Jirnexu

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JIRNEXU
Company typePrivate
IndustryFinancial Technology
Founded2012
Headquarters Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Key people
Yuen Tuck Siew
(Chief Executive Officer)
Liew Ooi Hann
(Chief Financial Officer)
James Barnes
(Chief Operating Officer)
Lucas Ooi
(Chief Commercial Officer & Head of Insurance)
Cedric Viver
(Chief Technology Officer)
James Wong
(Chief Business Development Officer)
Products ringgitplus.com
ServicesOnline financial aggregator, customer lifecycle management
Number of employees
51 - 100 (2017)
Website jirnexu.com

Jirnexu Sdn Bhd (Jirnexu) is a Southeast Asian financial technology startup headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [1] The company provides technology to help financial institutions manage different stages of the customer journey: marketing, acquisition, fulfilment and retention. [2] [3] It currently has business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) operations in Malaysia and Indonesia. [4] [5]

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History

Jirnexu was formerly known as Saving Plus. [6] In 2012, former Citi banker Yuen Tuck Siew and James Barnes founded RinggitPlus.com, a comparison and application website for financial products in Malaysia. [7] [8]

The website was officially launched in 2013 to allow comparison of and application for credit cards, home loans, car loans, investments and insurance schemes. [9]

In 2014, RinggitPlus.com merged with SaveMoney.my, an online portal that provides information on different credit cards, car loans, phone, travel and shopping in Malaysia. [10] SaveMoney.my was founded by Liew Ooi Hann and Lucas Ooi in 2012. [9] Following the merger, Saving Plus Sdn Bhd was incorporated while RinggitPlus.com continued to operate as a comparison website. [11]

In 2016, Saving Plus rebranded itself to Jirnexu; [4] [12] the name means “prosper” in Maltese. [13] The company launched XpressApply, an online application and CRM technology as part of its business to provide financial institutions a channel to reach consumers digitally by handling banking product applications online.

Several venture capital firms have funded Jirnexu, including SBI Group, Celebes Capital, NTT DoCoMo Ventures, Nullabor, Tuas Capital Partners, Anfield Equities, Digital Media Partners, Gobi Partners, OSK Ventures International Berhad and private investor Steve Melhuish. [14] [4] [15] [16]

In October 2017, Jirnexu reported having total funding of US$8.0 million. [17] [18]

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