Revalu8, an Australian real estate trading platform which aims to get buyers and sellers to interact more directly with each other, has raised A$1.5m ($1.1m) from private investors.

Minneapolis-based insurance technology company Gravie has received $1m in funding from Securian Financial Group to roll out a new life insurance service.

San Francisco-headquartered Sift Science has raised $30m in Series C funding to predict and prevent fraud online.

Los Angeles-based ZestFinance has received a strategic investment form Chinese web giant Baidu.

London-based startup Behavox, a provider of compliance surveillance software, has raised Series A funding from venture capital investors.

Boston-based InsurTech startup Quilt collected $3.25m in a NextView Ventures-led Seed round.

Riskalyze, which runs a digital risk alignment platform for financial advisors, has announced pension scheme sponsors and participants will now be able to use its service.

Investment advisory app WealthApp Financial Advisors has raised $440,000 in angel funding. The Bengaluru-based startup aims to help users take their first steps in investment.

Distributed ledger technology is now something that banks are taking very seriously, however, with blockchain-based systems potentially enabling them to save billions.

Real-time financial data aggregation platform Finicity has picked up $42m in new funding. Experian led the Series B round with Bridge Bank also participating.