“Simply put, it’s a good time to be an entrepreneur (as well as a venture investor looking to back the best teams with the best ideas).” — MiddleGame’s Pascal Bouvier, Michael Meyer and Patrick Pinschmidt The above passage reads from a blog post by the founders of MiddleGame Ventures and adequately captures the firm’s optimism […]
Liberis, the London-based fintech startup, has closed a £32 million funding round led by FTV Capital. This investment brings Liberis’ total debt and equity funding to over £150 million, and will enable the company to continue financing small businesses around the world. “Small businesses are the lifeblood of the global economy, yet they continue to […]
AlgoTrader, the Swiss platform services provider for quantitative trading and trade execution, has raised a Series A round of 3.7 million CHF (€3.4 million), led by an undisclosed global Tier 1 bank. Other investors include investiere, BlockChain Valley Ventures and a seed-round investor, NeueCapital. Founded by Andy Flury in 2014, AlgoTrader consists of two business […]
Aylien, a Dublin-based provider of AI-powered risk intelligence and financial analytics, has raised a €5 million Series A round led by Finch Capital, with support from existing investors: Atlantic Bridge University Fund, SOSV, and Enterprise Ireland. Finch Capital’s Hans De Back is joining Aylien’s board of directors. The Irish fintech has developed an AI platform […]
“We see it as our responsibility to encourage female founders, and founders from other minority groups, to feel confident enough to reach out to us, and other investors, to access the tools they need to level the playing field and build a more equitable tomorrow.” — Isabelle O’Keeffe, Principal at Sure Valley Ventures Sure Valley […]
Berlin-based Upvest has raised €7 million for its fintech-ready blockchain API. The round was led by Notion Capital, with support from Partech Ventures and Holtzbrinck Ventures. The startup provides fintech-ready APIs, making it easy for any company to store financial assets on the blockchain and opening up the investment playing field to the masses. Typically, […]
Floryn, a Dutch fintech formerly known as InvoiceFinance, has closed a €60 million debt round from NIBC and other sources. The company, active in the online lending market for small and medium-sized businesses, will use the new financing to help more and larger companies. The Dutch company uses artificial intelligence to look at data from […]