ING Ventures
Crypto
Sardine raises $51.5M led by a16z to sniff out fishy fintech transactions
6:00 am PDT • September 20, 2022
As fintechs become more efficient, so too do fraudsters. “Faster instant payments mean faster fraud,” Sardine CEO and co-founder Soups Ranjan told TechCrunch. That’s the thesis behind his startup, which…
Enterprise
SeMI Technologies’ search engine opens up new ways to query your data
6:00 am PST • February 22, 2022
SeMI takes unstructured data and creates a semantic search engine so that you can actually ask your data questions and get answers.
Fintech
Thought Machine closes $200M for its cloud native banking SaaS and becomes a unicorn
3:19 am PST • November 29, 2021
Thought Machine, a 2014 (Xoogler) founded startup that sells cloud-based b2b banking services, has closed a $200 million Series C round and announced that it’s achieved unicorn status (aka, passing…
Startups
Divido bags $30M to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
5:49 am PDT • June 2, 2021
London-based Divido, a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at…
