NYMBUS Raises $12 Million in Round Led by Vensure Enterprises

NYMBUS Raises $12 Million in Round Led by Vensure Enterprises

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Core-processing platform-developer NYMBUS has raised $12 million in financing in a round led by Vensure Enterprises. The investment will help the company speed product deployment as well as provide greater infrastructure support for its SmartCore platform.

According to NYMBUS, the funding could not have been better timed. Pointing to “already high demand” for its cloud-based SmartCore technology, NYMBUS Executive Chairman Scott Killoh said, “These banks and credit unions have a strained business model as they face increasing operational costs, severe regulatory pressures, while also being forced to utilize technology that is putting them at risk for survival.” Killoh said technology like NYMBUS was vital to help these FIs “survive, grow, and support their local communities.”

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Chief Experience Officer Mario Garcia demonstrates the NYMBUS platform at FinovateSpring 2016 in San Jose, California.

“We are thrilled that the funding will allow us to quickly scale our user base, as well as our service and support teams, to drive growth and innovation that this market so desperately needs,” said David Mitchell, NYMBUS president and CRO. The company’s SmartCore technology was launched last year to help smaller FIs transition away from older core systems that are often lacking in innovation and heavy in cost. NYMBUS, which aspires to be the “Tesla of banking,” instead provides a full-stack, API-driven platform, one that is HTML5, browser-based, built in Java and fully-hosted.

The new funding for NYMBUS comes after the company spent most of the summer making a variety of strategic acquisitions. NYMBUS acquired core data-processing, solutions-provider R.C. Olmsted for an undisclosed sum in June, the same month it bought credit union software technology company, KMR and core processing vendor, Sharp BancSystems. NYMBUS says that the trio of acquisitions has resulted in a company with $200 million in intellectual property powering real banking software in publicly traded banks and credit unions. The company launched its credit union service organization (CUSO) in March, and in February, partnered with fellow Finovate alum and PFM innovator, Geezeo.

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Miami Beach, Florida, NYMBUS demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2016. The company also participated in our developer’s conference, FinDEVr New York 2016, earlier this year, presenting its advanced core-processing platform for FIs.

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In Third Deal in Four Weeks, Nymbus Acquires Sharp BancSystems

In Third Deal in Four Weeks, Nymbus Acquires Sharp BancSystems

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At the beginning of the month, cloud-based core-processing platform developer NYMBUS announced that it had bought core data processing solutions provider, R.C. Olmstead. Two weeks later, NYMBUS was back in deal-making mode, acquiring credit union software maker KMR. Two acquisitions in three weeks is a pretty impressive pace. But who knew there was more to come?

Today we learn that NYMBUS has scooped up another company, this time purchasing fellow core-processing vendor, Sharp BancSystems (SBS). Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, but Banking Technology reports that the deal is the largest for NYMBUS to date. Along with the company’s other recent acquisitions, NYMBUS now has $200 million in intellectual property driving “tried and tested” banking software for publicly traded FIs.

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Chief Experience Officer Mario Garcia demonstrated NYMBUS at FinovateSpring 2016 in San Jose.

NYMBUS founder Alex Lopatine praised SBS as a “best-in-class” industry pioneer for nearly thirty years. Nevertheless recognizing that its back-end core system was in need of an expensive overhaul in 2014, SBS decided that a partnership strategy would be the best approach and began conversations with NYMBUS in 2015. Interestingly, NYMBUS hired former Sharp BancSystems CEO and president Scott Sharp as its Chief Operating Officer in February, a move that now clearly foreshadowed the acquisition.

“The functionality that allowed banks to be on the top-performance list for all these years is being developed in the NYMBUS core today,” Sharp said. “There are inherent efficiencies built into the single stack application approach with a modern user experience, and there won’t be anything that can touch us in side-by-side comparisons in the very near future,” he explained.

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Miami Beach, Florida, NYMBUS demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2016. Before its furious June acquisition pace, NYMBUS made headlines with its partnership with Geezeo in February, and launched its credit union collaboration service organization, CUNYMBUS in March. Also in March, NYMBUS was featured in Let’s Talk Payments as part of a look at innovative banking software companies.

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NYMBUS Acquires KMR to Advance Footing into Credit Union Offerings

NYMBUS Acquires KMR to Advance Footing into Credit Union Offerings

Screen Shot 2016-06-14 at 6.49.56 AMCore processing platform NYMBUS has made its second acquisition in the past two weeks. The Florida-based company has purchased credit union software provider KMR in an effort to expand its geographic footprint, product offerings, and client base.

With this move, NYMBUS inherits KMR’s key products, AgilityWeb, a full-featured home banking solution, and AgilityOrg, a management and compliance tool set.

Joining the NYMBUS leadership team is Kai Ravnborg, former president of KMR and creator of the first PC-based credit union core system and the first Windows-based credit union core application. Ravnborg, who says the decision to join NYMBUS was a “no-brainer,” will serve as chief product officer for CUNYMBUS, a collaborative credit union service organization NYMBUS launched in March.

Founded in 2015, NYMBUS seeks to revolutionize the core processing industry to help small financial institutions gain a competitive edge against big banks by offering a core solution with all digital channels and payments. The company, which demonstrated at FinovateSpring 2016 and presented at FinDEVr New York 2016, acquired data processing solutions provider R. C. Olmstead earlier this month.

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NYMBUS Acquires R. C. Olmstead to Enhance Core Data Processing

NYMBUS Acquires R. C. Olmstead to Enhance Core Data Processing

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Core processing solution NYMBUS today added to its repertoire with the acquisition of  R. C. Olmstead (RCO), a core data processing solutions provider.

Negotiations of the acquisition, which closed in March, began in the fall of 2015. As part of the deal, the Miami-based company will bring on RCO’s client base of 46 Midwest-based credit unions. NYMBUS has also acquired some of RCO’s talent, including “the team responsible for RCO’s conversions and implementations, as well as other RCO team members.”

RCO’s Founder Bob Olmstead, who launched the company in 1978, said the sale will both allow him to retire and help RCO to “not only survive, but be given the best chance to thrive in a continually changing and rapidly evolving marketplace.” Olmstead said the move assures him that RCO will “remain focused on its vision of marrying superior customer service with a cutting-edge, forward-facing product I feel will grow into the industry standard.”

NYMBUS CEO Alex Lopatine said the experience of combining the two companies has been “seamless” and “positive.”

NYMBUS debuted its modern approach to core processing at FinovateSpring 2016. Mario Garcia, the company’s chief experience officer, demonstrated how its bank-in-a-box offers a full-stack banking platform to help smaller financial institutions gain a competitive edge against big banks.

Launched in 2015, NYMBUS has accumulated $12 million in self-funded investment from company stakeholders and received $10 million in funding from outside investors. The company employs 60 people across the United States and counts 130 financial institutions as clients (including those from RCO).

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