TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2022

Investors appeared to be backing some startups in part due to FOMO, and that’s not necessarily a good thing. Last year, it was truly a founders’ market, meaning that terms were more founder-friendly than ever. billion in seed through late-stage venture funding. And everyone was like, ‘yeah, that makes sense, let’s invest in this.’ ”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

He called the deal “a remarkable turnaround” for Zelto, a company that has stared down a few near-death experiences, including cash flow and product market fit problems, during its 10-year-old life. wants to help recruiters find technical talent by inferring skills from GitHub code, Paul reports. Big Tech Inc. Zack has more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Banking infrastructure providers are mainly responsible for the proliferation of such solutions. They allow businesses such as mobile operators, e-commerce platforms, and logistics companies to embed and enable banking products for their customers. million seed round. million seed round. So far, over 1.2 So far, over 1.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

One, a startup that aims to bring “all-in-one banking” to the middle class, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B round of funding. This can be viewed as a kind of a noisy market, and so this funding has been a good validation of the vision and kind of the products, in that we have been able to stand out in that market.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that aims to build “DeFi for traditional finance,” has raised $16 million in a Series A round of funding led by CM Ventures. From a product architecture standpoint, Productfy has been built “from the ground up,” he said, to operate with multiple banking partners. Productfy Inc. ,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Posting audited financials can prove detrimental for a private African company for several reasons ranging from bad marketing and PR if huge losses are incurred to regulatory clampdown if the company performs well. As we wait for its annual report for 2020, its year in review offers a sneak peek into how Carbon grew the past year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week sent ripples in startup ecosystems around the world, and it is emerging that millions of dollars held by African startups and venture capital funds at the bank were at stake, until the U.S. Most of our funds are in various other banks in US & around the world. Nala, a U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Shares of First Republic Bank fell sharply in early trading this morning, which caused trades of the company to be paused due to volatility, implying investor discomfort with the financial institution despite government activity over the weekend to sort the Silicon Valley Bank crisis and potential cascading effects.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

The country has a high mobile and internet penetration necessary for a young and tech-savvy population with 61% below 30. It’s the same situation in MENA, where only 40% of the population have access to a bank account. Digital banks have enormous potential in the region. Image Credits: Telda.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

David is passionate about open-source and infrastructure software and previously worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley. Because the best go-to-market (GTM) strategies for startups are like hamburgers: The bottom bun: Bottom-up GTM. The hamburger go-to-market strategy. Why call it that?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Ho argued that those platforms (whether they offer delivery services, user reviews or marketing tools) all have the same underlying model: “They seek to take over a small business’ customer base and then charge them a tax to start reaching those customers.” “The incentives are more aligned,” he said.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2025

Research from Gartner, for example, shows that approximately 30% of generative AI (GenAI) will not make it past the proof-of-concept phase by the end of 2025, due to factors including poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, and escalating costs. [1] AI in action The benefits of this approach are clear to see.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

I believed the platform I was running could be a lot bigger and scale a lot faster if we could connect more dots — and basically creating an end to end protein plant,” said Rehmann, who has worked for an investment bank and Microsoft. We run a tech-enabled platform and have scaled 2x faster than any other African fish company.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2025

By Bo Ilsoe The future of European innovation depends on a single, unified Pan-European stock market. The feedback loop of venture funding, entrepreneurial activity, company building, exits and capital return is broken, due to a lack of robust exit opportunities, particularly through initial public offerings, creating a critical bottleneck.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Terraa , a Moroccan B2B tech-enabled food distribution platform, has raised $1.5 It intends to provide a consistent and competitively priced market for the produce, helping farmers cut back on the post-harvest losses often driven by lack of markets, especially in times of overproduction.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. Fintechs dominated the fundraising, accounting for nearly $3 billion, or two thirds of all the investment realized by startups across the continent last year, a report by markets insights firm Briter Bridges shows.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Tech isn’t as collegial as it used to be. Over the past few months, thousands of employees from Meta , Twitter , Stripe , Amazon , DoorDash and countless other companies that don’t have the privilege of being household names are back on the job market. So where does tech’s talent go from here? I’m taking my control back’.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a cliff last year. However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Ben Boissevain is the founder of Ascento Capital , a boutique investment bank that provides advisory services for M&A, capital raises and valuations to technology companies in the U.S. Almost all tech companies are seeing their valuations decline — the Nasdaq is now more than 31% below its all-time high on November 19, 2021.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

JP Morgan Chase president Daniel Pinto says the bank expects to see up to $2 billion in value from its AI use cases, up from a $1.5 Sometimes it actually creates more work than it saves due to legal and compliance issues, hallucinations, and other issues. billion estimate in May. With too many tools, you’re always playing catch up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

It’s Kyle again, Greg’s stand-in for Week in Review. (He’ll If you’re a WiR newbie, it’s the newsletter where we recap the past five days in tech news. most read Silicon Valley Bank implodes: Silicon Valley Bank Financial, the publicly traded holding firm of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), is in crisis.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

If this fintech play reminds you of Silicon Valley Bank, think again. Another example is Market Finance, a tech-enabled SME lender in the U.K., Another example is Market Finance, a tech-enabled SME lender in the U.K., The latter provides corporate lending, also known as venture lending.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The collaboration means the banking giant’s research analysts and institutional clients, including hedge funds, private equity firms and sovereign wealth funds, will have access to Lynk’s database of 840,000 experts around the world. Lynk’s technology uses machine learning algorithms to match clients with experts in its database.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In Japan, where the real estate market is fragmented, homeowners have faced uncertain selling prices riddled with brokerage fees and an average selling period of between four and eight months, Ito said. “The difference is that we purchase from the seller at a discount from the market price. . and the U.K., While the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

They are responsible for communication between banks and fintechs to settle transactions for consumers and businesses swiftly. Telecoms and banks lead the majority of online financial transactions carried out in the region via mobile money wallets and bank accounts. It doesn’t aim to replace mobile money or banks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Rali_cap , an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets fintech, has launched a $30 million fund. while the rest are spread across Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, markets where they deployed more than $6 million last year. About 40% are based in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings. Startup ecosystems from emerging markets excluding China and India didn’t make the organisations’ top 40 list last year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The World Bank estimates that some $589 billion will be sent this way 2021, according to research from the World Bank, up 7.3% on 2020, as parts of the global economy started to claw back growth after a tough 2020 due to Covid-19. Taptap Send has been steadily growing and adding more countries to its list of served markets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Then Yang joined Kaji at First Republic Bank to work together and continue the conversation. With the market the way it is, the number of accredited investors is expected to grow by 50% by 2025,” Kaji said. There is a huge opportunity to unlock the market and have people participate.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

While there, they came up with a way to use A/B testing to create a way of dealing with payments in different markets. Tabor explained that the e-commerce landscape in Latin America was consolidated, meaning few banks controlled more of the market. That process involves manual analysis and constant adjusting due to fraud.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. ’s auto-enrollment provisions (among others), will make 401k plans more impactful at the lower end of the market, and Human Interest is well-positioned to execute.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Startups like FlexID remind us that distributed ledger technology has the potential to play other roles, including offering trusted records of identities without the need for a centralized authority. More than 60% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa are unbanked, according to World Bank estimates for 2021. million in 2016. million in 2020.

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CIO

JULY 2, 2024

Imagine navigating a rapidly changing landscape, where technology seems to evolve at the speed of light and the pressure to keep up is relentless — this is the reality for today’s CIO. Future proofing technology investments has become a critical imperative for organizations seeking to maintain their competitive edge.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

99 Twitter problems, and Apple might have one : It’s no secret that Elon Musk thinks Apple’s 30% IAP (“inventor assistance program” to those of us not up on tech lingo) transaction charge to developers is “a lot.” OTI raises $55 million for technology to remove screen obstructions. Big Tech Inc. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Working in the world of disability insurance for a decade, Colin Nabity felt not everyone could access this type of insurance due to its nature of it being difficult to understand and underwrite. of working Americans each year will experience a short-term disability during a period of six months or less due to illness, injury or pregnancy.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

According to research, 85% of African SMBs have zero access to financing, and e ach day, African SMBs have billions locked up in receivables due to long payment cycles. For existing businesses, these are the issues they face and getting credit in terms of working capital is extremely difficult if you’re dealing with banks. .

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