Cross-Border Business Payments Leader Gets $25 mln Funding from GV
Currencycloud, a company that specializes in helping businesses make payments across geographies, has raised $25 mln in Series D funding from GV (formerly Google Ventures). The London-based company has also secured additional funding from existing investors like Notion Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Rakuten FinTech Fund and Anthemis. After the GV funding, funding for the five-year-old company now amounts to $61 mln. Connective tissue. Currencycloud has 200 customers in 35 countries and millions of end-users use their platform through a diverse set of payment providers. Some of the....
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