FundedIQ
Financial Services

Southern First Bank: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)

Southern First Bancshares provides banking services which offers checking and saving accounts, personal and business loans, payment transfers, online banking, cash management, and mortgages. Southern First Bancshares serves customers throughout the State of South Carolina.

southernfirst.com LinkedIn Greenville, United States 251-500 employees
Total raised
$65.2M
Rounds
1
Latest
Undisclosed round
Apr 2026

Southern First Bank has raised $65.2M across 1 funding round on record, the most recent an undisclosed round of $65.2M announced in Apr 2026.

That round is above the $14M median round size for Financial Services companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Southern First Bank Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$65.2M
across 1 round on record
Funding rounds on record
1
Latest funding round
Undisclosed round
$65.2M in Apr 2026
Employees
251-500
reported band
Headquarters
Greenville, United States

Latest funding round on record: Apr 2026.

Southern First Bank Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Undisclosed round
$65.2M

Southern First Bank Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Art Seaver
Founder
Locked

Contact details for the Southern First Bank team: 1 of 1 has an email address on file.

Start 14-day free trial →

Southern First Bank Funding Compared to Other Financial Services Startups

Segment
Companies
Median round

Southern First Bank's latest round of $65.2M is above the median round in Financial Services. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

Funded Startups Like Southern First Bank in Financial Services and Greenville

Companies Similar to Southern First Bank

RQD Clearing provides correspondent clearing services that fulfill brokers' technological and business model…

Undisclosed round $74.0M

Standard Metrics is a financial platform for startups and investors.

Series B $21.3M

Axela Technologies improves and automates the collection process for a variety of illiquid, esoteric real…

Undisclosed round $5.0M

Edge Focus develops and operates an advanced fintech platform in the area of investment management.

Private Equity

An open platform for customer-permitted insurance data is called Axle. Axle enables customers to safely link…

Series A $17.5M

The Strivve Platform makes use of pioneering automation technology that allows for the immediate addition of…

Undisclosed round

CAIS is a monetary innovation stage, giving free monetary guides admittance to top-level supervisors of…

Series D $170M

Provable Markets is a financial services firm that provides market participants with a secure, centralized…

Series B

PEX Card is a corporate prepaid card solution provider for small and medium sized companies to control…

Private Equity $160M

Our purpose is to accelerate the games industry’s shift from a platform oligopoly to a competitive…

Series A $13.0M

Epic Markets is a financial technology and retail brokerage firm built to deliver institutional-grade trading…

Pre-Seed $10.0M

Lumin Digital provides cloud-based digital banking services to financial institutions.

Private Equity $115M

Southern First Bank Funding FAQs

What does Southern First Bank do?

Southern First Bancshares provides banking services which offers checking and saving accounts, personal and business loans, payment transfers, online banking, cash management, and mortgages. Southern First Bancshares serves customers throughout the State of South Carolina.

How much funding has Southern First Bank raised?

Southern First Bank has raised $65.2M across 1 round on record. The most recent is an undisclosed round of $65.2M announced in Apr 2026.

When did Southern First Bank last raise funding?

Southern First Bank's most recent funding round on record is an undisclosed round of $65.2M, announced in Apr 2026.

Who founded Southern First Bank?

FundedIQ lists Art Seaver (Founder) at Southern First Bank.

Where is Southern First Bank headquartered?

Southern First Bank is based in Greenville, South Carolina, United States.

How many employees does Southern First Bank have?

Southern First Bank is in the 251-500 employee band.

How does Southern First Bank's funding compare to other Financial Services startups?

Southern First Bank's latest round of $65.2M is above the $14M median round size for Financial Services companies on FundedIQ across 5,745 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Southern First Bank Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Southern First Bank is left off this page rather than filled in.

14-day free trial · Cancel anytime

Know who just raised. Then know who to reach.

Every newly funded startup with its round, its investors and its founders: delivered weekly by email, or searchable in the app.

Alerts from $19/mo · Pro from $99/mo. Card required, nothing charged until day 15, and we email you 3 days before that.