Fintech Startup CurrencyCloud Raises $25m in Series D Funding Round
- The firm has amassed an impressive roster of investors which now includes Alphabet’s venture arm GV, formerly Google Ventures.
UK-based fintech company CurrencyCloud, a cross border payment-as-a-service provider, announced the raising of £20 million (US $25M) in Series D funding round. The company has raised from backers a total of £44 million ($61 million) in venture funding to date.
The firm has amassed an impressive roster of investors which this time included Alphabet’s venture arm GV, formerly Google Ventures, in addition to existing investors Notion Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Rakuten FinTech Fund, and Anthemis.
The new monies will be used to fuel the company's global expansion as more and more invoicing platforms and apps flood the ever growing remittances market. Entrepreneurs have taken note of this market opportunity in this segment and are establishing more platforms and startups that reimagine the way money flows through today’s digital economy.
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GV General Partner Tom Hulme commented: “We believe in empowering developers by making it easier for them to add scalable services to their products, ideally with simple APIs. Currencycloud is the leader in providing cross-border payment services in this manner, a real need as companies globalize.”
Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, added: "In recent years we have seen the rise of the building block economy. Companies can combine services such as AWS, Google Maps, Stripe and Twilio to build innovative new businesses fast and without the overhead of expensive proprietary systems. Currencycloud provides a set of multi-currency payment and conversion tools that are helping hundreds of companies globalize fast. We are seeing massive and increasing demand for these services, with volumes growing over 150% last year.”
UK-based fintech company CurrencyCloud, a cross border payment-as-a-service provider, announced the raising of £20 million (US $25M) in Series D funding round. The company has raised from backers a total of £44 million ($61 million) in venture funding to date.
The firm has amassed an impressive roster of investors which this time included Alphabet’s venture arm GV, formerly Google Ventures, in addition to existing investors Notion Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Rakuten FinTech Fund, and Anthemis.
The new monies will be used to fuel the company's global expansion as more and more invoicing platforms and apps flood the ever growing remittances market. Entrepreneurs have taken note of this market opportunity in this segment and are establishing more platforms and startups that reimagine the way money flows through today’s digital economy.
Launched to market in 2012, CurrencyCloud allows cross border and multi-currency transactions from a single platform. It offers end-to-end Cloud Cloud The cloud or cloud computing helps provides data and applications that can be accessed from nearly any location in the world so long as a stable Internet connection exists. Categorized into three cloud services, cloud computing is segmented into Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In terms of trading, the versatility of the cloud service allows retail traders the ability to test out new trading strategies, backtest pre-existing conc The cloud or cloud computing helps provides data and applications that can be accessed from nearly any location in the world so long as a stable Internet connection exists. Categorized into three cloud services, cloud computing is segmented into Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In terms of trading, the versatility of the cloud service allows retail traders the ability to test out new trading strategies, backtest pre-existing conc Read this Term based cross currency Payments Payments One of the bases of mediums of exchange in the modern world, a payment constitutes the transfer of a legal currency or equivalent from one party in exchange for goods or services to another entity. The payments industry has become a fixture of modern commerce, though the players involved and means of exchange have dramatically shifted over time.In particular, a party making a payment is referred to as a payer, with the payee reflecting the individual or entity receiving the payment. Most commonl One of the bases of mediums of exchange in the modern world, a payment constitutes the transfer of a legal currency or equivalent from one party in exchange for goods or services to another entity. The payments industry has become a fixture of modern commerce, though the players involved and means of exchange have dramatically shifted over time.In particular, a party making a payment is referred to as a payer, with the payee reflecting the individual or entity receiving the payment. Most commonl Read this Term automation service that makes multi-currency payments more frictionless. Moreover, the SaaS platform’s API allows developers to integrate the functionality into existing apps and platforms.
GV General Partner Tom Hulme commented: “We believe in empowering developers by making it easier for them to add scalable services to their products, ideally with simple APIs. Currencycloud is the leader in providing cross-border payment services in this manner, a real need as companies globalize.”
Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, added: "In recent years we have seen the rise of the building block economy. Companies can combine services such as AWS, Google Maps, Stripe and Twilio to build innovative new businesses fast and without the overhead of expensive proprietary systems. Currencycloud provides a set of multi-currency payment and conversion tools that are helping hundreds of companies globalize fast. We are seeing massive and increasing demand for these services, with volumes growing over 150% last year.”