Airwallex Closes $19 Million Round for Payments Tech: Travel Startup Funding This Week

>>Airwallex, a financial technology startup that enables companies to make cross-border payments efficiently, said it had it had closed its Series A round at $19 million. >>UpLift, a financial technology startup that helps consumers buy travel in installments, closed a $15 million equity round. UpLift also expanded its lending capacity to $200 million and closed additional liquidity, via a credit facility, to backstop its layaway plan product. Founded in Spain in December 2016, Valeet is now live at Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco Bay-area airports — in addition to Barcelona and Madrid. Earlier this year, LocusLabs, a San Francisco-based company that’s creating centimeter-accurate indoor models of dozens of airports worldwide, received a $3.5 million Series A round.