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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

TechCrunch

How to communicate with your board in tough times. The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. Incumbents in these industries are very large and entrenched, but they are legacy players, making them slow to adopt new technology. Contributor.

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Polly snags $37M in Menlo-led Series B to automate workflows for mortgage lenders

TechCrunch

The latest financing brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total funding raised to $50 million. Impressed with Polly’s traction even at that point, the firm still participated in that financing with a smaller check and stayed close to the company. “

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Fintech Roundup: Will financial technology startups dodge the venture slowdown?

TechCrunch

Startups like these are keeping the incumbents (relatively speaking) on their toes. And that’s been happening pretty clearly… Now, with that said, I think that there’s still a lot of appetite [for fintech] across the board. Robinhood expands into consumer finance while Apple steps up its fintech game.

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Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

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For years, the real estate technology company has touted itself as using its pricing technology to provide “more accurate offers and lower costs,” said the FTC. Apple alum’s finance operations startup Bluecopa raises funds to expand globally. Specifically, it said, in Q2 2022, “ VC investment in fintech companies fell 17.8%

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In its first funding in 7 years, profitable fintech Lower raises $100M Series A led by Accel

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Lower , an Ohio-based home finance platform, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel. The financing also marks the previously bootstrapped Lower’s first external round of funding in its seven-year history. “We This round is notable for a number of reasons.

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Why I Quit My Job at Google to Work In Crypto

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Now with big banks, corporations, and governments on board, Bitcoin and?—?by ETH killers, BTC killers and all kinds of other projects with lofty promises and ambitious roadmaps to build better blockchains than the incumbents. To me, decentralized finance or “DeFi” is the most fascinating part of the cryptocurrency space today.

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Sila banks $13M to offer single API for developing financial products, services

TechCrunch

And unlike competitors that focus almost exclusively on e-commerce, most of Sila’s customers are doing regulated payments within the fintech, insurtech, commercial real estate and cryptocurrency spaces that tend to be more complex from a compliance basis, Karkal said. Sila can now get customers up-and-running in six to eight weeks.