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13) it closed a $13 million round of funding led by Flint Capital, with participation from ff Venture Capital, Santander InnoVentures and Two Sigma Ventures, as well as other investors. In a press release, Socure said it will use the capital to scale operations, accommodating the 300 percent growth it has seen in 2016.
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percent increase during the last three months of 2016, landing at a total of $92.8 The big winners in the declining months of 2016 were Americans with stock and mutual fund portfolios — they increased by a whopping $728 billion in value in the October-December quarter, according to Federal Reserve figures released Thursday.
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And both of those big firms have a stake in China International Capital Corp. billion in capital via 924 funding rounds last year. Go-Jek entered the digital payments market in the spring of 2016 and by January of 2017, it said Go-Pay accounted for more than half of its transactions. Tencent was part of that action.
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