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We’re hosting our 2022 Lagos Fintech Meetup at Bayroot Bar & Lounge on Thursday, August 25th. Come join us, pick up your ticket here.

Please find another week of fintech financing events below.

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💸 Venture Financing

FT Partners released their newest quarterly overview of the fintech market, across M&A, exits, and VC rounds.

1. Balance, a US and Israeli e-commerce payments company and B2B marketplace, raised a $56 million Series B.
2. Shares, a social investing app, raised a $40 million Series B.
3. PriceLabs, a pricing tool for real estate and rental investment portfolios, raised $30 million.
4. Hashflow, a digital currency pricing engine and decentralized exchange, raised $25 million at a $400 million valuation.
5. Genesis Global, a low-code application development platform for financial markets, raised $20 million from strategic investors Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Citi (following a $200 million Series C in February).
6. MenuSifu, a restaurant point-of-sale payment system, raised a $20 million Series B.
7. Dbank, a Pakistani neobank and credit provider, raised a $17.6 million seed round.
8. Pogo, a financial app billing itself as “Honey for the real world,” raised $14.8 million in seed funding.
9. Nada, a real estate fintech provider, raised an $8.1 million seed round.
10. Bunch, a German back-end private investing startup, raised €7.3 million in seed funding.
11. Quasar Finance, a decentralized finance protocol, raised $6 million.
12. Atato, a digital asset custodian, raised a $6 million Series A.
13. Guava, a banking and networking platform for black entrepreneurs, raised a $2.4 million pre-seed.
14. Copper, a crypto custody solution for institutions, raised strategic funding from Barclays Bank at a $2 billion valuation.
15. Kettel Homes, a rent-to-own provider for first-time buyers, raised strategic funding from Nationwide.
16. FinLync, a corporate finance and treasury provider, raised strategic investment from Workday.
17. FTX, the crypto exchange that has been conducting broad M&A across the digital currency space, is in talks to raise $400 million at or above its last $32 billion valuation.

💵 Debt Financing

• Brazilian neobank Neon raised $80 million to broaden its credit card access through the country.

💰 Venture Funds

• Fintech-focused venture investor Portage launched its late-stage, fintech-focused Portage Capital Solutions fund, focused on deals ov

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