Surfin Meta Digital Technologies is a Singapore-based financial technology platform led by CEO and founder Dr Yanan Wu. It provides digital financial services for the unbanked and underbanked in emerging markets, including consumer lending and credit cards, payments and remittances, wealth management, and B2B services. The company closed a funding round that brought its total funding to USD 26.5M. Investors in the round included Woori Venture Partners, Washington University in St. Louis, and Phillip Private Equity; an initial USD 12.5M investment was led by Insignia Ventures Partners in October 2024. Proceeds will be used to support development into new markets and to expand research & development initiatives. The firm plans to build a holistic suite of intelligent financial products for these markets. Surfin is a financial technology platform launched in 2017 and headquartered in Singapore that began with consumer lending and expanded into a suite of financial services. It now offers payments, remittance, credit card issuance, and wealth management across multiple markets. The company reports serving 60 million individuals across eight countries on three continents and processing about $2.7 billion in cumulative transactions. Products include Ayovest, a mutual fund trading platform launched in Indonesia in 2023, and Sufinc, a Visa-partnered credit card business in Mexico; in Indonesia Surfin holds licenses for P2P lending, mutual fund distribution, remittance, and payment gateway services. Surfin’s ecosystem is powered by a unified AI-driven credit scoring and risk-management engine to lend sustainably at scale and expand use cases. The company has been bootstrapped and self-financed since launch, has not taken third-party debt, and has over 2,500 people globally.

Total raised

$39M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Apr 2025