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Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

Y Combinator

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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UK challenger bank Starling raises $376M, now valued at $1.9B

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Starling — which competes against incumbent banks, as well as other challengers like Monzo and Revolut — said it will be using the money to continue its growth. Starling, founded in 2017, has now passed 2 million accounts, with 300,000 business accounts among them. billion) post-money. The bank is already profitable.

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Ivorian healthtech startup Susu has $1M to scale its family-centric insurance product across Africa

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million in debt and grant financing from BPI France , the French government’s public investment bank. My father died in 2017 after he had a heart issue in Benin and could not be saved. A survey we carried out proved that family members are used to helping and supporting sick family relatives, and they are willing to do so.

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Amira Yahyaoui wants Mos to be a ‘radical’ fintech startup

TechCrunch

Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,” ”

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EU-based digital assets platform Finoa inks $22M Series A funding led by Balderton Capital

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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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Sequoia Heritage, Stripe and others invest $200M in African fintech Wave at $1.7B valuation

TechCrunch

The International Monetary Fund says that as of 2017, only 43% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa were “banked” by way of a traditional bank or mobile money account. ” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents.

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Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

Y Combinator

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.