Tagged: spark capital

June 25, 2024 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Tax Fintech AnchorZero has announced an $8 million seed round led by Bain Capital Crypto and Spark Capital. Other investors include Ethereal Ventures, Mischief Capital, Pascal Capital, and Robot Ventures. Angel investor Sarah Meyohas also participated in the round. AnchorZero is a firm that helps… Read More

January 28, 2022 @ 9:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Fireblocks has announced that they’ve acquired $550 million in capital through a Series E round. This brings Fireblocks‘ valuation to $8 billion, making the Fintech firm “the highest-valued digital asset infrastructure provider in the world.” As mentioned in the update from Fireblocks:… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 3:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Taptap Send, a community-focused cross-border financial platform, has announced a $65M Series B round led by Spark Capital, along with contributions from Unbound and previous leads Reid Hoffman and Canaan Partners, along with Slow Ventures, Breyer Capital, Wamda Capital, Flourish Ventures, and additional investors from… Read More

September 2, 2021 @ 10:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Shepherd, an Insurtech that offers “tech-enabled insurance for commercial construction,” has announced a $6.15 million seed round led by Spark Capital. Natalie Sandman, a partner at Spark, has joined the board of Shepherd. The funding included the participation of Susa Ventures, Procore Technologies, Y Combinator,… Read More

January 14, 2021 @ 3:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  XI Card, a U.S.-based smart credit card company, announced on Thursday it raised $12 million through its latest investment round, which was led by Spark Capital with participation from Jared Leto, Box CEO Aaron Levie, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, Affirm CEO/PayPal Co-Founder Max Levchin,… Read More

September 10, 2020 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Remote working Fintech firm Deel has secured $30 million in capital through a Series B investment round. Deel has managed to acquire $44 in funding during 2020 and its services are reportedly used by more than 500 businesses based in 140 different countries. Deel’s most… Read More

February 13, 2020 @ 10:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Reggora, a U.S. fintech that specializes in residential appraisal software, announced on Thursday it secured $10 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by Spark Capital. Founded in 2016, Reggora describes itself as a modern appraisal technology company that provides mortgage lenders… Read More

February 2, 2018 @ 1:17 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Coinbase, co-founded by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam, provides support for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin in 32 countries, with over 10 million customers served and over $50B in digital currency exchanged. Now the six year-old digital wallet and crypto-exchange Coinbase has reportedly crossed $1 billion in revenue… Read More

May 19, 2017 @ 7:28 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Mobile payment platform Verse closed a $20.5 million Series B round of funding led by Spark Capital, according to multiple news sources. eVentures and Greycroft Partners also participated in the round whose funds will be added to the $8.3M in Series A funding secured last October. The Barcelona/ San Francisco-… Read More

January 19, 2017 @ 10:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fig Publishing announced on Thursday it secured $7.84 million during a Series A Funding Round, which was led by Spark Capital and Greycroft with participation from Resolute Ventures, NextView Ventures, and Draft Ventures. Fig, which was founded in 2015, allows accredited and non-accredited investors to… Read More

February 9, 2016 @ 4:11 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Bond Street, an online lending platform for small businesses, and Booker, an all-­in-­one local service commerce platform, today announced a partnership to provide fairly­priced lending capital to help facilitate the growth of companies on the Booker platform. “Bond Street shares Booker’s mission to minimize the… Read More

July 30, 2015 @ 10:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Behalf, a payments platform targeted at small and mid-sized businesses, announced a Series B equity round and credit facility totaling $119M. MissionOG, an early to growth stage venture capital firm chaired by Gene Lockhart, the former CEO of MasterCard, led the equity round. Lockhart is joining… Read More

June 18, 2015 @ 3:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bond Street Marketplace,  a direct lender for small business, has closed an equity / debt financing round in the amount of $110 million led by Spark Capital and Jefferies. New participants include Slow Ventures, Eagle Cliff, Nathan Blecharczyk (Co-Founder of Airbnb), David Chang (Chef and founder of… Read More

February 11, 2015 @ 7:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

  David Haber is the co-founder, CEO and visionary behind Bond Street, an online lender that empowers small businesses by providing financing in a simple, transparent and fair way. Haber leads Bond Street’s overall company vision, strategy, fundraising and business development functions. Through Bond Street, Haber aims to… Read More

July 30, 2014 @ 10:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Privlo Set to Extend Platform Across the United States. Privlo, a peer to peer lender of private real estate loans for high-quality borrowers, has raised a $3.8 million seed plus round of funding from Spark Capital and QED Investors and up to $350 million in… Read More

January 10, 2014 @ 11:15 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The peer-to-peer lending space is rife with news and new high-quality market entrants to kick off the new year. It’s part of the reason why I predicted that 2014 is the year that P2P lending goes mainstream. (One could make an argument that it already has,… Read More

December 13, 2013 @ 9:50 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Oculus VR has turned Kickstarter success into what is fast-becoming one of the most interesting startups in the US today. Following a $16 million series A round, the company has announced that they have now closed an additional round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz…. Read More

June 18, 2013 @ 8:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Oculus VR has raised $16 million in a round with contributions from Spark Capital, Matrix Partners, Founders Fund and Formation 8. Spark Capital and Matrix Partners led the round. Spark founder Santo Politi and Matrix partner Antonio Rodriguez both acquire seats on Oculus’s Board of… Read More