Prior to founding venture firm PruVen in the summer, Ramneek Gupta had co-founded the venture investing efforts at financial services firm Citi. 

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Swiss Re subsidiary IptiQ led the digital insurance app developer’s series B round, which increased its overall funding to $53m.

Citi Ventures participated in the first non-crowdfunded equity round to be disclosed by the kids' finance management app developer.

The B Capital Group-led round has helped the digital health insurance business take its overall funding to at least $68m since launch.

The digital home insurance provider has secured funding in a round that included Orange's corporate venture capital unit.

Intel Capital joined a range of investors for the financial markets IT provider that include financial services and trading firms.

Shriram Bhashyam has exited his entrepreneur-in-residence role at Citi Ventures for a senior-vice president position at commodities and securities brokerage Forge Global.

The private equity firm has supplied series E funding for the financial data provider, adding to earlier cash from investors including Renren and Ant Group.

GoEasy is set to exit the instalment finance service in an acquisition by one of its peers, Affirm, having provided $25.5m in funding last year.