Holtzbrinck Ventures led the round, which the share trading app developer will put toward marketing, product development and hiring.

Netherlands-based stock trading app Bux secured €6m ($6.7m) yesterday in a round led by Holtzbrinck Ventures, the venture capital offshoot of German publisher Holtzbrinck.

Holtzbrinck Ventures was joined in the round by existing investors Orange Growth Capital and Velocity Capital.

Bux’s platform uses lay language and gamification to demystify securities trading. The company is already active in the Netherlands, UK, Germany and Austria, and plans to use the some of the funding to increase its marketing efforts as it prepares…