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

TechCrunch

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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Truepill’s latest funding boosts valuation to $1.6B as it works on B2B side of healthcare

TechCrunch

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. The company’s “big focus is continuing the vision of transforming healthcare,” said Sid Viswanathan, president and co-founder of Truepill.

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Neso Brands raises $100m, seeks to invest in eyewear brands

AsiaTechDaily

Bjorn Bergstrom has vast experience from consumer scale-ups, venture capital and management consulting. Neso Brands is a Singapore-based global eyewear company founded in 2022 to enable the most promising direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands across the world to become brands of the future.

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

AsiaTechDaily

The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development.

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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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South Africa’s Root gets $3M, plans to expand low-code insurance platform to Europe

TechCrunch

With the global insurtech market worth over $5 trillion, there are different opportunities to be tapped despite the presence of large incumbents. Venture capital firms Invenfin , Base Capital, Savannah Fund, P1 Ventures, Luno and FireID took part in the round, including some high-impact angel investors.

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Go-to-Market Tactics for Category-Defining Startups

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Another example is Stone, a Brazilian fin-tech unicorn started in 2012, which disrupted the incumbents’ sales strategy by creating a hub-and-spoke model that deployed a passionate salesforce of “Stone Warriors” throughout the country. Putting it all together Quality beats quantity when it comes to launching.

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