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Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index  for August Finds Loan Approval Rates Rise at Banks and at Non-Bank Lenders
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Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index  for August Finds Loan Approval Rates Rise at Banks and at Non-Bank Lenders

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Small business loan approval percentages at big banks ($10 billion+ in assets) jumped from 13.8% in July 2021 to 13.9% in August, up by three-tenths of a percentage from one year ago. Meanwhile, small banks’ approvals also rose from 19.1% in July to 19.3% in August, according to the latest Biz2Credit Small Business  “Small businesses are again borrowing to improve......
Five Sigma Raises $12 Million to Accelerate Growth and Expansion Plans
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Five Sigma Raises $12 Million to Accelerate Growth and Expansion Plans

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Five Sigma, an industry leading claims platform provider, has raised $12M in a Series A round led by 83North and featuring existing investors F2 Venture Capital and Pipeline Capital. New investors include Eyal Ofer’s O.G. Tech, Xceedance and iGlobe Partners. This brings the company’s total funding to date to $18M.......
Leading Mobile Marketing Platform ‘Dials up’ Growth Strategy With HSBC UK Funding
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Leading Mobile Marketing Platform ‘Dials up’ Growth Strategy With HSBC UK Funding

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International mobile marketing automation and customer engagement leader, Upstream, is set to further accelerate its expansion plans after securing an €8m funding package from HSBC UK. Enabling mobile customer engagement and acquisitions via technology and data, at a time when digitally connecting with customers is more important than ever, Upstream is working with top Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) such as Vodafone, MTN and......
MaxRewards Raises $3 Million Series Seed to Help Consumers Earn Extraordinary Benefits from Everyday Spend
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MaxRewards Raises $3 Million Series Seed to Help Consumers Earn Extraordinary Benefits from Everyday Spend

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MaxRewards, the first service that automates maximizing credit card rewards, cash back and benefits, announced that it has raised a $3 million series seed funding round co-led by Dundee Venture Capital and Calano Ventures. Other investors in the round include Fintech Ventures Fund, Service Provider Capital and Nick Izquierdo, President at Fleetcor, a global payments and card company.......
Zeotap Brings In Liberty Global Ventures In Series C Funding Round Extension
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Zeotap Brings In Liberty Global Ventures In Series C Funding Round Extension

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Liberty Global Ventures among several new investors following Zeotap’s 126% ARR growth in 2020 Zeotap, the next-gen Customer Data Platform, has announced an $11m extension to its Series C round. The extension follows the company raising $42m in July 2020, which was followed by an initial extension of $18.5m in November from SignalFire’s Breakout Fund. This new extension takes place......
Zilch Brings Buy Now Pay Later to the US with Acquisition of Nepfin
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Zilch Brings Buy Now Pay Later to the US with Acquisition of Nepfin

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The London-based fintech scale-up Zilch has announced its acquisition of the San Francisco-based tech-enabled direct lender NepFin. With this acquisition, Zilch is poised to fast-track the launch of BNPL operations in the United States In preparation for a large-scale expansion into the US market, the large London BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) player Zilch has......
Leading Canadian e-commerce Platform ShopperPlus Raises CAD $20 million in series-A Funding
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Leading Canadian E-commerce Platform ShopperPlus Raises CAD $20 million in series-A Funding

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Leading Canadian e-commerce platform ShopperPlus has successfully raised $20 million CAD series-A funding led by Celtic House Asia Partners, with participation from Canada Business Growth Fund, Celtic House Venture Partners and the National Bank of Canada. Individual investors included e-commerce shopping app Wish co-founder Danny Zhang and Sequoia China managing......
Corelight Secures $75 Million in Series D Funding Led by Energy Impact Partners
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Corelight Secures $75 Million in Series D Funding Led by Energy Impact Partners

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Corelight, provider of the industry’s first open network detection and response (NDR) platform, announced it has raised $75 million in Series D investment led by Energy Impact Partners (EIP). Previous investors Accel, General Catalyst, Insight Partners and Osage University Partners also joined the round, as well as new investor H.I.G. Growth Partners, and strategic investment from Capital One Ventures, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund,......
Insurify Secures $100 Million in Series B financing led by Motive Partners
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Insurify Secures $100 Million in Series B financing led by Motive Partners

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New Investment Will Accelerate Insurtech’s Expansion of Operations Amid Year of Dramatic Growth Insurify, America’s highest-rated virtual insurance agent and comparison platform, announced it has closed $100M in Series B funding led by Motive Partners, a specialist private equity firm focused on financial technology investments. The round included participation from......
Atlanta-based VIVA Finance Closes $6.2 Million Series A Funding Round
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Atlanta-based VIVA Finance Closes $6.2 Million Series A Funding Round

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Atlanta-based fintech lender VIVA Finance has secured over $6 million in funding from a diverse group of investors to accelerate its nationwide expansion and provide underserved consumers with access to affordable credit. “I am thrilled at the opportunity to amplify our nationwide impact and equip more consumers with the tools......
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