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Hopin triples valuation within a year
Virtual events platform Hopin has had quite a year! It recently raised a $400m Series C round, its third round in a year, raising its valuation to $5.6 billion.
Funding journey:In the last year, Hopin has raised a total of $565 million in venture capital funding, including a $40 million round in June and $125 million in November, the latter on a valuation of $2 billion
What’s different about Hopin: Unlike most other videoconferencing services, it’s designed from the ground up to provide support for conferences, including the management of stages, networking, breakout sessions, sponsors, tickets and analytics.
Here are the Headlines:
US SEC nominee disagrees with CBN on bitcoin
Naira plunges further against US dollar by N2.33
Emefiele accuses IMTOs of forex diversion
Summary:
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Saturday introduced a new incentive to encourage inflow of Diaspora remittances into the country.
The CBN’s Director of Trade and Exchange Department, Saleh Jubrin, who announced the scheme tagged: “Naira 4 Dollar Scheme,” in a circular to banks in the country, said it would allow all recipients of Diaspora remittances to be paid N5 for every one dollar received. Read more
The nominee for United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has described bitcoin as a catalyst for change.