Asia-facing loan and insurance comparison service GoBear has now assembled $97m altogether, having lured existing investor Aegon to its latest round.

Singapore-based loan and insurance comparison app developer GoBear has raised $17m from life insurance and asset management firm Aegon and venture capital firm Walvis Participaties, TechCrunch reported yesterday.

Founded in 2015, GoBear has built a metasearch engine that lists more than 2,000 personal financial products provided by banks and insurance providers, leveraging data analytics rather than traditional risk scoring to facilitate more loans in underbanked Asian economies.

The same two investors had provided $80m for the company in a…