- Ocrolus announced it raised $80 million in Series C funding. These are the details.
Ocrolus – an automation platform that analyzes financial documents with over 99% accuracy – announced $80 million in Series C funding led by Fin VC at a valuation north of $500 million. The company powers document workflows for many of the most innovative financial services firms like Brex, Enova, LendingClub, PayPal, Plaid, and SoFi. And Ocrolus plans to use its new funding to more aggressively build products for the mortgage lending and banking industries and expand its US operations. Ocrolus essentially levels the playing field for every borrower, providing expanded access to credit at a lower cost.
Ocrolus emerged as the leading Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) document processing and automation solution with full-stack capabilities as it can classify financial documents, capture key data fields, detect fraud, and analyze cash flows, enabling lenders to make faster, data-driven decisions. Before the pandemic, less than 1% of loans in the world were made online. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, demand for digital lending technology among traditional financial services firms has accelerated dramatically. Now COVID-19 has forced financial institutions to evolve, every lender and bank has no choice but to offer online options to customers.
Back-office scalability and flexibility have become increasingly important for lenders in last 18 months. And the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was created to urgently pump money into the economy, but it was also an opportunity to see fintechs and banks compete for market share.
While banks struggled to keep up with application volume and ultimately could not service new borrowers, fintechs demonstrated the ability to use software to nimbly flex-up-or-down to meet market demands. And Ocrolus worked with partners like Cross River Bank, Square, BlueVine, and Womply to process over 2.5 million PPP loans, playing a critical role in helping small businesses across the country keep the lights on. And a similar need for operational elasticity has emerged in the mortgage industry, where favorable rates caused a spike in application volume, stretching traditional lenders to their limits and propelling tech-forward lenders who employ automation to create a streamlined customer experience.
Having onboarded over 75 corporate team members already in 2021, Ocrolus plans to further ramp-up hiring into 2022 with a focus on its machine learning and data science teams. And the company is also opening a new data quality control facility in Florida to accommodate financial institutions and government entities with onshore data requirements.
The additional participants in the round were Thomvest Ventures, Mubadala Capital, Oak HC/FT, FinTech Collective, QED Investors, Bullpen Capital, ValueStream Ventures, Laconia, RiverPark Ventures, Invicta Growth, Stage 2 Capital, and Cross River Bank.
KEY QUOTES:
“Our platform helps lenders automate underwriting and intelligently leverage cash flow and income data for credit scoring. By enabling lenders to more quickly analyze diverse sources of financial data, Ocrolus levels the playing field for every borrower, providing expanded access to credit at a lower cost.”
— Sam Bobley, Co-founder & CEO at Ocrolus
“Mortgage lenders and banks recognize they need to adopt the same workflow digitization and underwriting automation used by fintech lenders. We’re excited to support Ocrolus, the category leader in back-office automation.”
— Logan Allin, Managing General Partner and Founder at Fin VC and new Board member at Ocrolus
