Tagged: investment round

April 10, 2020 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment firm Index Ventures has acquired $2 billion in funding during a time when there are concerns that tech startups won’t be able to secure the capital they need to sustain operations. This, as individuals and businesses cope with the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and… Read More

April 9, 2020 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Neobank Amica Technologies, which is managed by Jitendra Gupta, the former PayU India’s chief executive, has acquired $2 million in capital through an investment round led by two major VC firms, including UK-based Hummingbird Ventures and US-headquartered Bedrock Capital. Gupta said his company is planning… Read More

April 9, 2020 @ 7:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paris-headquartered Jus Mundi, a Legaltech firm that aims to serve as the search engine for international law and arbitration, has secured €1 million in capital through its recent seed funding round. Jus Mundi’s management says the firm aims to become a leading resource for international… Read More

April 8, 2020 @ 8:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dsdaq, a Fintech firm established in October 2019, has secured $1.5 million in funding from several angel investors including Efftronics Asia, a Hong Kong-based family investment office, and Draper Dragon, a Silicon Valley-based VC firm. Jiaxuan (Leah) Li, CMO at Dsdaq, stated: “Dsdaq is dedicated… Read More

April 8, 2020 @ 12:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cuscal-backed digital bank 86 400 has secured $34 million in funding from its first outside investors. The Australian neobank’s Series A investment round was led by Morgan Stanley. The banking challenger has acquired a total of $90 million in capital. The bank’s latest round included… Read More

April 7, 2020 @ 3:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-headquartered Privitar, a data privacy company, has secured $80 million in funding through a Series C investment round led by Warburg Pincus. ABN Amro Ventures, the VC division of ABN Amro, the third-largest bank in the Netherlands, also took part in Privitar’s latest round. Accel,… Read More

April 3, 2020 @ 4:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thesis, the developers behind the Keep protocol, have acquired $7.7 million in capital through an investment round led by Paradigm Capital. Collaborative Funds and Fenbushi Capital also took part in the round. Thesis, which mainly serves as a venture production studio, is planning to introduce… Read More

April 2, 2020 @ 7:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Belgium-based InvestSuite, a business-to-business (B2B) wealth technology (Wealthtech) firm, has secured an additional €2 million in seed funding. The firm’s current and new angel investors took part in the round. InvestSuite’s management and employees also made contributions, bringing the company’s total funding since its launch… Read More

April 1, 2020 @ 8:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Currencycloud, which facilitates international transactions for several large finance apps, has secured $80 million via an investment round backed by payments giant Visa. Headquartered in the UK, Currencycloud’s main business involves selling payment software to banks and Fintech companies, which they use to… Read More

March 28, 2020 @ 7:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bulgaria-based payment companies, Paynetics, and phyre, have both finalized investment rounds, which were led by the Bulgarian American Credit Bank and VC New Vision 3. Paynetics, which secured €2.5 million in funding, and phyre, which acquired €1.55 million in capital, were both established by Bulgarian… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 6:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coin Metrics, a blockchain analytics and research company, has acquired $6 million in funding through a Series A investment round, which was led by existing investor Highland Capital Partners. Coinbase, Digital Currency Group, Dragonfly Capital, and Fidelity (among others) also took part in Coin Metrics’… Read More

March 26, 2020 @ 8:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Delta Capita, a financial services consulting company, has acquired $50 million in capital from Prytek Holdings, a Singapore-based venture capital firm. As noted on Delta Capita’s official website: “We work with the world’s [largest] financial institutions to help them comply with regulations, simplify operations, reduce… Read More

March 26, 2020 @ 2:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana, a high-throughput distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based platform that’s reportedly handling between 50,000-65,000 transactions per second, has secured $1.76 million in funding through its launch auction on CoinList, a compliant platform for crypto asset firms to conduct their token sales. Solana has now raised a… Read More

March 25, 2020 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Balancer Labs, a non-custodial asset manager, has secured $3 million in funding through a seed round led by Accomplice and Placeholder. Established in 2018, Balancer began operating as an initiative under BlockScience, a data analytics company. The project has been inspired by the development of… Read More

March 25, 2020 @ 10:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinDCX, one of India’s largest digital asset exchanges, has secured $3 million in funding through a Series A investment round, which was led by Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX) operator, HDR Group. Polychain Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and several other unnamed venture capitalists also took part… Read More

March 20, 2020 @ 3:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dublin-based Fintech firm My Money Jar revealed on March 19, 2020 that it has secured €700,000 in capital through an investment round led by Enterprise Ireland. This brings the company’s total funds raised to €1.3 million during the past 18 months. My Money Jar’s founders… Read More

March 19, 2020 @ 7:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Payhawk, a corporate expense management company, has secured €3 million in seed funding. Founded in Bulgaria, Payhawk’s paperless expense management platform aims to improve the  corporate expense management process. The Fintech firm allows companies to add funds to employee cards and automatically process transactions… Read More

March 18, 2020 @ 11:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India-based Vivriti Capital, an online debt platform, has reportedly secured INR 3.5 billion (appr. $50 million) in funding through a Series B investment round from LGT Lightstone Aspada. Vivriti’s latest round has come only around 10 months after the firm’s Series A round from US-headquartered… Read More

March 16, 2020 @ 4:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Although there are many software tools to manage company expenses, the existing expense processing methods can be quite cumbersome and are also inefficient. Many firms depend on  manual processes to manage their spending. The founders of Expense Robot, a Switzerland-based Fintech firm that uses artificial… Read More

March 16, 2020 @ 4:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Approximately $40 trillion of physical oil and gas is traded in global markets each year and anywhere between 3 to 5% of that value evaporates, because of opaque and fragmented product quality information. Validere, a developer of an informatics platform that allows energy firms to… Read More