PayTech

UK-based Coupay secured £200,000 pre-seed funding from SFC Capital and angels including serial entrepreneur Will Wynne of Smart Pension, Arena Flowers and Trulience in a bid to help small businesses get from sales to cash faster.

FinTech startup focused on millennials Slice raised $20m as a part of its fresh funding round led by existing investors Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital, as it looks to double down on its growth in the coming months.

Indonesia-based staff management platform Vara raised $4.8m in seed funding from Go Ventures, the investment arm of super app Gojek, as well as RTP Global, Alpha JWC Ventures, Sequoia Capital India’s Surge, FEBE Ventures and Taurus Ventures.

Former Mollie and Klarna senior managers have developed Biller, an AI-powered buy now, pay later invoicing solution to solve the problems of B2B purchasing.

Triodos Bank UK has selected SurePay’s Confirmation of Payee solution with the aim of reducing fraudulent and misdirected payments on its service.

African payments firm PawaPay has raised $9m from a seed funding round led by MSA and UK investment fund 88mph.

UK-based global payments provider Sokin has teamed with Arsenal FC to become its new official money transfer partner.

Payments aggregator Oy! Indonesia has secured $30m from a Series A funding round led by investment juggernaut SoftBank.

Low-code payment infrastructure Primer has scored $50m in its Series B round, which puts its valuation at $425m.

KIWE app, a mobile payment application, has closed its seed funding round, as it continues its aim to be the word associated with payments.