Dublin’s FinTech startup Teybridge Capital Europe has raised an preliminary funding line of roughly €50 million from the Madrid-based household workplace Baghdadi Capital, with plans to progressively improve this to round €500 million because the enterprise grows.
Teybridge Capital Europe, a commerce finance and dealing capital platform, is projected to succeed in a valuation of over €100 million.
Dylan Martin, CEO of Teybridge Capital Europe, says: “The funding from Baghdadi Capital supercharges our means to serve SMEs and corporates throughout a number of areas. It expands our attain, strengthens our providing, and brings our BRIDGE platform to extra companies in want of quick, dependable entry to working capital.
“With this funding, we are able to help a broader shopper base whereas preserving the agility and rigor which have all the time outlined us. It’s a robust step ahead for our firm.”
This strategic funding aligns with a broader 2025 pattern in Europe, the place FinTech and specialty finance corporations are scaling working capital and commerce finance options via massive credit score strains and structured capital amenities.
A number of comparable developments had been reported by EU-Startups this yr:
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London-based Zvilo secured an expanded €75 million credit score facility to help MSME commerce finance operations.
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Amsterdam’s Factris obtained €100 million from Model New Day Financial institution to develop its SME invoice-financing portfolio throughout Europe.
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Prague-based Flowpay raised €30 million from Fasanara Capital to boost its embedded finance providing for SMEs.
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Berlin’s re:cap secured a €125 million credit score facility to develop its “Capital OS” platform into the UK market.
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Brussels startup Husk raised €1 million in pre-seed funding to develop cashflow optimisation instruments for early-stage companies.
EU-Startups beforehand featured Baghdadi Capital in reference to its €5 million funding to launch Madrid-based Inexperienced Bunkers, a platform centered on lowering maritime emissions.
“At Baghdadi Capital we’re not merely investing in corporations; we’re shaping a worldwide community of autonomous platforms – related by shared requirements and strengthened with capital. Our funding in Teybridge Capital Europe displays this imaginative and prescient: constructing resilience, empowering native groups, and delivering actually complementary financing options that help cross border progress,” provides Baihas Baghdadi, Founder & Government Chairman of Baghdadi Capital.
Based in 2022 by Dylan Martin and Colm Devine, Teybridge Capital Europe delivers working capital and commerce finance options to SMEs and corporates via its proprietary platform, BRIDGE.
In two and a half years, Teybridge has deployed approximaely €500 million to over 250 SMEs throughout Eire, the UK, and the U.S.
This funding kinds a part of Baghdadi Capital’s broader diversification technique, which is designed to strengthen the Group’s place past Spain – its core market – the place it already holds the biggest e book via its subsidiary, Commerce & Working Capital.
All acquisitions are structured as cash-in solely participations, with administration groups retaining full autonomy over every day operations and threat evaluation.
The UK market now represents 60% of Teybridge Capital Europe’s lending portfolio, offering lending amenities to UK SMEs and company shoppers within the meals & beverage, know-how, and manufacturing sectors.
Baghdadi Capital’s shoppers will now achieve entry to BRIDGE , Teybridge’s proprietary platform, for digital onboarding, operational administration and close to real-time funding.
Over the previous two and a half years, the platform has processed greater than 12,500 transactions and funded roughly greater than £400 million in commerce finance and dealing capital loans, to greater than 250 shoppers based mostly within the UK, Eire and the US.
On this context, Teybridge Capital Europe brings practically 1,000 debtors throughout 19 international locations over the previous two and a half years, whereas Baghdadi Capital via its completely different corporations within the US and Spain managed virtually 500 debtors solely within the final fiscal yr.
Collectively, the platforms look to attain larger granularity and resilience, lowering focus threat and creating synergies to barter extra environment friendly funding phrases which opens the door to new securitisation-like constructions.
As a part of the funding, Baghdadi Capital will be a part of Teybridge Capital Europe’s board.
