- Bulgaria-based Payhawk extended its Series B funding round by $100 million to $215 million.
- The investment values Payhawk at over $1 billion and brings its total funding to $239 million.
- The company currently serves businesses in 30 countries and will use the recent funding to pursue further global expansion.
Bulgaria may be known more for its beaches and opera singers than it is for its fintech. Business spend management platform Payhawk may soon change that, however. The Bulgarian-based fintech just extended its recent Series B round by $100 million and is now valued at over $1 billion. This new valuation makes Payhawk Bulgaria’s first unicorn.
The fresh funding brings its Series B round to $215 million and boosts its total funding to $239 million. Today’s round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and saw participation from Sprints Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, HubSpot Ventures, and Jigsaw VC.
Payhawk’s $1 billion valuation is a huge leap forward for the fintech. Just three months ago when the company first announced its Series B round, Payhawk was valued at $570 million. It now sits 75% higher.
Payhawk, which currently serves businesses in 30 countries, will use the investment to expand its presence in the mid-size enterprise market and pursue global expansion. The company will open offices in Paris and Amsterdam this month and will add one in New York in September.
To support this growth, Payhawk plans to ramp up its workforce by 3x. The company plans to grow from 100 to 300 employees by the end of this year. As part of this expansion, Payhawk will increase the size of its product team by adding 60 additional senior software engineers to meet customer demand for new features.
Payhawk was founded in 2018 to offer businesses a way to control company spending. In addition to payment cards, the startup offers invoicing, employee reimbursement, and billpay tools along with accounting software integration, built-in spending policies, and analytics.
“Every employee that deals with company payments feels that there should be a better way to do it, but this huge problem was never tackled by a strong product team with a hardcore engineering background,” said Payhawk Founder and CEO Hristo Borisov. “This is what Payhawk brings to the market.”