investment

Maps.me is integrating DeFi for its 140 million users. Ahead of the overhaul, the travel app raised $50 million in a funding round led by Alameda Research.  Maps.me Makes DeFi Move Maps.me, an offline mapping app with...

MoMo, one of Vietnam’s largest e-wallet providers, has landed more than $100 million in its Series D to position itself as the country’s ‘super app’ ahead of going public by 2025. Pham Thanh Duc, MoMo’s CEO,...

OK, hands up if you, or your parents, cancelled Christmas yourselves way before Boris did? Or stopped travelling into the office last year ahead of lockdown? Or, in this cold new year, stopped going to parks when they...

Grab, the Singapore-based ride sharing turned “super app”, has landed a $300 million Series A funding round for its fintech arm. Led by Hanwha Asset Management – one of South Korea’s Big Three – the round also...

Affirm, a San-Francisco buy now, pay later (BNPL) fintech, has almost doubled its value following a successful initial public offering (IPO) on 13 January. The fintech, led by PayPal co-founder, Max Levchin, priced its...

Affirm, a San-Francisco buy now, pay later (BNPL) fintech, has almost doubled its value following a successful initial public offering (IPO) on 13 January. The fintech, led by PayPal co-founder, Max Levchin, priced its...

BukuKas, an Indonesian fintech serving small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) digital and accounting needs, landed a $10 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital’s Indian arm. Existing investors also participated...

Ribbit Capital, the Palo Alto-based backer of Revolut, Robinhood and Affirm, has led its first Indian cryptocurrency deal. CoinSwitch Kuber, one of India’s crypto investing platforms, landed a $15 million Series A led...

Fresh off the announcement of more than $500 million in new capital across two new funds, Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group has announced that they’re adding Anu Sharma and Daniel Li to the team’s list of...

Freetrade, a UK-founded stock trading app, had to temporarily pause trading of US stocks on Monday after a third-party provider supplied inaccurate pricing. The fintech announced the pause in US stock trading at 15:31...

GCash, a Philippines-based mobile wallet firm, has raised $175 million to bring its valuation close to $1 billion in total. GCash claims 33 million Filipinos used its service in 2020 ASP Philippines, a partner fund of...

Checkout.com, a London-based e-commerce payments provider, has landed the status of Europe’s most-valued venture-backed fintech. With its latest $450 million Series C round, the start-up has landed a valuation of $15...

A little article appeared in the Wall Street Journal last night announcing that Walmart has formed a partnership and a company with investment firm Ribbit Capital to create financial services products for Walmart’s...

Curve, the UK start-up which consolidates different cards into one, has finally landed its Series C funding. But on the eve of release, the fintech also filed its financial accounts – which are late once again. They...

A compilation of funding deals across the fintech sector worldwide, courtesy of Tracxn, for the week of 4-10 January 2021. Featuring Grab, Mynt, Divvy, Mambu, and SimpleNexus: Source: Tracxn, a platform for tracking...

SoFi, the personal and student finance lender which branched out into payments and banking infrastructure last year with its $1.2 billion Galileo acquisition, is going public. The fintech, last valued at $5.7 billion,...

Morgan Stanley’s approximately $500 million investment in Microstrategy Inc. may come as a surprise to many. Not veteran investor Ben Miller, however. That’s because betting on the firm in its current form is also...