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Alma Valuation, Funding & Investors
Alma is valued at $800M as of February 2022.
Last Alma valuation
$800M
Series C · Feb 2022
Last Alma funding round
$129M
Series C · Feb 2022
Cumulative funding Alma raised
$202M
across 3 funding rounds
Key investors in Alma
Picus Capital
Bpifrance
Idinvest Partners
Cathay Innovation
Seaya
Financiere Saint James
About Alma
Alma is a Paris-headquartered buy-now-pay-later provider enabling installment payments at over 100,000 online and in-store merchants in France. Customers split purchases into three or four payments without interest or fees through its app and payment gateway.
Founded
2018
HQ
Website
Status
Privately held
Customer focus
B2B & B2C
Revenue model
Commission
Valuation
$800M (Feb 2022)
Alma Valuation
Alma is currently valued at $800M, based on its Series C in February 2022. Read the announcement ↗
The $129M round included GR Capital, Tencent, Bpifrance, Seaya, Picus Capital and 4 other investors.
Alma valuation by funding round
| Date | Stage | Valuation |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 2022 | Series C | $800M |
Alma Funding History
Alma has raised a total of $202M across 3 funding rounds.
Alma's first fundraising round was a $14M Series A in March 2020. The most recent completed round was a $129M Series C in February 2022.
Alma funding rounds
| Date | Stage | Investors | Raised | Valuation | Deal Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2022 | Series C | GR Capital; Tencent; Bpifrance; Seaya; Picus Capital; Eurazeo; Roosh Ventures; Cathay Innovation; Motier Ventures | $129M | $800M | Alma raised a Series C in February 2022 consisting of EUR 115 million of equity and EUR 95 million of debt, EUR 210 million in total. The equity was provided by new investors Tencent, GR Capital and Roosh Ventures, joined by existing backers Cathay Innovation, Eurazeo, Bpifrance through its Large Venture fund, Seaya Ventures and Picus Capital. No lead investor was named. After the round the company had raised EUR 185 million in equity in total. Co-founder and chief executive Louis Chatriot said Alma wants to be part of consumers' daily lives and help them buy better, not only more, presenting the product as a healthier alternative to traditional consumer credit. Alma is a French buy-now-pay-later company launched about three years before the round. Its main product lets consumers split purchases into two, three or four instalments, with 10- or 12-month plans and pay-later options also offered. It earns by charging merchants payment processing fees and does not charge consumers late fees. About 30% of its payment volume came from in-store payments, and it worked with around 6,000 merchants, including Alain Afflelou, Etam, Galeries Lafayette, Printemps and Ankorstore. The proceeds were to support its expansion across Europe. |
| Jan 2021 | Series B | Financiere Saint James; AA Sons; Idinvest Partners; Wind; Bpifrance; Seaya; Picus Capital; Cathay Innovation | $60M | - | Alma raised a EUR 49 million Series B in January 2021, led by Cathay Innovation, Idinvest and Bpifrance through its Large Venture fund, with Seaya Ventures and Picus Capital also investing. The previous round was a EUR 12.5 million Series A in January 2020. The proceeds were intended to expand Alma in physical and online retail and across Europe, and to launch its Pay Later deferred payment product. Alma is a French fintech founded by Louis Chatriot and Guillaume Desloges that offers split and deferred payment solutions to merchants and consumers. Merchants integrate its checkout so shoppers can pay in instalments, while the company earns fees on the transactions it processes. The company is headquartered in Paris. |
| Mar 2020 | Series A | Hedosophia (lead); Didier Valet; Financiere Saint James; Isai; Idinvest Partners; Picus Capital | $14M | - | Alma, a French payments company, raised a EUR 12.5 million Series A equity round in March 2020 from a group that included Idinvest Partners, Hedosophia, Isai, Picus Capital, Financiere Saint James and the angel investor Didier Valet. The round came nearly a year before the company's EUR 49 million Series B, led by Cathay Innovation in January 2021. Alma offers instalment and pay-later payment solutions for online and in-store merchants: the merchant receives the full price at purchase while the customer pays over several instalments. The company was founded in 2017 by Louis Chatriot and Guillaume Desloges and is based in Paris. At the time of its Series B it said it served hundreds of merchants and managed hundreds of millions of euros in transactions per year, with plans to triple its workforce and process more than EUR 1 billion of annual payment volume within two years. It financed merchant payments with about EUR 21 million of outstanding debt. |
Who has invested in Alma?
16 investors have backed Alma across its funding rounds, including Picus Capital, Bpifrance, Idinvest Partners, Cathay Innovation, Seaya and Financiere Saint James.
Lead investors include Hedosophia.
Alma Investors
| Investor | HQ | Rounds | Role | First check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Participant | Mar 2020 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Mar 2020 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Mar 2020 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Jan 2021 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Jan 2021 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Jan 2021 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Feb 2022 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Mar 2020 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Feb 2022 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Mar 2020 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Jan 2021 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Jan 2021 | ||
| 1 | Lead | Mar 2020 | ||
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Alma competitors include listed companies like Kaspi.kz, Block and PayPal, and private ones like Sipay, Tamara and AtoB.
| Company | HQ | Status | Revenue | EBITDA | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private | $600M | - | $875M | 1.5x | ||
| Private | $360M | $52M | $1B | 2.8x | ||
| Publicly listed | $8.9B | $3.1B | $17B | 1.9x | ||
| Publicly listed | $24B | $2.2B | $46B | 1.6x | ||
| Publicly listed | $33B | $7.2B | $47B | 1.5x | ||
| Private | $100M | - | $800M | - |
Alma Public Comps
Alma is still privately-owned, but its public comps include PaySign, Digital Garage, PicPay, MNT-Halan, Priority Technology Holdings, SLR Digital Finance, Worldline, Fawry, Deluxe and PayPoint.
| Last FY | EV/Revenue | EV/EBITDA | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | EBITDA | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | |
| $82M | $16M | 9.3x | 7.0x | 48.8x | 21.8x | |||
| $260M | $50M | 2.0x | 2.0x | 10.2x | 10.3x | |||
| $1.2B | $205M | 0.8x | 0.3x | 4.5x | 2.7x | |||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| $953M | $200M | 1.7x | 1.5x | 7.9x | 6.8x | |||
| $224M | $219M | 6.1x | 6.8x | 6.2x | - | |||
| $4.5B | ($5.1B) | 0.6x | 0.6x | (0.5x) | 3.6x | |||
| $154M | $68M | 5.7x | 4.2x | 13.1x | 7.9x | |||
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Common questions about Alma
| When was Alma founded? | Alma was founded in 2018. |
| Where is Alma headquartered? | Alma is headquartered in Paris, France. |
| Is Alma publicly listed? | No, Alma is a private, VC-backed company. |
| What is Alma's valuation? | Alma was last valued at $800M in its Series C in February 2022. |
| How much funding has Alma raised? | Alma has raised $202M across 3 funding rounds. |
| What was Alma's last funding round? | Alma's last funding round was a $129M Series C in February 2022. |
| Who are Alma's investors? | Alma's investors include Picus Capital, Financiere Saint James, Idinvest Partners, Bpifrance, Seaya, Cathay Innovation, GR Capital, Didier Valet, Tencent, Isai and 6 others. |
| Which companies are comparable to Alma? | Companies comparable to Alma include Sipay, Tamara, Kaspi.kz, Block, PayPal and AtoB. |
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