Tagged: investments

March 28, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares, Europe’s digital asset investment firm, is announcing the launch of two  zero management fee Crypto Index ETPs: CoinShares Physical Top 10 Crypto Market ETP & CoinShares Physical Smart Contract Platform ETP. These two products will be “listed on German’s main market Xetra.” Both ETPs… Read More

March 25, 2023 @ 10:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

InvestEngine, a platform that partners ETFs with investing techniques— giving users the skills & technology needed to grow their wealth, has raised 104% (£1,306,813) of its £1,250,000 fundraising target via Crowdcube from 378 investors (at the time of writing) with 20 days left in the… Read More

March 23, 2023 @ 5:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nomura‘s digital assets subsidiary, Laser Digital, announces a strategic investment in ClearToken, a startup that will introduce a clearing house to the digital asset marketplace, enabling “the scale and structure required for mass institutional engagement with digital assets.” As part of Laser’s strategic investment, its… Read More

March 22, 2023 @ 9:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital securities firm Securitize and digital asset wealth platform Onramp Invest announced the beginning of broadened and distributed access to tokenized private equity funds from leading investment firms, including Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE). Beginning now and expanding over the coming weeks, “at least four private… Read More

March 21, 2023 @ 6:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TTV Capital, an early-stage fintech venture capital firm, recently announced that it has closed its sixth fund at $250 million, the largest since the firm was founded over two decades ago. The fundraise, which originally “targeted $150 million, saw overwhelming interest and was oversubscribed by… Read More

March 19, 2023 @ 10:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

2023’s figures continue to “exceed expectations,” according to an update from investment platform Bondora. Investments for February via Bondora have “topped €20M for the first time in years, with a total of €20,660,543.” Increasing by 12.2%, loan originations on Bondora “totaled €19,228,733.” This is the… Read More

March 19, 2023 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Debitum notes that platform performance in February reveals a solid start of the year. New Loan originator – Flexiadea Polska – assets are “available for investments; increased rates for existing Loan Originators; improvements of the platform (‘About us’ section rebuilt); new deposits… Read More

March 15, 2023 @ 10:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

L4 Venture Builder, an independent investment fund with capital for investments in the ecosystems of innovation and entrepreneurship will take a minority stake in Vermiculus Financial Technology, “specialized in providing technology to exchanges, clearinghouses, and CSDs.” Both sides have “signed an agreement defining the terms… Read More

March 14, 2023 @ 10:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zad is reportedly the “first-of-its-kind digital investment platform launched in Kuwait by Securities House, “offering end-users access to trade over 4,000 stocks and ETFs in full compliance with Islamic Shariah principles.” As noted in a blog post, Zad is “the brainchild of the fintech Securities… Read More

March 14, 2023 @ 4:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tallarium, providers of unique trade analytics for price discovery in off-exchange energy markets, announces that it has secured additional investment from XTX Ventures, the venture capital arm of leading algorithmic trading company XTX Markets, and Reciprocal, a venture capital firm. The companies have “provided a… Read More

March 10, 2023 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Banking Group has invested £10 million in digital identity company Yoti, an investment which supports the development of innovative technology “to keep people safe online, tackle the ever-growing risks of identity fraud, and give people more control over their personal data.” Yoti offer “a… Read More

March 8, 2023 @ 11:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deep Instinct, the first company to apply deep learning to cybersecurity, today announced an investment from PayPal Ventures. This investment further “validates confidence in Deep Instinct’s unrivaled ability to see cyber threats well before other solutions can.” The funding will help further “accelerate Deep Instinct’s… Read More

March 7, 2023 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

N2F, a provider of expense management software solutions, announced a €24 million strategic growth investment from PSG Equity (PSG), a growth equity firm partnering with software and technology-enabled services companies “to help accelerate their growth and build scale across Europe and North America.” Nicolas Dubouloz… Read More

March 6, 2023 @ 3:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Berlin-based infrastructure fintech Upvest supports the mobile banking and investment app Vivid with its Investment-API, “enabling Vivid to expand its range of investment opportunities for private investors.” Upvest’s API solution allows Vivid’s end-customers “to invest in European ETFs and stocks with all relevant shareholder rights… Read More

March 5, 2023 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Immuta, a data security firm, announced an additional strategic investment to its Series E funding round from ServiceNow. This investment reportedly comes “at a time of immense growth for Immuta and its Data Security Platform SaaS offering, which saw annual recurring revenue increase by 200%… Read More

March 3, 2023 @ 4:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance has made an investment in Nomad Capital, a newly established crypto venture fund, as part of Binance’s continued efforts “to support the larger crypto ecosystem.” As mentioned in their blog post, Nomad Capital adopts “a hands-on approach to help their portfolio projects grow and… Read More

March 3, 2023 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sustainable investment solution provider u impact has joined forces with specialized green banking software provider ecolytiq in order “to introduce innovative sustainable investment products to a wider branch of private investors.” Through a combination of u impact’s interactive investment sustainability analysis and the ecolytiq Sustainability-as-a-Service… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Founder and CEO Leo Mizuhara and Cumberland Labs are pleased to announce the launch of Hashnote, the first fully regulated, institutional-grade investment management platform for DeFi. Hashnote is “backed with US$5mn of investment from Cumberland Labs, an early-stage blockchain incubator launched by the partners of… Read More

February 27, 2023 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Around six years ago, the first loan on Robo.cash was purchased. Robo.cash says it is pleased to celebrate this event and thank their investors for being with them. As noted in a blog post by Robocash, here’s what have they’ve achieved over the years” 30,000+… Read More

February 25, 2023 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DirectID, a UK-based, global fintech specializing in credit risk, risk analytics and predictive modelling, using bank transaction data, announced that Ingka Investments, the investments arm of Ingka Group, has made a EUR 9m minority investment in the company. With a mission to promote financial inclusion… Read More