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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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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.,” The round, led by Tiger Global with participation from Sequoia, Lux Capital, Emerson Collective, Plural VC and more, came together in less than 24 hours, Yahyaoui noted.

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Cultivating a Practice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Ecosystem Building Programs

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It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. Ongoing third-party consultation. What does it say when we tell them their ideas and dreams are unworthy because they don’t fit into some narrow model of a startup founder?

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These Y Combinator-backed startups are trying to build ‘ChatGPT for X’

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” That new ventures are jumping on the ChatGPT hype train isn’t surprising, considering ChatGPT’s virality. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg — see ventures like Lang , Neuron7 and Ultimate.ai. Plus, while RPA VC funding has fallen from the heights it hit in 2018, it remains a large tranche.

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Extra Crunch roundup: StockX EC-1, Early Stage recaps, unpacking Alkami’s IPO, more

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The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Moussouris, who runs consultancy firm Luta Security, now advises companies and governments on how to talk to hackers and what they need to do to build and improve their vulnerability disclosure programs.

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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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Welcome Tech, which wants to build a ‘Super App’ for immigrants, raises $30M

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-based company’s $35 million Series B in April 2021, which was co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s Joining TTV in doubling down on their investment in the company were Owl Ventures, SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund, Mubadala Capital and Next Play Capital. s SB Opportunity Fund.