Tagged: investment round

February 10, 2020 @ 1:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-headquartered firm Laka has secured €4.2 million for the ongoing development of its bicycle insurance platform. The firm will be establishing its European headquarters in Amsterdam and will use the funds raised to further expand its operations across Europe. Laka’s latest investment round was led… Read More

February 9, 2020 @ 1:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hamburg-headquartered Receeve has secured €4 million through a seed funding round led by Mangrove Capital Partners and Speedinvest. The funds raised will be used to digitally transform Europe’s debt sector. Full stack of debt servicing Receeve says it will use technology and artificial intelligence to… Read More

February 6, 2020 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lightning Labs, a company focused on the development of the Lightning Network (LN), a second-layer scalability solution for expediting small Bitcoin (BTC) payments, has reportedly  finalized a $10 million Series A investment round – which was led by Craft Ventures. Ribbit Capital, RRE Ventures, Slow… Read More

February 5, 2020 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain-enabled supply chain and trade finance firm Envoy Group is reportedly planning to expand its operations beyond Latin America. This, after recently acquiring $13 million in funding from Alcedo Digital Ventures. Developed on R3’s Corda platform, Envoy aims to enhance the existing $17 trillion annual… Read More

February 5, 2020 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital Asset, the firm behind the open-source DAML smart contract programming language, has reportedly acquired investments from Salesforce Ventures and Samsung Venture Investment Corp, as part of the second closing of its Series C financing round. As mentioned on Digital Asset’s official website, the company… Read More

January 31, 2020 @ 5:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Baton Systems, an established developer of “blockchain-inspired” bank-to-bank payments software and infrastructure for linking multiple different ledgers, has reportedly secured $12 million in capital, which now includes an additional $4 million from VC Illuminate Financial. Illuminate has joined other existing investors including Trinity Ventures, Alsop… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 9:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dubai-headquartered Sarwa confirmed on January 27 that it had finalized an $8.4 million Series A investment round, which was led by Kuwait Projects Company (KIPCO). The firm’s hybrid automated investment platform aims to simplify the process of investing while making it more affordable. Sarwa’s platform… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 5:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Belgium-headquartered SettleMint, an enterprise blockchain firm, has reportedly secured €1.9 million (appr. $2.04 million) through a new investment round. KPN Ventures and Medici Ventures took part in the firm’s latest funding, SettleMint’s management confirmed on January 28. Following the capital injection, the company is planning… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 2:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The venture capital division of the most profitable firm in the world, Saudi Aramco, has reportedly invested $5 million in a blockchain-enabled oil trading platform, called Vakt. Vakt’s management confirmed the news on January 28, noting that Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures is now among its… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 2:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

India-based consumer lending firm MoneyTap has secured around $7.14 million through a  Series B equity and debt financing round from investors, including Aquiline Technology Growth (ATG), RTP Global and Sequoia India. Additionally, several Korea and Japan-based investors took part in the round. Existing investors Prime… Read More

January 28, 2020 @ 12:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Westpac-backed VC fund Reinventure aims to increase its presence in Asia’s Fintech economy. Reinventure has reportedly joined a $90 million investment round for Kredivo’s owner, Indonesia’s fast-growing “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) platform. Asia Growth Fund and Square Peg led Reinventure’s latest round for FinAccel,… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 1:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Several US-based community banks have reportedly invested $9.5 million into artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced, API-driven banking technology provider, called Neocova. Developed specifically for community banks, Neocova’s cloud-powered core platform handles the management of customers, their deposits, and any loan products they might be using. The latest… Read More

January 22, 2020 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SteadyPay, a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) licensed gig-economy app, has secured £2.9 million (appr. $3.8 million) through a seed equity and debt funding round. The firm’s equity investment was led by venture capital company Hambro Perks and Fair By Design, the social impact fund launched… Read More

January 22, 2020 @ 7:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

France-based digital bank Qonto has secured $115 million through a Series C investment round led by Tencent and DST Global, in order to help it further penetrate key markets, implement new features to tailor its products and services to specific market segments, and hire new… Read More

January 20, 2020 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Volt, one of Australia’s first neobanks to have received a full operational license in the country, has reportedly secured an additional $70 million in investments. Steve Weston, co-founder and CEO at Volt, stated: “The high levels of interest we are receiving from potential banking partners… Read More

January 16, 2020 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lydia, a France-based mobile payments firm, has acquired €40 million (appr. $44.6 million) in funding via a Series B investment round led by Chinese internet giant Tencent. Open CNP, XAnge and New Alpha also took part in the round. Established in 2013, the Lydia peer-to-peer… Read More

January 16, 2020 @ 7:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Banxa, an established provider of fiat gateway infrastructure to major digital asset exchanges such as Binance, has reportedly secured $2 million via a Series A investment round. The funding round was led by NGC Ventures, one of the most active investors in the crypto-asset and… Read More

January 14, 2020 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mexico-based Fintech firm Resuelve Tu Deuda has secured $453 million pesos (appr. $24 million) in funding which includes both equity and financing in order to expand its business operations within and outside of the Latin American region. The company’s investment round was led by Alloy… Read More

January 13, 2020 @ 11:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

More than $1.4 billion in capital was secured by Australian Fintech firms in 2019 across 38 deals or partnerships, setting a new record. The significant increase in financial technology investments may be attributed (partially) to the rising number of rounds of at least $100 million,… Read More

January 12, 2020 @ 6:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thailand-based Lightnet, a Stellar blockchain-enabled platform, has reportedly secured $31.2 million in funding in order to further develop its international payments service in the Southeast Asia region. The Bangkok-based company has finalized a Series A investment round that was led by established Asian financial conglomerates,… Read More