Tag: Germany

Payment services provider PayU is bringing on former PayPal senior director Matthias Setzer as global chief commercial officer. He joins the firm having spent 12 years at PayPal.

German wealth management startup Cashboard has raised €3m in a Series A round led by Digital Space Ventures. Investment also came from existing backers.

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.