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💸 Venture Financing

While global fintech funding in H1 ‘22 has tended towards flat or negative compared to prior years, the UK saw a 24% year-on-year increase.

1. Casavo, an Italian home buying exchange and financing marketplace, raised €400 million.
2. Sanctuary Wealth, a provider of a platform for investment advisors, raised $175 million.
3. FPL Technologies, issuer of India’s OneCard credit card, raised a $100 million Series D at a $1.4 billion valuation.
4. 5ire, a sustainable blockchain ecosystem, raised a $100 million Series A.
5. Wave, a pan-African payments firm, arranged a €90 million investment package from the IFC.
6. Fonoa, an Irish tax compliance software, raised a $60 million Series B.
7. Stori, a Mexican credit card and banking startup, raised $50 million at a $1 billion+ valuation.
8. Smart, a UK retirement investment advisor, raised £40 million.
9. Pulley, a cap table and equity management provider, raised a $40 million Series B.
10. Zebedee, a payment processor for the gaming industry, raised a $35 million Series B.
11. mx51, an acquirer and merchant payment tech provider, raised a $32.5 million Series B.
12. Apiture, a developer of front-end software for smaller banks, raised $29 million.
13. X1, an income-based credit card provider, raised $25 million after announcing $50 million in monthly transaction volume.
14. TomoCredit, an alternative consumer credit card provider, raised $22 million in equity and $100 million in debt.
15. Lightyear, a UK investment platform, raised $25 million and launched in 19 countries.
16. Canvas Medical, an EMR and medical billing platform, raised a $24 million Series B.
17. Meow, a crypto corporate treasury provider, raised $22 million.
18. Hero, a French B2B payments provider, raised €12 million.
19. Stake, a cash-back for renters platform, raised a $12 million Series A at a $52 million valuation.
20. Fairplay, a software to tackle bias in lending decisions, raised a $10 million Series A.
21. WeMoney, an Australian personal finance messaging app, raised $7 million.
22. Bloom, a Sudanese high-yield savings account and banking provider, raised a $6.5 million seed round.
23. Super Mojo, an NFT financing platform, raised a $6 million seed round.
24. Here, a fractional investing platform for vacation rentals, raised a $5 million seed round.
25. ZKX, a UAE decentralized finance platform, raised a $4.5 million seed.
26. Penny, a UK pension management provider, raised £4 million.
27. Resolve, a medical billing and payments startup, raised a $3.3 million seed round.
28. Ride Capital, a German wealth structuring software for private investors, raised €3 million.
29. Nevermined, a Swiss digital asset startup, raised €3 million.
30. Atlantic Money, a UK money-transfer startup, raised €2.9 million.
31. Arrenda, a Mexican landlord financial services platform, emerged from stealth with a $1.5 million pre-seed and $25 million of lending credit.
32. Simpl.rent, a Polish and UK rent payment app, raised $350,000.
33. Novel Capital, a revenue-based lender, extended its seed round.
34. Igugu Global, an African green finance marketplace, raised an angel round.
35. Forteus, a digital asset manager, raised strategic funding from global asset manager Schroders.
36. Fidelity Payment Services, an omni-channel payments processor, raised a growth round investment.
37. Stripe, the US payments giant, cut its 409a valuation price by 28% from its 2021 high of $95 billion, to make equity cheaper for employees. (The company was trading at prices up to $130 billion in secondary in 2021.)
38. Airwallex, the money transmitter, is in talks to raise funding from Visa.

💵 Debt Financing

• Argentine consumer marketplace MercadoLibre received a $233 million warehouse line from Goldman Sachs to expand its lending and credit offerings in Brazil and Mexico.

💰 Venture Funds

• Canada’s Portage Ventures closed a new $655 million fintech venture fund.
• Spurred on by a year of record NFT sales, Christie’s is launching a web3 and fintech venture arm.

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