Pleo appoints new CRO as it prepares for $100m funding round
Arun Mani joins Pleo after a successful spell at software company Freshworks.
Arun Mani joins Pleo after a successful spell at software company Freshworks.
A quick summary of this week’s smaller funding rounds.
Mark Lawrence joins the scale-up to grow its business in the US and beyond.
Lightyear claims to be the only true commission-free retail trading app.
UK’s first green debit card to let users track, reduce and offset their carbon footprint as they spend.
The Series A funding round is claimed to be the largest to date for a fintech in Latin America
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Africa-focused P2P firm claims to be the continent’s most valuable start-up
The Aussie bank is seeking to add value and increase engagement for its digital banking offering.
The US consumer finance subscription service is expected to have a valuation of $2.2 billion.
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The Australian firm has spent $105 million on its new buyouts.
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Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski: the glitch is “sad and frustrating”.
Its in-house and Accenture built core system will become a commercial offering in its own right.
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This Series C investment values the banking tech vendor Zeta at $1.45 billion.
The start-up aims to disrupt the “opaque, fragmented, and dominated by manual processes” fresh produce market.
$175 million came from its Series D equity round and $325 million was credit capital from various sources.
Pipe says the round was oversubscribed by $100 million.
HeyTrade and TrueLayer will deliver “a new investment experience using open banking payments”.
Featuring Trade Republic, Pine Labs, Figure, DailyPay, and Sunbit.
The platform is on a “mission of creating financial freedom for everyone”.
Uncapped will increase its headcount from 35 to 100 people.
Figure uses Provenance, a public, open source, permissionless, decentralised blockchain.
Lithic has raised a total of $61m to date and has issued over ten million cards.
The funding is an extension of its Series C funding round from July 2020.
James Herbert, founder and CEO of Hastee, joins us on this latest episode of the What the Fintech? podcast.
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Gareth Lambe, head of Facebook Ireland, has invested in CleverCards.
The start-up last raised debt financing in late July 2020.
Australian payments firm suspends shares over “significant regulatory concerns”.
FundApps says it can “transform” investment management.
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As the world opens up, our writer asks if multi-currency accounts are a necessity, and how to offer them.
The start-up bank appointed a new CEO earlier this year.
CrescoFin aims to offer a “compelling alternative” to banks.