This Week in ‘Raises’: Pagos Secures $34M, Champions Round Picks Up $7M
Decerry Donato is a reporter at dot.LA. Prior to that, she was an editorial fellow at the company. Decerry received her bachelor's degree in literary journalism from the University of California, Irvine. She continues to write stories to inform the community about issues or events that take place in the L.A. area. On the weekends, she can be found hiking in the Angeles National forest or sifting through racks at your local thrift store.
Local payment intelligence company Pagos landed fresh funding to expand the company’s engineering team and advance the platform’s enterprise product suite, while online sports fantasy platform will use its funding to develop a content creator feature within the app.
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Venture Capital
Pagos, a Hermosa Beach-based financial platform company, raised a $34 million Series A funding round led by Arbor Ventures.
Los Angeles-based digital fashion store More Dash Inc. raised $14.8 million in funding, per an SEC filing.
Champions Round, a Los Angeles-based online sports fantasy platform, raised $7 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Point72 Ventures and Goodwater Capital.
Manhattan Beach-based fintech startup Highway Benefits raised a $3.1 million seed funding round led by XYZ Venture Capital.
Per an SEC filing, La Jolla-based clinical-stage biotech company Ensysce Biosciences, Inc. raised $2.8 million in funding.
Raises is dot.LA’s weekly feature highlighting venture capital funding news across Southern California’s tech and startup ecosystem. Please send fundraising news to Decerry Donato (decerrydonato@dot.la).
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Decerry Donato is a reporter at dot.LA. Prior to that, she was an editorial fellow at the company. Decerry received her bachelor's degree in literary journalism from the University of California, Irvine. She continues to write stories to inform the community about issues or events that take place in the L.A. area. On the weekends, she can be found hiking in the Angeles National forest or sifting through racks at your local thrift store.
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