TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The company was founded in 2018 by Christopher May and Henrik Ebbing, but both had previously worked together at McKinsey and started working in blockchain in 2017. ” “Being in the European Union requires a fundamentally different organizational setup, and poses a very high entry to new incumbents and other players overseas.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

My journey and how I came to this decision My journey into crypto began in 2017. I ended up taking a job at a SaaS startup called Troops after graduating, but I had already been orange-pilled back in 2017. Companies like Microstrategy were investing large portions of their treasuries in Bitcoin. I was also an avid poker player.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It also helps the finance team understand expenses, including which are valid and those that are not.”. Whatley started the company in 2017 with his brother, Daniel, Stuart Kennedy and Nikki McNeil while a Harvard undergrad. By allocating resources the right way, companies typically see a 10% boost in sales as a result.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

Back in July of 2017, I wrote a piece noting that their aggregate value had reached the $3 trillion mark. Myles Udland , a reporter at our sister publication Yahoo Finance, has at least part of the puzzle in a piece he wrote this week. That’s around $8.4 trillion for the five companies. That became $4 trillion in mid-2018. Fair enough.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. This did not happen by magic. expectations.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And as financial services proliferate across Nigeria and the rest of Africa just like the rest of the world, it’s logical that upstarts offering neobank and embedded finance services rely on BaaS platforms such as Anchor — a startup in this batch — to launch quickly.

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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. You may look at this and think to yourself “well, of course, how controversial is those?

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. This did not happen by magic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

faster than those incumbents, and continue to expand it to more services in its home market, as well as take them abroad. The growth of e-commerce and other services on digital platforms has further spurred that trend. ClearBank describes itself as the first clearing bank to have launched in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

The latest financing officially makes the Salt Lake City, Utah-based provider of crypto tax and accounting software a unicor n, with a valuation of $1.33 It also brings the startup’s total raised to $230 million since brothers Austin and Justin Woodward founded the company with their cousin Brandon Woodward in 2017.

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