The Alphabet, Visa and American Express-backed payment and business management tool provider has added $100m from existing investor Tiger Global at a $22.5bn valuation.

City Football is the anchor investor in Sapphire Sport, which is also backed by SAP, Adidas, Sinclair, AEG, Major League Baseball, the New York Jets and the San Jose Sharks.

Leonie Baneke, formerly an investment director at Eneco Innovation & Ventures, has been promoted to head of venturing for its parent company.

Comcast subsidiaries Comcast Ventures and NBCUniversal both invested in the financial management app developer, bringing its valuation up to $860m.

IP Group put up $5.4m for Cambridge fraud detection spinout Featurespace’s latest round to bring the company’s overall funding haul to $70.9m.

Accenture Ventures and existing investor First Data both participated in a round that increased the banking platform developer's total funding to $42m.

Rise Growth Investments will back each cohort of Barclays tri-national fintech accelerator scheme with a total of up to $13.2m of funding.

The Credit Saison and OKWave-backed cryptocurrency wallet developer has collected $15m from SBI Crypto Investment to fund its expansion in Asia.

The blockchain technology developer will use the proceeds from the Nasdaq Ventures-led round to commercialise its platform for mortgages, private equity and syndicated loans.

Narbe Alexandrian, previously vice-president of business development at Canopy Rivers, has been promoted to president.