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Citi backs Crowdz, a Pipe competitor that just raised $10M for its blockchain-powered invoice financing marketplace

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That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. Put simply, Crowdz started out by giving small and medium-sized businesses a way to sell invoices for financing to funders.

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Sequoia Heritage, Stripe and others invest $200M in African fintech Wave at $1.7B valuation

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Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. ” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents.

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Polly snags $37M in Menlo-led Series B to automate workflows for mortgage lenders

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The latest financing brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total funding raised to $50 million. Adam Carmel, founder and CEO of Polly , says the company has increased its customer count by nearly 3x over the past year, including “several of the country’s top 100 lenders.”. The need certainly seems to be there.

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In its first funding in 7 years, profitable fintech Lower raises $100M Series A led by Accel

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Lower , an Ohio-based home finance platform, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel. The financing also marks the previously bootstrapped Lower’s first external round of funding in its seven-year history. This round is notable for a number of reasons.

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CommerceIQ gets its horn as capital continues to flow into e-commerce infrastructure startups

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We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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Kuda raises $25M more led by Valar to become the neobank for ‘every African on the planet’

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Challenger banks continue to make significant advances in attracting customers away from the big incumbents by providing more modern, user-friendly tools to manage their money. These will typically be at incumbent banks, but they do not offer the same ranges of services to customers.

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What goes up must come down

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Also last week, FTX CEO and founder Sam Bankman-Fried admitted he “f *d up” and “should have done better” right before FTX declared bankruptcy and he stepped down from his role. This is after the crypto exchange was valued at $32 BILLION earlier this year. Unfortunately, either way, thousands of employees are paying the price. Weekly News.