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FintechOS nabs $60M for a low-code approach to modernizing legacy banking and insurance services

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“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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Mosaic raises $18.5M Series A from GC to rebuild the CFO software stack

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Worse, CFOs are expected to be more strategic than ever about finance, but can struggle to deliver important forecasts and projections given the lack of availability of key data. Mosaic is a “strategic finance platform” that is designed to ingest data from all sorts of systems in the alphabet soup of enterprise IT — ERPs, HRISs, CRMs, etc. —

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

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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.,” Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.” “We’re pretty radical about why we’re doing what we’re doing,” she said.

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Save $450,000, and Win Your Next Pitch

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Consultant: You are one of many and until you get to the final round, your primary job is to survive and advance through each round. Two factors often come down to how Q&A will be shared and/or if we are the incumbent. When it’s a consultant pitch, think through how you can win through RFI?—?RFP?—?Chemistry?—?Finals.

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Wingspan raises $14M for its all-in-one payroll platform for contractors

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Mironov came from the finance world, having spent several years as a private equity analyst, associate and consultant. And of course incumbent payroll providers like Square offer their own solutions. “Greg and I founded Wingspan in 2019 to create the system of record and payroll platform for independent contractors.

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African healthtech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth, spurring a $7M investment initiative

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And according to a new report from Salient Advisory, a global healthcare consulting firm, this is the segment where the most impressive growth has occurred for Africa’s healthcare in the last 12 months. It will give these startups access to market opportunities and showcase them to impact investors and venture capitalists.

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Morocco’s Freterium grabs $4M to scale its freight trucking software across MENA

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While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. CDG Invest, Y Combinator, Flexport, Swiss Founders Fund, Outlierz Ventures, and a few angel investors from the U.S.,