Uber-backed eMobility company Lime is planning to go public. Lime parent Neutron Holdings filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Friday (May 8) for its initial public offering (IPO). Sources told the Financial Times (FT) that Lime is hoping to list at a...
San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Fazeshift has secured $17 million in Series A funding to automate accounts receivable (AR) and other financial tasks, bringing its total capital raised to $22 million, according to a Thursday (May 7) press release. Led by venture capital firm...
Kalshi completed a $1 billion Series F funding round that values the prediction market platform at $22 billion, according to a Thursday (May 7) company blog post. The new valuation represents a doubling of the New York-based firm’s $11 billion valuation established five months ago....
Robinhood’s first fund designed to expand retail investors’ access to private markets has drawn 150,000 retail investors, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said Tuesday (May 5). Speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything event, Tenev said Robinhood took its Ventures Fund I public as...
Stablecoin infrastructure platform OpenTrade has raised $17 million in new funding. The strategic round brings the U.K.-based startup’s total funding to more than $30 million and gives OpenTrade “the runway to scale at the pace the market is demanding,” as the company said in a post on LinkedIn Wednesday...
Autonomous finance data layer Astrada has raised $3.8 million in new funding. The company’s seed round, announced Wednesday (May 6), was led by Bain Capital Ventures, QED Investors and Nyca Partners, with participation from Visa and Mastercard. The company says the funding will help boost product development and...
Customer experience-focused artificial intelligence (AI) startup Sierra has reportedly raised $950 million in new funding. That new financing values the company, which makes AI customer service agents, at $15.8 billion, CNBC reported Monday (May 6). Sierra was founded three years ago by OpenAI Chairman and...
Fun raised $72 million in a Series A funding round to expand its payments infrastructure that powers Polymarket and other internet-native capital markets. The company was founded in 2022, has operated in stealth, and now processes over $18 billion in transaction volume per year, delivering a 99.999% success rate and...
OPay Digital Services, a payments platform focused on Nigeria and backed by SoftBank Vision Fund and Sequoia Capital, is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States, Bloomberg reported Friday (May 1), citing unnamed sources. The company is seeking a valuation of $4 billion, which would double...