Expanding service
The online credit monitoring service Credit Karma has raised USD30m in series B funding (according to TechCrunch).
Felicis Ventures contributed as an existing investr while Ribbit Capital and Susquehanna Growth Equity led the round.
Credit Karma is also launcing a news services labelled Insight which allows users to view all their finances from one platform for free.
The service is described as a way to look at all your finances in one place for free by CEO Ken Lin: “Now you’ll be able to look at your credit scores, all of your accounts, all of your assets, and the transactional information that comes along with it,” he says. “It’s an upgraded feature set that we thought was necessary.”
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