Financial

26 – 100 in alphabetical order: Erica Whittaker, UCB Ventures

26 – 100 in alphabetical order: Ben Wright, 3M Ventures

26 – 100 in alphabetical order: Lily Yeung, Molex Ventures

26 – 100 in alphabetical order: Michael Young, Caterpillar Ventures

The Orange-backed electronics financing provider has increased its total equity and debt financing to $70m with a Greylock-led series B round.

Baidu and China Citic Bank-owned AIBank is looking to raise up to $1bn in the coming months, adding to the $576m in capital provided by the corporates so far.

Thomas Zehnder of BlueOcean Ventures and Ami Ben David of Spice Venture Capital discussed the advantages of blockchain technology in making assets such as venture capital less rigid.

Visa, CommerzVentures and CreditEase were among the existing investors that backed card issuer Marqeta in a round that valued it at nearly $2bn.

The Mitsui and Virgin-backed money transfer service more than doubled its valuation to $3.5bn in a round that involved existing backers selling shares.

Jacqueline LeSage Krause of Munich Re Ventures and David Gilmour of BP Ventures are co-chairs of this year’s GCV Symposium, which is looking at how to navigate market turbulence.

The digital insurance software provider Snapsheet has closed a $29m series E featuring Nationwide, Sedgwick, State Automobile Mutual Insurance Liberty Mutual, Fidelity and USAA.