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Rapyd
London-based fintech startup Rapyd has raised a $300 million Series D led by Coatue.
The fresh funding continues the boom in interest for fintech startups, and Rapyd is now valued at $2.5 billion.
The startup offers a suite of payment processing services to other developers via an API.
Rapyd intends to use the funding to complete more strategic acquisitions, following a deal to buy card payment service Korta in 2020.
London and Mountain View-based fintech startup Rapyd has raised a fresh Series D funding round of $300 million, led by New York-based fund Coatue.
The deal values Rapyd, founded in 2016 by Israeli and Russian entrepreneurs Arik Shtilman, Arkady Karpman, and Omer Priel, at $2.5 billion.
The chairman of private equity firm Primavera Group, which counts China s Ant Group among its portfolio companies, believes the financial technology giant s founder Jack Ma is safe and sound , and said that he remains optimistic about the company. The comments by Fred Hu come as Chinese regulators are investigating e-commerce giant Alibaba and its affiliate Ant after abruptly cancelling the latter s initial public offering (IPO) in November last year. Alibaba founder Jack Ma, who also controls Ant, has not been seen in public since Ant s IPO debacle. I believe he is safe and sound. He remains an enduring example of a successful entrepreneurship, Hu said in an interview at the Reuters Next conference on Wednesday, without elaborating.
When Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin leaves his Cabinet post next week, friends and former business associates say he’ll likely return to what he was doing before joining the Trump White House.