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Stripe tenders an offer at $65B (TWIF 3/2)

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💸 Venture Financing

Avail, a modular blockchain project aiming to streamline the rollup experience, raised a $27 million seed.
Helcim, a payments provider that charges the cost of interchange plus an 8 cent margin, raised a $20 million in Series B.
Backpack, a crypto exchange founded by former FTX and Alameda employees, raised a $17 million Series A.
Qapita, a Singaporean equity management provider, raised a $17.2 million pre-Series B.
Embat, a Spanish treasury management platform, raised a €14.7 million Series A.
Slice, an Israeli equity management platform, raised $7 million in seed funding.
Superfluid, an Ethereum-based platform to provide real-time crypto transfers, raised $5.1 million.
NayaOne, a Sandbox-as-a-Service platform that helps to match financial institutions with fintechs, raised $4.7 million.
MoneyHash, an Egyptian payments orchestration platform built for MENA businesses, raised $4.5 million.
ProCredit, a Filipino small business lending platform, raised a $4.1 million pre-seed.
Campfire, a provider of accounting software for startups and midsize companies, raised a $3.5 million seed round.
Bfree, a Nigerian startup enabling lenders to recover debt ethically, raised $3 million.
Singularity, a startup developing a protocol to provide institutions with compliant and confidential access to DeFi, raised $2.2 million.
Reset, an employer-agnostic earned wage access platform, raised a $2.3 million seed.
BlueBean, an all-in-one procure to pay solution, raised $1.3 million.
United Fintech, an umbrella outfit dedicated to scooping up a stable of capital markets, wealth management and wholesale banking vendors, raised funding from Citi and BNP Paribas.
Payment facilitator Stripe struck a tender offer deal to provide its employees liquidity at a $65 billion valuation, down from its $95 billion venture round but up from its last round at $50 billion.