TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Stax , a startup that allows Africans to buy airtime, send and request money, and transfer funds between accounts via automated USSD codes, has raised a $2.2 Telcos and banks dominate this mass market, providing the tech infrastructure that facilitates these code-based transactions. million seed extension round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

SpecTrust aims to “fix the economics of fighting fraud” with a no-code platform that it says cuts 90% of a business’ risk infrastructure spend that responds to threats in “minutes instead of months.” . “In Don’t hate on low-code and no-code.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

It is also poised for greater growth as the adoption of lending, digital payments, banking and insurance services grows. . Startups specializing in digital/mobile payments have received the greatest financing over the years followed by banking/lending startups and insurtechs. . Deals by stage in Africa over the years.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2023

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. So there’s a lot in the plus column, but there are reasons to be cautious, too.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 30, 2025

FloQasts software (created by accountants, for accountants) brings AI and automation innovation into everyday accounting workflows. You can reconcile bank statements against internal ledgers, get real-time visibility into financial operations, and much more.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Christian Owens Contributor Share on Twitter Christian Owens is executive chairman and co-founder of Paddle , a payments infrastructure provider for SaaS businesses. Every software leader is seeking to boost revenues, cut costs, and demonstrate a clear path to profitability.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This year saw emerging risks posed by AI , disastrous outages like the CrowdStrike incident , and surmounting software supply chain frailties , as well as the risk of cyberattacks and quantum computing breaking todays most advanced encryption algorithms. Furthermore, the software supply chain is also under increasing threat.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Nigeria’s Kuda raises $10M to be the mobile-first challenger bank for Africa. She told TechCrunch that last year’s run of 23 pre-seed rounds (10 of which were $150,000+ deals) per Briter Bridges data , was due to the confidence investors had in the market, especially fintech. “Fintech is compelling.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Plus, Europol offers best practices for banks to adopt quantum-resistant cryptography. government is urging software makers to adopt secure application-development practices that help prevent buffer overflow attacks. This can lead to issues such as system crashes, data corruption and remote code execution. This week, the U.S.

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OverOps

APRIL 17, 2019

Earlier this month, Herb Krasner, an Advisory Board member of the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) joined our VP of Solution Engineering Eric Mizell for a webinar examining the cost of poor quality software. Herb’s CISQ report estimates that, in 2018, poor quality software cost organizations $2.8 trillion in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

David Cahn is an investor at Coatue, where he focuses on software investments. David is passionate about open-source and infrastructure software and previously worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley. In the old software world — think Oracle and SAP — sales were the competitive advantage.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, wrote a letter to FDIC chairman Martin Gruenberg expressing concerns about Tellus’s claims. In that letter, Brown pressed the FDIC to review Tellus’s business practices “to ensure that customers are protected from financial fraud and abuse.” Well, last week U.S. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Globally, banking funding slid by 63%, or nearly two-thirds, according to CB Insights. In all of 2022, banking startups raised $9.4 There were so many challenger banks born in recent years, it is not surprising that that segment became oversaturated. 18), but those problems were resolved by the afternoon, the bank said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Canadian digital bank Neo Financial has raised $145.2 I believe Neo has a shot at owning at least 10% of the aggregated $550B banking sector in Canada (ie. 50B) due to the network effects it has created with its unique merchant loyalty program.”. There aren’t 6,000 regional banks,” Chau told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

One such company is FairMoney , which describes itself as “the mobile banking revolution for emerging markets.” But compared with traditional banks, it was the seventh-largest digital financial services provider in that area. Nigerian digital bank Carbon hit $240M in payments processed last year, up 89% from 2019.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

About three-fourths of the teams are focusing on NFTs, infrastructure or decentralized finance (DeFi), while the majority of the teams are building on layer-1 blockchains Ethereum, Polygon and Solana. platforms that exist today for communication, like Twitter or Discord, “don’t work” due to unrelated content and spam, according to Tam.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

In a written statement, CEO Adam Hughes said: Due to the current macro-economic environment, we have decided to take some proactive adjustments to ensure Amount’s ability to thrive for years to come. If that is still the case today, then about 72 people were let go.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

After leaving the Stripe-owned company in 2019, he launched a data startup called Voyance where Singh, who had already exited one of his products — Transferpay.ng , an offline payments startup — was a software engineer. However, for Hassan, Mono’s play overlaps open finance and open banking.

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The Crazy Programmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Software Architect. A software architect is a professional in the IT sector who works closely with a development task. They are responsible for designing, testing, and managing the software products of the systems. If you want to become a software architect, then you have to learn high-level designing skills.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. With its $25 million Series B funding — which takes its total funding to over $42 million — Banyan Infrastructure is seeking to align sustainable project finance with the technology it is meant to support and develop.

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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. About 175 credit unions are licensed in Kenya to serve nearly 4.1 last year to reach $5.6

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Xebia

MAY 13, 2024

But what about a software developer? This was in no small part due to the culture at Oracle. This seems to be a natural career path: Software developers become team leads, and team leads become managers or architects. So, I decided to go back to software development. But still, people focus on turning stories into code.

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CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From smartphones and wearables to IoT devices and cloud infrastructure, the breadth and complexity of our digital ecosystem continues to expand at an unprecedented rate. This necessitates continuous adaptation and innovation across various verticals, from data management and cybersecurity to software development and user experience design.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

The idea of starting Healthie , a software company meant to help healthcare companies and startups handle back-office operations, came to founder Erica Jain after witnessing her parents struggle with weight loss but lack of access to a comprehensive care team. million and will use this round’s funds to continue developing their software.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Dileep Thazhmon and Sherwin Gandhi founded Jeeves last year under the premise that startups have traditionally had to rely on financial infrastructure that is local and country-specific. We’re really building two things — an infrastructure layer that sits across banking institutions in different countries.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

French IT services company Atos has called on a third-party trustee to help it negotiate debt refinancing with its banks after plans to raise €720 million in new capital through a rights issue fell through. It announced it requested the appointment Monday, promising to give an update on the negotiations in due course.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 11, 2025

That increase was due in large part to U.S. Singapore counted three new unicorns in 2024 from zero in 2023 in banking, Web3 and semiconductor assembly. AI led The 2024 surge in new unicorns was led by the AI sector, which included companies focused on foundation models, AI infrastructure and coding. leadership in AI.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The capital raises coincide with the company’s launch of Onbo , which it describes as a “credit-as-a-service” product “that allows any business to build and offer a credit product, without needing a bank sponsor in the background.” It has a core infrastructure piece to it. All play a role in this mission.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

By working closely with them, IT leaders can become more dynamic, proactive, self-determining, self-regulated, flexible, strong, robust, and resilient,” says Dr Suresh A Shan, a technology consultant with Mumbai-based rural non-banking financial company Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

Coding assistants One of the use cases for gen AI that pops up the most frequently is the coding assistant. Gen AI can write basic software code, allowing human programmers to focus on more complicated tasks. Gen AI, by creating website code, can significantly reduce the time and cost needed to update websites. “By

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

From Finextra : “Mobile-only UK bank Kroo has launched its flagship current account, offering customers two percent in interest on amounts up to £85,000. Kroo’s analysis of Bank of England data shows that there was £271bn sitting idle in UK households’ non-interest-bearing sight deposits as of the 30th of September 2022. And elsewhere.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

What infrastructure do you run it on and where? Perhaps it’s picking an AI copilot to help programmers generate code in Python or other languages. Meta’s Llama open-source LLM makes for a solid choice; enterprises such as Goldman Sachs, AT&T, and Accenture use Llama for customer service, code generation, and document reviews.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

So while we’re still getting pitched (a whole bunch), we more than ever are reviewing pitches with a bigger-picture lens and hope you’ll do the same when you’re doing the pitching. Notably, competitor Brex — which started out offering a credit card to startups — earlier this year announced “ a big push ” both into software and enterprise.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2023

billion USD investment from Oracle to expand cloud infrastructure capabilities in the Kingdom. He noted that the company was investing heavily to enhance their infrastructure, physical presence, partner network, human resources, and other support capabilities in this region. Oracle has been the only adaptor of cloud in the Kingdom.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Enter Noble , a putative solution in the form of a platform that allows businesses to build credit-based products like credit cards and buy now, pay later services with no-code tools. ” With Noble, companies can access credit bureaus, banks and income verification providers in deciding to which customers to extend credit lines (e.g.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

AUGUST 21, 2024

Amazon DataZone allows you to create and manage data zones , which are virtual data lakes that store and process your data, without the need for extensive coding or infrastructure management. The data admin defines the required security controls for ML infrastructure and deploys the SageMaker environment with Amazon DataZone.

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