Atoa, whose co-founders include Irishman Cian O’Dowd, raises $6.5m from backers in a new seed round.
Atoa, an Irish-founded fintech company, has raised $6.5 million in a seed round led by Valar Ventures, a US fund backed by tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
Valar Ventures, which Thiel co-founded with Andrew McCormack and James Fitzgerald in 2012, has previously backed fintechs such as Wise, Xero, and N26. Thiel previously co-founded Paypal with Elon Musk and Palantir, the Denver-headquartered company that specialises in big data analytics.
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