OpenFin raises $17 mn Series C from Wells Fargo and Barclays

OpenFin, the operating system (OS) of finance, has raised $17 million in Series C funding from major banks and leading Fintech investors. The funding round was led by Wells Fargo with participation from Barclays and existing investors including Bain Capital Ventures, J.P. Morgan and Pivot Investment Partners.

The Series C round brings OpenFin's total amount of venture funding to $40 million. Proceeds from the financing will be used to make OpenFin OS ubiquitous on financial desktops and to fund further product innovation. This includes OpenFin's new Cloud Services offering, which enables banks, asset managers, wealth managers and hedge funds to provide their own private app stores for employees and customers out of the box.

The global financial services industry is spending billions in addressing the digital transformation of thousands of legacy desktop applications used for client service centers, front office, operations, risk and compliance. OpenFin's widely adopted desktop operating system enables financial services firms to build new applications with modern web technology while enabling seamless and secure integration with legacy applications. This allows these firms to modernize and unify the end-user desktop experience while extracting the greatest possible value from their existing technology investments.

"Apple and Google's mobile operating systems and app stores have enabled more than a million apps that have fundamentally changed how we live," said Mazy Dar, CEO and Co-Founder of OpenFin. "OpenFin OS and our new app store services enable the next generation of desktop apps that are transforming how we work in financial services."

OpenFin OS’ customers include most major banks, leading asset management firms and many of the best known vendor platforms in the space. The operating system software runs more than 1,000 applications at more than 1,500 banks and buy-side firms across 200,000 desktops in 60+ countries.

"We have been following OpenFin's progress and are impressed by the company's success in gaining wide adoption in capital markets. OpenFin is leading a key effort in providing the financial industry with a modern and unifying foundation for development and secure distribution of financial applications," said Basil Darwish, Managing Director, Strategic Investments at Wells Fargo Securities. "We are delighted to lead OpenFin's Series C funding round and excited to support the next phase of their development."