Pleo joins billion-dollar club after pulling in $150m, plans aggressive hiring in UK
Copenhagen-based FinTech startup Pleo, an employee credit card and expense solution provider has joined the European’ unicorn’ club after raising Denmark’s biggest ever Series C at $150m.
Tractable helps Sara Assicurazioni become first Italian insurer to leverage AI for vehicle damage...
Sara Assicurazioni has become the first Italian insurance firm to leverage AI to enhance vehicle damage assessments and estimates, thanks to a deal with InsurTech100 company Tractable.
Digidentity launches remote identification tools
Digidentity has released a new remote identification tool suite to help clients improve their identification checks when face-to-face meeting is not possible.
Carbon, Visa enter five-year partnership to support payments across Africa
African FinTech Carbon has entered a five-year strategic alliance with Visa to provide digital and physical issuance of Visa cards to its customers on the continent.
Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli-backed Digit insurance hits $3.5bn value after fresh funding
Bengaluru-based general insurance company offering health, car, bike, and travel insurance Digit Insurance valued at $3.5bn after raising $200m led by Faering Capital.
Revolut in talks with SoftBank for investment at $30bn valuation
Revolut is reportedly in talks with SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 about participating in a fundraising effort that could value the banking and payment app at more than $30bn, Sky News reported.
Sevco launches cloud security platform following $15m Series A
US firm Sevco Security has officially introduced its cloud-native security asset intelligence platform after it raised $15m in a Series A funding round.
Klarna backer launches new VC enterprise to fill seed funding gap
The co-founder of European VC Atomico Mattias Ljungman has launched Moonfire Ventures – a VC aimed at providing seed stage funding for FinTechs among others.
The 29 FinTech rounds raised last week prove that crypto firms and InsurTechs will...
The FinTech space continues to grow with no sign of slowing down and the 29 rounds raised week prove that, with cryptocurrency companies and InsurTechs being the leading sub-sectors.
Kaseya hit by one of the largest cyberattacks in history with REvil hack
US IT provider Kaseya has become the latest in a growing line of organisations to suffer a cyberattack at the hands of the REvil ransomware group.