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About Tinubu® Square
Leading Insurtech Company
We are the top insurtech company for credit insurers and surety carriers
Tinubu® Square is the industry-leading SaaS platform vendor, enabling Credit Insurance & Surety digital transformation.
For 20 years, Tinubu® Square has provided Credit & Surety insurers across the globe with software and services allowing them to offer best-in-class customer experience, as well as significantly reduce their exposure to risk and their financial, operational and technical costs.
Tinubu® Square has an international footprint with customers in over 20 countries, including 30 of the top 60 worldwide Credit & Surety underwriters
Our Vision
Digitalization of Credit Insurance & Surety processes and their integration with an extended ecosystem is key for worldwide economic development and trade.
Our Mission
The digital transformer of Credit Insurance & Surety.
Tinubu® Square history
With an innovative technological approach, Tinubu® Square has become a fintech flagship company. After 20 years, today Tinubu® Square continues to lead in the surety & credit insurance digital transformation.
Founders
Jérôme Pezé and Olivier Placca launched Tinubu® Square with an initial funding of €115k to create a cloud-based SaaS platform for credit risk management.

€3.8m raised for a R&D program
Tinubu® Square raises €3.8m to run a R&D program in partnership with Schlumberger, Sema, Valoris and Experian.

Oséo Innovation Award
Tinubu® Square raises additional capital in order to accelerate our expansion.
Tinubu® Square receives an award from Oséo Innovation in recognition of the development of the RMC platform.

Tinubu® secures €1.5M in funding
Tinubu® Square raises additional funds to further develop the Risk Management Center (RMC) platform.

Recovery Square
Tinubu® Square incorporates Recovery Square,
a debt collection agency.

European Tech Tour (ETT)
Tinubu® Square is selected by the European Tech Tour as one of France’s leading technology companies.

United-Kingdom
Tinubu® Square opens an office in London.

BPI France / Singapore
BPI France invests €11.3m in Tinubu® Square to expand its international presence in Asia and opens a regional office in Singapore.

International
International sales represent 2/3 of Tinubu® Square total revenue.

Canada
Tinubu® Square opens an office in Montreal.

U.S.A.
Tinubu® Square opens an office in New York.

€53m investment from
Long Arc Capital and Bpifrance
Tinubu Square secures €53m investment from Long Arc Capital & Bpifrance with the objectives to accelerate the development of technology solutions for credit and surety insurers, trade finance banks and export credit agencies.

Tinubu® Digital LAB
Tinubu® Square announced the launch of its ‘Innovation LAB’, focusing on blockchain, advanced integration and deep analytics for insurance and banking industry applications.

€15m investment
Current investors Long Arc Capital and Bpifrance provide additional support to target high growth international markets for credit insurance and surety software.

eSURETY® and SuretyWave
Tinubu® Square announces acquisition of U.S. companies eSURETY® and SuretyWave®

Tinubu® Square Key Figures
Here are a few facts and figures about Tinubu® Square.
30/60
30 of the top 60 worldwide Credit & Surety underwriters are Tinubu Square's customers
30+
Tinubu® Platform users are located in more than 30 countries across the world
5OOB+
Tinubu® Platform provided for more than 500B+ trade transaction in 2020
2M+
Over 2M decisions are issued from Tinubu® Platform annually
48%
Tinubu® Square achieved 48% ARR growth in 2020
100%
Customer retention rate for Tinubu® Square's credit and surety carriers is 100% in 2020
75
Tinubu® Square's number of customers is 75
5000
The number of Tinubu® Platform users is 5000
People behind Tinubu® Square's success
An international team with a broad diversity of professional backgrounds in key sectors with a passion to help you bring out the best in your business.

Jérôme Pezé
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
In 2000, Jérôme Pezé and Olivier Placca launched Tinubu Square, the first European company expert in trade credit management. Jérôme is currently President of Tinubu® Square.

Olivier Placca
Group Deputy CEO and Co-founder
Olivier co-founded Tinubu® Square with Jérôme Pezé in 2000. As an expert in information systems strategy, he became Head of the IT, R&D, Product Management, Professional Services as well as Business Development Support. Today he is Group Deputy CEO and Co-founder of Tinubu® Square.

Cécile Rumpler
VP Group Finance & Administration
Cécile is Vice President at Tinubu® Square since 2012, and Head of Finance and Administration.

Sophie Riottot
Group Sales Director
Since April 2019, Sophie is Group Sales Director, at Tinubu® Square and member of the executive committee of the company.




Daniel T. Buckles
Deputy CEO of Tinubu Square Americas
and President of Tinubu Square Surety Americas









Dan Buckles
Deputy CEO of Tinubu Square Americas and, President of Tinubu Square Surety Americas











Yves de Talhouët
Former Senior Vice President and Director,
HP Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)






Corporate partnerships & memberships
Our memberships and partnerships are critical to being part of the credit insurance & surety ecosystem. In joining, our teams are able to keep abreast with the latest insights and best practices.
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Awards and Recognitions
Recognition of our customers and the industry in which we operate is important to us.
Here are some of our recent awards and recognitions.

Corda InsurTech Challenge
Top 5

Trade Finance Global
Tradetech 40

EuroCloud Award
Winner for "Best Vertical SAAS Solution"

IE-Club & Business France
Winner of ‘Trophées de l’International
du Numérique’

Software publishers and creators
Rank 87 for ‘Software vendor in France’

EuroCloud Award
Finalist of ‘Best Cloud Solution’

2017
Software publishers and creators
Rank 51 for ‘Vertical market software vendor in France’

EuroCloud Award
Finalist of ‘Best Cloud Solution’

IE-Club & Business France
Winner of ‘Established leadership’,
category ‘Internet as a business Catalyst’

Global 100 Software Leaders
Rank 76 for ‘France software leaders 100’

Software publishers and creators
Rank 87 for ‘Software vendor in France’

Top 100 French software publishers
Rank 60 for ‘French software vendor’

Global 100 Software Leaders
Rank 72 for ‘France software leaders 100’

Accenture Innovation
Blue Tulip Awards
Top 25 ‘Best Financial Service’

Top 100 French software publishers
Rank 65 for ‘French software vendor’

FS Tech
Finalist of ‘Risk Management Software of the year’

Red Herring
Top 100 finalists