For this week’s funding piece, we explore the latest transactions, funding rounds and investments. We bring you updates from fintech, open banking, cryptocurrencies, anti-money laundering platforms, cloud security platforms, payment techs, Buy Now, Pay Later apps. Enjoy the reading!
Open banking platform Tink raises €85 million
Tink (Stockholm, Sweden), an open banking platform provider, has raised €85 million in a round extension led by Eurazeo Growth and Dawn Capital. The funds will be used for international expansion and product development. The Stockholm-based startup raised €90 million in January. Read more
Bitso Raises $62M (€50.94m) in Funding
Bitso (Mexico City, Mexico), a crypto platform, closed $62m (€50.94m) in Series B funding. The round was led by Kaszek Ventures and QED Investors with participation from existing shareholders Coinbase Ventures and Pantera Capital. Nigel Morris from QED and Nicolas Szekasy from Kaszek have joined the board. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth into Latin America and extend its engineering team. Read more
CHAI gets $60 million (€49.3m) from Hanhwa, SoftBank Ventures Asia
CHAI (Seoul, South Korea), a payment tech startup, announced it has raised a $60 million (€49.3m)Series B. The round was led by Hanhwa Investment & Securities, with participation from SoftBank Ventures Asia (the early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group), SK Networks, Aarden Partners and other strategic partners. Read more
Orca Security Raises $55M (€45.19m) in Series B Funding
Orca Security (Los Angeles, CA, US), a cloud security platform provider, raised $55m (€45.19m) in Series B funding. The round was led by Iconiq Growth with participation from previous investors GGV Capital, YL Ventures, and a group of more than 50 prominent CISOs. The company intends to use the funds to further expand its cloud security and compliance capabilities to boost its sales team to nearly 30 people, to open new sales offices in the UK and Australia to serve the European and APAC markets. Read more
Salt Security Secures $30M (€24.65m) in Series B Funding
Salt Security (Palo Alto, CA, US), an API security company, raised $30m (€24.65m) in Series B funding. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from existing investors Tenaya Capital, S Capital VC, and Y Combinator. In conjunction with the funding, Carl Eschenbach, Partner, Sequoia, will join Tom Banahan, Partner, Tenaya Capital and Haim Sadger, Founding Partner, S Capital, on the Salt Security board of directors. The company, which has raised a total of $60m in equity financing to date, intends to use the funds to accelerate its business in 2021. Read more
Zilch Closes Additional $30M (€24.65m) Equity Funding
Zilch (London, UK), a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) startup, secured an additional $30m (€24.65m) equity funding and closed its pre Series B round. Investors included Simon Nixon (Seek Ventures and co-founder of Money Supermarket) and Gauss Ventures. Zilch is now in prime position to continue scaling its unique over-the-top BNPL business. Read more
Five Degrees raises € 22 million in a funding round
Five Degrees (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), a digital core banking technology provider, has secured an investment of € 22 million in a funding round led by Velocity Capital FinTech Ventures, and supported by its investor group including Reggeborgh and Atlas Invest. Karmijn Kapitaal, 5Square and other existing investors also participated in the round. With the new raised capital, Five Degrees will be able to develop and launch their entirely new, cloud-native core banking platform, as well as increasing sales and marketing efforts in 2021. Read more
Fintech startup Taxdoo raises €17m in Series A funding
Taxdoo (Hamburg, Germany), a fintech startup, has announced that it closed €17m in Series A funding. The funding round was led by global venture capital firm Accel, with participation from Visionaries Club, 20VC and existing investor HTGF. Taxdoo said the latest funding will support the company’s rapid growth through international expansion, increased hiring, R&D, sales and customer support. Read more
Neufund fintech raises €4 million in financing round
Neufund (Berlin, Germany), a fintech startup that connects investors and entrepreneurs by means of a blockchain-powered platform, has raised another €4 million in financing in a round led by Christophe Maire’s Atlantic Labs and Factory Berlin CEO Udo Schloemer, with participation from Freigeist Capital and Dario Suter (founder and managing director of DCM). This round will serve to obtain a financial license, and for the usual things like hiring and further product development. Read more
Vestrata Raises $4M (€3.29m) in Seed Funding
Vestrata (London, UK), a based fintech company providing integrated investment solutions, raised US$4m (€3.29m) in seed funding. The company intends to use the funds to bring its proposition to the wealth management and private banking sector. Read more
Anti-Money Laundering Platform Salv Raises €1.5 Million
Salv (Tallinn, Estonia), an anti-money laundering platform, recently announced it secured €1.5 million to expand the pilot program AML Bridge to other European countries. According to Salv, the pilot comes in cooperation with four of Estonia’s largest banks – LHV, Luminor, SEB Estonia and Swedbank Estonia, and Estonian Financial Supervisory Authority, Financial Intelligence Unit and Data Protection Inspectorate. Read more
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