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Form3 Valuation, Funding & Investors
Form3 is valued at $570M as of September 2024.
Last Form3 valuation
$570M
Series C · Sep 2024
Last Form3 funding round
$62M
Series C · Sep 2024
Cumulative funding Form3 raised
$269M
across 6 funding rounds
Key investors in Form3
Molten Ventures
Barclays
83North
Goldman Sachs
ACF Investors
Mastercard
About Form3
Form3 is a London-headquartered payment processor offering cloud-based APIs for real-time payments across UK Faster Payments, SEPA Instant, and US FedNow schemes. The platform handles clearing and settlement for banks and fintechs including Revolut and Starling Bank. Built on AWS microservices, Form3 processes billions in transaction volume annually with 99.99 percent uptime.
Founded
2016
HQ
Website
Status
Privately held
Customer focus
B2B
Revenue model
Usage-based, Subscription
Valuation
$570M (Sep 2024)
Form3 Valuation
Form3 is currently valued at $570M, based on its Series C in September 2024.
The $62M round was led by British Patient Capital, with participation from Visa, Goldman Sachs, Molten Ventures, Barclays, Mastercard and 1 other investor.
Form3 valuation by funding round
| Date | Stage | Valuation |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2024 | Series C | $570M |
Form3 Funding History
Form3 has raised a total of $269M across 6 funding rounds.
Form3's first fundraising round was a $5M Series A in July 2017. The most recent completed round was a $62M Series C in September 2024.
Form3 funding rounds
| Date | Stage | Investors | Raised | Valuation | Deal Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2024 | Series C | British Patient Capital (lead); Visa; Goldman Sachs; Molten Ventures; Barclays; Mastercard; 83North | $62M | $570M | Form3 is a London-based cloud-native payment technology company providing an API-based account-to-account (A2A) payments platform that enables banks and financial institutions to process real-time payments, replace legacy infrastructure, and scale operations. The platform supports connections to multiple payment schemes, including the UK's Faster Payments, SEPA Instant, and the US FedNow system, serving major clients like Klarna and established banks. Launched in 2016, Form3 has positioned itself as a leader in modernizing payments infrastructure amid global digital transformation challenges. On September 10, 2024, Form3 closed a $60 million Series C extension led by British Patient Capital (£10 million investment), with participation from existing investors including Visa, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Barclays, Molten Ventures, and 83North. This tranche brought the total Series C to $220 million, following a $160 million base round in 2021 led by Goldman Sachs and investments from Lloyds, Nationwide, and others, plus a Visa strategic investment in 2023. Sources indicate a post-money valuation of $570 million for this extension. The funding will support product development, new services, scaling operations, and expansion into key markets including the UK, Europe, and US. Form3 has achieved notable recognition, including inclusion in the 2024 Lazard T100 Index, Top 100 Scale-ups in Europe, and multiple awards such as PayTech of the Year and Engineering Team of the Year at UK and European Fintech Awards in 2024. |
| Sep 2023 | Strategic investment | Visa | - | - | Visa made a strategic minority investment in Form3 in September 2023, taking a stake in the London-based account-to-account payments platform as part of a wider commercial partnership between the two companies. The size of the investment was not disclosed and Form3 remained an independent, privately held business controlled by its founders and existing venture and growth investors, with Visa joining the shareholder register as a corporate partner rather than acquiring control. The commercial agreement gives Visa's financial institution clients access to Form3's platform so they can modernise their payments infrastructure, and combines Form3's financial crime orchestration service with Visa's deep-learning artificial intelligence and real-time risk scoring in order to reduce the high levels of fraud seen in instant account-to-account payments. Form3 said the proceeds would fund continued product development and expansion into new territories where real-time payment schemes are being introduced. The company was founded in 2016 and operates a cloud-native, payments-as-a-service platform that connects banks and financial institutions to domestic and international payment schemes through a single API, handling processing, clearing, settlement and fraud screening as a managed service. Form3 is used by tier one banks and financial institutions in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States to run critical payments architecture, and had by then been processing traffic on instant payment rails for close to six years. |
| Sep 2021 | Series C | Goldman Sachs (lead); Nationwide Building Society; Molten Ventures; Barclays; Mastercard; Lloyds Banking Group; 83North | $156M | - | Form3 is a London-based cloud-native payment technology platform founded in 2016 that provides account-to-account payment processing, clearing and settlement services. The company serves major financial institutions, neobanks like Klarna and N26, and banking-as-a-service providers, processing more than 50% of the UK's non-cash payment volume. In September 2021, Form3 closed a Series C funding round of $160 million led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, with participation from existing investors including Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide Building Society, Barclays, Mastercard, 83North, and Draper Esprit. This brought Form3's total equity fundraising to $220 million at that time. The company used the Series C proceeds to expand geographically, particularly targeting the US market where it was in advanced conversations with several banks. The 2021 Series C marked the beginning of Form3's global rollout strategy, enabling it to scale its cloud-native infrastructure for handling growing payment volumes across multiple markets. |
| Jul 2020 | Strategic investment | Nationwide Building Society; Molten Ventures; Lloyds Banking Group; 83North | $33M | - | - |
| Nov 2018 | Series B | Molten Ventures (lead); ACF Investors; Barclays | $13M | - | Form3 is a UK-based cloud-native payment processing platform providing banks and fintechs with real-time payment services via a Payments-as-a-Service model. Clients at the time included Ebury, N26, Tandem Bank, LHV Bank, and myPOS. The company raised $13 million in a Series B round on November 20, 2018, led by Draper Esprit (now Molten Ventures), with participation from existing investor Barclays, Angel Co-Fund, and individual investors. This brought total funding to $18 million following a prior $5 million Series A in 2017 led by Barclays and Angel Co-Fund. Form3 planned to use the proceeds to develop additional services and expand internationally. |
| Jul 2017 | Series A | ACF Investors (lead); Barclays (lead) | $5M | - | - |
Who has invested in Form3?
10 investors have backed Form3 across its funding rounds, including Molten Ventures, Barclays, 83North, Goldman Sachs, ACF Investors and Mastercard.
Lead investors include British Patient Capital, Goldman Sachs, Molten Ventures, ACF Investors and Barclays.
Form3 Investors
| Investor | HQ | Rounds | Role | First check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Lead | Nov 2018 | ||
| 4 | Lead | Jul 2017 | ||
| 3 | Participant | Jul 2020 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Jul 2020 | ||
| 2 | Lead | Jul 2017 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Sep 2023 | ||
| 2 | Lead | Sep 2021 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Sep 2021 | ||
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Form3 competitors include listed companies like Optasia, Intelligent Wave, eFinance and Densan System Holdings Co, and private ones like Spreedly and M2P Fintech.
| Company | HQ | Status | Revenue | EBITDA | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private | - | - | $500M | - | ||
| Private | $54M | - | $701M | 13.0x | ||
| Publicly listed | $265M | $79M | $1.1B | 3.6x | ||
| Publicly listed | $109M | $24M | $256M | 2.1x | ||
| Publicly listed | $121M | $63M | $1.4B | - | ||
| Publicly listed | $432M | $28M | $224M | 0.2x |
Form3 Public Comps
Form3 is still privately-owned, but its public comps include Shanghai Amarsoft, AMTD Digital, Worldline, FINEOS, Global Infotech, Linkage Software, Sunyard Technology, Alfa Financial Software, JinXianDai Information and Qualco Group.
| Last FY | EV/Revenue | EV/EBITDA | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | EBITDA | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | |
| $154M | $8M | 3.5x | - | 69.0x | - | |||
| $59M | $18M | 19.0x | - | 61.5x | - | |||
| $4.5B | ($5.1B) | 0.6x | 0.6x | (0.5x) | 3.6x | |||
| $155M | $34M | 3.0x | 2.8x | 13.7x | 11.5x | |||
| $155M | $7M | 4.0x | - | 89.4x | - | |||
| $158M | $24M | 2.6x | 4.1x | 17.1x | 13.8x | |||
| $309M | $10M | 2.0x | - | 61.9x | - | |||
| $169M | $58M | 3.8x | 3.6x | 11.1x | 11.2x | |||
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Common questions about Form3
| When was Form3 founded? | Form3 was founded in 2016. |
| Where is Form3 headquartered? | Form3 is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. |
| Is Form3 publicly listed? | No, Form3 is a private, VC-backed company. |
| What is Form3's valuation? | Form3 was last valued at $570M in its Series C in September 2024. |
| How much funding has Form3 raised? | Form3 has raised $269M across 6 funding rounds. |
| What was Form3's last funding round? | Form3's last funding round was a $62M Series C in September 2024, led by British Patient Capital. |
| Who are Form3's investors? | Form3's investors include Molten Ventures, Barclays, 83North, Nationwide Building Society, ACF Investors, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Lloyds Banking Group and British Patient Capital. |
| Which companies are comparable to Form3? | Companies comparable to Form3 include Spreedly, M2P Fintech, Optasia, Intelligent Wave, eFinance and Densan System Holdings Co. |
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