“Can a vertical fintech become the financial and operational OS for the global drinks industry by combining inventory-backed working capital with logistics, operations and workflow software?”
Founded in 2018 as an inventory-finance fintech narrowly focused on the UK wine and spirits sector, Ferovinum built a structured-finance bridge between capital markets and physical drinks supply chains. It scaled debt capacity from a 2021 BCI facility to a £100M NatWest-led syndicate (2023) and a $550M Pollen Street securitisation (2025), the latter unlocking US/EU/AU expansion. In November 2025 the company rebranded as 'Fero' and broadened its scope from pure working-capital finance into a four-pillar drinks operating system: Funding, Logistics, Operations and Workflows.
Ferovinum's lending and capital products are provided by Ferovinum (in-house).
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in Ferovinum's stack: Lending (Ferovinum (in-house), Inventory-backed working capital and Supply-chain financing for wine & spirits); Unified APIs (Apideck).
Ferovinum was founded by Mitchel Fowler and Daniel Gibney and is founded in 2018, headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Ferovinum has raised £17.5M equity + $550M debt securitisation in total (latest round: Series A, 2024).
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