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Please find another week of fintech financing events below.

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💸 Venture Financing

1. DANA, an Indonesian digital wallet provider, raised $250 million.
2. AtoB, a trucking and fleet payments provider, raised $75 million in new equity at an $800 million valuation and $80 million in lending capital.
3. Boulevard, a payments and booking platform for beauty and wellness salons, raised $70 million.
4. Super, an alternative to card payments for merchants, raised £22.5 million.
5. Jar, an Indian savings app, raised $22.6 million.
6. Dezerv, an Indian wealth management startup, raised $21 million.
7. Pomelo, an overseas payment provider, raised a $20 million seed round and $50 million in lending debt.
8. Agora, a real estate investing platform, raised a $20 million Series A.
9. Arc, a neobank for high growth SaaS startup, raised a $20 million Series A.
10. FOMO Pay, a Singaporean digital banking provider, raised a $13 million Series A.
11. Unstoppable Finance, which is building a decentralized finance wallet for the EU, raised €12.5 million.
12. Primitive, a decentralized finance AMM and infrastructure provider, raised a $9 million Series A.
13. Rocketplace, an asset management platform for crypto, raised a $9 million Seed III round.
14. Highbeam, a neobank for people building e-commerce brands, raised $7 million in seed funding.
15. Penfold, a UK digital pension provider, raised a £7 million Series A.
16. Ansible, a startup building a blockchain-based payments platform, raised $7 million in seed funding.
17. Pastel, a Nigerian bookkeeping platform for merchants, raised a $5.5 million seed round.
18. BankiFi, a UK embedded small business banking platform, raised £4 million to expand into the US.
19. ClaimLogiq, a healthcare payment integrity platform, raised funding as part of a recap.

💵 Debt Financing

• Blackstone is getting into the startup lending game.

💰 Venture Funds

• Financial Venture Studio closed $40 million for its second fund.
• Global Alternative Investment Management LLC launched a qualified purchaser fintech fund with $1.9 million raised.

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