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Vienna-based investment and trading platform Bitpanda has raised a USD52 million Series A funding round, Europe’s largest series A funding round of 2020, led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures.
Realio, a technology ecosystem for institutional-grade digital assets, has announced a partnership with Valentus Capital Management, which will enable the digitisation of an array of private equity opportunities, as well as the issuance of a Valentus Digital platform token. Valentus offerings in the pipeline include a USD250 million investment fund focused on opportunistic investments within the credit sectors and real estate markets. This partnership leads the turning tide in finance that is opening Wall Street’s doors to Main Street, granting mainstream investors access to a digitised claim to a Valentus fund offering.
Investors seeking institutional-grade opportunities that offer attractive returns often
Aspire Technology, the developer of the Aspire digital asset creation platform, has closed both a USD1.175 million equity round, and a USD1.23 million private token presale for a total of more than USD2.4 million of new capital, according to Aspire technology chairman, Michael Terpin,
Terpin led the company’s pre-seed USD260,000 equity funding round in 2017 through his bCommerce Labs incubator fund.
The equity round in Aspire Technology was led by German blockchain fund Foeckersperger Ventures, and individual accredited investors. The private token presale, which excluded US persons, was conducted in Bermuda and was led by Cayman Islands registered digital currency
RIA in a Box, a provider of compliance and registration solutions for wealth managers and investment organisations, has launched a new platform to address the unique regulatory requirements faced by private fund advisers including venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund managers.
The new private fund platform provides tools to manage and automate their compliance processes and streamline regulatory filings, saving private fund advisers time and money, and providing them reassurance they are meeting all compliance requirements. The new platform is designed for SEC-registered private fund advisers and exempt reporting advisers (ERAs).
The new platform builds upon the expertise
When the Covid-19 crisis hit, Kola Aina, partner at Lagos-based early stage fund Ventures Platform, started comparing notes with partners the company works with around the globe. The end result was the launch of the Nigeria Impact Startup Relief Facility, or NISFR, to bring together early stage investors in African startups that have been hit by the pandemic.
VNX Exchange, a Luxembourg-based digital asset investment platform, has completed the first VC deal in Europe utilising blockchain tech.
The deal sees the issue of EUR1.1 million of asset-backed tokens linked to the investment into Streami Inc, a South Korean blockchain company.
Issued on the Ethereum blockchain ERC-20, the asset-backed tokens represent claims on the future cash flow from the investment.
“This digital solution was very useful for fundraising when faced with the new reality brought by the pandemic, lockdown and travel bans,” said Junhaeng Lee, co-founder and CEO of Streami.
Streami is a parent company to a South Korean
One of the world’s top sovereign wealth funds (SWF) has slected Diligend, a provider of investment management software, to digitalise and automate fund Due Diligence for the private equity fund asset class.
US private equity groups spent an average USD353,000 on external legal counsel per acquisition when prosecuting deals in 2019, according to research released by Apperio, a London-based specialist legal spend management platform. In the UK, the figure was slightly lower at USD253,000.
Eurazeo has launched O+, an ESG initiative which the company says will promote the drive towards low carbon and a more inclusive economy, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
O+ has two main pillars: achieving zero net carbon by 2040 at the latest and playing a role in bridging the widening social gaps.
The aim is to accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy and committing to zero net carbon across the group by 2040, in alignment with the UN’s Science Based Targets initiative.
“As CEO of an investment firm supporting more than 430 companies, I see the benefits
Neo, a treasury management, payments and FX fintech, is launching a new international multi-currency account service for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Currently, treasurers, CFOs and finance professionals are hampered by the need to navigate multiple accounts with different bank providers – many of which operate in silos – meaning that they are unable to monitor their cash flow, payments and currency exposure effectively.
Neo’s multi-currency account provides users with fully registered International Bank Account Numbers (IBANs) from which they can complete payments in over 30 currencies. While traditional banks often take weeks or even months to set up multi-currency
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