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EXCLUSIVE- Oren Goldschmidt, President at Pivotus Ventures has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2018, taking place March 5-6 in SanFrancisco. The venture capital firm, which is a subsidiary of Umpqua Holdings Corp, is self-described as an “innovation studio with imagining and creating key […].
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Chipper CEO Ham Serunjogi confirmed on Twitter the startup, which got its initial foothold in the market as a peer-to-peer (P2P) payments service, has just wrapped up a $30 million Series B round of venture capital. Ribbit Capital, a VC firm in the U.S. that focuses on early-stage firms, led the investment round. Stripe, the U.S.-based
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SpotOn plans to use the capital to develop new products and services, the SanFrancisco-based company said. The funding round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group.
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The new financing will help Digit grow its user base; hire new talent in SanFrancisco; and grow its core product, a spokesperson for the company said. Digit, a personal finance app that helps users save automatically, raised $27.5 million in Series C funding on Monday. To date, Digit has raised over $63.8 million in […].
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SanFrancisco-based Princeville Capital has announced a $50 million investment in Russian online retailer Ozon, which is partly owned by the Russian-based conglomerate Sistema. Ozon said Emmanuel DeSousa, managing partner at Princeville Capital, joined its board following the transaction.
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Credit Sesame, the SanFrancisco-based credit score monitoring and advice platform, is building out its AI-based credit management tools with the help of a major fundraising round last week.
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