣️ Hot takes from fintech VCs on startup survival in 2025

Keep Raises $78M to Help Canadian Small Biz 💳

Toronto-based fintech Keep and investors like Tribe Capital, Treville, and SVB are backing tools for small Canadian businesses.

🚨Breaking News:
Keep just exited stealth mode with $78M in equity + debt to grow its business credit and finance tools.

⚡Wire Simplified –

• Keep offers a credit card, financing, and expense management for small businesses.

• It raised $24M equity, $51M credit, and $3M venture debt.

• Already hit $14.5M in annual revenue and serves 3,000+ businesses.

• Wants to reach 100,000 small businesses by 2027.

• CEO Oliver Takach says the goal is to simplify finance for SMBs.

✔️Straight to the Point:
Keep wants to be the Swiss Army knife for small biz money management. With this raise, it's officially out of hiding.

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Acrisure Hits $32B Valuation After $2.1B Raise 💼

Acrisure, the Michigan-based fintech + insurance giant, raised $2.1B from Bain Capital and others to scale its mega empire.

🚨Breaking News:
With a new $2.1B raise, Acrisure is now valued at $32B and plans to acquire more and build faster tech services.

⚡Wire Simplified –

• Acrisure used to focus on insurance. Now it’s in payroll, cyber, and wealth.

• Investors include Bain, Apollo, Fidelity, BDT, and Gallatin.

• 19,000 employees, serving 5% of US businesses already.

• Plans to use the money for refinancing and M&A.

• Just hired ex-ICE execs to drive tech strategy.

✔️Straight to the Point:
Acrisure isn’t just an insurance firm anymore—it’s a fintech powerhouse grabbing everything from payroll to cybersecurity.

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