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B2B Fintech Drives Market Disruption in Mexico

Andreessen Horowitz

The world of finance is undergoing a profound transformation, and Mexico is no exception. The most prominent of these changes was the Fintech Law of 2018. Embedded finance: Integrating solutions into mainstream services Embedded finance represents a paradigm shift in how businesses access financial services.

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SunFi aims to be the fastest way for Nigerians to find, finance and manage solar

TechCrunch

In 2018, he co-founded Aspire, a solar installation company based on the knowledge he acquired in college on renewable energy and working in several roles relating to energy, gas and power projects across Nigeria and other African countries, including a five-year stint at Siemens as head of market development. Think about it.

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Divido bags $30M to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets

TechCrunch

London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion. Making sense of Klarna.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. 80 percent of construction firms are having trouble hiring craft workers ( Associated General Contractors of America from August 2018 ).Today, billion into construction tech in 2018. Something in both the masonry and bricklayer arena as well as framing would be interesting. USA News ).Labor

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Bringing the Mediterranean Way to the Masses

Revolution

That financing kicked off a period of accelerated growth for the company — from creating a compelling digital offering to acquiring a company three times its size to scaling to more than 250 locations across the country — that led CAVA to today: its public debut. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Promoting Disruption. The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption. For 2018 we are planning for 300-plus attendees. Driven by his desire to inspire progress, Suhail started planning the FALAK Unreasonable Thinking Summit (UTS) in 2016. In 2017 there were 200 attendees.

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This YC Summer batch features the largest group of African startups yet

TechCrunch

A wave of disruption of digitizing informal retail stores is sweeping across emerging markets this year, and Chari is joining in on the action. Omar El Kouhene and Mehdi Cherif Alami founded Freterium in 2018. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). Chari (Morocco). Sophia Alj and Ismael Belkhayat founded Chari in 2020.

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