Edo Interactive Completes $20 Million Series E Round; Names Badran CEO

Edo Interactive Completes $20 Million Series E Round; Names Badran CEO
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: edo Interactive

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In a round led by Baird Capital, VantagePoint Capital Partners, and Nashville, Tennessee-area investors, edo Interactive has raised $20 million in new funding. The Series E round takes the company’s total capital to more than $93 million.

In addition to the funding, edo Interactive announced a new president and CEO. Souheil Badran will take the helm from Ed Braswell, who founded the company in 2007; Badran remains with edo Interactive as executive vice chairman.

The new funding will be used to speed up development of edo Interactive’ s technology and products, expand sales and marketing, and explore business development and strategic partnerships, such as with Visa Europe, announced October 2014.

Badran previously worked as senior vice president and general manager for World Payments, and SMB of commerce for Digital River. He also served as SVP and general manager at First Data Corporation, VP and GM at VeriSign, and director of commercial banking at Digital Insight. Braswell pointed to this experience in welcoming Badran to the company he founded: ” Souheil has successfully developed global payment solutions and built businesses in the payments and commerce space,” Braswell said. “This expertise, combined with a proven track record of increasing revenues and profits, makes him an ideal match for edo.”

edo Interactive specializes in helping merchants provide personalized offers that are readily available via credit, debit, or mobile device. The company’s card-linked offers platform gives merchants insight into customer behavior and helps make future offers and rewards ever more in line with shopping habits. Edo has more than 200 banks enrolled on its platform, with a total cardholder reach of more than 200 million customers. The company’s more than 500 merchant partners include Whole Foods Market, Crate & Barrel, and The Body Shop.

edo Interactive last appeared on the Finovate stage as part of FinovateSpring 2012 in San Francisco. The company demonstrated its GeoCommerce Offers technology that enables a purchase at one merchant to trigger an offer or reward at another nearby merchant in real-time.

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Fintech Fundings: 25 Companies Raise $450 Million Week Ending May 22

By Jim Bruene Posted on
Categories: Funding

This money_treeweek, 25 companies raised $447 million ($362 million equity; $85 million debt). That’s the highest weekly number of companies funded since we began tracking in August 2014. It was a broad mix of sub-sectors, from crypto (Ripple) to alt-lending (Argon, eProdigy, Bitbond), payments (Wepay, Face++), fraud protection (Feedzai), personal finance tools (Credit Sesame, Planwise) and more.

The nearly half-billion this week brings the May total to $1.6 billion. And so far this year, more than $7 billion has been invested in the fintech sector. You can see the weekly reports here.

It was also a record week for Finovate alumni fundings with 9 companies raising $161 million (look further down the page for full details):

  • WePay $40 million
  • Actiance $28 million
  • Ripple $28 million
  • EDO Interactive $20 million
  • Feedzai $17.5 million
  • Credit Sesame $16 million
  • PayItSimple $10 million (line of credit)
  • Planwise $750,000
  • Bitbond $670,000

eProdigy Finance
Tools and programs for alt-lending to businesses
HQ: New York City, New York
Latest round: $100 million Private Equity
Total raised: $100 million
Tags: Lending, credit, underwriting, SMB
Source: Crunchbase

Argon Credit
Online consumer alt-credit
HQ: Chicago, Illinois
Latest round: $75 million debt
Total raised: $85.1 million ($5.1 million equity; $80 million debt)
Tags: Credit, underwriting, consumer, P2P, peer-to-peer, marketplace lending, personal loans
Source: Crunchbase

WePay
Payment services for online marketplaces
HQ: Palo Alto, California
Latest round: $40 million Series D
Total raised: $74.2 million
Tags: Payments, platforms, SMB, Finovate alum
Source: Finovate

Actiance
Enterprise communications platform
HQ: Redwood City, California
Latest round: $28 million
Total raised: $43.6 million
Tags: Analytics, enterprise, Finovate alum
Source: Finovate

Ripple Labs
Open source payment network
HQ: San Francisco, California
Latest round: $28 million
Total raised: $37 million
Tags: Cryptocurrency, virtual currency, currency exchange, Open Coin, Finovate alum
Source: Finovate

Face++
Payments via facial recognition
HQ: Bejing, China
Latest round: $25 million
Total raised: $47 million
Tags: Mobile payments, security, biometrics, Alibaba (customer)
Source: NFC World

EDO Interactive
Card-linked rewards and offers
HQ: Nashville, Tennessee
Latest round: $20 million
Total raised: $93.5 million
Tags: Merchant-funded rewards, debit cards, credit cards, advertising, Finovate alum
Source: FT Partners

Feedzai
Fraud-protection solutions for the enterprise
HQ: San Mateo, California
Latest round: $17.5 million Series B
Total raised: $22 million
Tags: Security, fraud protection, big data, Finovate alum
Source: Finovate

Credit Sesame
Credit reports and debt management
HQ: Mountain View, California
Latest round: $16 million Series D
Total raised: $35.4 million
Tags: Credit, credit scores, debt management, Finovate alum
Source: Finovate

Stride Health
Health insurance selection
HQ: San Francisco, California
Latest round: $13 million Series A
Total raised: $15.4 million
Tags: Insurance, lead gen, cost comparison, marketplace
Source: Crunchbase

Justworks
Payroll and benefits platform
HQ: New York City, New York
Latest round: $13 million
Total raised: $20 million
Tags: Payments, SMB, enterprise, HR, payroll
Source: FT Partners

PayItSimple
Financing at the point-of-sale
HQ: Herzliya, Israel
Latest round: $10 million Debt
Total raised:$10+ million
Tags: Credit, underwriting, POS, merchants, SMB, Finovate alum
Source: Finovate

Stox
Financial data for consumers
HQ: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Latest round: $8 million Series A
Total raised: $8 million
Tags: Investing, analytics, data
Source: Crunchbase

Palico
Online network for private equity community
HQ: New York City, New York
Latest round: $7.3 million
Total raised: $7.3 million
Tags: Investing, social network, private equity, institutional investors
Source: Crunchbase

YCharts
Investment analytics
HQ: Chicago, Illinois
Latest round: $6 million
Total raised: $14.7 million
Tags: Investing, data analytics, charting
Source: Crunchbase

Zeek
Giftcard and retail voucher marketplace
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
Latest round: $3 million Series A
Total raised: $3 million
Tags: Prepaid cards, gift cards
Source: Crunchbase

digitalBTC
Virtual currency
HQ: Bentley, Australia
Latest round: $2.8 million
Total raised: $2.8 million
Tags: Bitcoin, cryptocurrency
Source: Crunchbase

Funding Options
Financing search & matching service for businesses
HQ: London, United Kingdom
Latest round: $1.9 million ($6.5 million valuation)
Total raised: $1.9 million
Tags: lending, lead gen, SMB
Source: FT Partners

Planwise
Home buying tools
HQ: San Francisco, California
Latest round: $750,000
Total raised: $1.6 million
Tags: Mortgage, real estate, debt management, refi, Finovate alum
Source: Finovate

Bitbond
Bitcoin-denominated P2P lending
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Latest round: $670,000
Total raised: $900,000
Tags: P2p, peer-to-peer lending, underwriting, Bitcoin, Finovate alum
Source: Finovate

Magick
Online financial and FX trading
HQ: Copenhagen, Denmark
Latest round: $300,000
Total raised: Unknown
Tags: Trading, investing, FX, currency trading
Source: FT Partners

Public Fund Investing Tracking & Reporting (PFITR, LLC)
Public fund accounting and analytics
HQ: St. Louis, Missouri
Latest round: $50,000
Total raised: $800,000
Tags: Accounting, investing
Source: Crunchbase

Oradian
Microfinance solutions provider
HQ: Zagreb, Croatia
Latest round: Undisclosed Seed
Total raised: Unknown
Tags: P2P, underbanked, financial inclusion
Source: FT Partners

Pro Securities LLC (no website)
Alt-stock exchange
Old Bridge, New Jersey
Latest round: Undisclosed sale of 25% of company to Overstock
Total raised: Unknown
Tags: Investing, trading, Overstock (investor)
Source: FT Partners

Tilt (formerly CrowdTilt)
Money collection and management for groups
HQ: San Francisco, California
Latest round: Undisclosed at $400 million valuation
Total raised: $37+ million
Tags: Crowdfunding, social money management, P2P, peer-to-peer
Source: FT Partners

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FreeAgent to Crowdfund $1.6 Million Funding Round

FreeAgent to Crowdfund $1.6 Million Funding Round
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FreeAgent

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FreeAgent, a cloud accounting provider with a mission to democratize accounting for U.K.-based microbusinesses and freelancers, today announced its plan to crowdfund its next funding round. The company has listed its $1.6 million (£1 million) goal with crowdfunding platform, Seedrs, and is offering 3.21% equity in exchange.

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The news broke this morning in London, and 82 investors have already contributed 36% of FreeAgent’s goal amount (as of 7:19 p.m. GMT). The company has 60 days to raise the remaining funds.

If investors contribute the remaining 64% (approximately $1 million) within 60 days, FreeAgent will use the funds to accelerate product development and acquire more micro-business and freelance customers. The company raised $5 million in debt financing in April and is currently valued at $47 million (£30 million).

Opting out of a traditional venture capital round, the Edinburgh-based company crowdsourced the funding to enable its 40,000 customers to invest, and to potentially attract more small business owners and accountants. Investors can take a stake in FreeAgent from as little as $16 (£10) per share.

FreeAgent co-founder/CEO Ed Molyneux says “who [is] better to help us achieve our vision of ‘democratizing accounting’ than our customers? We chose crowdfunding because we want to make it straightforward for them—as well as other small business owners—to invest in FreeAgent.”

FreeAgent debuted its financial health insights at FinovateEurope 2013 in London.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Advanced Merchant Payments, Dwolla, edo Interactive, FreeAgent, HelloWallet, Insuritas, Intuit, Kabbage, NICE Systems, PayPal, Receivables Exchange, SumUp, TD Ameritrade, Tradier, TransferWise

On Finovate.com

  • FreeAgent to Crowdfund $1.6 Million Funding Round
  • edo Interactive Completes $20 Million Series E Round; Names Badran CEO, President

Around the web

  • Halliburton Federal CU to use Insuritas to launch insurance agency.
  • Receivables Exchange appoints James W. Toffey as new CEO.
  • PayPal, Xero, Intuit, HelloWallet, & TD Ameritrade win 2015 Webby Awards.
  • TransferWise launches updated Android app with one-tap payments for more than 360 currency routes.
  • SumUp releases SumUp terminal payment SDKs for iOS and Android.
  • AMP Credit Technologies appoints chief technology officer.
  • Dwolla launches ability to schedule recurring payments for a specific day, recurring schedules, and cancellation criteria.
  • NICE Systems sells its cyber and intelligence division to Elbit Systems for $158 million.
  • Photos from FinovateSpring 2015 last week are now available on the Finovate Flickr feed.
  • OptionNET Taps Tradier for Rollout of Trading Directly from Their Platform.
  • Kabbage partners with Sage Payment Solutions to create small business loan offering.
  • PayPal’s OneTouch checkout service now supports all merchants using BigCommerce, even when consumers don’t have the PayPal app installed.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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FinovateEurope Dawns 9-10 February 2016

FinovateEurope Dawns 9-10 February 2016
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateEurope 2016

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We’re not even half way through the year, but it’s already time to grab your calendar and turn to 2016.

The sixth annual FinovateEurope will again be held at Old Billingsgate Market Hall in London on 9/10 February 2016. Register here to save your spot.

Last year, 72 companies conducted live demos of their newest technology in front of a record crowd of almost 1,300. With interest and funding of European fintech at an all-time high, we expect to see even more innovation in 2016. To get an idea of what you’ll see, check out the demo videos from FinovateEurope 2015.

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For a limited time, we’re offering £995 presale pricing, so the best time to pick up your tickets is now. This is our lowest offer, discounted £400 off the list price. Since tickets are fully refundable until the end of 2015, there’s no risk in securing your ticket now.

Questions about the event? Check out the FAQ section of the event website or contact [email protected].

See you in London next year!

FinovateEurope 2015 is sponsored by The Bancorp, FT Partners, iBe, KPMG, and Life.Sreda.

FinovateEurope 2015 partners include Bank Innovators Council, BankersHub, bobsguide, Breaking Banks, Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, Celent, Datamonitor Financial, Financial Services Club, Fintech Finance, Harrington Starr, Hotwire, Mapa Research, Mercator Advisory Group, and The Trading Mesh.

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WePay Closes $40 Million Series D Round Led by FTV Capital

WePay Closes $40 Million Series D Round Led by FTV Capital
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: WePay

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Payment-processor WePay has just added $40 million in new funding to its investment total, courtesy of a Series D investment led by FTV Capital. Also participating in the investment was Japanese eCommerce company, Rakuten.

The Series D round takes WePay’s overall capital to more than $75 million. The funding will help WePay expand internationally, “potentially to the U.K. and Australia.”

In a statement from WePay, co-founder and CEO Bill Clerico published in the WePay blog, Clerico calls the funding “a testament to the amazing work of the nearly 100 men and women I have the privilege to work with every day.” To this point, Clerico announced plans to triple the size of his team over the next 18 months, adding another 200 workers.

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April Rassa, WePay director of product marketing, and John Canfield, VP of risk management, demonstrated WePay’s Veda Risk Engine and API at FinovateSpring 2014.

WePay provides payment services for crowdfunding and e-commerce platforms, such as GoFundMe and Freshbooks, as well as brand names and public companies, such as Customlink and Constant Contact. The company has 1,000 partners using its API, with more than 500,000 merchants using WePay’s platform. The company has processed more than $1.5 billion in transaction volume since inception, and earlier this year announced a deal with Google Wallet that will put the former’s Instant Buy API in 200,000 e-commerce sites.

FTV Capital partner Chris Kinship will join WePay’s board as part of the deal. He noted the investing in WePay was a matter of the company “finally (getting) to the right size and scale and metrics. He added that his firm had considered investments in other fintech companies in the past, but had held back because the market “didn’t seem quite ready.”

“The reason we didn’t invest in Square and other businesses in the space is that we didn’t see something in their business model that could grow up at scale. WePay can,” Kinship said.

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., WePay made its Finovate debut last year at FinovateSpring 2014 in San Jose, Calif., presenting its Veda Risk Engine and Risk API.

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Misys Launches FusionBanking Essence Islamic

Misys Launches FusionBanking Essence Islamic
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Misys

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When you think of the underbanked, the Islamic world may not immediately come to mind. But the launch of Misys FusionBanking Essence Islamic banking solution suggests that the Finovate Best of Show winning banking innovator has been thinking about the sector for awhile.

Calling Islamic banking ripe for disruption, Mahmoud Tallat—product manager, FusionBanking Essence Islamic—pointed to the sector’s growth of more than 17% a year compared to its poor return on equity (12.6%) compared to the rest of the industry (25%). He also highlighted the importance of getting both Sharia-compliance and superior service right: A survey by PricewaterhouseCooper showed only 52% of Islamic banking customers believe their bank to be “truly Islamic.”

With regard to service, this means both providing the unique tools and resources required for Islamic banking, as well as increasing the number and quality of products available to customers. Misys notes that the average products per customer in conventional banking is more than twice that in Islamic banking (4.9 compared to 2.1).

Decades ago, Misys brought online the first Islamic bank in the United Kingdom, Al Rayan Bank, formerly the Islamic Bank of Britain. Misys believes that its platform experience—embrace of technology, 24/7 response, and social aspect—put it in the unique position to help “ambitious Islamic banks … accumulate new customers and increase their share of wallet.”

FusionBanking Essence Islamic features pre-configured, Sharia-compliant products, including Murabaha and Finance Ijara instruments. The platform uses these “pre-defined micro workflows” to give banks more control over individual elements of an Islamic banking product: In other words, it has already streamlined those regulatory elements that traditionally have made Islamic banking more complex and costly.

Founded in 1979 and headquartered in London, Misys has made three appearances on the Finovate stage, most recently in February at FinovateEurope 2015. Nadeem Syed is CEO.

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Bitcoin-based P2P Lending Platform Bitbond Raises $670,000

Bitcoin-based P2P Lending Platform Bitbond Raises $670,000
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Bitbond, Funding

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Global bitcoin-lending platform Bitbond today announced receipt of $670,000 (€600,000) in an angel funding round. Combined with its $220,000 (€200,000) seed round in August 2014, the startup’s funding now totals just under $900,000.

Early investor, Point Nine Capital, led the round, and a host of angel investors also contributed. Business angels include:

  • Florian Heinemann
  • Uwe Horstmann
  • Christian Vollmann
  • Felix Jahn

The Berlin-based company counts 10,000+ registered users from 120 countries. Bitbond’s goals for the new funding are to grow its user base and increase activity in emerging markets underserved by traditional lenders.

Since launching to the public in July 2013, Bitbond has originated more than 600 loans through its platform.

Bitbond’s mission is to make global borrowing and lending more accessible, and it does that by using bitcoin to create a global market for small business loans.

You can find an in-depth look at Bitbond’s platform in our Finovate Debuts series.

At FinovateEurope 2015 in London, Bitbond debuted its Autoinvest feature that uses an algorithm to allocate lenders’ funds automatically and according to their preferences.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Arxan Technologies, Azimo, Coinbase, Digital Insight, Fiserv, Intuit, Lendio, LifePay, Lighter Capital, Malauzai Software, Misys, PayNearMe, PayPal, Sekur.me, WePay

On Finovate.com

  • Bitcoin-based P2P Lending Platform Bitbond Raises $670,000
  • WePay Closes $40 Million Series D Round Led by FTV Capital
  • Misys Launches FusionBanking Essence Islamic

Around the web

  • SEKUR Me debuts Apple Pay for online purchases featuring universal buy-button and one-click mobile payments.
  • Intuit launches Sync with PayPal to help SMBs simplify tasks with QuickBooks online data-integrations.
  • LifePay announces plans to expand into Southeast Asia in wake of ipoxPro acquisition.
  • The Guardian highlights Azimo as a “well-established” alternative to banks regarding money-transfer overseas.
  • NYSE’s new Bitcoin Index is powered by Coinbase.
  • Anheuser-Busch Employees Credit Union to deploy online- and mobile-banking solutions from Digital Insight.
  • Merck Sharp & Dohme Federal Credit Union adds processing and additional solutions from Fiserv.
  • Community Banks and Credit Unions go live with Touch ID in mobile banking through Malauzai Software.
  • Arxan appoints Sam Rehman as chief technology officer.
  • Nerdwallet features Seattle-based Lighter Capital.
  • Bankless Times talks with Brock Blake, Lendio CEO, about the company’s success.
  • PayNearMe to offer its cash payment service to Telinta’s service-provider customers.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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Mobile Youth Banking: Union Bank’s Yuby is a Good Start for the Grade-School Set

Mobile Youth Banking: Union Bank’s Yuby is a Good Start for the Grade-School Set
By Jim Bruene Posted on
Categories: DoughMain, FamZoo, PlayMoolah, Youth market

yuby_homeEven if you don’t have young children, I’m sure you’ve noticed how even pre-teens these days are hunched over their smartphones. So, if you want to get your core customers’ kids engaged with the bank, your strategy pretty much must begin with, and can probably end with, mobile.

Banks haven’t really been able to devote resources to mobile youth banking as yet. The financial crisis hit at the same time the iPhone came out (unrelated, I believe), so it wasn’t really until the dust settled a few years later that v1.0 (adult) mobile banking was introduced. Now, most banks have a solid v2.0 in place and can start developing niche services for certain segments of their customer base.

Union Bank is one of the early entrants in mobile youth banking. It launched a dedicated app a year ago (press release) called Yuby (see landing page below). It was built for them by Mutual Mobile, an app developer which has also worked for Finovate alum Clover.

How it works
The app is very basic (see inset) and includes no ties to actual account data at Union Bank or anywhere else. Basically, it does just three things:

  1. Money tracking: Kids can add or subtract money from their virtual account, but only if a parent authorizes the transaction with a parental PIN—to be typed into the app on the child’s phone; there is no dedicated “parent app.” A simple transaction feed (below) shows the flow of funds in and out of the account.
  2. yuby_transflowBasic chore list: It’s easy to add a chore, but there is no tracking or integration with the child’s allowance.
  3. Wish list: The app includes an area to establish multiple savings goals. And it automatically explains how long it will take to save for the goal if the child’s entire allowance is devoted to it.

Thoughts:
This is a great way to start. It’s a simple app, which means no integrations, no security audits, or compliance issues. No personal info is saved (other than a photo), so privacy is not an issue. Basically, it’s a mobile version of a sheet of paper and a pencil. But it’s much more engaging to port those simple functions to a mobile app, where a child/parent can always find it.

This is a good app for the grade-school set. However, it needs a functionality upgrade for the teen crowd. While older kids can still use it, once they are old enough for a debit or prepaid card, the app needs integration to actual bank accounts, both the child’s and parents’.

Resources:
At our Finovate events, we’ve seen a number of youth-banking use-cases presented, usually around debit and/or prepaid. The most recent from CBW Bank, who just last week showed us a glimpse of the future with an iOT integration that would allow parents to control fuel purchases for a specific vehicle (video coming later this week here).

There have been a number of memorable youth banking demos over the years, though none were specifically mobile-optimized. Of the six listed below, only FamZoo and PlayMoolah are known to be active at this time. The other four, in our view, were simply too early, or too complex, to make a business out of youth-banking services. Here are links to the demo videos:

Finally, there is Skill-Life’s Money Island, which was Finovate’s first youth-banking demo in fall 2009. The company was snapped up in 2010 and is now the basis of BancVue’s financial education service.

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Union Bank Yuby Landing Page (link)

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Ripple Labs Reels in $28 Million, Eyes Asia Expansion

Ripple Labs Reels in $28 Million, Eyes Asia Expansion
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Funding, Ripple

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Back in January, we speculated about a funding round for Ripple Labs. Today, the organization behind the Ripple Protocol officially announced it closed the venture round, which totals $28 million. Added to the three rounds the company received in 2013, the San Francisco-based company’s total funding stands at $37 million.

Major investors in the new round include:

  • IDG Capital Partners
  • Venture arm of CME Group
  • Seagate Technology
  • AME Cloud Ventures
  • ChinaRock Capital Management
  • China Growth Capital
  • Wicklow Capital

This global mix of venture capital and strategic investors aligns with Ripple’s focus on banking in tandem with worldwide corporate treasury use-cases. Dave Morton, senior VP, finance and treasury at Seagate Technology says, “With its real-time settlement capabilities, we recognize the opportunity for Ripple to reduce money-transfer costs, create transparency, and increase working capital in corporate treasury use-cases.”

Larsen plans to use the funds to expand into Asia and facilitate customer onboarding by supporting more access to liquidity in the Ripple system. Also supporting the Asia expansion effort, IDG Capital partner’s Li Feng will join Ripple Labs’ board of directors. Feng was an early investor in Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi and CreditEase.

According to Chris Larsen, CEO and co-founder of Ripple:

Our mission is to modernize decades-old payments infrastructure with IP-based technology so value moves around the world as freely, easily, securely and transparently as information on the web today. Financial institutions, market makers and corporations are laying the foundation for this internet of value, contributing and providing liquidity for global payments. With investors like CME Group and Seagate joining the fold, we’re well positioned to accelerate adoption amongst these key customers.

Ripple seeks to create another set of rails for international money-transfer by functioning as a distributed-payments technology that connects the world’s disparate financial networks to securely transfer funds in any currency in real time.

Ripple Labs debuted as OpenCoin at FinovateSpring 2013.

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