Greenlight, which provides a debit card and app to teach kids about financial education, has closed a $54 million Series B funding round that was led by Drive Capital with participation from JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, with participation by existing investors TTV Capital, Live...
Plaid, which focuses on APIs, said on Mon. (Sept. 16) that it has received strategic investments from Mastercard and Visa. The companies said in the announcement that the amounts were undisclosed. The investments were part of a previously disclosed $250 million Series C funding round...
Banglaore-based startup OkCredit revealed that it has raised $67 million in a Series B financing round. The round was led by Lightspeed and Tiger Global, and follows a Series A in June. So far two-year-old OkCredit has raised a total of $83 million. It plans...
Akeneo announced Thursday (Sept. 12) it has raised $46 million in funding led by Summit Partners. Existing investors Alven, Partech and Salesforce Ventures, as well as Akeneo’s board member Stephan Dietrich, also participated in the round. The company will use the new funding to further...
New York-based digital home buying company Prevu, which identifies itself as a customer service-oriented platform, has closed a $2 million seed funding round, according to a release by the company. Corigin Ventures led the round, with Kairos and the AVG Basecamp Fund contributing. Prevu said...
Voyage announced that it has raised $31 million in a Series B fundraise. The round was led by Franklin Templeton, with participation from Khosla Ventures, Jaguar Land-Rover’s InMotion Ventures, and Chevron Technology Ventures. This brings Voyage’s total capital raised to $52 million, according to a...
South Africa’s Naspers launched a $100 billion European tech giant on Wednesday (Sept. 11). Prosus holds the international internet assets of Naspers, including its 31 percent shareholding in Tencent, as well as Mail.ru, Ctrip.com International Limited, and Delivery Hero. Africa’s most valuable company will be...
The U.S.-Israeli data science firm Explorium raised $19 million in private funding to expand its new machine learning platform, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Sept. 11). A $3.6 million seed round was led by Emerge with the participation of F2 Capital. Zeev Ventures, with the participation...
Kuda, Nigeria’s first digital-only bank with a standalone license, has raised $1.6 million in pre-seed funding led by Haresh Aswani, as reported on Wednesday (Sept. 11). Ragnar Meitern and other angel investors also participated in the funding round. Aswani told the news outlet that he...
