Finantier
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Finantier was a Singapore-based open-finance startup founded in 2020 and backed by Y Combinator (W21). It built developer infrastructure and data products for open finance: APIs that let institutions extract data from consumers' bank accounts, cards, loans, and mortgages, plus account aggregation, identity and income verification, transactional data verification, and payment initiation. Focused on Indonesia and expanding to the Philippines, it was named the Asia Star of the Alibaba Cloud x KrASIA Global Startup Accelerator Philippines Demo Day in 2022. The company raised seed funding (Nov 2020, June 2021) and entered the YC accelerator; its Singapore entity went into compulsory liquidation (insolvency) in June 2024, and PitchBook marked it out of business on July 3, 2024.
02 / Finantier FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
No detailed public account of Finantier's failure causes was found. What is verified: the Singapore entity (FINANTIER PTE. LTD., UEN 202022871N, incorporated August 5, 2020) was placed in compulsory liquidation for insolvency in June 2024, and PitchBook recorded it as out of business on July 3, 2024 — the classic end of a seed-stage open-finance startup that could not reach sustainability.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Liquidation
ACRA-sourced public entity profile for FINANTIER PTE. LTD. (UEN 202022871N) states the company is In Liquidation — Compulsory Winding Up (Insolvency). DealStreetAsia (21 Sep 2023) headline also reported the Indonesian fintech was said to have shut down (article body paywalled).
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
Finantier was founded in Singapore in 2020 as an open-finance infrastructure startup, raising seed rounds in November 2020 and June 2021 and joining Y Combinator's W21 batch.
- 02
The company focused on Indonesia (expanding to the Philippines), offering account aggregation, identity/income verification, and payment initiation APIs; in 2022 it was named Asia Star of the Alibaba Cloud x KrASIA accelerator demo day.
- 03
In June 2024 the Singapore entity entered compulsory liquidation (insolvency); PitchBook marked Finantier out of business on July 3, 2024.