AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Register The Southeast Asian fintech startup has been a dynamic landscape, with countries like China, India, Singapore, and Indonesia emerging as fintech hubs, each with unique strengths and focus areas. Besides, governments across Asia actively work on fintech regulations to balance innovation and consumer protection.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Register At the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) on November 16, 2023. Our financial technology solutions are designed to address the specific needs of our extensive and long-tail customer base,” said Hao Jiang, Vice President of MYbank, at the bank’s showcase during this year’s Singapore Fintech Festival.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Over the past several years, the field of fintech infrastructure has exploded with venture capital investment and entrepreneurial attention.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

based fintechs already offering debit cards to children and/or teens, including Greenlight , Step and Current. As the IPO market has dried up, many industry observers had predicted that the fintech space would see more consolidation. Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here. We’d love to hear from you.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s our job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. More headlines Apple and fintechs like Robinhood chase yield-hungry depositors as Fed rate hikes continue.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. As our fellow fintech enthusiast Alex Johnson pointed out , there was one name that stood out on that list for being “not like the others”: fintech startup Brex. But far less common are fintechs dedicated to serving older members of our society.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Many big companies in the fintech world cut jobs in the past month. Well, according to Spiros Margaris , a fintech venture capitalist and founder of Margaris Ventures, the current layoffs by some of these larger fintech companies were “caused by the challenging geopolitical market environment and inflationary pressures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Indian fintech KreditBee has raised an additional $100 million in a funding round, it said, as the lender looks to scale its business in the South Asian market. Fintechs use modern-age underwriting systems to lend to customers and a maze of regulatory arbitrage — that is increasingly getting narrow — to operate.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

If you thought the fourth quarter of 2022 felt slow when it came to investment activity in the fintech space, that’s because it was. fintech funding since 2018, according to CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 Report. Specifically, global fintech funding amounted to $75.2 fintech funding in 2022 was down 50% to $32.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The fintech which provides credit lines for businesses has raised $17 million, funding that it will be using to bolster its offerings and expand geographically. The idea for the YC-backed Ghanaian fintech came during the chief executive’s time at OMG Digital, a media company he founded that also got into YC , in 2016. “We

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 4, 2024

Indonesian fintech startup Wagely has secured $23 million in funding. Wagely, known for its earned wage access […] The post Indonesian Fintech Wagely Secures $23M Funding to Expand Financial Wellness Solutions first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Want more fintech news in your inbox? Fintech startup Clear Street raises $270M at a $2B valuation by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch Prior to taking in equity investment, Clear Street says it raised debt from insurance companies and regional banks. Prysm maintains a minority stake in the company. Sign up here.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 30, 2024

$15 Million Series A supports the startup’s growth with a $10M Net Revenue Run Rate In 2021 real estate fintech startup Backflip launched an all-in-one platform for real estate entrepreneurs to support their acquisition and renovation of single-family homes.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Singaporean fintech enabler Fluid has successfully raised $5.2 This latest investment follows […] The post Singaporean Fintech Enabler FLUID Raises $5.2M million in Series A funding, spearheaded by Insignia Ventures Partners. The funding aims to strengthen Fluid’s business-to-business purchase financing solutions.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Fintech start-up Habitto saw new openings even when the doors all seemed closed. Both Ghiotti and McCance are veterans in the Fintech industry. A culture very different from that of the Western world. A conservative and slow decision-making process in corporations. These all seem to signal that change is not welcome here.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 21, 2024

Fintech funding in Southeast Asia declined 20% year-on-year to US$851 million in the first half of 2024, according to a report by Tracxn, a global SaaS-based market intelligence platform. This […]

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2025

Fintech investor? If you act the way a founder would to figure out everything you can about a particular customer problem or wave of innovation, youre bound to bump into a few founders doing thisoften because you start talking to obvious potential customers.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 8, 2024

Japanese fintech leader SmartPay has secured $7 million in a pre-Series A funding round, oversubscribed and led by SMBC Venture Capital. Smartpay, one of the leading fintech startups in […] Smartpay, one of the leading fintech startups in […]

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

If you see a FinTech deal today, a Cyber Security deal tomorrow and then creator tools the next day … it’s harder to see the pattern and have the knowledge of truly exceptional is. Almost certainly the quality of your deal flow will improve over time as will your ability to distinguish the best deals I also am personally a huge fan of focus.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

San Francisco-based FinTech company Mercury has announced a $300 million Series C investment round, bringing its valuation to $3.5 The company touts over 200,000 businesses with, a large portion being startups that use its services as a financial backbone, replacing cumbersome platform switching or thejuggling third-party apps.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. Embedded finance infrastructure makes financing decisions based on real-time data.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2023

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. Meanwhile, Li provided her thoughts on why embedded fintech will remain hot. Refreshing! Weekly News.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

While cities like Miami and Austin often dominate headlines, Tampa has quietly cultivated a thriving tech scene, particularly in cybersecurity, fintech, and AI. Empowering the Tampa Startup Ecosystem Scamnetics rise is a testament to Tampas emergence as a vibrant innovation hub.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

It is led by two partners: Aditi Maliwal on the Seed Investment Team who also leads our Fintech practice and Seksom Suriyapa on the Growth Team who joined Upfront in 2021 after most recently leading Corp Dev at Twitter (and before that at Success Factors and Akamai). The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Jason Malki

MAY 4, 2025

Hourad Afsar I had the pleasure of interviewing Hourad Afsar (known as Howard to many clients), Founder and CEO of UGRNextGen Compliance, a company redefining how Fintechs and financial institutions meet todays complex regulatory demands through agile, tech-forward solutions. What motivated you to launch yourstartup?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ruth Foxe Blader has left her role as partner at Anthemis Group after nearly seven years to start her own venture firm, Foxe Capital, TechCrunch learned exclusively today. Blader is joined by former Anthemis investment associate Kyle Perez. Sophie Winwood is serving as an operating partner.

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500

JULY 22, 2019

We’re thrilled to see that diversity is in no short supply with the group: 33% of companies are women-led, 40% of founders self-identify as Black or Latinx, and sectors represented range from FinTech, to Digital Health, to EdTech, to E-Commerce, and beyond. Meet the Batch.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So There You Have It We have an amazing team including our newest Partner, Aditi Maliwal, who runs our FinTech investment practice and is based in San Francisco. I’ll help own functions but I mostly just want to back great founders and not have to own all the other BS.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The foundation: Why is India such fertile ground for fintech? At the time, the market seemed poised for a fintech boom for a variety of reasons. At the moment, India is perhaps the fastest growing fintech market in the world. In fact, fintech has a chance of fully driving the economy. In the U.S.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Ant Financial is six years old, it is the most valuable fintech company in the world. Third, interaction field companies orchestrate an open, and comprehensive interaction field that deeply integrates into the lives of participants. Over 80 percent of all Chinese consumers use its core payment service, Alipay. That’s 1.3

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Revolution

MARCH 7, 2024

So this year, we revisited the idea we explored last year, asking women leading transformative startups across logistics, healthtech, fintech, and climate where they want to steer the “female founder” dialogue. Here’s what they had to say. “As

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

You could be super knowledgeable about the fintech space, because you’re looking at it for Goldman Sachs, but a lot of people work for Goldman. If you’re counting on your expertise, then people have to know about it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Fintech startups and those from Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and South Africa get looked at the most by venture capitalists. Last year, fintech startups accounted for 25% of the VC funding which flowed into Africa, while startups from the Big Four received more than half of the continent’s total funding.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Register MADCash , the Malaysian fintech startup specializing in zero-interest micro-funding for women entrepreneurs, has successfully concluded its pre-Series A funding round with a RM 5 million investment. Tunku Omar Asraf, Principal of Artem Ventures, expressed his views on investing in the Malaysian fintech startup.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

For example, numerous fintech startups cater to younger users — from Greenlight to Step to Current and now, Acorns. But far less common are fintechs dedicated to serving older members of our society. Like many fintechs, Charlie is not a bank — its banking partner is Sutton Bank. Want more fintech news in your inbox?

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Transparently.ai, headquartered in Singapore, has secured an investment from Franklin Templeton as part of its entrance into the asset manager’s FinTech Incubator program. The investment comes as the AI company, specializing in identifying accounting fraud, announced its successful pre-Series A funding round of US$3 million.

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