P2P Payments

Africa-based blockchain payments platform BitPersa has secured a Series A investment led by Greycroft.

Flutterwave has secured $10m for its Series A funding round which was led by Greycroft Partners and Green Visor Capital.

Japanese payments and remittance startup Kyash has raised more than ?1bn ($8.5m) in a Series A round.

Automated child support payments platform SupportPay has raised $4.1m in its Series A round. The funding was led by Fenway Summer Ventures.

Swedish payments processor Klarna is acquiring the technology and team behind bankrupt peer-to-peer payments app Cookies. No price is disclosed on the deal.

Peer-to-peer payments service PayKey has raised $6m in a Series A round of funding co-led by e.ventures and Gaby Salem of Wharton Asset Management.

Barcelona-based peer-to-peer payments service Verse has raised $8.3m in a Series A round of funding. The capital comes from Spark Capital, e.ventures and Greycroft Partners.

Irish peer-to-peer payments startup Plynk has raised ?725,000 in a seed round of funding.The capital comes from Delta Partners, Enterprise Ireland, the National Digital...

The capital comes from NewAlpha Asset Management and Oddo & Cie and takes the total raised by the Paris-based company to more than $13m.

South Korean mobile payments firm Viva Republica has landed $23.7m for its Series B funding round. The company is the developer behind peer-to-peer mobile transfer app Toss.