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Please find another week of fintech financing events below.

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💸 Venture Financing

• Fetch Rewards, a shopping rewards app, raised $240 million at a $2.5 billion valuation.
• Binance US, the American arm of the crypto mega-exchange, raised $200 million at a $4.5 billion valuation in its first outside round.
• Clarify Health, which manages healthcare data and payments, raised a $150 million Series D at a $1.4 billion valuation.
• CAIS, an alternative investments platform, raised $100 million.
• Lightning Labs, which enables stablecoin payments via bitcoin’s lightning network, raised a $70 million Series B.
• Fidel API, a UK financial infrastructure builder for rewards, raised a $65 million Series B.
• Ellevest, a female-focused digital investment platform, raised a $53 million Series B.
• Treinta, a Colombian digital payments firm for micro-businesses, raised a $46 million Series A.
• Moneybox, a UK savings and investment app, raised £35 million.
• Budget Insight, a French open finance platform, raised €31 million.
• Bambee, a payroll platform, raised a $30 million Series C.
• InvestorFlow, an investor portal builder for alternative asset managers, raised a $30 million Series A and merged with enterprise CRM Cloud Theory.
• Migrante, a Chilean provider of migrant financial services, raised a $30 million Series A.
• Future Family, which provides loans for fertility treatments, raised a $25 million Series B.
• Alpian, a Swiss digital private bank service, raised CHF 19 million.
• EnKash, an Indian corporate spend management and corporate card provider, raised a $20 million Series B.
• Azibo, a financial services platform for the rental property market, raised a $19 million Series A.
• Lemon.markets, a German developer-facing stock trading API, raised €15 million.
• Gotrade, an app to let international stock investors buy fractional US stock market shares, raised a $15.5 million Series A.
• Creative Juice *, a building of financial products for creators, raised a $15 million Series A.
• RenoFi, a home loan provider, raised a $14 million Series A.
• Vested Finance, a platform to let Indian investors access the US stock market, raised a $12 million Series A.
• Docyt, an ML-powered accounting platform, raised an $11.5 million Series A.
• ZirooPay, builder of a mobile PoS solution for Nigeria, raised an $11.4 million Series A.
• Qred, a Swedish credit-scoring platform, raised €10 million and moved into B2B payments.
• Kaleidoscope, a fintech that helps finance educational grants, raised a $10 million Series A.
• Gaviti, a service for unpaid invoice collection, raised a $9 million Series A.
• Sydecar *, a one-stop-shop platform for the creation of investment funds and SPVs, raised an $8.3 million seed round.
• FinKargo, a Colombian import finance platform, raised $7.5 million in seed funding.
• Timeline, a UK financial advisor, raised £6 million in funding.
• Starlight, a corporate digital asset management startup, raised a $5 million seed round.
• Parallel Finance, a decentralized lending and staking service, raised $5 million from investors including Coinbase.
• Upswing, an Indian B2B open finance provider, raised $4 million.
• IBEX Mercado, a Guatemalan bank payment platform on bitcoin’s lightning network, raised $4 million in seed funding.
• Uplinq, which provides data and scoring to small business lenders, raised a $3.5 million pre-seed.
• Trustap, an Irish end-to-end digital transaction service, raised a $3.4 million seed.
• ImaliPay, a one-stop shop for gig worker financial services in Kenya, raised a $3 million seed.
• Book Salon, a Finnish booking and payments service for the beauty industry, raised €3 million.
• Tortoise, an Indian ‘save now, buy later’ service, raised a $2.3 million seed.
• Clockwork.ai, an FP&A app for small businesses, raised a $2 million seed round.

(Source)

💵 Debt Financing

• Liquidity, which provides debt to late-stage fintech companies, raised $775 million for its new debt fund.
• Camino Financial, a lending platform offering affordable credit to underserved markets in the US, raised $150 million in debt from Community Investment Management.

💰 Venture Funds

• HSBC bank is launching a metaverse investment fund.
• EToro set up a $20 million fund to buy NFTs.

(Source: Axios)

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