Covalto Funding, Investors & Competitors

Covalto has raised $64M across 4 funding rounds, most recently a $5M undisclosed-stage round in April 2021.

Last Covalto funding round

$5M

Undisclosed stage · Apr 2021

Cumulative funding Covalto raised

$64M

across 4 funding rounds

Key investors in Covalto

  • Goldman Sachs
  • QED Investors
  • Kaszek
  • Point72 Ventures
  • Thomvest Ventures
  • IGNIA
  • Elevar Equity
  • Supernode Ventures

Covalto Overview

About Covalto

Covalto is a Mexican digital bank for small and medium-sized businesses, formerly known as Credijusto. David Poritz and Allan Apoj founded it in 2015 as an online lender offering asset-backed loans and equipment leases. Its backers include Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors, Goldman Sachs and Point72 Ventures. In June 2021 it bought Banco Finterra, becoming the first Mexican fintech to acquire a regulated bank, and the bank now operates under the Covalto name. It offers business credit, leasing, factoring, business and personal accounts, term investments and trust services. In the first half of 2025 its loan portfolio stood at 7,000 million pesos and deposits at 5,600 million pesos. In August 2022 it agreed a merger with the blank-check company LIV Capital Acquisition Corp. II that valued it at USD 547 million.


Founded

2015

HQ

MexicoMexico City

Status

Privately held

Customer focus

B2B

Revenue model

Product sales, Subscription

Covalto Funding History

Covalto has raised a total of $64M across 4 funding rounds.

Covalto's first fundraising round was a $6M seed round in July 2017. The most recent completed round was a $5M undisclosed-stage round in April 2021.

Covalto funding rounds

Covalto funding rounds
DateStageInvestorsRaisedDeal Summary
Apr 2021Undisclosed stageLIV Capital$5MLIV Capital completed a growth investment in Covalto on 19 April 2021. The audited schedule records MXN 93.295229 million for this transaction. The transaction is reported in the investment schedule for the listed fund managed by LIV Capital, which identifies the company, date, instrument and cash amount. Covalto provides digital credit, leasing, banking and financial tools to small and medium-sized businesses in Mexico. The company, formerly known as Credijusto, expanded its regulated offering through the acquisition of Banco Finterra. The capital formed part of LIV Capital's active ownership program and gave the firm an economic interest in the operating business. LIV used equity, preferred shares or convertible instruments according to the financing needs of each portfolio company. The transaction therefore represents a separately dated deployment of capital into the company.
Jul 2019Series BGoldman Sachs (lead); Point72 Ventures (lead); Supernode Ventures; Wolfson Group; Argo Ventures; Third Lake Capital; John Mack; Thomvest Ventures$42MCredijusto, now Covalto, raised a USD 42 million Series B in August 2019 co-led by Point72 Ventures and Goldman Sachs. Thomvest Ventures, Wolfson Group, Third Lake Capital and Argo Ventures joined as new investors, while Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors, Broadhaven Capital Partners, John Mack and Supernode Ventures took part as existing backers. The round came less than six months after Goldman Sachs closed a credit facility of up to USD 100 million with the company, and the proceeds were earmarked for growth and new products. Credijusto was founded in 2015 in Mexico City and provides asset-backed loans and equipment leases to small and medium-sized businesses. At the time of the round it had about 200 employees. It later acquired Banco Finterra in June 2021 and now operates as Banco Covalto.
May 2018Series AKaszek (lead); QED Investors (lead); IGNIA$11MCredijusto, the Mexican lender now called Covalto, raised a Series A financing in 2018 led by Kaszek Ventures and QED Investors, with IGNIA also recorded as an investor. The round followed the company's 2016 seed financing and came as it built its lending to small and medium-sized businesses. The proceeds were directed at growing the loan book and the technology platform behind its asset-backed loans and equipment leases. Credijusto was founded in 2015 in Mexico City by David Poritz and Allan Apoj. In 2019 it went on to raise a USD 42 million Series B co-led by Goldman Sachs and Point72 Ventures. In June 2021 it acquired Banco Finterra, becoming the first Mexican fintech to buy a regulated bank, and it now operates as Banco Covalto.
Jul 2017SeedElevar Equity (lead); Flatiron Investors; Broadhaven Capital Partners; Victory Park Capital$6MCredijusto, the Mexican lender now called Covalto, closed its seed financing with Elevar Equity, Victory Park Capital, Flatiron Investors and Broadhaven Capital Partners, with Elevar the lead. A LAVCA release from September 2016 records that Elevar Equity III invested in a convertible note, with proceeds used to build out the team and technology platform, grow the loan portfolio and expand within Mexico. Victory Park Capital and Flatiron Investors were named among the institutional backers. The company was founded in 2015 in Mexico City and made asset-backed loans and equipment leases to small and medium-sized businesses. It followed with a 2018 Series A led by Kaszek Ventures and QED Investors and a USD 42 million Series B in 2019. It acquired Banco Finterra in June 2021 and now operates as the digital bank Covalto.

Who has invested in Covalto?

16 investors have backed Covalto across its funding rounds, including Goldman Sachs, QED Investors, Kaszek, Point72 Ventures, Thomvest Ventures and IGNIA.

Lead investors include Goldman Sachs, Point72 Ventures, Kaszek, QED Investors and Elevar Equity.


Covalto Investors

Investors in Covalto by funding rounds participated
InvestorHQRoundsRoleFirst check
Point72 VenturesUnited StatesNew York City, NY1LeadJul 2019
Supernode VenturesUnited StatesNew York City, NY1ParticipantJul 2019
Flatiron InvestorsUnited StatesNew York City, NY1ParticipantJul 2017
Broadhaven Capital PartnersUnited StatesNew York City, NY1ParticipantJul 2017
Wolfson GroupUnited StatesNew York City, NY1ParticipantJul 2019
KaszekBrazilSão Paulo1LeadMay 2018
QED InvestorsUnited StatesAlexandria, VA1LeadMay 2018
Goldman SachsUnited StatesNew York City, NY1LeadJul 2019
Argo VenturesUnited StatesNew York City, NY1ParticipantJul 2019
Victory Park CapitalUnited StatesChicago, IL1ParticipantJul 2017
Third Lake CapitalUnited StatesUnited States1ParticipantJul 2019
Elevar EquityUnited StatesSeattle, WA1LeadJul 2017
John MackUnited StatesNew York City, NY1ParticipantJul 2019

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Acquisitions by Covalto

Covalto has acquired 2 companies to date.

Last acquisition by Covalto was on June 15th 2021. Covalto acquired Banco Finterra for $31M.


Latest Acquisitions by Covalto

Banco Finterra
VISOR ADL
Description
Banco Finterra is a Mexico City-headquartered development bank supporting agribusiness and rural economies. It offers working capital lines, machinery financing, and supply chain credits to farmers and cooperatives. The bank partners with government programs for subsidized lending rates. Founded in 2010, it manages loans exceeding MXN 10 billion across 20 states.
Visor is a Mexican financial health scoring and analytics platform for small and medium-sized businesses, founded in Mexico City in 2015 by Ruben Sanchez Souza and Jean Bernard Rolland. It builds a financial profile of each business from sources such as the tax authority and the corporate client it supplies, and passes that profile to partner banks and lenders to ease access to credit. Its software has been used by more than 40 financial institutions, marketplaces and corporations to assess credit risk and had analysed over 15,000 companies by 2021, and it also offers digital factoring. It raised more than USD 12 million from investors including Ignia, American Express Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, Leap Global, Mission Gate, ALLVP and 500 Startups. Credijusto, later renamed Covalto, acquired it in April 2021.
HQ CountryMexicoMexico
HQ City
Mexico City
Mexico City
Deal Date15 Jun 202121 Apr 2021
Valuation$31Mundisclosed
EV/Revenue
EV/EBITDA

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Covalto Competitors

Covalto competitors include listed companies like Intuit, Workday and Corpay, and private ones like JD Digits, Ramp and Rippling.

Public and private companies comparable to Covalto
CompanyHQStatusRevenueEBITDAValuationRevenue Multiple
JD DigitsChinaBeijingPrivate--$28B-
IntuitUnited StatesUnited StatesPublicly listed$21B$6.9B$91B4.2x
RampUnited StatesNew York City, NYPrivate$2B-$60B30.0x
WorkdayUnited StatesUnited StatesPublicly listed$9.6B$1.2B$46B4.5x
CorpayUnited StatesUnited StatesPublicly listed$4.5B$2.4B$29B7.2x
RipplingUnited StatesSan Francisco, CAPrivate$570M-$17B29.5x

Covalto Public Comps

Covalto is still privately-owned, but its public comps include SAP, Intuit, Bajaj Finance, Workday, Corpay, Tata Capital, Sage, Muthoot Finance, Mitsubishi HC Capital and Aditya Birla Capital.

Last FYEV/RevenueEV/EBITDA
RevenueEBITDALast FYLTM2027ELast FYLTM2027E
SAP$41B$13B6.6x6.1x20.9x19.0x
Intuit$21B$6.9B4.3x4.2x13.3x9.9x
Bajaj Finance$5.3B$2.7B13.6x11.1x26.1x19.9x
Workday$9.6B$1.2B4.9x4.5x40.7x13.5x
Corpay$4.5B$2.4B8.3x7.2x15.4x13.6x
Tata Capital$3.2B$774M13.6x22.7x55.4x-
Sage$3.4B$1B4.8x4.3x15.4x16.1x
Muthoot Finance$2.2B$1.4B5.7x5.9x8.9x8.4x

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Common questions about Covalto

When was Covalto founded?Covalto was founded in 2015.
Where is Covalto headquartered?Covalto is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico.
Is Covalto publicly listed?No, Covalto is a private, VC-backed company.
How much funding has Covalto raised?Covalto has raised $64M across 4 funding rounds.
What was Covalto's last funding round?Covalto's last funding round was a $5M undisclosed-stage round in April 2021.
Who are Covalto's investors?Covalto's investors include Point72 Ventures, Supernode Ventures, Flatiron Investors, Broadhaven Capital Partners, Wolfson Group, Kaszek, QED Investors, Goldman Sachs, Argo Ventures, Victory Park Capital and 6 others.
Which companies are comparable to Covalto?Companies comparable to Covalto include JD Digits, Intuit, Ramp, Workday, Corpay and Rippling.
How many companies has Covalto acquired?Covalto has acquired 2 companies, including Banco Finterra and VISOR ADL.
What was the largest acquisition by Covalto?The $31M acquisition of Banco Finterra in June 2021 is the largest acquisition Covalto has made to date.

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