Digital payment platform developer NanoPay secured the funding in a round featuring Goldman Sachs' Merchant Banking Division.

NanoPay Corporation, the Canada-based operator of a real-time payments platform, has closed a $10m series A round backed by investment bank Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division.

The round included APAGM Services, Jarnac Capital Management and Rohatton, and comes after NanoPay acquired digital currency product MintChip from Royal Canadian Mint in January this year.

Founded in 2012, NanoPay has built a platform that can store or transfer digital assets directly without the use of intermediaries. The technology is used by banks…