ZestFinance Receives Strategic Investment from Baidu
- 9 years 12 months ago
- Investment
ZestFinance has received a strategic investment from Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider. ZestFinance is a Los Angeles-based company that uses machine learning to transform vast amounts of complex data into credit scores. Artificial intelligence experts and data scientists at both companies plan to work together to apply ZestFinance’s underwriting technology to Baidu’s search, location, and payment data in order to... more
CreditexchangeTM Receives Investment Boosts from Kuber FinancialTM
- 10 years 2 days ago
- Investment
Creditexchange, India’s first hybrid digital consumer loans platform and institutional marketplace, has announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Kuber Financial as part of its $500,000 seed round.
RSRCHXchange Helps Linear Investments to Improve the Research Procurement Process within MiFID Compliance
- 10 years 3 days ago
- Investment
Linear Investments has selected RSRCHXchange to enable their hedge fund clientele to access and track research consumption in a MiFID II compliant way.
WFW Advised North River on a US$5.6m Conditional Investment by Greenstone
- 10 years 6 days ago
- Investment
International law firm Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised North River Resources plc (“North River”) on a US$5.6m conditional investment by its majority shareholder Greenstone Resources LP (“Greenstone”). North River is a mineral exploration and development company operating in Namibia and Mozambique and currently focused on re-opening its flagship asset, the Namib Lead Zinc Project, on which it is targeting commencement of... more
Unleashed Software Boosts its Entry into UK with a Fresh Capital
- 10 years 1 week ago
- Investment, Cloud, Infrastructure
Rapidly expanding New Zealand cloud based company Unleashed Software has boosted its entry into the UK market with a fresh capital injection of $3 million from both existing and new investors. Founded in 2009, the innovative Software as a Service (SaaS) startup already has international presence in major markets like United States and Australia, and has recently announced the opening of its UK office fresh off the back of its latest successful... more
Post-Quantum Closes £8 million Series a Funding Round
- 10 years 1 week ago
- Investment
British cyber-security firm Post-Quantum, which specialises in developing defence-grade cyber-security solutions that protect global investment banks and enterprises’ data and communications systems against sophisticated criminal and nation state attacks, has today closed an £8 million Series A funding round.
D3 Banking Raises $10 million in Capital from West Partners
- 10 years 2 weeks ago
- Investment
D3 Banking, the leading innovator in Data Driven Digital™ banking has raised $10 million in capital from West Partners. The investment will help D3 Banking strengthen its team, invest in research and development and continue expanding its hosted platform to keep up with increasing market demand.
KKR Makes Significant Investment in RES
- 10 years 2 weeks ago
- Investment
Resource Environmental Solutions (“RES”), a leader in the ecological solutions market, announced that global investment firm KKR is making a significant investment in RES to support its next phase of growth and development.
IMB Development Corporation to Make a Partnership Investment in Alder Foods
- 10 years 3 weeks ago
- Investment
IMB Development Corporation, a leading private investment firm, today announced it has made a partnership investment in Alder Foods Inc., a woman-owned $56 million food supplier to military markets around the globe, with an existing presence in all key geographic regions worldwide, including Europe, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean Islands, Hawaii, Alaska and the Pacific Rim nations. The investment will allow Alder Foods to accelerate its... more
Fontinalis Partners Reports Investment in Elementum
- 10 years 1 month ago
- Investment
Fontinalis Partners, LLC, a Michigan-based strategic investment firm, announced today that it has invested in Elementum, a cloud supply chain platform that unifies procurement, logistics, manufacturing, and inventory operations. Elementum maximizes supply chain velocity through the world's Product Graph™ — a digital mapping of the $25T global product economy that provides companies with the real-time information they need to make better... more
Anthemis and MMI Holdings Form a Global Investment Partnership
- 10 years 1 month ago
- Investment
Anthemis Group (Anthemis), the leading digital financial services investment and advisory firm, and Exponential Ventures, the newly formed disruptive innovation and venture capital arm of MMI Holdings (MMI), today launched a global investment partnership that will invest in early stage financial wellness companies. MMI has provided the initial €30m commitment while leaving room for other likeminded firms to join the initiative.
World Bank Invests USD 668 Million in Private Banking and Retail Investors
- 10 years 1 month ago
- Investment
The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD, rated Aaa/AAA) has raised USD 667.816 million through its Notes due May 31, 2026. The Notes offer investors a fixed rate coupon for the first year and floating rate coupons thereafter. The trade launched in early May and priced on May 25, 2016.
Santander InnoVentures to Invest in Robo-Advisory Platform SigFig
- 10 years 1 month ago
- Investment, Wealth Management, FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Santander InnoVentures, the fintech venture capital fund of Santander Group, today announced its latest portfolio investment in SigFig – a US-based provider of wealth management technology, designed to provide high-quality investment advice to all wealth levels via a combination of design, data science, and technology.
e.ventures Gets New Investment
- 10 years 1 month ago
- Investment
e.ventures is announcing the closing of a new $150 million early stage fund to target Europe’s best businesses and entrepreneurs, bringing e.ventures’ total assets under management today to more than $1 billion. This new fund, focused on seed and Series A rounds, will be deployed alongside an already active $290 million global growth investment vehicle which targets subsequent financing rounds, allowing entrepreneurs the gain the full benefit... more
IHS Technology Analysis: Apple Invested $1 billion in Didi
- 10 years 2 months ago
- Investment
IHS Technology Analysis: For Apple, the investment in Didi highlights the strategic importance of China and the services segment for Apple’s future strategy. The past quarter’s results show that Apple’s iPhone business is slowing and expansion in China had been one of its main growth drivers in recent years. As its hardware business has slowed, Apple has been keen to drive growth in its services revenues. This move shows how Apple is... more
