🦄 Paddle becomes the UK's latest unicorn. The fintech, which provides the behind-the-scenes billing payments infrastructure for SaaS companies across 200 markets, just raised a $200m equity and debt Series D, led by US investment giant KKR. It brings Paddle's valuation to $1.4bn, and its total amount raised to $293m.
🐯 Arianee raises $21m — and gets Tiger on board. Arianee issues digital authentication certificates (NFT-style) for luxury goods in the physical world. They're irrevocable, they're used by Paris Fashion Week and it's an idea that's won Tiger Global's backing — the investment giant led the $21m Series A.
🍭 Lollipop raises $6.1m in seed funding. Ah Lollipop, it couldn't be more zeitgeisty if it tried. Last year its founder Tom Foster-Carter, the former COO of Curve and Monzo, told us his new startup is basically the "Monzo of supermarkets". And now it's won Octopus Ventures' backing to transform our weekly shops.
📲 Norway gets its latest unicorn with Remarkable. The Norweigan startup has confirmed its latest valuation is over $1bn, following a very mysterious round — it didn't disclose the names of the investors nor the size of the funding round. But its last raise was a $15m Series A in 2019. So that's some pretty heavy lifting...
