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Formance gets $21m boost for programmable Ledger tech

By Gloria Methri

January 31, 2025

  • Digital Ledger Technology
  • Europe
  • Financial Infrastructure
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Formance, the France-based Open Source financial infrastructure provider, has closed a $21 million Series A funding round co-led by PayPal Ventures and Portage Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Hoxton Ventures, and Axeleo Capital.

Formance was founded in 2021 with an aim to transform how developers build financial flows and products. Its core offering is a programmable Ledger — a transactional database that provides detailed visibility into every transaction and streamlines reconciliation with any financial partner.

Historically, building financial infrastructure has been a monumental challenge, requiring extensive engineering, accounting, and compliance expertise. Led by an experienced FinTech team from Klarna, FIS, Solaris, and CockroachDB, Formance simplifies this by providing an Open Source, programmable, and vendor-agnostic solution, allowing companies to move faster with fewer resources.

“Formance enabled us to ship new lending products faster by providing a customisable foundation that lets us reliably express the complexities of our flow of funds and domain-specific,” said Tito Sarrionandia, VP of Engineering at Liberis.

Formance serves global customers, including large-scale vertical SaaS platforms, FinTechs, and financial institutions – such as Doctolib, Liberis, Booksy, and Btech – which require high levels of scalability, security, and ownership.

“Formance is the foundation of our Financial OS, which enables us to build new financial products for practitioners using Doctolib ERP. This would not have been possible without the Open-Source approach, which enables us to retain control and ownership over this key component,” stated Ludovic Quintard, Senior Engineering Manager at Doctolib.

“This new funding will fuel Formance’s expansion across the US and Europe and accelerate its vision of transforming its Open Source Ledger into a full-scale platform for building and managing sophisticated financial features,” said Anne-Sybille Pradelles, Formance co-founder.

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