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Vartana lands a $20M investment to scale its sales closing platform
Vartana, a business-to-business (B2B) sales closing and financing platform, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Activant …
NomuPay, formed from pieces of failed fintech Wirecard, says it’s raised $53.6M for cross-border payments
We still see regular updates on the calamitous fallout of the 2020 collapse of Wirecard, the now-insolvent fintech out of Germany that had built an …
Klarna’s Q1 results show that the fintech unicorn’s turnaround is in full swing
Last year wasn’t an easy one for European fintech giant Klarna. The company saw its valuation being truncated in an $800 million funding round, and …
QED Investors says pace of investing from new funds will be ‘extremely disciplined’
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Faye’s $10M Series A deck
A year ago, Mike Butcher reported that Faye hopes to do for travel insurance what Lemonade did for general insurance, and that’s as good a …
Indonesia’s Skorlife gets funding to give Indonesians power over their credit scores
Skorlife, the fintech that wants to give Indonesians more transparency into their credit scores, has raised $4 million in seed funding. The round was led …
OpenFin’s attack on the ‘toggle tax’ in financial apps secures it a $35M Series D round
Not unlike a post-Internet-era Bloomberg Terminal, OpenFin was a startup which joined the revolutionary world of user interfaces to fast-moving information, back in 2010. If …
Episode Six raises $48M to streamline payment processes
Austin, Texas–based Episode Six, a payments and banking infrastructure provider, today announced that it raised $48 million in a Series C funding round led by …
QED closes on $925M to back fintech startups globally
QED Investors today announced the closing of two new funds totaling $925 million, capital that it will be using to back early-stage financial technology startups, …