The Mastercard and PayPal-backed digital payment technology provider reportedly raised $75m to $100m, roughly doubling its valuation in the process.

In the second half of out 2020 roundup we look at growth areas including digital health and health insurance, online education platforms and financial technology.

Q&A with Aldi Adrian Hartanto, vice-president of investments, MDI Ventures

Rakuten, Progressive and Alphabet-backed online lending platform Upstart has closed its initial public offering, its share price having more than doubled since it floated.

SoftBank’s Vision Fund I and Latin America Fund returned for a round that hiked the online lending platform developer's valuation to $1.75bn.

Insurance provider Transverse joined Blackhorn Ventures to invest $15m in commercial insurer Foresight earlier this year.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Binance Labs co-led the multi-chain crypto wallet developer's series B round following $7.8m in funding last month.

The Alphabet and Ping An-backed health insurer has now raised almost $1.7bn in total, Tiger Global Management having led its latest round.

Tokyo University of Science helped extend Gojo & Company's series D round to $68.6m, lifting the microfinancing provider's overall funding to around $142m.