International Accounting Standards Board

SoftBank | February 24, 2020

SoftBank on Monday led a new funding round of $165 million in California-based Karius and invested $100 million in New York-headquartered AI company Behavox, as the technology giant builds a portfolio under its second Vision Fund. The two deals come at a time of intense investor scrutiny into SoftBank’s investments. The Japanese company earlier this month reported a second straight quarter of losses at its first Vision Fund, pushing Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son to scale back his s...

BITCOIN AND CRYPTO

Mastercard | December 10, 2021

As interest in cryptocurrency and digital assets continues to rise, a new cohort will join the Mastercard Start Path Crypto startup engagement program dedicated to exploring and solving real world problems for people and businesses around the world using blockchain technology. Mastercard announced today the five new startups joining the program are Ava Labs, Envel, Kash, LVL, and NiftyKey. Through this program and across the entire Mastercard Developers portfolio, the company prov...

FINTECH

Google Cloud | May 28, 2021

Google Cloud announced Datashare for Financial Services today, a new solution designed to enable the whole capital markets ecosystem—market data publishers such as exchanges and other providers, and data consumers such as investment banks, asset managers, and hedge funds—to start sharing market data more securely and easily. Datashare is based on Google Cloud analytics services such as BigQuery and can use Analytics Hub. At the Google Cloud Financial Services Summit, Datashare was un...

Cision PR Newswire | September 28, 2020

Acin, the data standards firm that is digitising operational and non-financial risk, today announces it has secured $12 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by leading European SaaS investor Notion Capital, which will work closely with Acin to drive rapid growth, and supported by Fitch Ventures, the equity investment arm of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services. The funding will enable Acin to rapidly accelerate its proposition, by continuing to enhance...