MFS Africa becomes first African FinTech funded by a China-based VC in $4.5M Series B round led by LUN Partners Group
- 7 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
MFS Africa, a leading Pan-African FinTech company, today announced a $4.5m Series B funding round led by LUN PartnersGroup, a China-based global investment management group. Goodwell Investments, an Amsterdam based investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth, as well as several angel investors completed the round.
Scale-Ups.eu calls all European tech scale-ups to submit their profile to pitch at SuperNova
- 7 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations, Infrastructure
Scale-Ups.eu, a spinoff of the European collaboration innovation platform B-Hive, is organizing SuperNova together with Flanders DC on September 27-30. This four-day event aims to bring the most promising scale-ups, outstanding tech companies, and thought leaders from all around the globe in Antwerp to talk, pitch, and showcase.
Da Vinci Capital Invests in Russia's Global Fintech Solutions
- 7 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Global Fintech Solutions (GFS), a fintech platform aimed at transferring leading global technologies into emerging markets, raised a new funding round from several funds under the management of Da Vinci Capital and from its the portfolio group, ITI Funds. Investment group Prytek was a co-investor in the investment round.
FINTECH STARTUP ZOTO WITNESSES MASSIVE GROWTH IN USER BASE AND ORDER VOLUMES IN 2017-18
- 7 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Zoto, a product of Hedonmark Management Services Limited and Nigeria’s fastest growing payment solution, today announced that its transacting user base and order volume grew by 56% and 200% respectively in the last financial year and it is set to replicate an even higher growth curve in the financial year 2018 -19.
Viva Network To Disrupt Mortgage Industry Through Blockchain Platform
- 7 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Viva Network Holdings Limited (“Viva Network” or “Viva”), a Bermuda-based fintech startup, has today announced its plan to launch a comprehensive borderless mortgage products platform.
New Digital Innovation Centre to secure digital transformation at Gazprom Neft
- 7 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
A new Digital Innovation Centre is being established at Gazprom Neft, for the development and implementation of digital technologies in logistics, processing and sales. As part of its activity, the Centre will bring together Russian technology and IT start-ups, developers and the scientific community to pool resources to research and develop innovative solutions that will improve business efficiency.
L MARKS ANNOUNCES EXPANSION INTO JAPAN
- 7 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
L Marks, the corporate innovation specialist and early stage investor announces today the launch of operations in Japan, where it will target the major Japanese corporate brands that are ripe for innovation as well as the country’s fast-growing startups. L Marks’ first corporate client in Japan is BMW Group Financial Services Japan. Their partnership will deliver the BMW Innovation Lab 2018 for the financing arm of the global automotive giant.
Averon raises $13.3 Million
- 7 years 12 months ago
- Security, FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Averon, developer of the world’s first mobile identity verification standard that is both automatically frictionless and ultra-secure, announced today it has closed a $5 million Series A1 financing round led by Avalon Ventures and Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff. The round follows Averon’s heavily oversubscribed Series A (October 2017), also led by Avalon Ventures, bringing the full Series A amount raised to $13.3 million.
APAC Fintechs embrace open innovation with Finastra
- 8 years 3 days ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Finastra welcomed several APAC Fintech early adopters to its FusionFabric.cloud open architecture ecosystem today at its regional flagship thought leadership event, Finastra Universe, in Singapore. Underpinned by Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s enterprise-ready trusted cloud platform, FusionFabric.cloud enables third parties t
Lithuanian Business Angel Network (LitBAN) Launches in Vilnius with Overwhelming Success
- 8 years 4 days ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Lithuanian Business Angel Network’s (LitBAN) founding event, which took place on March 14th in Vilnius, was an overwhelming success with over 150 attendees and 50 registered paying members.
Startupbootcamp Scale FinTech names 5 top startups to join inaugural Mexico City program
- 8 years 5 days ago
- FinTech StartUps
Startupbootcamp Scale FinTech Mexico City, the first innovation program for growth stage startups in Latin America, announces the five FinTech startups chosen to be part of its first program, based in Mexico City. The program is run in partnership between Startupbootcamp FinTech and Finnovista, the leading champion of FinTech innovation in Latin America.
YellowDog Closes Investment Round from Industry Leaders Bloc Ventures to Scale Across Multiple Verticals
- 8 years 1 week ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
YellowDog, recognised as one of the top 15 Disrupter Businesses in the South West, has closed its most recent investment round with Bloc Ventures as lead investor. Bloc, founded by industry veterans from ARM Holdings and Vodafone, identified the significant potential in YellowDog, and lead this fundraise to initiate their next stage of expansion.
Pushfor and Xtremepush take the prizes at the Dublin Innovation Jam
- 8 years 2 weeks ago
- Banking, FinTech StartUps
Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, announces that Pushfor and Xtremepush won the public and judges’ vote, respectively, at its first ever Dublin Innovation Jam.
Atom bank raises £149m in latest fundraising round
- 8 years 2 weeks ago
- Banking, FinTech StartUps
Durham-based Atom bank has raised £149m in a round led by cornerstone investors BBVA and Toscafund. As part of this fundraising round BBVA will invest a further £85.4m in the 5-star rated (Trustpilot) bank, increasing its ownership to around 39% subject to regulatory and shareholder approval. Toscafund will invest £54.4m and is also increasing its stake in the bank. A number of Atom’s other existing shareholders are also supporting this raise.
Callsign wins competitive London heats of NTT DATA Open Innovation Contest 2018
- 8 years 2 weeks ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Callsign has beaten 10 other start-ups to win the London stage of NTT DATA’s 2018 Global Open Innovation Contest, and its team will now fly to Tokyo, Japan to compete against entrepreneurs from around the world in the competition’s Grand Finale. Contestants will be competing for the chance to win a three-month in-kind contribution to support the development of their proposed new business, and an opportunity to break into the highly innovative... more
