Spanish software company Factorial has closed a Series D financing round worth $150 million, with the deal valuing the company at over $2.5 billion. That puts the Barcelona firm, founded in 2016, among the top 20 most valuable scale-ups in the European Union by its own account – leapfrogging a number of Spanish competitors. The round is led by US investor General Catalyst, which until now had only been connected to Factorial through its so-called Customer Value Fund (CVF) and is now acquiring a