Ramp lands $1.6bn valuation after fresh funding from Stripe, Goldman Sachs
Business card and expense management startup Ramp raised $115m at a valuation of $1.6bn, making it the latest entry in the growing list of unicorns this week.
dLocal snares $150m investment, names new COO and president
Uruguayan payments platform dLocal has secured $150 million from a recent funding round led by investment firm Alkeon Capital.
Airtel Africa picks up $100m cash infusion from Mastercard to boost digital payments in...
African mobile money business Airtel Africa secured $100m from credit card giant, Mastercard.
Audio app Clubhouse launches new payment feature for creators
Audio-chat app Clubhouse launched a monetisation feature for its creators on the platform without charging any hidden fees or commission.
Stripe and Max Levchin back Balance’s $5.5m seed raise
B2B payments FinTech Balance has secured $5.5m in seed capital from Stripe, Tal Morgenstern of Lightspeed, and Max Levchin through his SciFi VC.
Klarna rival Butter reels in £15.8m to boost its BNPL shopping app
London-based FinTech platform Butter has closed a £15.8m funding round to accelerate the rollout of its open-banking based buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) shopping app alongside developing its travel offering.
Cannabis payment platform Leaf Trade scores $5.5m in a Series A round
Chicago-based cannabis wholesale marketplace and payments platform, Leaf Trade closed a $5.5m Series A funding to ease payments in the sector.
What Dataminr’s $475m round among the 33 investments in the FinTech sector last week...
Out of the 33 FinTech funding rounds we reported on last week, cybersecurity companies and cryptocurrency-based enterprises were the clear winners.
Osu collects ?2.25m in its seed round
Osu, a payment app for self-employed, has reportedly collected ?2.25m in its seed funding round.
Real estate finance firm Lev bags $10m in a seed round
NYC-based online commercial real estate financing transaction platform, Lev raised $10m in seed funding.