TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While Adesanmi worked for years in Nigeria’s banking and fintech space, his family’s real estate background pushed him to establish a startup in proptech. For years, proptech, unlike fintech, hasn’t witnessed exploding growth in Africa despite real estate needing as much innovation as financial services in the region.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The highlighted showcase categories. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. FinTech + Blockchain.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Technology aimed at older people, whether it be healthcare, fintech or entertainment, is not new, but a new community of startups, investors and global industry leaders are shining a light on what they say is an $8.3 Fintech is also one of the areas that Nigel Morris, managing partner of QED Investors, has been keeping his eye on.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Now it has its sights set on helping “everyday Americans” find deals and savings across multiple categories , including travel and shopping, via its super app, Christine reports. If not, there’s a good reason: Despite a lot of hype, they’re just two of several fintech innovations that fizzled over the last decade.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

Welcome to The Interchange, a take on this week’s fintech news and trends. But last year, Visa said that “a growing list” of issuers, acquirers and fintechs were using its technology to offer BNPL options to their customers. In February 2021, corporate spend startup Brex was the latest fintech to apply for a bank charter.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

On the relatively brief application form for START, a16z names six categories — American dynamism, consumer, enterprise, fintech, games or other. The remote-first program will accept founders on a rolling basis and wants to connect folks with partners for advice, potential customers or investors, and of course, other entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It’s one reason why the region is home to many fintech businesses born elsewhere that need proximity to a large banking ecosystem, as well as the blockchain/crypto crowd, which have found a highly amenable regulatory environment in Zug, right next door to Zurich. Maximilian Spelmeyer , partner, SIX Fintech Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

More global investors are backing startups in the region and certain sectors in particular, such as fintech, are exploding. The fund’s first investment — Uol Edtech — falls in the latter category with EBITDA margins above 30%, according to Maciel. Global investors are not only pouring money into companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

More than 3,700 startups — from 92 countries — applied across XTC’s competition tracks: Agtech, Food & Water, Cleantech & Energy, Edtech, Enabling Tech, Fintech, Healthtech and Mobility & Smart Cities. The competition just to reach the finals was fierce. Learn more about XTC here. Enabling Tech: Dot Inc. ,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The Salt Lake City, Utah-based company’s API-delivered product, which focuses on payroll data, powers 70 banks, credit unions and fintech companies such as Coinbase, Dave and Propel. Fintech outperformed the market in 2021, and it’s set to do even better. My weekly fintech newsletter is launching soon!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. In contrast to public fintech stocks, which have suffered -65% to -80% drops over the last 12 to 18 months (PayPal, Square, Ayden), a private raise at $60 billion would be a big win. Will it raise or go public? What is Stripe really valued at now?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Our survey respondents said the city was strong across a broad range of tech industries, particularly those with practical applications: cybersecurity, energy and sustainability, fintech, health care and medtech, edtech and silver tech among others. Mobility, fintech, energy, cybersecurity, healthcare. What are you most excited by?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Less than seven months after closing on a $57 million Series B , fast-growing fintech Jeeves has raised $180 million in a Series C round that values the company at $2.1 Its success is yet another example of how competitive — and lucrative — the corporate card and expense management category has become.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

This year, over 3700 startups applied from 92 countries across XTC’s competition tracks: Agtech, Food & Water, Cleantech & Energy, Edtech, Enabling Tech, Fintech, Healthtech, and Mobility & Smart Cities. The Category winners and the Special Awards winners will make it to the Global Finals stage. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. Indonesian fintech Xendit is now a unicorn, with $150M in fresh funding led by Tiger Global. The funding brings Flip’s total capital raised to $65million. .

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

About Greycroft Greycroft is a seed-to-growth venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs of all backgrounds to build category-defining companies. Greycroft manages over $3 billion in capital raised and has made over 400 investments since inception.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s our job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. On Friday, PitchBook’s Q1 2023 B2B fintech investment report showed that investment into enterprise fintech was $11.8

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The company was founded in July 2019 by Ajay Gopal, whose prior professional experience included leading initial public offering and merger and acquisition transactions as a fintech investment banker for Credit Suisse in London. Tinvio, a communication platform for supply chain merchants, gets $5.5 million seed round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The sentiment suggests that despite an apparent revitalization, edtech isn’t at the same level of “value” in investor eyes like sectors such as e-commerce, consumer and fintech. We tend to work with CEOs looking for category expertise and track record in the space. The boom has not directly impacted my deal-making.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Extra Crunch publishes a variety of article types, but how-tos are my favorite category. There have never been more $100M+ fintech rounds than right now. We are in a period of all-time record investment for so-called mega-rounds, or investments of $100 million or more inside the fintech realm. What’s going on?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Corporate spending management startup Brex raised a $300 million Series C and acquired Buyer just a week after rival Brex announced it had acquired Israeli fintech Weav. Israel’s maturing fintech ecosystem may soon create global disruptors. Fintech startups based in Israel raised more than $1.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

That was a win for the category. Exciting companies are spawning across geographies and verticals, and even generalist investors are building conviction that the sector is capable of producing the same kind of outsized returns generated in fintech, healthtech and other sectors,” writes Spence. fintech all the same. Series F-tw

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

“Our founders bring with them a wealth of experience and creativity, and we believe that these dreamers, innovators and category creators have the potential to change the future of our region and the world,” he added. Whiz is a fintech company in Indonesia, where it aims to serve teenagers. (AC

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The coverage on automobiles is currently the most popular insurance product that the startup sells, it said, as it gears up to expand into health and life categories as well as serving the small and medium sized enterprises. The arrival of fintech giants in the category, Agrawal argued, is indicative of the market size and opportunity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

An inside look at a Ukrainian fintech startup adapting to life during wartime. Found, TechCrunch’s podcast where founders share the stories behind their startups, has been nominated for a Webby in the best technology podcast category. MLB forays into the future with new tech for the old ball game.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

But a new category of startups have emerged in recent years to give homeowners more options to cash in on their homes in exchange for a share of the future value of their homes. Lim describes Point as an “asset-light fintech for home equity.”. “We My weekly fintech newsletter, The Interchange, launched on May 1! Point raises $8.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The program included fintech startups because of the pandemic’s economic impact, focusing on three companies that “are helping aging populations better manage finances and budgets, and effectively plan for the future.” In its wellness category, AARP Innovation presented three startups focused on overall health and well-being.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It includes two primary categories: tourism companies undertaking capability development initiatives and technology companies contributing innovative products and services tailored for the tourism sector.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

The strategy is to divide countries into four categories based on market development and specific risk profiles. BII and Novastar Ventures also backed TeamApt , a Nigerian fintech, in its $30 million+ Series B last year. Egyptian fintech Paymob raises $50M led by PayPal Ventures and Kora Capital. Big plans for climate finance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But we are also a fintech because we have our own reinsurance operation [Cowbell Re] and take a small risk in that because it’s been very profitable to us.” . “Underwriting cyber insurance for SMEs is a more dire prospect than for large enterprises,” he said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

That’s how the $20 million Opportunity Fund, Urban Innovation Fund’s first in this category, came about. Fintech startup Jeeves raises $180M, quadruples valuation to $2.1B Within the second fund, the company has made three investments within the vertical supply chain, a category she said the firm was “particularly excited about.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

” With that in mind, he authored a primer on corporate development that lays out the three most common categories of acquisitions, tips for dealing with bankers, and explains why striking a partnership with a big company isn’t always the best way forward. What does Brazil’s new receivables regulation mean for fintechs?

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

We believe building fintech products (versus other classes of products) with geo-specific dynamics in mind is key to their success. I believe the next Alibaba will start as a fintech play. Beyond embeddable fintech products, we’re excited about companies that are disrupting traditional payment rails with more efficient models.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 28, 2023

Finalists competed in five primary categories and represented multiple industries in the final pitching round, which took place in person for the first time in Startup302’s three-year history.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

With his seventh studio album “Subconsciously,” he became the first African act to win an award in the Best Dance/Electronic Album category. Outside Africa, Mr Eazi has cut checks in Mexican fintech Paisa and Irish-based fraud prevention provider Apata. based music startup Vydia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Fintech Stage: Digs into the evolution of monetary exchanges across DeFi, challenger banks, blockchain, NFTs and web3. For founders and investors curious about an emerging category, these sessions are a chance to cross-pollinate. Sessions will include GitHub, Cloudflare, and Atlassian. Sessions will include Alphabet and Magic Leap.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Riskcovry is another startup in the nascent space, with customers including banks, fintechs and supply chain brands. Customer acquisition will also be a focus going forward, he says, as EvolutionIQ explores new and emerging categories of insurance. The EvolutionIQ team. billion in 2020.

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