Spanish supply chain fintech Twinco Capital has secured an additional €50 million debt facility with BBVA Spark to accelerate growth. The facility will enable Twinco to support its customers in building sustainable and competitive global supply chains. BBVA Spark will become one of Twinco’s key financial partners and joins EBN Banco de Negocios, which has been supporting the company from its inception, and Zubi Capital.
First-ever sustainable supply chain finance solution
There is a staggering $2.5 trillion global trade finance gap that mainly affects SMEs in emerging countries, limiting their ability to access new business opportunities. Twinco Capital is one of the fintechs led by women bridges this finance gap.
Twinco Capital was founded in 2019 by Sandra Nolasco, an experienced banker and specialist in trade finance with an international career spanning over 20 years in major European commercial banks, and Carmen Marín with over 16 years of management experience in both equity investing and project finance at Banco Santander.
Twinco Capital offers the first sustainable supply chain finance solution in the market that covers purchase order funding and has provided over $250 million in funding to suppliers in emerging markets. The venture-backed business with investors such as Quona Capital, Working Capital Fund, Mundi Ventures, Finch Capital.
Twinco Capital engages with large corporations in the retail and apparel sectors. It offers funding to their suppliers worldwide, advancing up to 60% of the purchase order value upfront and paying the remainder upon delivery. The process is designed to be a fully transparent, no-hassle experience that provides the suppliers with funding for its purchase orders within 48 hours.
The key to its success is its unique risk model, which complements the traditional view of financial risk with business performance and ESG data. It uses machine learning to assess the quality and strength of the commercial relationships between these large buyers and their suppliers. Already, Twinco Capital has incorporated over 150 suppliers, located in 13 different countries.
“We are very pleased to support Sandra and Carmen, two entrepreneurs who have reinvented, with Twinco, the way supply chains are financed on a global scale by incorporating innovative environmental and social criteria into their supplier financing model,” explained Roberto Albaladejo, head of BBVA Spark, an initiative that has more than 800 clients and facilitated €250 million in financing in just one year of Operation.
Sandra Nolasco, CEO of Twinco Capital commented: “We are thrilled to partner with BBVA Spark to help customers build truly sustainable and competitive global supply chains. It is only by partnering with this calibre of like-minded, financial institutions, that we will be able to address large-scale challenges like the one Twinco has set out to solve: closing the trade finance gap. This facility will support the company’s portfolio growth, expanding both the number of customers and geographies.”
Carmen Marin, COO of Twinco Capital added: “The varlue added Twinco is providing to customers stems from the combination of its unique funding solution with business intelligence that provides a holistic overview of supply chain risk. Technology and machine learning provide invaluable data insights on commercial, financial and ESG suppliers’ performance, giving our customers a state-of-the-art supply chain risk management tool.”
