Plaid, a US-based financial technology startup which provides developers with an API for banking data, allowing them to programatically interact with banks and credit cards, has raised $2.8m from Google Ventures, the corporate venturing division of internet search firm Google, together with venture capital firms Spark Capital, Felicis Ventures, New Enterprise Associates and Homebrew, the new seed stage venture capital firm launched by ex-Google executives Hunter Walk and Satya Patel.
Zach Perret, co-founder of Plaid, told Gigaom: “The idea of…
