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Why India Leads in Digital Payments

Andreessen Horowitz

When my co-founders and I launched Branch in 2015, our mission was to deliver world class financial services to the mobile generation. UPI has since become the world’s fifth largest payment network by volume, and a model for the rest of the globe. Currently, banks representing ~80%+ of the market share are plugged into this network.)

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Canada’s Assent Compliance lands $350M from Vista Equity for supply chain data management

TechCrunch

Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015. Doubling down on that niche has allowed it to build what it claims is “the industry’s largest network of supplier intelligence.” While half a billion dollars raised in the U.S.

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CrowdForce raises $3.6M to increase access to cash for underserved communities in Nigeria

TechCrunch

This branchless banking model extends financial services to the last mile via a network of agents. The company said it will use part of the capital to expand its team, geographical operations and marketing to increase its 7,000-strong active agent network three-fold this year. million pre-Series A investment. trillion via its partners.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

provides aquatic data collection services and aquatic drones that work in pods of 1- 20 to collect data at unprecedented scale at orders of magnitude less cost. PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system.

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6 Leadership Lessons Learned from the Founder of EO

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Luckily, my cofounder, Alex Yastrebenetsky, and I met Verne in 2015 when our entire leadership team attended a Scaling Up workshop. Verne shared a study from Google that, based on years of data collection and analysis, identified two behaviors of the most successful teams: Conversational turn-taking. And that’s the short list.).