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US expansion planned for FinTech automating charity donations

The food delivery sub-sector is one of only a handful enjoying a bumper year in 2020, and a London s...

Cloud HR and payroll provider XCD raises £2m

Bristol-based XCD, a cloud-based HR and Payroll software provider, has raised £2m to support its or...

GoCardless raises £71.8m to accelerate open banking strategy

GoCardless, a FinTech firm focussed on making recurring payments easier, has raised $95m (£71.8m) i...

Whirli raises £4m to bring kids toys into the sharing economy

A new service hoping to reduce the waste caused by children's toys has raised new funding to expand ...

Uber competitor Bolt closes £137m amid UK expansion plans

Uber has a new multi-platform transport competitor in the form of European mobility platform Bolt. ...

Tech platforms must avoid ‘London Underground’ mistake

As the world’s first underground passenger railway, London’s Tube network was once the envy o...

Child safeguarding tech firm merges with US rival

A tech firm focussed on online child safety has acquired the US owners of Net Nanny, a well-known pa...

My ‘scary’ decision to ditch finance world for furniture dream

Deirdre McGettrick was a rising star in London’s investment banking scene.  As vice preside...

AI money assistant Cleo raises £33m for further US expansion

Gen-Z focussed financial assistant Cleo has raised $44m (£33m) in Series B funding to further expan...

Human intelligence platform StreetBees raises additional £5m

Human intelligence platform Street Bees has announced an additional $6.7m (£5m) of investment from ...

Plexal MD: COVID-19 will force property industry to reinvent itself

The real estate industry will be forced to emerge from a period of denial to embrace wholesale chang...

PropTech lender raises £7.5m to meet house-buying boom

London PropTech lender Proportunity has raised £7.5m funding to meet growing demand for its deposit...