UK challenger B-North raises £250,000 and signs deal with Channel 4
Channel 4 signed an advertising-for-equity deal.
Channel 4 signed an advertising-for-equity deal.
Challenger bank for farmers receives investment from Duke of Westminster’s estate.
Its founder has hired financial advisory group, Lazard, to oversee its funding round in 2021.
Goldman Sachs Group and Citigroup are managing the deal.
Despite COVID-19, the financial sector has still enjoyed some notable M&A deals.
The additional undisclosed funding follows its $33 million raised in August this year.
The Series F round was led by Bain Capital Ventures and brings the total raised to-date to $240m.
The start-up has raised a total of $18.6 million to-date.
We relay our industry highlights of 2020.
“Most of Cledara’s initial clients came from organic growth.”
Some start-up’s valuations have soared this year.
Vestrata has already signed up a number of investment managers and solution partners.
Zilch claims to be the only BNPL player to combine open banking with soft credit checks.
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Albo has now raised just over $72 million across five rounds.
In August, Mozper – with the help of partner Visa – launched its closed beta with 500 families.
We cover embedded finance, competition, open banking, and CBDCs.
The finding extension was co-led by new Parisian investor Eurazeo Growth.
Thoma Bravo are investing right at time, says Venafi CEO.
Cleo has four million Gen-Z and millennial users; and recorded a 400% revenue growth in the last year.
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Over 2019, parents on its app paid £98m in pocket money to their children.
Israel-based brokerage firm has also recruited 300 people this year.
Among new investors are Charli D’Amelio, Justin Timberlake, Eli Manning, and Mantis VC.
The start-up hopes to speed up go-to-market times.
The start-up claims to be cashflow positive since its inception.
The latest round follows a seed round from August.
Fetch Rewards has raised $131m since 2013.
Pockit points to international expansion plans.
The fintech focuses on spend-linked borrowings.
The latest funding still sees to leave Monzo at its £1.2 billion valuation.
Last month, Monzo’s former legal head James Sullivan joined Ziglu.
The co-founders met at PayPal-acquired Braintree.
This episode of WTF? podcast features Vinoth Jayakumar, partner at VC firm Draper Esprit.
Stripe could see its valuation quadruple in just two years.
German tuition is largely free, making aid for living costs scarce.
Weavr, once known as Open Payments Cloud, spun out of Ixaris in 2019.
The capital will go towards Current’s product offerings.
The Italian paytech firm has recorded “significant growth” in 2020
Cashfree counts more than 50,000 businesses as customers.