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CertiK Closes Additional $60 Million Funding from SoftBank on the Heels of $88 Million Series B3
CertiK, the leading global Web3 and blockchain security firm, announced an additional $60 million USD investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tiger Global. This marks SoftBank’s first venture into the Web3 security space. CertiK’s $88 million series B3 round and $2 billion valuation were announced within the past month, led by Insight Partners.
Investment Management Platform FundGuard Closes $40 Million Series B Funding
FundGuard, the AI-powered SaaS investment management and asset servicing enterprise platform, announced that it has closed a $40 million Series B funding round. The investment round included large strategic investors Citi and State Street Corp, who joined initial investors Blumberg Capital, LionBird Ventures, Team8 Capital, and other investors to back the company’s future-ready technology approach to asset servicing.
Experian Finds Mobile Wallets Rival Traditional Payment Methods
The new Experian Global Insights Report concludes that digital online spending will continue to gain strength even as consumers emerge from lockdown and return to in-person transactions. Consumers are also engaging with digital payments as much as they engage with email.
The MonkeyFirm Integrates Chainlink Price Feeds, Launches Token NFT Trading System
The MonkeyFirm announced the launch of its marketplace for token NFTs that will enable users to mint and trade blocks of crypto assets in a single NFT transaction. By utilising NFTs to trade tokens, over-the-counter (OTC) traders will not have to rely on trusting other people with their funds like third-party escrows or be subject to high slippage and fees when using centralised and decentralised exchanges.
REPAY Partners with D2R-Collect to Facilitate Payments and Maximize Collections
Repay Holdings Corporation, a leading provider of vertically-integrated payment solutions, announced a technology integration with D2R-Collect, a provider of cloud-based technology and recovery software solutions for accounts receivable, third party collections, credit unions, higher education institutions, and small- to medium-sized enterprises.