Tag: Germany

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.

Real estate crowdinvesting platform iFunded has raised a seven-figure pre-Series A round. Creathor Venture is the only named investor.

Germany payments and added services company AEVI has closed its Series B round at €30m. The funding comes in the form of a €20m investment from HPE Growth Capital and €10m from Adveq.

German invoice financing startup Bezahlt has picked up ?3.5m in funding through a mixture of equity and debt.

German banking app designed for freelance workers Kontist has raised €2m in a new funding round. The capital comes from Danish seed investors Founders and Vækstfonden.

German insurance firm Talanx is forming a joint venture with Berlin-based company builder FinLeap to launch a digital platform for independent asset managers and private banks.

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.

Payments processing firm Payworks has raised $4.5m in a Series A round of funding from Rumford and HW Capital. Existing backer Speedinvest also join the round.

Ginmon, a Frankfurt-based robo-advisor, has raised a new round of funding led by London VC Passion Capital. The size of the round is undisclosed.

Cookies is launching a peer-to-peer payments solution in Germany where most people still rely on traditional banking.