Funding Tracker
Announced May 20, 2025Firsty raises $5.8M
- Company
- Firsty
- Round
- Venture
- Amount
- $5.8M
- Investors
- Speedinvest, Dutch Founders Fund
- Announced
- May 20, 2025
What happened
Firsty, the Amsterdam- and Singapore-based startup offering a free global eSIM on a freemium model, raised $5.8 million backed by Speedinvest and Dutch Founders Fund to expand across Asia. The company was founded by former Adyen product leads.
Why it matters
Freemium is coming to connectivity: Firsty's ad-supported free data tier is a pricing experiment that could reshape how travel eSIMs — and eventually MVNOs — acquire customers.
eSIM
Freemium
Asia
Source: DealStreetAsia
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