American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

San Francisco-based FinTech company Mercury has announced a $300 million Series C investment round, bringing its valuation to $3.5 The company touts over 200,000 businesses with, a large portion being startups that use its services as a financial backbone, replacing cumbersome platform switching or thejuggling third-party apps.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 25, 2025

The third Bridge2 cohort featured startups working across agriculture, clean energy, AI, fintech, food safety, and maternal health. Through the program, we homed in on our ideal customer, sharpened our pitch, and built relationships that unlocked real growth opportunities,” Kemi Olunloyo, Co-Founder & CEO of ProBound, said.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 19, 2025

Target verticals include: Cybersecurity FinTech Digital Health LegalTech Supply Chain & Logistics Government and Defense Tech This sector focus reflects a strategic insight: founders operating in regulated industries often require investors who bring not just capital, but domain expertise and operational support.

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Jason Malki

MAY 4, 2025

Hourad Afsar I had the pleasure of interviewing Hourad Afsar (known as Howard to many clients), Founder and CEO of UGRNextGen Compliance, a company redefining how Fintechs and financial institutions meet todays complex regulatory demands through agile, tech-forward solutions. What motivated you to launch yourstartup?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2025

Fintech investor? If you act the way a founder would to figure out everything you can about a particular customer problem or wave of innovation, youre bound to bump into a few founders doing thisoften because you start talking to obvious potential customers.

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Jason Malki

JULY 3, 2025

More recently, she has worked with high-growth fintech and early-stage companies such as Omniwire , Lukka , and Lumen Digital Ventures. Suzanne holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Rochester and has completed executive programs at The Wharton School and the University of Oxford Said School of Business.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 2, 2025

ClickHouse customers span fintech, healthcare, transportation, e-commerce, and beyond. The company is playing a critical role in a shift sweeping across industriesfrom batch reporting to intelligent, real-time data platforms designed to serve both humans and AI agents.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 12, 2025

Participation spanned 25+ countries and multiple industriesfrom healthtech and cleantech to fintech and advanced manufacturingunderscoring the truly global reach and relevance of the initiative. It highlights the fusion of expertise, innovation, and leadership, said Evgeniia Sonts, Head of Events and Operations at CatalyX Ventures.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 18, 2025

Philippines-based fintech and banking company Salmon Group has secured USD 88 million in fresh funding to accelerate its expansion across Southeast Asia. The round includes a USD 60 million drawdown […]

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 6, 2025

Venture capital firm QED Investors, which specializes in fintech, plans to deploy $250 million to $300 million in early and growth-stage startups throughout India and the Asia-Pacific region over the […]

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 26, 2025

Payments Network Malaysia Sdn Bhd (PayNet), the country’s national payments network and central infrastructure provider, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Fintech Association of Malaysia (FAOM), […]

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 1, 2025

Indonesia-based fintech startup Monit, which helps businesses manage their spending, has raised $2.5 million in a fresh funding round. The investment was led by Cento Ventures, with additional backing from […]

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 4, 2025

This valuation is rich compared to public fintech companies like Coinbase (13x) or Robinhood (24x), but it’s based on comparable tangible financial performance. Look at Hyperliquid , a decentralized options/perpetuals exchange. It’s on a $650M+ annualized revenue run rate , trading at a 60x multiple.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 6, 2025

Singapore fintech startup Seedflex has raised US$3.2 million in an extended seed funding round, with Z Venture Capital (ZVC). Iterative led the investment. The round also included contributions from returning […]

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2025

Singapore-headquartered fintech CrediLinq has raised $8.5 million in a Series A funding round to improve access to growth capital for underserved digital-first SMEs globally. The round saw lead investments from […]

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 6, 2025

Singapore-based startup BridgePort has secured $3.2 million in seed funding to expand its platform and strengthen its team. The company develops middleware that links trading firms, exchanges, and custodians, enabling […]

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2025

AsiaStartupExpo Q2 2025 is thrilled to announce Devendra Singh Parmar as a keynote speaker at its upcoming virtual event on June 25, 2025. With over 15 years of leadership experience […]

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Late payments are more than just an inconvenience—they can stifle cash flow, create unnecessary stress, and slow down your business growth. Many Kiwi businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, unintentionally make invoicing mistakes that contribute to delayed payments. The good news?

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 8, 2025

Atome, a BNPL platform headquartered in Singapore and part of Advance Intelligence Group, has obtained a US$75 million asset-backed loan from Lending Ark to boost its lending activities in the […]

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 9, 2025

As the global economy accelerates its digital transformation, digital assets have emerged as a new engine of growth, attracting intense interest from governments and businesses alike. With unprecedented resolve, Hong […]

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 9, 2025

Japanese financial group Mizuho is set to acquire a 70% stake in Indian investment bank Avendus Capital in a deal valued at around $700 million (Rs 6,000 crore). The acquisition […]

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The NYC Fintech Innovation Lab is a program which accepts fintech entrepreneurs to develop their businesses with the assistance of senior execs at the leading NYC banks and insurance companies. If you are building a fintech company and are focused on one or more of these areas, you should consider applying. You can apply here.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

To do this, it played to its structural strengths: The UK was an early adopter of fintech infrastructure. And UK institutions continue to invest: This summer, Mastercard, Barclays and the London Stock Exchange Group announced a £1 billion fintech fund to back British growth-stage fintech companies.

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Revolution

JANUARY 18, 2024

Revolution Ventures Invests in Kashable, the Fintech Leading the Socially Responsible, Employer-Sponsored Credit Movement The $25.6M Meet Kashable  — the fintech equipping working America with a better way to tackle costly debt and cover unexpected expenses during times of financial hardship. For more on Kashable, visit kashable.com.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Register The Southeast Asian fintech startup has been a dynamic landscape, with countries like China, India, Singapore, and Indonesia emerging as fintech hubs, each with unique strengths and focus areas. Besides, governments across Asia actively work on fintech regulations to balance innovation and consumer protection.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Register At the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) on November 16, 2023. Our financial technology solutions are designed to address the specific needs of our extensive and long-tail customer base,” said Hao Jiang, Vice President of MYbank, at the bank’s showcase during this year’s Singapore Fintech Festival.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

based fintechs already offering debit cards to children and/or teens, including Greenlight , Step and Current. As the IPO market has dried up, many industry observers had predicted that the fintech space would see more consolidation. Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here. We’d love to hear from you.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software.

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Revolution

MARCH 7, 2024

So this year, we revisited the idea we explored last year, asking women leading transformative startups across logistics, healthtech, fintech, and climate where they want to steer the “female founder” dialogue. Here’s what they had to say. “As

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Fintech startups and those from Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and South Africa get looked at the most by venture capitalists. Last year, fintech startups accounted for 25% of the VC funding which flowed into Africa, while startups from the Big Four received more than half of the continent’s total funding.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Register MADCash , the Malaysian fintech startup specializing in zero-interest micro-funding for women entrepreneurs, has successfully concluded its pre-Series A funding round with a RM 5 million investment. Tunku Omar Asraf, Principal of Artem Ventures, expressed his views on investing in the Malaysian fintech startup.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Transparently.ai, headquartered in Singapore, has secured an investment from Franklin Templeton as part of its entrance into the asset manager’s FinTech Incubator program. The investment comes as the AI company, specializing in identifying accounting fraud, announced its successful pre-Series A funding round of US$3 million.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

More from Asia Tech Daily: Thailand’s Ampverse Acquires Singapore’s Championify for Gaming Tech Innovation Indonesia’s TBS Energi Acquires Singapore’s Medical Waste Treatment Firm Navigating Asia’s Premier Fintech Conferences: Shanghai’s INCLUSION·Conference, Hong Kong Fintech Week, and Singapore Fintech Festival Singapore’s Solar AI Raises $1.5

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The cohort members offer a range of disruptive technologies across industries such as Climate Tech, Green Tech, Retail, Healthcare, FinTech, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Consumer, and Travel – with many incorporating AI and sustainability into their products and services. “In

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

This influx of capital strenghtens Utu’s expansion endeavors, a notable highlight being its recent acquisition of CardsPal , a fintech firm based in Singapore focusing on personalized deals and promotions.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Also read : Top 10 Fintech Startup Investments Powering Southeast Asia in 2023 Japan’s Five-Year Development Strategy unveils KANSAI Startup Night Vol. Japan is maintaining its leadership in crypto regulations, recently implementing new stablecoin legislation.

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