TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. Rangel added that its choice to build was partly done out of necessity, since in 2016 there weren’t many banking-as-a-service platforms to provide those APIs. “We are competing against big banks. Kulkarni is joining Novo’s board with this round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. Do you expect late-stage insurtech investment volume and valuations to fall further than what we have already seen this year?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

beU delivery is YC’s first set of investments in Africa’s food delivery space alongside Heyfood, another startup in this batch. Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But along with that, we have also seen a related surge in funding into companies that provide the infrastructure that financial institutions — incumbents and fintechs alike — need in order to operate faster and more competitively. It also plans to invest in sales and go-to-market strategy.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. Founded by Eytan Bensoussan and Justin Adler in 2016, the startup was born to serve small business owners such as barbers, mechanics and local restaurant owners. “As an investment that it says has paid off.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2023

It plans to invest $1.5 During their time at Amex, they worked on investments in companies such as Plaid, Stripe, Melio and Trulioo. Vesey defines fintech in its broadest sense — meaning that it invests outside of traditional categories of financial services such as consumer and B2B.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But as a relatively young population, most of them have minimal equity market and investment exposure. The company has raised a $20 million Series A round to democratize investing in the Middle East and North Africa. and Europe, up to half of the population invests in financial instruments. One such is Egypt-based Thndr.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. Over the next two years, I looked at many healthcare IT investment opportunities – I went “all in.” We also discovered what we believe is a large and investible trend/theme.

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