Funding Rounds

Israel-headquartered Liquidity Group has reportedly joined the unicorn club after a $40m funding round brings its valuation to $1.4bn.

Sublime, which claims to be the first open email security platform that lets anyone write, run and share rules to detect and block email-originated threats, has raised $9.8m.

UK car finance FinTech Carmoola has raised £8.5m in its Series A round, alongside a new £95m debt facility.

HedgeFlows, a FinTech platform for small and medium-sized enterprises, has launched following a funding raise of £2m.

Gateway.fm, a decentralised blockchain infrastructure node provider, has scored $4.6m in a seed funding round led by Lemniscap.

Fabacus, a software-as-a-service platform for the licensing industry, has raised £4.5m from an investment round led by WealthClub.  

Pliant, a German B2B credit card FinTech, has raised $28m in a Series A round headed by investor SBI Investment.

Karambit.AI, which helps companies secure their software supply chains, has received a $75,000 grant from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC).

In the face of current economic tribulations, companies are tightening their belts, seeking value in every pound spent. At the same time, criminal activity, particularly financial crime, escalates during such precarious times, amplifying the demand for effective and resilient financial crime mitigation programmes.

Gimo, a FinTech startup from Vietnam, has closed its Series A funding round with an investment led by TNB Aura.