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Digital asset manager Hyperithm raises $11M in Series B round
Hyperithm, a private digital asset manager based in Tokyo and Seoul, announced that it has raised $11 million in a Series B funding round.
The round was co-led by Hashed and Wemade Tree, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Cocone, GS Futures, and Guardian Fund.
Founded in January 2018, Hyperithm offers digital asset management and execution brokerage dedicated to institutional investors and high net-worth individuals, including publicly listed companies, family offices, venture capitals, and crypto exchanges and miners. Hyperithm’s AUM (Assets Under Management) and brokerage volume have both increased by 25 times year over year.
Co-founded by an ex-Morgan Stanley investment banker and a serial entrepreneur, Hyperithm boasts an engineering talent pool consisting of several International Math Olympiad medalists. The team specializes in automated trading and risk management through algorithms developed primarily in Rust, a statically-typed programming language designed for performance and safety.
“Through our engagement with Hyperithm over the past few years, I was fortunate to witness the company’s outstanding operational performance as well as exponential growth,” commented Simon Kim, the CEO of Hashed, one of the highly respected crypto funds in Asia. “I’m confident that Hyperithm will continue to pioneer its way as a market leader.”
Alongside securing funding from investors based in the US, Japan, Korea, and Singapore, the company’s latest round valuation reached ten times that of its previous funding round in 2019. Hyperithm’s Series A funding round was led by VIP Research & Management, an asset manager with $20 billion in AUM, with participation from venture capital arms owned by Kakao and Naver, the two largest tech giants in Korea.
“The growth of the institutional market for digital assets in East Asia is just at its inception,” said Lloyd Lee and Sangrok Oh, the co-founders of Hyperithm. “While facilitating the soft landing of digital assets into the mainstream capital markets, we will continue our journey to become a global financial institution.”
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Aurionpro Solutions acquires Arya.ai, to power next generation Enterprise AI platforms for Financial Institutions
SINGAPORE, April 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Aurionpro Solutions Limited (BSE: 532668) (NSE: AURIONPRO) announces the acquisition of Banking and Insurance focused PaaS startup, Arya.ai. With Arya.ai, Aurionpro will enhance its portfolio of enterprise fintech offerings to expedite adoption of AI that is responsible, accurate, and auditable.
Aurionpro Solutions Ltd. will acquire a majority stake (67%) in Arya.ai. This acquisition will bring products and expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Intelligent Automation, PaaS, Autonomous AI Platforms, and more, to complement and strengthen Aurionpro’s industry leading portfolio.
The transaction comprises acquisition of shares held by the existing shareholders and subscription of new equity capital in the company. This will be an all-cash deal. The aggregate investment including secondary acquisition and fund infusion is approximately 16.5 MN USD.
By integrating Arya.ai’s cutting-edge AI cloud platform, with Aurionpro’s comprehensive suite of offerings, the company will create an industry leading Enterprise AI platform focused on creating value for financial institutions globally.
Commenting on the acquisition, Ashish Rai, CEO of Aurionpro Solutions, stated, “The acquisition of Arya.ai marries Aurionpro’s portfolio of industry leading enterprise software with one of the most mature Enterprise AI platforms focused on Banks and Insurers. We are incredibly excited about working with Arya.ai and our wider ecosystem partners to build out the leading Enterprise AI platform, for the financial industry worldwide.”
“Our decade long experience in building tools/platform for deep learning helped us to build a truly verticalized AI Operating System for Banking and Insurance.” Says Vinay Kumar CEO/Founder of Arya.ai. “Together with Aurionpro, we are going to build a new generation of Enterprise AI software for Banks and Insurers that truly embeds AI, augmenting a task or Autonomous Agents that can take over entire transactions”.
Founded in 2013 by Vinay Kumar and Deekshith Marla, Arya.ai has been one of the first ‘AI’ startups to use Deep Learning and deploy in enterprises. Arya.ai’s BFSI PaaS offerings include Arya API with 80+ ML models, Libra for fine-tuning SOTA ML models, and AryaXAI for AI governance.
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Credit card fintech Pliant lands €18m Series A extension led by PayPal Ventures
Pliant, a Berlin-based B2B credit card fintech, has secured over €18 million in a Series A extension, pushing the total funding for this round beyond €50 million.
PayPal Ventures led the latest investment round, with participation from existing investors Alstin Capital, SBI Investment, and Motive Ventures.
Earlier this year, Pliant raised €28 million through its initial Series A funding round. With this new injection of capital, the company is set to expand its cards-as-a-service (CaaS) product into markets outside the European Union, with a focus on the UK.
To facilitate its expansion plans, Pliant has developed multi-currency capabilities, allowing it to offer services in 11 different currencies. This enhancement enables customers to receive invoices in the same currency used for the transaction, a feature particularly beneficial for businesses dealing with significant volumes in non-EUR currencies.
Pliant attributes this funding success to its strong performance in 2023, where it doubled its annual revenues.
Additionally, the fintech has broadened its reach by extending its Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license to cover 25 countries across the European Economic Area (EEA). This expansion allows Pliant to offer financial services beyond card issuance in the region.
Source: fintechfutures.com
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Latvian Fintech inGain Raises €650,000 for No-Code SaaS Loan Management System
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