Bumper, a Sheffield- and London-based fintech that offers buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) for car servicing and repairs, has completed a Series B extension that several outlets report at roughly $11m. According to the Tech.eu report, the round was led by Autotech Ventures and attracted participation from a string of strategic automotive investors, including Jaguar Land Rover’s InMotion Ventures, Suzuki Global Ventures, Porsche Ventures and Shell Ventures. Other outlets give slightly different figures for the tranche — EU‑Startups reported the raise as €9.4m while Motor Trade News quoted a £8m injection and described the extension as increasing total Series B proceeds — underscoring variation in early reports about the same transaction.

Bumper’s proposition is straightforward: when an MOT failure, accident or other unexpected issue leaves a motorist facing an unwelcome bill, the company allows the cost to be split into interest‑free instalments, arranged through a dealership or independent garage. “A sudden repair bill can hit families hard,” James Jackson, co‑founder and CEO of Bumper, said in the Tech.eu piece; the company uses that premise to argue its service reduces financial friction for customers and drives higher conversion for repair providers. Bumper itself and multiple industry reports say the business works with around 5,000 dealerships and lists partnerships with major manufacturers and dealer groups such as Volkswagen, Ford, Nissan, Volvo, Seat, Audi, Škoda, Jaguar Land Rover and Porsche.

The funding is intended to accelerate the rollout of Bumper’s BNPL service across existing European markets and to deepen its product set for dealers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Bumper has been expanding beyond the UK into Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Ireland, and several trade pieces note a push into dealer software: recent coverage highlights the launch of a dealer product branded Bumper Pro and acquisitions such as AutoBI as part of the company’s strategy to become a payments and software platform for service and repair. Reports also credit Bumper with scale in consumer usage — more than 1.5 million drivers have been cited in some articles — and some trade outlets describe the business as operationally profitable and on track to process over £1bn of transactions in 2025; those financial milestones are reported as company and industry claims rather than independently verified figures.

The extension follows a materially larger Series B announced in January 2024. Bumper’s own blog and contemporaneous coverage confirm a €46m (circa £40m/$48m) Series B round at the start of last year, led by Autotech Ventures with continued participation from strategic investors, which the company said would fund product development, dealer integrations and targeted acquisitions. Tech.eu and other reporting have attempted to reconcile the company’s fundraising history and suggest total money raised to date is in the tens of millions — one outlet approximated total funding at around $85m — but the precise cumulative figure varies between reports and currency conversions.

The investor line‑up underlines the strategic interest from the automotive ecosystem in point‑of‑sale finance and dealer software. Venture arms of OEMs and energy companies have been active backers of mobility fintechs, seeking both a financial return and tighter integration between financing products and dealer networks. Industry coverage frames the participation of InMotion Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Suzuki Global Ventures and Shell Ventures as endorsement of Bumper’s ambition to embed payments and consumer financing into vehicle aftercare and service channels, while Autotech Ventures’ lead role signals continued VC support for vertically focused mobility fintechs.

Taken together, the reports portray a company shifting from a single‑product BNPL provider toward a broader dealer software and payments platform, using fresh capital to scale geographically and extend commercial integrations. Given the varying accounts of the extension’s headline number and differences in how outlets have summed prior rounds, readers should treat individual funding totals as provisional; Bumper’s public statements and the company blog remain the primary sources for the firm’s own account of financing and growth plans, while trade reporting provides additional context on product launches, acquisitions and commercial traction.

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Source: Noah Wire Services