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Tuesday 23rd of June 2020 — a usual day at the office, with some pretty good news. Remember the raise of 110m€ by Back Market one month ago? Well, Tuesday, two more fundraising announcements gave us the exact same smile we had that day.

Let me tell you what happened:

6.41 — Turning on BFM TV and listening to Loïc Soubeyrand announcing its Serie C round (70m€) with Swile (ex-Lunchr). You can watch it here.
7.00 — Watching the Swile video full of good vibes over and over again!
8.30 — Arriving at the office with a big SMILE, spreading the news on our social media and discovering all the Linkedin posts from the 250 Swilers sharing the news! They all rock!
9.15 — Trying to cool down before announcing the second news!
11.00 — OMG! Margo Bank just announced becoming Memo Bank, the first independent bank to offer payment, deposit, and financing solutions to SMEs since 50 years in France. And this is not it, they just raised 20 million euros.
11.30 — Spreading the good news on the social media again.
12.00 — Realizing that Jean Daniel Guyot and the team worked 3 years for this accomplishment!

Ok, stop. We don’t care about the rest of my day. #VC stuff

So where was I? Swile and Memo Bank! Let’s do it simply. If you read this and you still have paper employees voucher (lunch, gift…), write to the Swile team right away! With this new raise, Swile is becoming the reference app for office life. Read everything about their exciting news here. And for Memo Bank (ex Margo) the team can be proud to have received the go-ahead from the regulators as they worked hard for 3 years to create an independent bank for SMEs. Actually, you can listen to Jean Daniel Guyot talking about the launching of Memo Bank here.

Well, well, well, hope you enjoyed Tuesday as much as we did folks! You can’t imagine how proud and blessed we are to have the chance to support such wonderful companies!

Sophie