April 16, 2018 @ 11:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Upper Hand, a cloud-based sports management software and business services company, announced last week it secured $1.5 million in funding from Park Ten Capital through its Series A Funding round. According to the company, the latest round brings its total funding to $4 million. Upper Hand, which… Read More

February 28, 2018 @ 10:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Payslip, an Ireland-based global payroll management software, and Fintech company, announced on Wednesday it secured a €1 million investment through its latest funding round, which was led by Frontline Ventures and AIB, with participation Technology Investors, Tribal, Bloom Equity and Enterprise Ireland. Founded in 2016, Payslip… Read More

February 25, 2018 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Toptal, a freelance software engineering platform that is based in the US but totally virtual, has launched an on-demand blockchain engineer network. The service helps corporates to tap into blockchain engineering talent – a service that is in heightened demand. Simultaneously Toptal has launched a… Read More

February 22, 2018 @ 2:19 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Multiven, a provider of independent and politically-neutral software integrity maintenance and cyber-defense services, opened its ICO on Chaineum.  The ICO aims at distributing Multiven Coin tokens (MultiCoins) which will serve as the medium of exchange for the soon-to-be-launched Multiven Open Marketplace (MOM) – a blockchain-based marketplace that aims… Read More

October 3, 2017 @ 1:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cloud software company Vlocity, Inc. announced on Tuesday the launch of its new consumer-friendly mobile application, Vella. According to the company, Vella enables insurance carriers to offer a personalized and modern way for their customers to handle their insurance needs.  While sharing more details about the… Read More

September 12, 2017 @ 8:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

New Zealand-based software as a service start-up Noted Limited raised over $500,000 through a private crowdfunding campaign on PledgeMe over the weekend. The company’s offering launched on August 29th, with a minimum goal of $100,000. It hit their maximum goal of $500,000 in less than two weeks… Read More

April 10, 2017 @ 1:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Naqoda, a provider of software and services to the financial industry, has announced the release of its core banking software that will allow existing banks, challenger banks, retail entrants and others to deliver an “omnichannel banking” experience to their customers. The release follows the implementation of… Read More

March 22, 2017 @ 3:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus has acquired a 35% ownership stake in Avaloq, a Switzerland-based Fintech firm that provides banking software. Avaloq has been in existence since 1985 and today the company has more than 2000 employees from around the world. An affiliate of… Read More

March 22, 2017 @ 12:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Pepper, a software platform that creates merchant branded apps to drive loyalty and increase customer spending, has successfully secured its initial £500,000 funding target from more than 150 investors on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. The company, which was launched in 2015, is currently live in… Read More

March 21, 2017 @ 7:47 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based Madiston has shared that FinBee, the first licensed peer to peer lender for SMEs in Lithuania, has launched using Madiston tech. FinBee has already been in operation providing consumer loans using the Madiston platform. The company is extending the arrangement to move into… Read More

March 13, 2017 @ 11:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Misys, a financial service software provider, and D+H (TSX: DH), another financial technology provider, are poised to merge and thus create a “diversified Fintech market leader” with a global footprint providing financial services software with an estimated revenue of $2.2 billion.  The announcement came today… Read More

February 10, 2017 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Therese Torris, Senior Contributing Editor for Crowdfund Insider, recently visited the offices of Misys to discuss alternative finance. Misys is a large UK based financial services software provider offering solutions for retail and corporate banking along with capital markets applications.  Misys claims more than 2000… Read More

February 7, 2017 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

“Platform as a Service” company Katipult, is reporting a “substantial capital investment in a round of funding” to help fuel global growth. A standout in the Canadian Fintech scene, Katipult is a white label software platform that powers investment marketplaces for crowdfunding or online lending… Read More

January 17, 2017 @ 1:48 pm By Therese Torris  |  

Today on the Parisian leg of a world tour called Misys Connect Forum, banking software publisher Misys announced the launch of a new addition to its offering of financial software solutions: Misys FusionBanking CrowdLending. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution aims at enabling retail and corporate banks… Read More

December 6, 2016 @ 6:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Veeqo, a UK based software company, has announced a £1 million Series A crowdfunding round. Veeqo is a company that helps online retailers increase their profit by selling on multiple channels and by managing their inventory, orders and shipping across a single, cloud-based platform. Veeqo has… Read More

November 30, 2016 @ 9:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Mambu, a software as a service (SaaS) banking platform, has received the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Financial Services Competency certification. Mambu states it will be one of the first companies to benefit from the new program that launched at re:Invent in Las Vegas. According to… Read More

November 25, 2016 @ 9:27 am By Paul Swaddle  |  

  As a mobile app development professional at the largest independent app developers in the UK, I’m asked on countless occasions by enterprise organisations “should we develop a native or hybrid app for our business?” The poser of the questions then sits, perched forward on… Read More

November 11, 2016 @ 10:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Builderstorm, a UK based cloud-based software brand, recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. Originally seeking £100,000, the company has already secured the initial funding target from more than 80 investors. Builderstorm currently offers software for managing construction companies. The software has over 30… Read More

August 18, 2016 @ 9:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Thought-Wired announced on Wednesday the launch of its PledgeMe campaign. The New Zealand social enterprise is currently seeking $200,000 through the initiative as it looks to fund the next stage of commercializing its thought sensing software. Launched in 2011, Thought-Wired’s product nous is described as a piece… Read More

August 12, 2016 @ 8:34 am By Bret Conkin  |  

So you want to start a Crowdfunding Portal…. Crowdfunding and Fintech in general are demonstrating dramatic growth due to many factors including the growth of the sharing economy, technology innovations and the liberalization of securities regulations in the US and Canada. A sure indicator of… Read More