Techmeme: Australia-based Airwallex, which helps businesses manage cross-border payments, raises $200M Series E at a $4B valuation, bringing total funding to $700M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Australia-based Airwallex, which helps businesses manage cross-border payments, raises $200M Series E at a $4B valuation, bringing total funding to $700M — Business, now more than ever before, is going digital, and today a startup that's building a vertically integrated solution …

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Bloomberg:

Data integration startup Fivetran raises $565M Series D led by a16z at a $5.6B valuation and acquires enterprise data company HVR for $700M in cash and stock — - Fivetran acquires HVR and raised $565 million for data tech — Fivetran customers include Square, DocuSign, Forever 21

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