March 5, 2024 @ 11:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

THIS, which claims to be the UK’s “fastest growing” food brand (Feb ’23), making ridiculously meaty plant-based alternative, has secured over £1  million on Seedrs topping its funding target of £750,000. The securities offering has almost a month left in its campaign. THIS is offering… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 11:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Estateguru is sharing its loan portfolio for the month of January 2024. Estateguru says that it saw €6.1M in loan repayments in January, “with an additional €0.5M from recovered loans.” Estateguru says it also saw total returns amounting to €1.2M euros, with “an average return… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 11:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PensionBee Group plc, an online pension provider, recently announced it has entered into an exclusive, non-binding term sheet “with a large, US-based global financial institution in order to expand into the United States of America.” The US has the world’s largest Defined Contribution pension market,… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 11:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ESProfiler, the British cybersecurity start-up, announces a £2.8 million Seed round, led by Nauta Capital. This milestone builds on the momentum from angel investments received in 2023. Founded to tackle the inefficiencies in enterprise cybersecurity investments, ESProfiler is emerging as a key player in the… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 10:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Is it the Bitcoin ETFs? The Halving? The debt debacle in the US? Whatever it is, Bitcoin has hit a new all-time high. According to Coinbase, Bitcoin briefly breached $69,000 – the highest valuation ever. Currently trading at around $68,000 some prognosticators are predicting that… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 10:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Tomorrow (March 6, 2024), the Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt will reveal the Spring Budget. Will there be tax cuts? Will ISAs be expanded?  Will the inheritance tax go away? We will know soon enough. As there is an election looming, you can expect… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, a global online investment platform providing smaller investors access to private securities offerings, is partnering with NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) as part of its sector fund, the OurCrowd AI Fund. NVIDIA is the hottest artificial intelligence firm around today, as just about everyone needs their technology… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Eric Demuth, CEO at Bitpanda, reveals that they’re launching LeadBlock Bitpanda Ventures (focused on Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals). When the team first created Bitpanda, there wasn’t much help available to them. There also wasn’t enough funding and there wasn’t expertise they could draw… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s challenger bank Monzo has finalized a heavily-trailed $400 million investment round, which has increased the firm’s valuation to $5 billion. The funding round, an incentive for pushing the banking platform towards profitability, was reportedly led by Alphabet-owned Capital G, along with contributions from Google… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

tZERO is sharing that the McNeill Investment Group is raising money on its Securities platform. tZero has inched into online capital formation, having listed several securities offerings. The platform is listing the offering under Reg D 506c and is thus only available to accredited investors…. Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 7:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES), a global alternative investment manager, announced that funds managed by its Alternative Credit strategy have launched Ansley Park Capital, a newly-formed lending and specialty finance company “that delivers full spectrum, customized financing solutions for essential-use, large-ticket equipment.” Ansley Park’s management… Read More

March 4, 2024 @ 11:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

EuroCrowd, the pan-European assocation that represents investment crowdfunding platforms across the continent, has announced a partnership with InnovUP,  or the Italian Innovation & Startup Ecosystem association. According to a note from EuroCrowd, the partnership means that EuroCrowd will help represent Italian platforms. This is said… Read More

March 4, 2024 @ 9:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) announced a partnership between its marketing solutions line, TruAudience, and Samooha, by Snowflake, a native data clean room solution on Snowflake. The partnership paves the way “for a privacy and data-driven future in the advertising industry.” This also represents a significant step… Read More

March 4, 2024 @ 7:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayQuicker, a Fintech firm focused on the global payouts market, today announced its partnership with MONAT Global, a direct-selling company known for its haircare, skincare, and wellness products. MONAT will leverage PayQuicker’s unique offerings “to streamline commission-based payments to their Market Partners across the globe… Read More

March 4, 2024 @ 7:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

STICPAY, a global e-wallet service provider and payment gateway, announces new partnerships with more than 20 Asian local payment providers in a move that makes global payments for Asia’s developing market communities more accessible, integrated, and cost-effective. Across China, India, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore,… Read More

March 4, 2024 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum Layer-2 roll-up platform Metis is announcing key collaborations with Chainlink Labs, EigenLayer, Renzo, Ethena, and DeFi Kingdoms. These collaborations are expected to make Metis stronger and “more accessible—a self-sustaining blockchain—by enabling better user experiences and deeper liquidity.” Many Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) networks “offer… Read More

March 4, 2024 @ 3:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week the SEC’s Small Business Capital Formation Access Committee met and one of the topics reviewed was the definition of an Accredited Investor. Once again, the Committee determined that the current definition is too restrictive, voting on expanding the definition to make it more… Read More

March 4, 2024 @ 3:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

FinQuery, a provider of solutions built to manage companies’ largest areas of spend, has launched FinQuery Contract Management, an AI-enabled solution that centralizes business contracts, enhances visibility and empowers wiser spending decisions. FinQuery said Contract Management fills an important gap. Until now, contract management solutions… Read More

March 4, 2024 @ 2:04 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The American Fintech Council (AFC) last week spoke about proposed legislation in Maryland and Minnesota, while CEO Phil Goldfeder also commented on the reintroduction of the Financial Services Innovation Act. The week began with the AFC supporting the Maryland Commercial Financing – Small Business Truth… Read More

March 4, 2024 @ 2:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fiserv (NYSE: FI) is reportedly battling it out with Amadeus IT Group in order to acquire payments processor Shift4 Payments. This, according to an update from Reuters. Publicly-listed Shift4, which claims a market valuation of about $7 billion, has been running a sales process during… Read More