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Kenyan fintech Pezesha raises $11M backed by Women’s World Banking, Cardano parent IOG

TechCrunch

The fintech works with partner companies such as Twiga and MarketForce, which integrate its credit scoring APIs in their platforms to enable their customers to get real-time loan offers. Pezesha said it is currently working with more than 20 partner companies that have enabled it to extend loans to over 100,000 businesses to date.

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Upfront Ventures Raises > $650 Million for Startups and Returns > $600 Million to LPs

Both Sides of the Table

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so.

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Korea’s P2P lending startup PeopleFund gets $63.4M Series C led by Bain Capital

TechCrunch

South Korea-based peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform PeopleFund announced today it has closed a $63.4 million (100 billion won) since it was founded in 2015. million (100 billion won) since it was founded in 2015. million (75.9 billion won) Series C round led by Bain Capital with participation from Goldman Sachs.

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Racing Against Time: Why Scientists May Use AI ‘Research Assembly Lines’

HPA

Moreover, AI combined with robotics can automate experiments, enabling scientists to iterate through experimental conditions at a speed beyond human capacity. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly outpacing scientific research due to the latter’s inherent limitations.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Factors such as remote work, offshore development, and the steadily growing labor pool of software engineers have enabled startups to hire additional engineering talent, adding yet another catalyst to this vibrant ecosystem. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ).

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Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

Y Combinator

When Monzo launched in 2015, the big six banks in the UK had more than 85% market share. In 2015, Monzo founders Tom Blomfield, Jonas Templestein, Gary Dolman, Jason Bates, and Paul Rippon launched a digital finance platform with the slogan “Make Money Work For Everyone.” This did not happen by magic. trillion in deposits. Splitwise).

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Meet Tatiana Glad, our New Global Executive Director

Impact Hub

Also, it’s why I started an Impact Hub (Amsterdam, 2008), why I served on the global Board (2015-2018) and contributed through other roles, and why I want to continue to serve the network. We’re excited to share that Tatiana Glad joins the Impact Hub global team as our new Executive Director. A: A pragmatic visionary! Why this role?