Ume Funding, Investors & Competitors

Ume has raised $42M across 3 funding rounds, most recently a $21M Series B in September 2025.

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Last Ume funding round

$21M

Series B · Sep 2025

Cumulative funding Ume raised

$42M

across 3 funding rounds

Key investors in Ume

  • NFX
  • Clocktower Technology Ventures
  • Norte Ventures
  • big_bets
  • Endeavor Catalyst
  • Canary
  • Globo Ventures
  • PayPal Ventures

Ume Overview

About Ume

Ume is a Brazilian fintech that lets retailers and store networks run their own customer credit operation. It was founded in 2019 by Berthier Ribeiro, Edlen Montegran and Marco Cristo, and began by offering instalment credit through small regional retailers in northern Brazil before expanding to the Northeast and to larger chains. Its platform combines credit decisions based on artificial intelligence, payments over the Pix network and access to funding, which comes largely from receivables investment funds. Investors include PayPal Ventures, NFX, Canary, Valor Capital Group and Bewater. In its 2025 Series B announcement Ume reported annualised gross merchandise volume above R$500 million and more than one million operations.


Founded

2019

HQ

BrazilSão Paulo

Status

Privately held

Customer focus

B2B & B2C

Revenue model

Embedded Finance, Services

Ume Funding History

Ume has raised a total of $42M across 3 funding rounds.

Ume's first fundraising round was a $6M seed round in April 2022. The most recent completed round was a $21M Series B in September 2025.

Ume funding rounds

Ume funding rounds
DateStageInvestorsRaisedDeal Summary
Sep 2025Series BBewater (lead); Valor Capital Group (lead); PayPal Ventures; Globo Ventures; Canary; Norte Ventures; NFX; Endeavor Catalyst; big_bets; Clocktower Technology Ventures$21MUme announced a Series B of US$21 million, reported by another outlet as US$21.8 million or about R$118 million, on 8 September 2025. Valor Capital Group and Bewater led the round, both new to the cap table, and the existing investors PayPal Ventures, NFX, Globo Ventures, Canary and Big Bets took part. Ume has said the money will go to a more robust platform that gives retailers control of their credit operation and flexibility in financial products, with heavy investment in artificial intelligence. Since the 2024 Series A the company has doubled its client base and passed one million operations, with annualised gross merchandise volume above R$500 million, and it expected to reach R$1 billion of annualised volume by the end of 2025. Ume was founded in 2019 in Sao Paulo and lets retailers run their own credit operation on the Pix payment network. It had raised a R$100 million receivables fund in 2024 from Verde, Western Asset, Itau, Credit Saison and Milenio.
Aug 2024Series APayPal Ventures; Globo Ventures; FJ Labs; Norte Ventures; NFX; Endeavor Catalyst; big_bets; Clocktower Technology Ventures$15MUme raised US$15 million in a Series A equity round announced on 30 August 2024, led by PayPal Ventures. NFX, Globo Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, Big Bets, FJ Labs, Endeavor and Norte Ventures took part. At the same time Ume raised a US$20 million FIDC, a receivables fund, from Verde, Western Asset, Itau, Credit Saison and Milenio to fund the credit it extends. Ume is a Brazilian fintech that gives merchants a Pix-native platform to run their own credit operations, using AI-based credit decisions and customer engagement, and describes itself as the Visa for merchants. At the time of the round its network included 6,000 merchants and more than 220,000 consumers. The company was founded in 2019, and its chief executive and co-founder is Berthier Ribeiro. PayPal Ventures pointed to the Pix-native design of the platform as the reason for the investment.
Apr 2022SeedNFX (lead); Canary; Norte Ventures; big_bets; Clocktower Technology Ventures$6MUme raised a seed round of US$5.5 million, announced on 29 April 2022 and co-led by the American firm NFX and by Canary. BigBets, Clocktower Ventures and Norte Ventures also took part. The company raised a further US$4.5 million in debt from Ibiuna Investimentos and Franklin Templeton, which let it keep lending until September 2022. The equity was meant to start a national expansion, replicating in the Northeast the business Ume had built over three years in northern Brazil. Ume was founded in 2019 by Berthier Ribeiro, a former partner at Meliuz, with Edlen Montegran and Marco Cristo, two computer science PhDs from the federal university of Minas Gerais who developed the research behind the company. It lets customers of small and mid-sized regional retailers pay in up to four instalments through an app, worked with 76 retailers, and in 2021 made R$26 million of loans to 47,000 users.

Who has invested in Ume?

11 investors have backed Ume across its funding rounds, including NFX, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Norte Ventures, big_bets, Endeavor Catalyst and Canary.

Lead investors include Bewater, Valor Capital Group and NFX.


Ume Investors

Investors in Ume by funding rounds participated
InvestorHQRoundsRoleFirst check
Norte VenturesBrazilSão Paulo3ParticipantApr 2022
NFXUnited StatesSan Francisco, CA3LeadApr 2022
big_betsBrazilSão Paulo3ParticipantApr 2022
Clocktower Technology VenturesUnited StatesSanta Monica, CA3ParticipantApr 2022
PayPal VenturesUnited StatesSan Jose, CA2ParticipantAug 2024
Globo VenturesBrazilRio de Janeiro2ParticipantAug 2024
CanaryBrazilSão Paulo2ParticipantApr 2022
Endeavor CatalystUnited StatesNew York City, NY2ParticipantAug 2024
BewaterBrazilSao Paulo1LeadSep 2025

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Ume Competitors

Ume competitors include listed companies like ACI Worldwide, Q2 Holdings, Bread Financial and NCR Atleos, and private ones like Ant Group and Mambu.

Public and private companies comparable to Ume
CompanyHQStatusRevenueEBITDAValuationRevenue Multiple
Ant GroupChinaHangzhouPrivate$25B-$79B3.2x
ACI WorldwideUnited StatesUnited StatesPublicly listed$1.8B$456M$6B3.5x
Q2 HoldingsUnited StatesUnited StatesPublicly listed$795M$93M$4.6B5.1x
Bread FinancialUnited StatesUnited StatesPublicly listed$3.8B-$3.9B1.0x
NCR AtleosUnited StatesUnited StatesPublicly listed$4.4B$730M$3.5B1.3x
MambuNetherlandsAmsterdamPrivate--$5.5B-

Ume Public Comps

Ume is still privately-owned, but its public comps include S&P Global, Moody's, Constellation Software, Block, PayPal, Fiserv, Verisk Analytics, LPL Financial, HiThink and Broadridge.

Last FYEV/RevenueEV/EBITDA
RevenueEBITDALast FYLTM2027ELast FYLTM2027E
S&P Global$15B$7.7B9.9x10.2x19.8x19.3x
Moody's$7.7B$3.8B12.1x11.4x24.4x21.8x
Constellation Software$12B$2.5B4.9x4.2x22.6x15.5x
Block$24B$2.2B1.9x1.8x20.8x10.1x
PayPal$33B$7.2B1.6x1.5x7.3x7.4x
Fiserv$21B$8.9B2.9x3.1x6.8x7.2x
Verisk Analytics$3.1B$1.7B9.9x9.5x18.2x16.8x
LPL Financial$17B$2.2B1.8x1.5x13.7x9.6x

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Common questions about Ume

When was Ume founded?Ume was founded in 2019.
Where is Ume headquartered?Ume is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.
Is Ume publicly listed?No, Ume is a private, VC-backed company.
How much funding has Ume raised?Ume has raised $42M across 3 funding rounds.
What was Ume's last funding round?Ume's last funding round was a $21M Series B in September 2025, led by Bewater and Valor Capital Group.
Who are Ume's investors?Ume's investors include Norte Ventures, NFX, big_bets, Clocktower Technology Ventures, PayPal Ventures, Globo Ventures, Canary, Endeavor Catalyst, Bewater, FJ Labs and 1 other.
Which companies are comparable to Ume?Companies comparable to Ume include Ant Group, ACI Worldwide, Q2 Holdings, Bread Financial, NCR Atleos and Mambu.

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