Funding
TripActions Secures $400M in Credit Facilities From Goldman Sachs and Silicon Valley Bank
TripActions, the all-in-one travel, corporate card, and expense management solution, today announced that it secured $400M in credit facilities, consisting of a warehouse debt facility from Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as the senior lender and administrative agent, with a $200M
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Curve Secures $1 Billion Deal From Credit Suisse
Curve, the London based financial super app, announced that the company has closed a deal to fund its first $1 billion in loans with a facility provided by Credit Suisse, enabling Curve to scale its lending business, Curve Flex, across
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TX Ventures Launches CHF 100 Million Fintech Fund to Invest in Early Stage Startups
TX Ventures, the VC arm of Swiss media company TX Group, announced that it has launched a European CHF 100 million fintech investment fund with a particular focus on startups from the DACH region. The fund is structured as a
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UBS Next Participates in $20 Million Series B of Israel Compliance Tech Startup
Shield, a compliance tech platform based in Tel Aviv, announced its $20 million Series B financing round, which was led by Macquarie Capital and joined by UBS through its venture and innovation unit UBS Next, Mindset Ventures and OurCrowd. This
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SIX Fintech Ventures Joins Keyrock’s $72 Million Series B Fundraising
Keyrock, a Brussel based digital asset market maker, raised $72 million in its Series B funding round from investors including Ripple, SIX Fintech Ventures and Middlegame Ventures. Keyrock plans to use its funding to invest further into infrastructure development, scalability
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The State of the German Blockchain Ecosystem
Despite a global venture capital (VC) pullback, shrinking valuations and public market turmoil, Germany’s blockchain VC funding market remained stable this year, with companies in the space securing a total of US$218 million across 20 deals year-to-date (YTD), just US$37
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Interest in Media for Equity on the Rise
Media for equity, a financing option that provides advertising in return for equity in a company, is proliferating at an increasing rate, recognized by startups as a powerful engine for sustainable growth. Also known as media for growth or airtime
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Spain’s Cobee Raises €40M Series B for Employee Benefits Platform
Madrid employee benefits platform Cobee has closed a €40 million Series B funding round with investments from London-based Octopus Ventures and Notion Capital. The company says that it tripled its business since it last raised a €14 million Series A
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Fintech Startup Failures Pile Up
After experiencing record investment volumes in 2021, venture funding is dropping significantly this year amid hiking inflation rates, political instability and tanking stock prices. Investors are scaling back their investment pace significantly, and though many startups are still holding strong
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45 Millionen für Startup Fund von EquityPitcher
Die Venture Capital Firma EquityPitcher AG schliesst erfolgreich ihren zweiten Fonds. Dieser investiert gezielt in Startups aus der DACH-Region und zählt bereits 20 Portfolio-Unternehmen aus 12 verschiedenen Industrien. EquityPitcher setzt bei all ihren Investments auf eine persönliche Begleitung der Startups
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