Duna, a business identity platform founded by two Stripe veterans, has raised $12.1 million. The Dutch startup announced the seed funding Tuesday (May 6), noting that it’s happening as Duna works to turn its product into a “shareable business identity” network. “Identity remains one of...
Investment firm Corsair Capital has acquired a majority stake in German identity verification platform IDnow. The company announced the deal last week, and while no dollar amount was given, sources told the news outlet Sifted that Corsair’s investment was worth $295 million. Founded in 2014,...
TikTok’s existential crisis is seemingly over — the platform went dark for only a matter of hours this past weekend. And so, the millions of creators and viewers around the world have resumed their love affair with the social media platform. While the ultimate fate...
FinTech company iCapital plans to enhance its alternative investment marketplace platform for the wealth and asset management industries by acquiring Parallel Markets. The company entered into a definitive agreement under which iCapital will acquire Parallel Markets, which provides “reusable financial identity,” the companies said in...
September 30, 2026
The next generation of payment fraud doesn’t seem very suspicious. In fact, it already sounds like a familiar customer, types at a perfectly ordinary pace and navigates a banking application without triggering a single behavioral warning. Findings in the September 2026 edition of the Payments Innovation Tracker® Series, a PYMNTS Intelligence report done in collaboration with […]
December 02, 2024
Digital wallets have become a key tool for German consumers, especially for online shopping and banking. Consider that 71% of consumers in Germany used a digital wallet in some way...
November 21, 2024
Brazil is reshaping the global use of digital wallets, with consumers relying on them for bill payments and identity verification, unlike other countries, where they are mainly used for eCommerce....
September 05, 2024
Fraudsters, like consumers, love a good deal. And the gig economy, estimated to be worth half a trillion dollars in 2023 and employing 38% of the U.S. workforce, is becoming...
May 06, 2025
Duna, a business identity platform founded by two Stripe veterans, has raised $12.1 million. The Dutch startup announced the seed funding Tuesday (May 6), noting that it’s happening as Duna works to turn its product into a “shareable business identity” network. “Identity remains one of the internet’s largest unsolved problems,” Duco van Lanschot, Duna’s founder, […]
March 12, 2025
Investment firm Corsair Capital has acquired a majority stake in German identity verification platform IDnow. The company announced the deal last week, and while no dollar amount was given, sources...
January 16, 2025
FinTech company iCapital plans to enhance its alternative investment marketplace platform for the wealth and asset management industries by acquiring Parallel Markets. The company entered into a definitive agreement under...
December 10, 2024
Background screening industry platform provider Accio Data has teamed with identity verification company Intellicheck. The collaboration involves Accio integrating Intellicheck’s identity validation technology into its background screening enterprise platform, allowing...
