São Paulo, Brazil-based FinTech Stark Bank received $45 million in a Series B round with support from Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos, Bloomberg reported Monday (April 11). The transaction is the first deal in Brazil from Bezos Expeditions. Headquartered in the state of Washington, the...
Dfns, a crypto wallet startup, raised $13.5 million in seed funding to expand its services that help secure the digital assets of FinTech companies and banks by safeguarding cryptocurrency passwords, CoinDesk reported Wednesday (April 13). The funding was led by White Star Capital with participation...
Pine Labs, the India-based eCommerce platform that provides financing and last-mile retail transaction technology, has made a significant majority investment in end-to-end payment solution provider Mosambee, the company announced Wednesday (April 13). The amount of the investment was not disclosed. Pine Labs said Mosambee, also headquartered...
Jobox, a company that provides marketplace infrastructure for home service professionals, has raised $42 million in a Series B funding round. Now, the company is planning to expand, founder and CEO Shay Bloch wrote in a blog post Tuesday (April 12). “Our platform is ready...
African digital bank Umba on Wednesday (April 13) closed a $15 million Series A fundraising round that will help the platform continue its growth in existing African markets and allow it to expand into new ones, with an eye on meeting the needs of underserved...
Wagestream, the flexible pay and financial well-being app, has closed a Series C funding round for $175 million, a report said. This comes as the company prepares to scale up for the undeserved, financially stressed workers in the U.S. The capital will mostly be used...
Dutch FinTech Payaut has closed an 8 million euros ($8.6 million) seed funding round led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund, along with participation from past investors LocalGlobal and Entrée Capital. According to a company news release Wednesday (April 13), the company will use...
Legal operating system Clara, which provides an integrated collection of tools to help organizing and managing of firms, has raised over $3.5 million in seed funding, according to a Tuesday (April 12) report from TechFundingNews. The seed funding comes from The LegalTech Fund, a global...
Fidelity Investments has plans in the works to launch exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to enable investors to gain exposure to the broader world of digital assets, according to a press release on Tuesday (April 12). The world’s fourth-largest asset management company is rolling out a total...
