Consumer goods crowdfunding site raises $7.5m from Google Ventures and Union Square Ventures.

Victory Park also provided a $25m credit facility to AvantCredit, which wrote its first loans this year and now has a loan portfolio of more than $4m.

Victory Park Capital leads lenders giving a $75m credit facility to Kabbage, a start-up online provider of small business financing.

Foreign exchange trading technology firm brings in new chief operating officer to replace Robert Bloom in the role.

In February, On Deck raised $42m in its D round, to take its then-total since launch to $80m, from a consortium including SAP Ventures.

In February last year, Dwolla secured $5m in its B round from a pool of investors including BetterWorks and its chief executive Paige Craig.

The company priced 12.5 million American depository shares at $17 each, after having filed to sell 12 million shares at between $16 and $18 each.

Shareholders include UK-listed internet services provider Mail.ru Group and Japan-based financial services group Mitsui own A shares which will have "substantial control" over the company even though Qiwi's regulatory filing said they could be competitors.