Funding
Blackstone Takes Stake in Data Management-as-a-Service Startup MDI
Investment and public backing provides growth funding and validation of MDI's business model
'Social' Trading Firm 8 Securities Gets Funding for Mobile Wealth Platform
Hong Kong-based trading firm 8 Securities, which captures data from social media sources and allows participants to crowd-source trading ideas from other analysts on the platform, has raised $8.7 million in Series B financing to accelerate its mobile…
Eagle Alpha Raises $1.2M to Fund Development, Hires
Startup social media data provider Eagle Alpha has raised $1.2 million in its second round of funding this year, which it will invest in product development and use to recruit more engineers.
Enso Gets More Cash from Icap to Fund Expansion
Interdealer broker Icap has made a second undisclosed investment in market intelligence and analytics provider Enso, which provides portfolio analytics on counterparty credit risk, collateral management, and portfolio financing and treasury functions to…
Trading Game Startup Nous Raises Funds to Boost Participation, Data Value
Nous, a provider of a mobile trading game and a feed of investor and active trader market sentiment, has raised $600,000 in new funding to expand the user base of its Spark Profit trading game from 79,000 users in 190 countries to 250,000 users over the…
Celoxica Gets £1.5M Funding to Grow Global Presence, Segments
Celoxica, a London-based provider of FPGA-accelerated low-latency data, trading and risk technologies, has raised £1.5 million in funding from Beringea Growth Finance, a private equity firm specializing in asset-based and working capital finance.
Finwire Sells Stake to PE Firm Pegroco to Fund Expansion Plans
Swedish news provider Finwire has sold a combined 25 percent stake in the company to Swedish private equity firm Pegroco Invest and Finwire chairman Peter Benson for an undisclosed amount, to help the vendor fund an international expansion for its…
Redline Gets $5M VC Funds, Adds Ex-Thomson CEO Harrington to Board
Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency ticker plant and feed handler provider Redline Trading Solutions has raised $5 million in new funds from Cue Ball Group, a Boston-based venture capital firm chaired by Richard Harrington, the former president and chief…
Startup Trendrating Gets $1M Funding Boost
Switzerland-based Trendrating, a provider of price trend and momentum ratings for equities, exchange-traded funds, indexes and currencies, has raised $1 million in seed funding--including an undisclosed sum from the investment fund run by former Thomson…
Lucena Raises $1 Million Funding Round
Atlanta, GA-based decision support analytics provider Lucena Research has raised $1 million in a recent funding round to support "rapid expansion" of its cloud-based QuantDesk predictive analytics platform.
Tradier Gets $3M Funding to Expand API, Developer Base
Cloud-based brokerage platform and supporting data, trading and analytics application hosting environment provider Tradier has raised $3 million in new funding from Devonshire Investors-the private investment arm of Fidelity Investments' owners, the…
Estimize Unveils Crowd-Sourced M&A Prediction Platform, Raises $1.2M Expansion Funding
New York-based startup crowd-sourced estimates provider Estimize will roll out a new platform today, Wednesday, March 26, dubbed Mergerize, which aggregates crowd-sourced predictions of potential mergers and acquisition activity so traders, M&A bankers…
