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Investment & Funding
Top fintech stories this week – 7 September 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
SynapseFI raises $17m in new funding
It’s making public what insiders have known for months.
CAN Capital receives $287m financing facility
Money courtesy of alternative asset manager Varadero Capital.
How to finance your tech business – balancing equity and debt
Plus top tips on raising capital.
Foxconn and friends form $100m VC fund in US
Wisconsin business community gets some love and (more importantly) money.
Funding Circle plans to raise £300m in IPO
Lending platform’s plan was first revealed in January. Now it’s official.
Dfinity raises $105m funding for blockchain supercomputer dream
Sees itself as “The Internet Computer”.
CULedger gets $8.5m to support blockchain for credit unions
Part of a $10m funding goal.
Gold-as-currency enabler Glint seeks US sprint
Partners with Sutton Bank and Galileo Processing for American dreams.
Salary Finance raises $20m funding to launch in US
UK personal finance firm wants to make waves across the Atlantic.
Andreessen Horowitz leads very nice $8.5m investment in Very Good Security
“You can’t hack what isn’t there.”
US credit card firm Deserve raises $17m funding
Going for Generation Z with its “financial independence” offer.
Binance Labs launches incubator for crypto start-ups
$500K for those firms selected.
Latvian entrepreneurs buy Colorado National Bank for $9m
Co-owners of payments firm to profit from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Regtech ComplySci on a high with Vista Equity investment
New York-based firm feeling funky via Vista’s Endeavor Fund.
Vestigo Ventures unveils vertigo-inducing $59m fund
Good news for US fintech companies.
US lender receives Series C $62m funding Upgrade
Financing led by CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund.
Cloud finance platform Consero gets $50m investment
Boston-based BV Investment Partners invests in Texan firm.
SFOX raises $23m funding for crypto asset management platform
Series A funding round led by Tribe Capital and Social Capital.
Top fintech stories this week – 17 August 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Canadian lendtech Progressa feeling progressive with $84m funding
Funding round co-led by Canaccord Genuity and Gravitas Securities.
Temasek favouring fintech investment over US banks
Singapore-based firm sees it as a more profitable industry.
Goldman Sachs leads Axoni’s $32m funding round
Blockchain technology firm basks in Series B round.
Overstock’s blockchain subsidiary bags $270m funding
Chinese private equity firm GSR Capital sees a hero in tZero.
EY finds $1bn for fintech foraging
Investment plans in cyber, risk management and cloud-based tech.
Idea incubator Pioneer calls for ambitious outsiders
“Apply with any project you need help with.”
Paytech ClickSwitch gets $3.5m funding
US-based automated account switching solution is switched on.
Blockchain record-tracker Factom gets $6m investment
FastForward Innovations shows interest in blockchain record-tracking company.
BBVA’s VC fund leads $9m funding round in finserv Steady
New funds will be used to launch additional product lines.
Quebec goes on tech quest with $6m fund
Plans to invest in 20 to 25 firms.
How to organise a successful funding round for your start-up
Lessons learned from Penta’s CEO and co-founder following its €2.2 million seed round.
Big data start-up Quantexa raises $20m for big plans
Series B funding round led by Dawn Capital.
Paytech Gusto brings in $140m funding
Payroll, benefits, and HR platform now valued at almost $2 billion.
Microsoft and Nationwide invest $12m in SME lender BlueVine
Takes the company’s total funding to $590 million. Ye gods!
Barclays and JP Morgan lead $14m funding in Cloud9
Cloud9 will speed up roll-out of its SaaS-based voice communications platform.
CloudTrade secures £2m investment from Calculus Capital
Cloud-based docs are finally in demand.
Top fintech stories this week – 27 July 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Payments firm Flywire flying with $100m funding
Singapore investment firm Temasek led the Series D round.
Tally ho! Debt management app gets $25m funding
Series B funding led by Kleiner Perkins.
