Financial

Crowdfunding platform Readyfor has unveiled its first funding round, with investors including Globis, since launching from the wings of Tokyo internet services spinout Ohma in 2014.

The robo-advisor developer has raised a further $35.5m from the likes of Sony, Mizuho Bank and SBI Group to take its total funding to approximately $96m.

Innovative region: Brazil

This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

GCV Analytics defines the financial services sector as encompassing payment technologies and cryptocurrencies, personal finance and wealth management, insurance, alternative lending, crowdfunding, client and risk analytics, firms and funds, social investing and others.

The e-commerce anti-fraud platform developer secured $14m in a CommerzVentures-led round that also featured Munich Re/HSB Ventures.

In this short piece, we provide a comparison of our GCV Analytics data with Pitchbook’s data up until the end of the third quarter of 2018.

Equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has raised $10.9m from investors including Channel 4's Commercial Growth Fund to raise brand awareness.

Grab has added $50m from Kasikornbank to a round sized at $2.7bn, following a $250m investment by Hyundai and Kia earlier this week.

Global Corporate Venturing’s inaugural award for ‘Energy-tech Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Investment of the Year’ was announced on November 8th during the Venture Houston conference.

Lloyds took a 10% stake as it led a $23.5m series A round for Thought Machine, gaining access to the fintech developer’s cloud-based banking platform.