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With Debit Cards And Investing For Kids, Fintech Startup Greenlight Doubles Valuation To $2.3 Billion Share to Facebook Venture capital’s wild fintech party is now inviting minors, too.  Greenlight, a startup that offers debit cards and investing for kids, has raised a $260 million Series D at a valuation of $2.3 billion, nearly doubling the unicorn valuation it received in a $215 million fundraise just last September. Andreessen Horowitz led the latest round, which closed last week, joining investors including TTV Capital and Canapi Ventures (which co-led Greenlight’s Series C), Wells F...

Publicly Tradable Shares: About 114.9 million  Percentage of the Company Made Public: 44%  April 14 Opening Price: $381  April 14 Closing Price: $328.28  Market Cap: $85.78 billion What is Coinbase? Coinbase operates an exchange platform where users can securely buy, sell, and store 90 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. The company offers subscription products and services to both institutional and retail customers in over 100 countries, though most of its revenue comes from the United States. Its offerings include cryptocurrency investing, a wallet for retail users, and cu...

SAN FRANCISCO — In 2009, Shamir Karkal and several colleagues struggled to raise money for a banking startup, Simple. Most of the 70 venture capital firms they met over the course of a year did not see the point of the idea, he said. The few that did thought it would fail. By last year, things had changed. When Karkal set out to raise funding for his new financial technology startup, Sila, which makes regulatory compliance software, he garnered $5 million in a few months with a fraction of the pitches. He said he was frustrated it did not happen even faster. “I know folks in the space who...

Information Venture Partners adds former Georgian investor Jane Podbelskaya as it continues to expand team Toronto-based venture capital and private equity firm Information Venture Partners (Information VP) has appointed Jane Podbelskaya as principal, as the venture firm has continued to grow its investing team in recent months. Podbelskaya, who previously served as a growth investor at Georgian Partners for over five years, brings 20 years of experience in software, operations, venture capital, and management consulting to Information VP. She told BetaKit she joined the firm ...

A new Voices of UMassMed podcast spotlights the robust Graduate Medical Education programs at UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Health Care.