Education payments service raises $6.4m series B funding.

PeerTransfer, a US-based international education payments service which is backed by returning investor Maveron, the venture capital firm co-founded by Howard Schultz (chief executive officer of Starbucks), has raised $6.4m in a series B round of funding led by investment firm QED Investors.  Other investors include venture capital and investment firms KIBO Ventures, Fides Capital and Spark Capital.

PeerTransfer has raised $15m since 2009, when it was founded.

Iker Marcaide, founder and chief executive of PeerTransfer, said: “We are looking…