Raised 200 million yen from NestEgg, SBI Investment, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, SMBC-VC, which develops the automatic savings app "finbee" | BRIDGE Technology & Startup Information
NestEgg, a startup under the Infucurion Group that develops the automatic savings app "finbee", said on the 2nd that it raised 200 million yen from SBI Investment's "FinTech Fund", Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, and SMBC Venture Capital. Announced. The procurement round is unknown. This will be Nest Egg's first round of funding, but its parent company, Infucurion Group, raised funds from SBI Investment's FinTech fund in April last year under the guise of launching Nest Egg's finbee business. (Procurement amount not disclosed).
Nest Egg launched his iOS version of finbee in December last year and its Android version in May this year. Users can save money automatically by linking with their bank account and setting various savings rules. Currently, the savings rules that can be set on finbee are "fresh savings" and "change savings", as well as "check-in savings" and travel distance that are saved when visiting a specific place in conjunction with the GPS of the smartphone. "Step savings" that can be saved according to the amount, "vacant space savings" that can automatically save the difference between the maximum planned usage amount of the credit card and the actual payment amount, "share savings" that can be saved with family and friends, etc. Nest Egg will continue to increase the savings rules that can be set.
Currently, SBI Sumishin Net Bank is the only bank account that can be linked.
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In the past, the collaboration between banks and fintech startups used to be a service that used a reference API, but finbee is an industry as a service that uses an update API that goes to rewrite bank account data from the application side. First existence. Around the update API, Money Forward collaborated with Sumitomo SBI Net Bank, Mizuho Bank, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in March of this year, and a service that allows companies to transfer expenses to employee accounts from "MF Cloud Expenses" with a single click. In addition, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ has announced the release of update APIs.
The revised Banking Act passed by the Diet on May 26 includes the content of promoting the disclosure of APIs of banks in the bill, and it is expected that cooperation between banks and fintech startups will be further activated in the future. ing.
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