Helcim, a payments company focused on Canadian small and medium-sized businesses, has raised $38 million in new funding. The Calgary startup’s Series C round will help Helcim invest in its platform at a time when many of Canada’s biggest banks are selling or outsourcing their merchant...
Ant Group’s international arm is reportedly considering a $1 billion fundraise to speed growth. That’s according to a report Wednesday (June 10) from Bloomberg News, citing sources familiar with the matter who say the FinTech has been gauging interest from investors in a round that...
OpenAI may be moving from selling artificial intelligence tools to buying the people who can make them work inside large companies. The ChatGPT maker’s new joint venture with private equity investors is in advanced talks on three acquisitions of services companies that help businesses deploy...
Billing and revenue automation platform Zenskar has raised $15 million in new funding. The company’s Series A round, announced Friday (April 17), will allow it to expand its agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, including its Agents Marketplace. Zenskar describes this as a library of agents...
September 14, 2023
It’s a challenging economy for consumers — and startups don’t have it any better. Nine out of every 10 startups that raise money end up failing over a 10-year period. Observers believe that venture-backed startups fail at higher numbers than the industry usually cites. Although far more businesses fail than eventually succeed, the process of shutting down a company can often […]
July 26, 2018
A consumer can own multiple credit cards and live in a highly technological society and still want to pay via a method that can come pretty close to resembling cash....
July 11, 2018
In the push to make payments faster, platform and solutions providers are ratcheting up their payments processing infrastructure with new technologies and innovations. But in the rush to get faster,...
September 21, 2026
Kastle, an agentic AI platform for consumer lenders, has raised $24 million in new funding. The company’s Series A round, announced last week and led by Insight Partners, will help Kastle expand its engineering, product and go-to-market teams, deepen its platforms’ capabilities and accelerate deployments with financial institutions. “AI has given financial institutions a historic […]
August 23, 2026
Helcim, a payments company focused on Canadian small and medium-sized businesses, has raised $38 million in new funding. The Calgary startup’s Series C round will help Helcim invest in its platform...
June 10, 2026
Ant Group’s international arm is reportedly considering a $1 billion fundraise to speed growth. That’s according to a report Wednesday (June 10) from Bloomberg News, citing sources familiar with the...
May 07, 2026
OpenAI may be moving from selling artificial intelligence tools to buying the people who can make them work inside large companies. The ChatGPT maker’s new joint venture with private equity...