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ID Finance raised 2.2 times its 2025 revenue for a lending app with 400,000-plus customers

ID Finance has raised €545m in equity and debt for its Plazo app, about 2.2 times the group's €243m of 2025 revenue. Most of the support offered is in percentages, so the repeat lender, i80 Group, is the firmest signal.

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ID Finance's raise follows a 2024 i80 debt facility ID Finance's new equity and debt package, its 2025 group revenue, and the debt financing i80 Group supplied in early 2024.

Key figures: ID Finance raised €545m in a combined equity and debt package. The group posted €243m in revenue in 2025. In early 2024, i80 Group supplied $150m in debt financing, used to expand the Plazo loan book.

ID Finance's raise follows a 2024 i80 debt facility
FigureValueNoteClaim
ID Finance equity and debt package€545 million1
Group revenue, 2025€243 million8
i80 debt, early 2024$150 million3

What happened

  • Spice Expeditions, WashU and Kingsway Capital backed the round, with i80 Group contributing the asset-based financing.
  • i80 had already lent to ID Finance two years earlier, in early 2024, and the company used that facility to expand the Plazo loan book.
  • Group profit almost doubled over 2025, and Plazo turned profitable at the bottom line during the year.
  • ID Finance expects Plazo to deliver another 300% expansion in 2026, underpinned by AI-powered technology infrastructure.
  • The group has launched Turrón by Plazo, which bundles an e-money account, a debit card and buy-now-pay-later, and is now signing partner merchants.

Why it matters

  • constraint A portion of the new capital is tied directly to Plazo's lending, according to The Paypers, so the money free for product and merchant work is smaller than the €545m headline.
  • decision The earmark puts the package behind one Spanish app, and Mexico, where the group also operates, is not named among the uses of the money.
  • exposure A portfolio that tripled in 2025 and is meant to grow again in 2026 is mostly loans that have had little time to default, so loss rates become the test of the 300% target.

FinTech Global says the transaction ranks among the biggest completed by a Spanish fintech in recent years [20]. The €243m of 2025 revenue behind it is the whole group's [8]. Plazo's growth is given only as a percentage, up 300% [10], and the announcements do not give its revenue in euros or the split between equity and debt, so the share of that revenue Plazo earns cannot be sized from outside [8][10].

The part of the evidence a lender has checked is i80's return. According to The Paypers, i80 is coming back as a lender and increasing the scale of its asset-based financing, and its managing director, Peter Frank, cited ID Finance's management of risk during the portfolio's expansion as a factor in deepening the relationship [13]. i80 has had two years of the earlier facility's performance to look at [3]; an outside reader has one year of growth rates. The counter-thesis is narrower: a repeat lender confirms repayment on the book it has seen, and the 2026 target describes a book it has not [19].

On that earlier facility, FinTech Global puts it at $150m [3] and The Paypers at about €138m [4]. The implied rate is 1.09 dollars to the euro [14], which points to one facility reported in two currencies, though neither outlet says so.

Read as an increase of 300%, Plazo's 2025 revenue growth is a quadrupling, and a second 300% in 2026 [19] would leave revenue at 16 times its 2024 level [17]. Co-founder Alexander Dunaev put the year differently. "Plazo tripled its portfolio in 2025 and reached profitability, proving that responsible, AI-driven underwriting and a genuinely better product experience can scale together," he said [11]. If "300%" means a tripling, the same two years compound to 9 times [18]. Revenue and portfolio are different measures, so both statements can be true, but the distance between 9 times and 16 times is wide.

Spread across the 400,000-plus customers [10], the package comes to about €1,360 each [16]. In our view the package rests on the 2026 target as much as on 2025 results [19]. If growth lands near that target, the customer base grows and the per-customer figure shrinks; if growth stalls, part of the debt line sits idle. We would revise this reading if Plazo's own revenue turns out to be most of the €243m [8], because then the 300% would sit on a large base.

What to watch

  • Whether ID Finance publishes Plazo's own euro revenue; if it is most of the €243m, the 300% growth sits on a large base.
  • Plazo's 2026 growth against the 300% target, and the size of any further i80 facility.
  • How many partner merchants sign up for Turrón by Plazo, since BNPL volume depends on them.

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  1. [1]

    ID Finance, the group behind the Plazo app, raised €545m in a combined equity and debt package.

    Reported Supported Source: FinTech Global; The Paypers reports the same amount2 sources— create a free account to open themView cited source
  2. [2]

    Spice Expeditions, WashU and Kingsway Capital backed the deal, alongside i80 Group, which contributed asset-based financing.

    Reported Supported Source: FinTech Global2 sources— create a free account to open themView cited source
  3. [3]

    Two years earlier, in early 2024, i80 Group supplied $150m in debt financing, a facility ID Finance used to expand the Plazo loan book.

    Reported Supported Source: FinTech Global2 sources— create a free account to open themView cited source

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2 independent publishers whose own reporting we read for this story.

  1. fintech.global

    1 article · October 14, 2026

    ID Finance lands €545m to scale Plazo in Spain
  2. thepaypers.com

    1 article · October 13, 2026

    ID Finance secures EUR 545 million to expand consumer finance app Plazo

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