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Varo Achieves Milestone AsĀ First Consumer FinTech To Get National Charter

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Colin Walsh got lots of laughs five years ago when he talked of his intention to launch a financial technology (FinTech) startup. Varo is the first consumer FinTech to receive a new national bank charter from the U.S. Since then, the skepticism has evaporated and the CEO of Varo Money Inc. ,

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Dream Payments Closes $10 Million Series A

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The Series A round was led by the investing division of Fairfax Financial Holdings, FairVentures, and takes the company’s total capital to more than $17 million. In addition to FairVentures, Connecticut Innovations, Real Ventures, and angel investors also participated. million investment award.

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Fintech Fundings: 9 Companies Raise $73 Million Week Ending Dec 31

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The year ends with a total of about $19 billion invested into private fintech companies (includes debt and equity). If you add the $6 billion in new capital raised in the IPOs of Worldpay, Square and First Data, the 2015 total is a nice even $25 billion. Payments and commerce solutions for unbanked in emerging markets.

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Fintech Fundings: 38 Companies Raised $300 Million First Week of June

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With 38 deals reported ā€“ one shy of the weekly record ā€“ fintech companies raised $303 million worldwide the first week of June. Fintech deals by size from May 28 to 3 June, 2016: Partners Life. HQ: Rocky Hill, Connecticut. Nine of the deals were for undisclosed amounts and $2 million was reported as debt. Online insurance.

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Strategic Insight Buys BrightScope for Reported $35+ Million

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But RIABiz reports that the acquisition was financed by Genstar Capital and notes “outside sources peg the deal at $35 to $40 million.” ” The acquisition comes in the wake of a pair of other recent pickups for Strategic Insight – Market Metrics and Matrix Solutions. Germany, and Canada.

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Fintech Fundings: 186 Companies Raised $1.6 Billion in June

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Second quarter closed with a frenzy of fintech fundings with 49 deals announced the last week alone, 10 more than the previous weekly record. Fintech deals by size from 25 June to 1 July, 2016: Paycor. Crowdforecasting future events for financial markets. HQ: Hartford, Connecticut. Of the total raised, $61.5 FundedByMe.

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From China With Love: AI, Robotics, AR/VR Are Hot Areas For Chinese Investment In US

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We define Chinese investment as participation in private financing rounds by investors (corporate, venture capital, angel, private equity, etc.) Robotics ā€” China is home to the fastest-growing robotics market in the world, and its economic planners have made robotics a national priority, with a five-year robot plan launched last April. (We

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