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FinTech and asset management firm's Mars Growth Capital fund has enabled late-stage funding worth between $20m to $50m across several industries

Sydney, Australia – 11, October, 2023 – Protecht Group Holdings Pty Ltd (Protecht), a leader in Enterprise Risk Management software and services, announced today that it has secured USD $12 million from MARS Growth Capital. The funds will go to support Protecht’s continued global expansion in its core markets of the USA, EMEA, and Australia.

MARS Growth Capital, a joint venture established in 2021 between Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) and Liquidity Group, has made its maiden foray into the equity space with the launch of Dragon Fund I.

Japan’s largest bank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), has increased its LP capital commitment to the non-dilutive funds operated by Mars Growth Capital from $750m to $1b.

Liquidity Group has now raised another $40M in equity investment, again from MUFG, giving it, what it claims is a $1.4B valuation.

Spanish medical platform Top Doctors has access to up to €8 million in 'non-dilutive' funding from Mars Growth Capital and Liquidity Group.

Mars Growth Capital and Liquidity Group announced a $30M funding deal with Fashinza, an AI-driven B2B marketplace for global fashion supply chains.

Mars Growth Capital, a joint venture between MUFG and Liquidity Group, announced today their first Nordic deal, with a $5 million funding in Kognity.

Australian freight logistics startup Ofload has landed $60 million in Series B funding, led by Singapore’s largest VC firm, Jungle Ventures. It was joined by existing investors, King River Capital, Bay Grove, Maersk Growth and Foundamental. Part of the $60 million raise included a debt financing component from Mars Growth Capital.

The company counts Accel Partners, Evolvence India, Sistema Asia Fund, Foundamental Gmbh and Nexus Venture Partners as its other investors. In June, Infra.Marketraised $50 million in growth capital from Liquidity Group’s MARS Unicorn Fund at a valuation of $2.5 billion

Embedded banking has been on a growth tear in the last several years as companies turned to APIs to embed financial services..

The latest funding round was led by Bahrain-based Investcorp with participation from Mubadala and other regional investors

Mobile payment gateway provider Opn Co. was valued at roughly $1 billion in a $120 million funding round last month, making it one of a handful of unicorns in Japan.

The fresh fund will be used to enhance the company's technological offerings and advance their initiatives in new global markets.

Infra.Market, a technology-enabled marketplace for on-demand construction materials, on Monday said it has raised $50 million (Rs 390 crore) from MARS Unicorn Fund of global.

The $40 million in financing was approved within 72 hours of due diligence conducted using Liquidity’s proprietary artificial intelligence technology.

Mars Growth, a Liquidity Group and MUFG joint venture fund, has deployed $30 million in growth funding to ThinkMarkets

Japan’s largest lender will start a $300 million fund early next year after upsizing its first joint-venture fund earlier this year..

MUFG will make a $300 million capital commitment to Mars, which will provide debt financing to startups in later stages of growth including unicorns.

Skill-development platform Disprz raised $13 million (around Rs 96 crores) in a Series B funding round led by Dallas Venture Capital and Mars Growth Capital.

Mars Growth provides early learning toy brand PlayShifu with $7 million credit line

Mars Growth, as It Ramps Up Growth Financing in ASIA PAC Tech Companies, Reaching $220M Direct MUFG Investment in Liquidity Within the Last 10 Months

Mars Growth Capital, a division of the fintech company Liquidity and MUFG Fund, has announced the closing of a $30 Mn debt revolver financing agreement with Zetwerk.

Mars Growth Capital, a fund division of the Fintech company Liquidity and MUFG Fund, has announced today the closing of a $30M debt revolver financing agreement with Zetwerk,

Mars Growth Capital has announced today the closing of a $2M USD financing agreement with Uptick, a leading provider of asset maintenance software for field service companies.

The funds raised will help Hiver double the revenue by accelerating marketing and sales efforts

The investment will be utilized to accelerate Liquidity's unique forecasting and underwriting technology development and to both establish and expand its businesses globally, with particular attention to Asia and the United States.

An Israel-based AI technology firm is planning to help MUFG Bank, which is Japan’s largest financial institution,

The joint $80 million venture between MUFG Bank and Liquidity Capital will target health care, education and e-commerce startups, screening companies' bank accounts..

JAPAN’S MUFG Bank is set to launch a joint venture (JV) with an Israeli fintech in Singapore this year to provide debt financing to Asia-Pacific startups,

Japan's MUFG Bank will use artificial intelligence to screen Asian startups for financing, looking beyond balance sheets to forge relationships with promising businesses

Japan's MUFG Bank Ltd. and Israel-based Liquidity Capital MC Ltd. will set up a debt financing business for startups in Singapore.

The Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-backed firm leverages artificial intelligence to make speedy credit decisions on mature start-ups that need working capital. India’s Infra.Market is the latest addition to the portfolio More than USD 100bn was pumped into Asia-based growth-stage technology companies in 2020 and 2021. This fell by more than half over the next two years, and the running total for 2024 is USD 5.7bn. Markets that relied on global investors to lead these rounds – notably India and Southeast Asia – have been especially hard hit. Mars Unicorn Fund wants to fill the gap, though not in a conventional sense.