Berlin-based restaurant booking platform raises $8 million series B led by Holtzbrinck and DN Capital with ambitions to broaden into a marketing and commerce platform for local businesses.

Ripple Labs, developer of the Ripple protocol, has raised $3.5m in seed funding from IDG Capital, Core Innovation Capital, Venture 51 and Camp One Ventures.

Japan personal finance iOS app company Moneytree has attracted $1.6m in a seed investment round led by DG Incubation, the corporate venturing unit of Digital Garage. PayPal, MasterCard and Morgan Stanley senior executives also took part in the round.

Payday loan company LendUp secures $14m series A round led by Google Ventures, to expand its online operations beyond California, Missouri and Louisiana to other US states.

Cash flow management start-up Bill.com raises $38m led by ScaleVP and backed by American Express and strategic investors Bank of America and Fifth Third Bank.

New financial entrants into corporate venturing setting a decent early investment pace to ensure their organisations are not wrong-footed by the pace of technological change.

Israel-based Bank Hapoalim to work with Microsoft Ventures Accelerator to support financial technology start-ups.

Mobile authentication company Payfone receives $10m equity investment from financial services fraud detection firm Early Warning.

Jamaican mobile telecoms company Digicel leads $6m funding for mobile payments app developer Flint Mobile.