Financial

Digital assets and fintech company Hashkey was among the investors in a $14.5m round for Adaptive Holdings' open-source blockchain protocol spinoff, CasperLabs.

Rocket Internet and Prudential formed part of the consortium that has co-led a $135m equity and debt round for business financing services provider Sonovate.

Julia Ognieva, who set up the LDN_LAB scheme while at Facebook, has joined accounting software provider Intuit.

Cheetah Mobile has contributed to a $24m round for its consumer microfinance offshoot SuperAtom, which will utilise the corporate's customer and technical resources.

The Youzu Interactive-backed credit assessment tool developer boosted its overall funding to $91m, collecting $47m in a pre-series C round led by Guohe Capital.

Consumer lender Goeasy has acquired a minority stake in instalment financing provider PayBright in return for $25.5m alongside a strategic partnership deal.

Finance automation platform developer AppZen, backed at seed stage by Bloomberg and Mastercard, has now secured $102m altogether.

Citi Ventures and MassMutual Ventures co-led financial services software developer Even Financial's latest round, doubling its total funding to $50m.

John Eggleston has departed from his position as head of the tech sector for BGF in order to take up the chief technology officer role at Pantheon Ventures.

Fantasy sports platform Dream11 is reportedly aiming to raise a round sized at $500m to be backed by several corporate investors. The company is part of the broader gaming and eSport space which has seen growth recently.

Credit Saison, Ogaki Kyoritsu and Nippon Care Supply took part in a Denso-led round that increased the automotive loan provider's overall funding to nearly $35m.