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This new app is helping Gen Z invest in cars, food, video games and other ‘themes’

TechCrunch

“I told myself, ‘I’ll go to colleges and pro sports teams and teach finance and investing 101,’ ”Haddix recalls. “In Haddix joined On Deck as a fellow and it was there he met co-founder and CTO, Cindy Zeng. co-founder and CEO), Cindy Zeng (co-founder and CTO) and Connor Gordon (director of product) / Scout.

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Balance raises $56M to tip the one-click checkout scales in favor of B2B merchants

TechCrunch

There are many companies bringing one-click checkout to the direct-to-consumer marketplace, but few are developing similar tools for the business-to-business marketplace. B2B payment volume is five times the size of business-to-consumer retail payments, yet much of those payments are not being done online.

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Bangladesh agritech startup iFarmer raises $2.1m in IDLC-led funding

AsiaTechDaily

million Series Pre-A round of financing led by IDLC Ventures, the VC arm of IDLC Finance—one of Bangladesh’s largest non-banking financial institutions. Register iFarmer , a Bangladesh-based full-stack agriculture platform for farmers , announced the completion of a $2.1 Bangladesh is home to about 16.5