Tagged: kleiner perkins

July 29, 2022 @ 9:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dbank, a Pakistan-based Fintech company established by two ex- Google professionals, has acquired $17.6 million via a seed round that has been co-led by Sequoia Southeast Asia and Kleiner Perkins. Brazil’s virtual banking platform Nubank, RTP Global, Rayn and business partner Askari Bank also took… Read More

January 23, 2022 @ 10:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bahrain-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange Rain Financial has secured $110 million in capital via a Series B round. Rain Financial reports that its investment round has been co-led by Paradigm and Kleiner Perkins along with contributions from Coinbase Ventures, Global Founders Capital, MEVP, Cadenza Ventures, and CMT… Read More

November 17, 2021 @ 3:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Imprint, which provides branded payments and rewards products, has announced a $38 million Series A round that was led by Kleiner Perkins with Fintech Stripe participating. Imprint is focused on developing the “most rewarding, and most inclusive way for customers to pay at the brands… Read More

June 11, 2019 @ 11:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

U.S. fintech Brex announced on Tuesday it secured $100 million through its latest investment round, which was led by Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund. This round of investment comes just a couple of months after Brex received $100 million debt capital investment from Barclays Investment… Read More

December 10, 2018 @ 10:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Korea based Viva Republica, creator of the peer to peer money transfer service Toss, has raised $80 million led by some pretty big names. VCs Kleiner Perkins and Ribbit Capital led the funding round. The investment has delivered unicorn status for the Fintech as the… Read More

April 4, 2017 @ 5:40 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

“We have gained a foothold within the industry by partnering with 42 brands to date. Moving forward we will continue to innovate…” Having spent more than 20 years as a corporate executive in companies backed by prosperous VC firms including Kleiner Perkins, Mohr Davidow and Sequoia Capital, ApplePie Capital CEO… Read More

February 11, 2017 @ 9:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Better Mortgage has received $15 million in funding during a Series B round. Kleiner Perkins, the VC firm that helped to fund companies like Google and Amazon, participated in the funding round alongside Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments Group and Pine Brook. Better previously raised… Read More

November 8, 2015 @ 7:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Ray Lane, a Partner Emeritus at Kleiner Perkins, was interviewed by CNBC’s Kelly Evans last week during an excursion to Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.  Lane, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon, is now Trustee at the university.  The discussion was largely about Carnegie’s engineering expertise including… Read More

April 29, 2015 @ 10:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last September, Crowdfund Insider revealed that OUYA was rumored to be making its way to the sale block. The Android gaming startup rocketed to fame and potential fortune back in 2012 during a 29-day Kickstarter campaign, which it raised $8,596,474 from over 29,000 backers.  Unfortunately, the device consistently… Read More

September 8, 2014 @ 4:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week Re/Code posted that Android gaming platform Ouya was on the sales block. It sounded like it was almost a matter of time before an acquiring company swept in and scooped up a twitching carcass of a gaming platform.  To quote Re/Code; “Ouya, the… Read More

May 9, 2013 @ 6:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter darling raised over $8 Million crowdfunding, now they are raising more funds in a new funding round lead by Venture Capital legend Kleiner Perkins including the Mayfield Fund, NVIDIA, Shasta Ventures and Occam Partners Video game startup OUYA today announced $15 million in new… Read More