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Citi backs Crowdz, a Pipe competitor that just raised $10M for its blockchain-powered invoice financing marketplace

TechCrunch

That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. Put simply, Crowdz started out by giving small and medium-sized businesses a way to sell invoices for financing to funders.

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Commercializing AI in Healthcare: The Enterprise Buyer Perspective

Andreessen Horowitz

Positioning the product (with the enterprise buyer in mind) Frame the problem you’re trying to solve In a recent conversation with Daniel Barchi, CIO of CommonSpirit Health, he compared AI software purchasing to buying a car with lane assist technology. That ultimate user could be a physician or a specific administrative team member.

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Ivorian healthtech startup Susu has $1M to scale its family-centric insurance product across Africa

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million in debt and grant financing from BPI France , the French government’s public investment bank. Bola Bardet founded the company with Laurent Leconte (CTO) and Sandrine Egron (COO) after losing her father to complications from a chronic health condition due to poor management. “My That’s where Susu tends to be different.

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Greece’s Viva Wallet raises $80M for its neobank targeting small business merchants

TechCrunch

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation.

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Gusto: The People Platform for SMBs

Y Combinator

And for employees, Gusto’s goal is to help put the individual in the driver’s seat of their financial health and their career. In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. With its software up and running, Gusto needed to figure out its go-to-market strategy.

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Nigerian YC-backed startup Anchor comes out of stealth with $1M+ to scale its banking-as-a-service platform

TechCrunch

“We strongly believe that the way is not just by latching banking-as-a-service on a payments platform, but there has to be proper banking as a service platform built with the right infrastructure and go-to-market strategy. Over 30 startups accessed it, including Pivo, another YC S22-backed company, Outpost Health, Dillali and Pennee.

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Novo, the SMB neobank, nabs $90M at a $700M valuation

TechCrunch

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. As the company continues to grow, Rangel said one other area it will be considering is picking up potential smaller players that fit with its bigger strategy. “We are competing against big banks. Despite being the heart of the U.S.