Tag: SoFi

Masayoshi Son, CEO of mega-tech investor SoftBank, appeared to be nodding off during a panel during a global investment conference in Saudi Arabia dubbed...

Qatar Investment Authority has led a hefty financing round for mobile-first personal finance company SoFi which values the business at $4.3bn on a pre-money basis.

Cryptocurrency to dollar lending platform BlockFi has scored $52.5m in funding, just months after it raised $1.5m in a former equity round.

BlockFi, which is a digital lender for cryptocurrency holders, has collected $1.55m in funding.

The FinTech sector saw nearly $9bn-worth of investment across 374 deals in Q2 2017 as the year funding picked up pace Overall FinTech funding...

With more successful FinTech companies raising later stage funding the size of deals is increasing.? In 2016 the number of deals above $5m hit...

Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners has raised $15bn for its fifth tech-focused fund. The fund’s investors are undisclosed.

Lending disruptor SoFi has landed $500m in a new haul of funding led by private equity investor Silver Lake. Softbank and GPI Capital also participated in the Series F round.

SoFi is expanding into banking with the acquisition of mobile-banking startup Zenbanx. The company will pay around $100m for the startup

Social Finance (SoFi) is expanding its offering to include employee benefits and financial wellness programme SoFi at Work.