Pine Labs Raises another $100 Million in Funding

One of Asia's leading merchant commerce platform Pine Labs has raised another $100 million in funding weeks after raising $600 million in a financing round. This funding came from Invesco Developing Markets Fund.

"Over the last 18 months we have scaled our Prepaid Issuing stack, Online Payments, and also the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) offering. We continue to make progress in the larger Asian markets with our BNPL platform. Very excited to have a marquee investor like Invesco join us in the journey," said B. Amrish Rau, CEO, Pine Labs.

Pine Labs counts Sequoia Capital, Temasek Holdings, Actis, PayPal and Mastercard as its investors. The company offers a range of payment solutions and BNPL offering at the POS. The company recently started focusing on the consumer side of business with the acquisition of fintech platform Fave in April this year.

"The Invesco Developing Markets Fund is pleased to invest in Pine Labs, a leading fintech services company in India that fits our strategy of seeking high quality companies that have durable long-term growth potential," said Justin Leverenz, CIO of Developing Markets Equities at Invesco.

Real-Time Data Security Pioneer Borneo Raises $15+ million in Series A

Singapore-based real-time data security and privacy observability platform Borneo has raised $15.5 million in its Series A round. Vulcan Capital led this round of funding with participation from Prosus Ventures, Lytical Ventures, and existing investors Wavemaker Partners.

The company has raised $18 million in total funding to date. The company is planning to use the fresh funding to invest in its technology platform and meet the growing customer demand.

Tommy Teo, Head of Southeast Asia at Vulcan Capital, said, "Borneo’s best-in-breed solutions urgently address today’s data visibility, security, and proactive privacy management problems at speed and at scale. Borneo’s customers – both practitioners and business leaders alike – value the visibility and confidence that informed decision making and proactive remediation can bring to their data security postures and platforms."

Borneo was founded in 2019 and provides a developer-first suite of tools to identify high-risk and sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) through ML techniques and open APIs. Borneo's approach integrates with the existing tools and workflows, which allows companies to achieve privacy compliance by building a solid data security foundation. The company has a team with over 100 years of combined experience.