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Argentinian fintech infrastructure startup Geopagos leaves the boot straps behind with $35M funding round

TechCrunch

Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services. This spells ample opportunity for payments infrastructure providers such as Geopagos. The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Fintech stays hot, Brex doubles, and startup IRR is up all over

TechCrunch

The data is based on a sample of 2,500 companies that have used AngelList to syndicate deals from 2013 through 2020. Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace and Hippo’s Assaf Wand discuss proptech’s biggest opportunities. What is the biggest opportunity for proptech founders? Image Credits: Jeff Newton / Hippo. are all testament to this.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

One obvious solution to this list of issues and opportunities is to leverage technology to better serve the needs of the customer. In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Do they conduct surveys? Do they measure waiting time?

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So much fintech M&A

TechCrunch

Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. ” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”. billion, had cut 10% of its staff.

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Request for Startups: Climate Tech

Y Combinator

The financial opportunity of doing so is massive: an estimated $3-10 trillion in EBITDA will be up for grabs. Electrifying these vehicles is a big carbon opportunity: while buses and trucks only represent 10% of the vehicles on the road, they generate 30 percent of the sector’s global greenhouse gas emissions.

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My First 16: Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury’s Immad Akhund

Andreessen Horowitz

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund about the idea of a minimum delightful product in fintech, doing the spreadsheet math on unit economics early on, and how to compete in a category already filled with incumbents. Immad Akhund: Sure. And does anyone care?

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Disrupting Finance From Above: Wealthfront

abovethecrowd.com

First, they believe that the current offerings from the financial incumbents are lacking. In 2013 there were 967 million FPS transactions. Regulation becomes the friend of the incumbent in highly regulated industries through a process known as regulatory capture. The basis of this argument is really two fold.