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| 06.06.2024 | Navigating Remittances: The Best Channel for Sending Money to South Sudan | Share
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In today’s interconnected global economy, remittances are crucial for connecting families and supporting livelihoods across borders. However, sending money to countries like South Sudan involves numerous challe... |
| 06.09.2023 | Hiring Software Developers: Here’s How To Find Talent | Founder and CEO at Truelogic Software. Expert in nearshore software engineering, technology, international growth and talent management. |
| 10.05.2023 | Startup Showcase: CurrencyFair – The P2P Currency Exchange Revolution | CurrencyFair is a P2P online marketplace that allows individuals and businesses to exchange currencies and send funds to bank accounts worldwide. With a focus on affordability and simplicity, CurrencyFair is revolutionizing the way people e... |
| 29.10.2018 | Social commerce startup Goxip lands $1.4M investment to add flexible payments | Social e-commerce startup Goxip raised $5 million in January, and now the Hong Kong-based business has brought in more cash with a strategic $1.4 million investment from financial services company Convoy. Existing backers including Chinese ... |
| 08.08.2018 | CurrencyFair Announces Asian Expansion and Buys Hong Kong Payment Company | CurrencyFair, an International Money Transfer service to consumers and businesses has announced a major expansion into Asia through the acquisition of Hong Kong based, Convoy Payments Limited. |
| 08.08.2018 | CurrencyFair Announces Hong Kong Acquisition | Dublin currency transfer services company CurrencyFair has acquired Convoy Payments, the Hong Kong subsidiary of Convoy Global Holdings.
The company said the acquisition for an undisclosed sum will expand CurrencyFair’s entry into Asia and ... |
| 13.09.2017 | Fintech Solutions for Digital Nomads | Digital nomads are ever more numerous. They have special needs, notably in terms of financial services.
Thankfully, fintech startups are coming up with clever solutions that are not just only cheaper than those provided by traditional banki... |
| 12.08.2017 | Moneytis is like a travel fare aggregator, but for sending money abroad | If you don’t care too much about loyalty programs, chances are that you’ve been relying on platforms like Booking.com and Expedia to find the cheapest flights and hotel rooms. Moneytis wants to do the exact same thing, but for foreign excha... |
| 14.11.2016 | Term Sheet — Monday, November 14 | ET CETERA
Hello from the home office, where any non-Trump news seems beside the point. A few brief notes to kick off your Monday:
Paid Content Securing the enterprise without boundaries From ExtraHop
At Y Combinator, where Thiel is a part-t... |
| 11.11.2016 | CurrencyFair Closes €8M in Funding | CurrencyFair, a Dublin, Ireland-based peer-to-peer currency exchange, closed an €8m ($8.8m) in funding.
Backers included existing investors Octopus Ventures and Frontline Ventures.
Founded in 2009, CurrencyFair provides businesses and indiv... |
| 09.11.2016 | Peer-to-peer currency exchange marketplace CurrencyFair raises another €8M in funding to accelerate global growth | CurrencyFair, one of the world’s leading peer-to-peer currency exchange marketplaces, has today announced the completion of an €8 million funding round lead by existing investors Octopus Ventures and Frontline Ventures. Earlier this year, C... |
| 09.11.2016 | CurrencyFair raises another €8 million, appoints new CEO | Ireland’s CurrencyFair, a peer-to-peer currency exchange, has raised €8 million in new funding and appointed Paul Byrne as its new CEO.
The announcement was made today at the Web Summit in Lisbon. The funding round was led by previous inves... |
| 09.11.2016 | P2P currency exchange marketplace CurrencyFair raises $8.8 million | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
CurrencyFair, a peer-to-peer currency exchange ma... |
| 09.11.2016 | P2P currency exchange marketplace CurrencyFair raises $8.8 million | CurrencyFair, a peer-to-peer currency exchange marketplace based in Ireland, has closed an €8 million ($8.8 million) funding round led by existing investors Octopus Ventures and Frontline Ventures.
Founded out of Dublin in 2009, CurrencyFai... |
| 07.10.2016 | Taxpayer Invests €500,000 In CurrencyFair | Enterprise Ireland has invested €500,000 in CurrencyFair, the online platform that enables people all over the world to swap large amounts of currencies at cheaper rates than the banks offer. The investment was effected in July 2016 accordi... |
| 11.08.2016 | TransferWise Begins Money Transfer Service To Vietnam | TransferWise, one of the UK’s hottest fintech unicorns, has begun serving the Vietnamese market, only supporting inbound money transfers (for now?).
Transfers to Vietnam have gone live yesterday and are being charged 1.5% per transaction, o... |
| 28.03.2016 | CurrencyFair Raises €8M in Venture Capital Funding | CurrencyFair, a Dublin, Ireland-based P2P currency exchange, raised an additional €8m in venture capital funding.
The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from Proxy Ventures.
The company, which has raised apporx. €20m to d... |
| 23.03.2016 | Dublin’s CurrencyFair raises €8 million, appoints new CMO | Dublin-based currency exchange marketplace CurrencyFair has raised €8 million in a new funding round led by Octopus Ventures and appointed new chief marketing officer Nils Andén.
New investor Proxy Ventures and previous investor Frontline V... |
| 23.03.2016 | CurrencyFair scores further €8M for p2p currency exchange | CurrencyFair, one of a number of so-called peer-to-peer currency exchanges, has scored a further €8 million in funding. The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from Proxy Ventures. It brings total raised by the 2010-founde... |
| 23.03.2016 | CurrencyFair raises $8.9 million for online currency exchange | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Dublin-based currency exchange marketplace Curren... |
| 23.03.2016 | Peer-to-peer currency exchange marketplace CurrencyFair raises €8 million and appoints new CMO | CurrencyFair has today announced a new €8 million funding round which has been led by Octopus Ventures. The currency exchange marketplace, which is headquartered in Dublin, also just appointed Nils Andén (former CMO of Unibet Group PLC’s) a... |
| 20.07.2015 | Revolut Raises $2.3 Million For Its Mobile Foreign Exchange Service | British startup Revolut just raised $2.3 million (£1.5 million) from Balderton Capital to make you pay less exchange fees when you travel around the world. Also backed by Seedcamp, Revolut provides an app to seamlessly exchange or send mone... |
| 17.04.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 4/17/15 | Sprig, Planet Labs, Courion, NEA, Ascend, Snaps, Acorns, Skyport, 99designs, Adallom, Ticketbis, Ola
Seed stage
Financial technology startup Ascend Consumer Finance raised $1.5 million in seed funding, The round was led by Mucker Capital, w... |
| 16.04.2015 | CurrencyFair Secures €10M in Funding | CurrencyFair, a Dublin, Ireland-based currency exchange marketplace, secured €10m in funding.
The round was led by Octopus Investments with participation from Frontline Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations acr... |
| 16.04.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 16.04.2015 | CurrencyFair Raises Further €10 Million | VCs continue to plough money into money transfer/currency exchange startups in Europe. This time it’s the turn of CurrencyFair, which has raised a further €10 million. The round was led by Octopus Investments, with participation from previo... |
| 16.04.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. India’s Ola raises $400M to expand ride service
In the latest sign of startup momentum in India, Ola said today it has raise... |
| 15.04.2015 | Ireland’s CurrencyFair raises $10.6M to expand peer-to-peer currency exchange | In the latest sign that Europe’s financial tech scene is heating up, Ireland’s CurrencyFair has raised $10.6 million in a round led by the U.K.’s Octopus Investments.
“The money transfer sector has seen a lot of attention recently, with cus... |
| 15.04.2015 | Ireland’s CurrencyFair raises $10.6M to expand peer-to-peer currency exchange | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In the latest sign that Europe’s financial tech s... |
| 25.11.2014 | Alternative finance -- New ways to spend your money | The days of paying for everything with cash are slowly drawing to a close, and if you borrow or pay back money, there’s a very good chance wads of notes won't be involved in the transaction. I personally do a lot of online shopping, pay for... |
| 04.07.2014 | Bitfin Day Two: We Need More Global, Organised Bitcoin Education | Greg Brockman, CTO of internet payments company Stripe, opened day two of the Bitfin conference in Dublin with his views on what bitcoin needs to become more appealing to a mainstream audience.
The Harvard and MIT graduate said the main rea... |
| 04.11.2013 | CurrencyFair Raises $2.5M in Funding | CurrencyFair, a Dublin, Ireland-based peer-to-peer currency exchange marketplace, raised $2.5m in funding.
Backers included Frontline Ventures and a number of angel investors.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to grow the bus... |
| - | CurrencyFair raised €8 million for a marketing spree to rival TransferWise | Irish peer-to-peer international currency exchange CurrencyFair has raised €8 million (£6.3 million) and appointed a new chief marketing officer as it prepares for a big marketing push across the UK and Ireland.
CurrencyFair has raised the... |
