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Apax Partners led a $100m funding round in Payfone.

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Transaction Value£79m
Consideration TypeCash
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data analytics

Private

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Private Equity

Acquisition

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United States

Minority

software development

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Venture Capital

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Apax Digital, the growth equity team of Apax Partners, led a $100m funding round in Payfone, a software and data analytics company based in New York. Joining the investment round are new investors Sandbox Insurtech Ventures and Ralph de la Vega, the former Vice Chairman of AT&T. Existing investors MassMutual Ventures, Synchrony, Blue Venture Fund, Wellington Management LLP, and former CEO of LexisNexis Andrew Prozes also participated. "The mobile phone is rapidly becoming the secure passport for navigating our digital lives. With one in three US consumers already authenticated by Payfone, this investment accelerates our ability to set the standard for the authentication process. As we build out a cross-industry consortium, more enterprises will be able to access Payfone’s real-time fraud and risk signals to prevent account takeovers while passing more transactions," Rodger Desai, Payfone CEO.

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