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$90m raised in London, crowdfunding for Greece, plus much more in your week in tech

This week Sian Jones brings you the week in tech. OneFineStay secured a $40m Series D round, Captify bagged $12.5m, Moo gained $4.7m from Barclays and Velocity, Flytxt and Lost My Name all raised interesting investments this week.

The winners of Cannes Lions international festival of creativity and Richard Branson’s Pitch to Rich have been announced. At Cannes Lions the Grand Prix for innovation went to What3Words, also our recent Elevator Pitch Winner.

Barclays launched three contactless payment devices and a crowdfunding campaign tries to rescue Greece from economic difficulty.

Download of the week

Our download of the week is Expensify which helps people to record and store their expenses by simply taking a photo of their receipts. Available for download now on both iPhone and iPad.

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