Colombian startup Portal Finance wins funding
Bogota, Colombia-based startup Portal Finance has secured an undisclosed equity investment from Magma Partners.
Perfios nabs $6.1m to crunch data for banks
FinTech data startup Perfios has raised $6.1m in a Series A round from Bessemer Venture Partners. Perfios aims to help financial institutions in real-time decision making.
QuantGroup pockets $73m for big data FinTech
Chinese big data FinTech company QuantGroup has raised $73m in a Series C round of funding led by Sunshine Insurance Group.
Peernove takes $4m for blockchain-based big data
Blockchain-based enterprise big data startup Peernova has raised $4m of its ongoing Series B round. The investment comes from Zhejiang Zhongnan Holdings Group.
Stripe acquires engineers team behind failed database startup
Online payments solution for developers Stripe is acquiring the engineering team behind NoSQL database startup ReThinkDB.
BigchainDB pulls in €3m for blockchain database
Scalable blockchain database BigchainDB has raised €3m in a Series A investment. The round comes from Earlybird Venture Capital, Anthemis Group, Digital Currency Group and innogy SE.
WestPac leverages DataRepublic for exchange platform
Australian bank Westpac is making use of its investment in DataRepublic, with the launch of a new service allowing corporate clients to store and exchange anonymised customer data.
Plaid Technologies swipes $44m to connect startups to user data
Plaid Technologies, a software maker allowing FinTech businesses to access users data, has raised $44m in Series B round of funding.