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Pinwheel raises $50M Series B at $500M valuation for its income verification APIs

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Historically, systems for providing such data are inefficient and clunky, a problem Pinwheel’s cofounders recognized when they were working on a startup that helped companies provide pre-tax benefits to their employees. . billion API company Plaid, known for enabling bank account connectivity for fintechs. . “We’re

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Nigeria’s ThankUCash secures $5.3M to build infrastructure for cashback, deals and BNPL services

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Loyalty, deals and rewards services are a rarity in most African markets. The company plans to use the investment to expand within its home market Nigeria — where it operates in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja — and outside to Ghana and Kenya. ThankUCash cofounders. For instance, ThankUCash gets a 1.5%

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SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs and vulnerabilities

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Gaudin has a financial industry background, having worked at JP Morgan as a developer and Deutsche Bank as a software team leader before cofounding SonarSource. Freddy Mallet, SonarSource’s second cofounder, was a project architect at E-Trade and CTO at agtech startup Hortis. ” Accelerating momentum.

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Edda wants to be the Bloomberg Terminal for private markets

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Anyone who has worked in a role even tangentially connected to the public markets will at least have heard of Bloomberg Terminal , an industry standard platform used by professionals to gain real-time data and insights into the financial markets. Market opportunity. The private equity markets are predicted to grow to $12.5

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Enso emerges from stealth to help enterprises make sense of their data

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The cofounders of Enso , they’ve authored film visual effects tools that help to simulate particles — a data-intensive process. “We conducted several successful pilots with banks and insurance companies,” Danilos said. Wojciech Danilo and Sylwia Brodacka are well-acquainted with the struggle.

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A ‘Stripe for phone plans’: Gigs raises $20M to help any company be an MVNO

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In a nutshell, Gigs allows any company — be it a bank, ride-hailing company, or video-streaming service — to sell their mobile phone subscription plans (including data, SMS, and voice) to their customers. ” Gigs cofounders Dennis J. ” Gigs cofounders Dennis J. . ” Gigs cofounders Dennis J.

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This crypto surveillance startup — ‘We’re bomb sniffing dogs’ — just raised Series A funding

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We talked with Solidus’s New York-based cofounder and CEO Asaf Meir — who was himself one of those former Goldman engineers — about the company late last week. Globally, regulators have gone off to market participants, letting them know that they have to ask for permission not forgiveness. One is regulatory scrutiny.