Mobile payments company mFoundry gets backing from four corporates led by Mastercard and is investigating strategic partnerships with them.

The SVB-backed online money transfer company has raised another $25m from existing investors, with an executive from the former Fidelity Ventures among the deal's signatories.

The pricing intelligence service has raised $1m in seed funding from investors including an equity fund belonging to the Bank of Ireland.

The card payments company, which operates independently of US-based Visa, has acquired a minority stake in transaction data analytics company Beyond Analysis.

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The agreement will help Aureos' portfolio companies in south-east Asia and MSIVC's investee companies in Japan gain exposure to each other's markets.

The company makes strategic investments for classes of risk other than catastrophe, and at times may also be directed at non-insurance risks, such Tower Hill Insurance Group, the Essent Group, Angus Partners and Pricelock.