trustshare
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
trustshare was a London fintech founded in 2020, building a unified API for marketplaces across payments, escrow, banking and credit. Its escrow infrastructure let online marketplaces, classifieds and gig platforms go transactional in a few lines of code: buyers paid into dedicated transaction accounts (with KYC/AML checks), sellers released funds on delivery, all over Open Banking rails with 1,000+ UK and European banks, in 180 countries and 55 currencies. Backed by Nauta Capital plus angels Alex Chesterman (Cazoo) and James Hind (Carwow), it raised about $3.2 million in seed funding and was shortlisted among Business Insider's top 20 fintechs to watch in 2021. The company was later acquired.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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- Founded
trustshare is founded in London in 2020 as a fintech layer for marketplaces.
- Seed
trustshare raises a $3.2 million seed round led by Nauta Capital, with angels Alex Chesterman and James Hind.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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