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Open finance startup Ayoconnect’s APIs enable financial inclusion in Southeast Asia

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It is also licensed by Indonesia’s central bank, enabling it to offer more services. The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round led by SIG Venture Capital, with participation from CE Innovation Capital and returning investor PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus.

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After raising $10M, Breeze breathes fresh air into a stagnant disability insurance market

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Enter Omaha, Nebraska-based Breeze , the company Nabity started in 2019 with Cody Leach to enable individuals to go online and complete in 10 minutes the application process to receive a personalized quote for either disability insurance or critical illness insurance. market for disability insurance was valued at $19.1

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Indonesian fintech startup Ayoconnect raises $13m more in Series B funding

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Register Indonesian open finance platform Ayoconnect has raised an additional $13 million in its Series B funding round, bringing the total amount it raised to date to $43 million. Founded in 2016, Ayoconnect is Southeast Asia’s largest Open Finance API platform.

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Spend management platform Teampay expands partnership with Mastercard, raises $47M

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In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay , a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it.

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

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Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance. What it says it does : An all-in-one finance platform for borderless businesses in Africa.

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An actionable framework for founders bridging into web3

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As the founder of an infrastructure project that has been around since 2016, I want to remind you that web3 isn’t just a drop-down menu of features to be bolted on to your project. Does the ability to make users collective owners in the platform’s success give you an advantage over web2 incumbents? FOMO is real.

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Minna Technologies, a subscription management tool for banking customers, raises $18.8M

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Founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2016, Minna enables customers to manage subscription services via their existing bank’s app. Sjöblom told me that by largely working with incumbent banks, Minna is providing them with a way to fight back against challenger banks. It has now raised $18.8 million (€15.5