Tagged: manuel silva martinez

April 14, 2021 @ 10:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Manuel Silva Martinez, General Partner of Mouro Capital (formerly Santander InnoVentures), has distributed a note on Bitcoin and the environmental impact of the world’s most popular crypto. Martinez is criticizing BTC just as it rockets to new all time highs – currently trading at around… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 2:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this month, Banco Santander announced that its venture arm, Santander Innoventures was being spun off and renamed as Mouro Capital. Today, Mouro Capital is announcing its first investment leading a $26 million funding round in Uncapped. The funding round was said to include both… Read More

September 11, 2020 @ 8:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Santander Innoventures is going it alone. The venture capital subsidiary of Banco Santander is being spun off and renamed as Mouro Capital. The new entity is also receiving additional capital from the bank as Santander will double the amount of dedicated funds going from $200… Read More

October 23, 2019 @ 9:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Santander InnoVentures recently led an expansion investment round for San Francisco-headquartered Roostify, an online mortgage lending platform. The size of the investment made has not been shared publicly. Established in 2012, Roostify provides an integrated platform that connects customers and lenders in order to… Read More

October 18, 2019 @ 7:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Santander InnoVentures, Santander Group’s venture capital fund focused on financial technology investments, is leading a €35 million (appr. $38.7 million) investment round in Berlin-based CrossLend, a cross-border marketplace lending platform for making pan-European investments. The Series B funding round in CrossLend includes investments from… Read More

September 24, 2019 @ 11:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset issuance and management platform Securitize has raised $14 million in a funding round led by three big multinational banks: Banco Santander (InnoVentures), MUFG (Mitsubishi’s VC arm) and Nomura Holdings. The investment is a solid recognition of the growing relevance of digitization of securities… Read More

January 21, 2019 @ 4:39 am By Erin Hobey  |  

UK fintech business lender MarketInvoice has raised £26M in new equity funding during a Series-B funding round led by Barclays and Santander’s $200M fintech fund InnoVentures with significant participation from European venture fund Northzone, an existing investor in the company. Technology credit fund Viola Credit, who… Read More

October 13, 2017 @ 8:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Santander InnoVentures, the Fintech VC fund of Santander Group, has invested in the Mexican startup ePesos, a mobile payments company for the underbanked. The $6 million funding round included the participation of VilCap Investments, Pomona Impact, and Fiinlab, the innovation lab owned by Gentera. The… Read More