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, an Australian neobank that provides loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has raised $147 million in a of funding.

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The raise comes just 10 months after the Melbourne-based startup raised a $261.6 million Series B that was considered to be 鈥渢he largest private investment鈥� in a local startup, according to . It also comes weeks after Judo Bank for its SMB loans.

With this latest financing, Judo Bank has raised a total of about $500 million in equity, according to SA国际传媒 , in addition to a known $450 million in debt. The Series C made Judo Bank a unicorn in Australian dollars with a valuation north of $1 billion in local currency, or $653.7 million in U.S. dollars. Existing backers participated in the round, including and .

Founded in 2017, Judo Bank got its license to take deposits last year. The bank now has more than $1.5 billion in deposits and has written more than $1.5 billion in loans, with around 10,000 customers across both loans and deposits, according to .

鈥淲e now have one of the strongest capitalised tier-1 ratios in the country, and intend on rapidly growing our national footprint, and expanding the products and services we offer to thousands of Australian SMEs, whose needs have long been ignored by the major banks,鈥� co-CEO and co-founder David Hornery told Startupdaily.

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