Digital bank Chime has tripled its valuation, officially passing the $1 billion-mark this week. The San Francisco-based company announced a $200 million Series D financing round that brings its new valuation to $1.5 billion. Investors were led by DST Global, which also participated in earlier fundraising rounds, and new investors Coatue, General Atlantic, Iconiq Capital […]
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Chime Raises $200 Million At $1.5 Billion Valuation
Digital bank Chime has tripled its valuation, officially passing the $1 billion-mark this week. The San Francisco-based company announced a $200 million Series D financing round that brings its new valuation to $1.5 billion. […]
Trifacta Triples User Base And More Than Doubles Cloud-Based Revenue in 2018
Trifacta, Inc., the global leader in data preparation, today announced another year of significant growth. Fiscal year 2019, which ended January 31, saw annual recurring revenue (ARR) grow by over 85 percent with accelerated growth of more than 2x in cloud-based revenue as result of strong customer wins globally, continued industry recognition as the leader in […]
DataSine raises $5.2M led by Pentech and Propel for its AI content-marketing platform
By now, most of us should be familiar with the concept of the tailored news feed. Right now my Facebook feed (yes, I’m still there, alas) has been messed up because I’ve clicked on too many posts about Brexit, but I digress. My point is that content has long since fallen to the tyranny of […]
Chime recognized by 11:FS as the winner in the US Disruptor category
The consulting firm CG42 recently reported that it expects the ten largest banks in the US to lose $159 billion in deposits to smaller competitors over the next year. […]
Meet the start-up bank with millions of customers trying to disrupt the ‘adversarial’ American banking system
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Chime is among the top seven most promising personal finance companies on Forbes 2019 Fintech 50 list
Almost every personal finance company on Forbes’ 2019 Fintech 50 list is betting on the insights of behavioral finance to take their company to the next level. […]
Denis Barrier sat down with Technotopia’s John Biggs to discuss his outlook on the future of global innovation
Denis Barrier is a global investor and an amazing guy. His firm invests in the US, Europe, and Asia and we talked about our borderless future and how to spot innovation before it takes off. […]
Cathay CarTech Invests in World Leader in 3D Sensing Systems UPhoton
January 7, 2019 Cathay CarTech Fund, in partnership with Lenovo Capital, THG Ventures, TusStar Invest and ZOL QiHang Investment, has recently completed a 100 million RMB funding round for UPhoton. The leading 3D sensing system supplier once again won the recognition of capital markets. Several existing shareholders such as Shunwei Capital and Baidu Venture have […]
FINALCAD raises $40M to digitise the construction industry
December 13, 2018 Paris, December 13th, 2018. — FINALCAD, a leading construction mobile platform, today announces a $40 million Series C round, led by Draper Esprit, accompanied by Cathay Innovation and with the support of Salesforce Ventures. The investment will enable the company to significantly accelerate operations across Europe and Asia, as demand for their mobile-first […]