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Rakuten helps transfer $18m to Currency Cloud
The online payment technology company has now raised $35m in total, after securing funds from a series C round featuring Rakuten and led by Sapphire Ventures.
Jun 23, 2015Big Deal: Qualcomm Ventures returns Life Fund with Fitbit IPO
Qualcomm Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, which has SAP as its sole limited partner, Softbank Corporation and US financial firm SVB Financial were big winners from the floatation of the fitness tracking business last week.
Jun 22, 2015Ant Financial processes $45bn valuation
Alibaba spin-out Ant Financial has closed a funding round of undisclosed size at a $45bn valuation.
Jun 19, 2015Oil and gas venturing in the first quarter
Global Corporate Venturing tracked six direct investments linked to oil and gas corporate venturing units. There was also one undisclosed fund investment by Chevron Technology Ventures, the sponsor of our research, and an exit by Statoil Technology Ventures.
Jun 18, 2015InnoSpring raises $5m corporate-backed fund
InnoSpring Seed Fund II has been backed by Legend, IDG, and SoftBank.
Jun 16, 2015Sequent pockets series C
The digital wallet platform developer previously closed a $12m series B round led by Sberbank.
Jun 15, 2015SumUp adds series D funding
Groupon, BBVA, Tengelmann and American Express-backed mobile payments service SumUp has boosted its total funding to $45m.
Jun 10, 2015Big Deal: SoftBank invests $1bn in Coupang
SoftBank took a 20% stake in the Korea-based e-commerce company, as part of a long term strategy that could see it become the world's largest e-commerce player.
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