TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. The big events in the fintech world over the last week felt like a very different vibe from 2021, which was filled with mega rounds, celebrations and lofty valuations. And former employees admit that the underlying technology the business built is actually good.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By Pavel Shynkarenko The fintech industry recorded its highest year ever in terms of investment value in 2021, but the market has been a lot more challenging for the past two years. This doesn’t mean launching a new fintech venture is impossible. It means that the rules have changed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Payzen , a healthcare fintech startup, raised $15 million in Series A funding for its solution that leverages artificial intelligence to underwrite patients’ medical debt, allowing them to access care and pay for it over time in installments. . Any change in the market conditions will drive them to losses, quite frankly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Fintech regulations in Latin America could fuel growth or freeze out startups. But with the region’s thirst for innovation, the market is expected to expand nearly tenfold over the next decade, with open banking through the use of APIs leading the way and acting as digital transformation facilitators. How can we overcome it?

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2024

A published report Wednesday indicated that Swedish fintech company Klarna is “seeking to get rid of almost half of its employees in the coming years through efficiencies it says arise out of its investment in AI.” The testimonial notes that, within the first month of the plug-in being live, the AI assistant “has had 2.3

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Mobilunity

APRIL 18, 2024

The role of skilled fintech developers React experts has become increasingly important as traditional banking methods evolve. This demand has propelled technologies like React and TypeScript to the forefront of fintech application development. By 2028, this share is anticipated to exceed $400 billion.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2024

The artificial intelligence theme was evident again on the board last month: Two of the new companies on the board are in the AI sector, and many of the other newcomers have the technology woven into their products. Pittsburgh-based US Innovative Technology Fund led the funding to the 12-year-old company, at a value of $1.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Here are the big new stages spread out across this year’s Disrupt: The Artificial Intelligence Stage: Explore the rapidly expanding capabilities and potential of artificial intelligence; dig into the science behind the deep tech, the products it powers and the ethical, social and legal challenges that come with it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Altogether Personetics’ technology interacts with some 120 million users across 30 countries. . ” Third of all has been the impact of Covid-19 and wider market forces. “ A lot of these fintechs start and stop and go right and left. Names that it can disclose include Metro Bank, Santander, U.S.

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CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Highly regulated, customer-centric, and dependent on layers of human involvement and manual processes, financial services are ripe for automation through artificial intelligence (AI). So business technology leaders in financial services are carefully navigating a path toward AI. Banks have to get ready to take the step forward.”

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

Premji Invest deploys a “crossover format” (investing in both private and public companies) across the technology, healthcare, consumer, and FinTech landscapes; it has backed market leaders like Outreach, Sysdig, Heyday, Anaplan, Coupa, Moderna, Carta, Flipkart, Looker (acquired by Google), and DataStax.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Kenyan fintech Kwara was launched in 2019 to help credit unions (savings and credit cooperatives societies, SACCOs) in the East African country shift to digital platforms by providing them with its proprietary Back-end-as-a-service (BaaS) software. last year to reach $5.6

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Daffodil Software

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Fintech is one of the fastest-growing industries, owing to the rising penetration of internet users. Behind the booming fintech market, there are several technologies that are contributing to make the system fast, secure, and scalable. One such technology is Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

After a decade at Alibaba and its fintech affiliate giant Ant Group, Max Ma founded SwooshTransfer in 2021 to facilitate cross-border payments for small- and medium-sized enterprises, as well as individuals such as overseas students, for whom tuition payments are often a hassle. It has set up a base in the U.K.,

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Glean , $260M, artificial intelligence: Less than seven months after raising a more than $200 million Series D at a $2.2 World Labs , $230M, artificial intelligence: Spatial intelligence AI startup World Labs launched this week with more than $230 million in total funding.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We use artificial intelligence to deliver financial products that small business owners use to better run and grow their businesses,” CEO Prashant Fuloria told TechCrunch. It also integrates with other companies’ technology. It is particularly focused on B2B-focused small businesses. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Computers, the internet, fintech, artificial intelligence, any tech you can name ( except mobile tech) people in these regions have always had to play catch up.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It might be hard to remember in this age when companies like Facebook are subject to increasing government investigation, but for decades the technology industry generally existed and thrived outside the public eye. The biggest issues for regulators were related to what companies did with their market dominance (i.e.,

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OTS Solutions

JULY 28, 2022

The financial services industry has traditionally been a slow adopter of modern technology. But with the rise of FinTech, consumer expectations, and government pressures being felt throughout the industry, the pressure is on. Necessary to meet market standards. To survive in the market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

StudentFinance , a European fintech that funds educational programs for individuals through so-called income share agreements , has raised €39 million ($41 million) in a Series A round of funding. “We also use data from analyzing systemic and market changes such as government incentives for companies to become ‘greener.’

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Bolttech’s Series B is closed to new interest from the market, but we continue to engage with the investor community in case of future opportunities,” he told TechCrunch. Bolttech earlier announced that Tokio Marine will lead its Series B funding round, which then valued the company at an up-round valuation of $1.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

So I think it’s safe to say that any technology that can make the process easier is welcome by all. It has developed technology to give people a way to pay bills outside of traditional methods, such as through the mail, over the phone or via a Web portal. Paying bills is hardly a fun thing. It’s a true universal payment method.”.

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Exadel

MAY 4, 2023

Yet, for smaller regional and community banks, leveraging this technology is not so cut and dry. Moreover, the clients that regional banks attract are rarely making as frequent or big of deposits as clients at the larger banking alternatives, giving regional banks less overall liquidity to work with when investing in emerging technologies.

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

Transaction data offers profound insights into customer behavior and market dynamics, which, when analyzed at scale, can drive significant benefits across the bank’s value chain. Bud uses advanced technologies like DataStax Astra DB to manage and scale their data operations seamlessly, ensuring high performance and reliability.

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Openxcell

OCTOBER 17, 2023

New technologies, innovations, and inventions when commercialized into startups become accessible to the masses. Popularity of Tech startups Tech startups and tech entrepreneurs are great market motivators that drive economic growth along with innovation. The Fintech industry saw the maximum number of startups operating with a 7.1%

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2022

Banks are no longer the key players in the market, with fintech companies, digital-first start-ups, and tech giants delivering their own brand of financial services. One example is Banking-as-a-Service, with the market expected to reach US$3.6 New players, too, are disrupting the landscape in unprecedented ways.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Banks are no longer the key players in the market, with fintech companies, digital-first start-ups, and tech giants delivering their own brand of financial services. One example is Banking-as-a-Service, with the market expected to reach US$3.6 New players, too, are disrupting the landscape in unprecedented ways.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Backing the Dublin-based company, which targets mid-sized businesses that operate multi-entities, is Finch Capital, the fintech focussed VC that recently outed its third fund. Finch Capital launches third fund to invest in European fintech at Series A and B.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Alex Dalyac is the CEO and co-founder of Tractable , which develops artificial intelligence for accident and disaster recovery. Build upon a fresh technological breakthrough. In 2013, I was fortunate to get into artificial intelligence (more specifically, deep learning) six months before it blew up internationally.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It seems that every event I moderate, regardless of the topic, will devolve into a discussion of generative AI and the excitement of intelligent systems. The enthusiasm for this innovative technology is irrepressible. As one FinTech attendee noted, “get out of the ‘art of the possible’ and identify what is probable.”

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Xebia

AUGUST 22, 2024

For example, fintech companies are collaborating with retailers to offer Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) solutions embedded within the shopping experience. Blockchain technology is playing a critical role in this space by offering faster, more secure, and cost-effective alternatives to traditional banking methods.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

And lastly, the round makes Kavak the second most valuable startup in all of Latin America — the first being Brazilian fintech Nubank, which earlier this year was valued at $30 billion. Put simply, Kavak is an online marketplace that aims to bring transparency, security and access to financing to the used car market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

What factored into the current valuation is our annual recurring revenue, growing customer base and total addressable market,” he told TechCrunch, declining to be more specific about ARR other than to say it is growing “at a very fast rate.” auto insurance industry is an at least $250 billion market,” he added. “The U.S.

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Crunchbase News

JULY 23, 2024

Last year right around this time there were rumblings of the slumbering IPO market finally reawakening. Instead the IPO pipeline has produced just a trickle of big-name companies such as online platform Reddit and chip startup Astera Labs making the leap to the public market. Also, with $1.4 The company reported $2.2

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Hundreds of professional futurists now work in government, academia and other sectors, analyzing demographic, technological and climatic trends to envision what life will look like years from now. AI-enabled healthcare There’s a lot of funding for nascent companies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2021

Within banking and financial circles, fintech partnerships have become more common. Organizations have realized partnering with fintech companies will help them achieve more than if they try to work alone. When it comes to the banking industry, a partnership with a fintech company is a good idea. Innovative Technology.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Months after its $80 million Series B fundraise , Course Hero has acquired Symbolab , an artificial intelligence-powered calculator that helps students answer and understand complex math questions. In that same year, fintech had 193 acquisitions, according to Crunchbase. The price of the deal was undisclosed.

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