TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

market to theirs — thrives on the notion that access to a financial ecosystem via open APIs will improve access to financial information and lower entry costs for the underbanked. . Mono has delivered on only Ghana, for now, piloting with a few banks and fintechs such as Oze and Tranzo.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Marqeta has agreed to acquire two-year-old fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $223 million in cash, marking the first acquisition in the publicly-traded company’s 13-year history. In other words, it provides the tools for companies — fintechs and otherwise — to provide cards, wallets and other payment mechanisms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Over the years, there has been a growing trend of fintech infrastructure players around the world. Stitch , a South African fintech startup, is one of them and today, it is coming out of stealth and announcing its seed round of $4 million. This makes it the largest round raised by any API fintech startup in Africa at the moment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

India’s Decentro , the Y Combinator-backed startup that helps companies enter the fintech market by deploying its APIs, has raised $4.7 “Whenever a fintech startup or a company wants to launch a new product in the market, it takes them a minimum of a few months to launch. million in a Series A round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Australia native Richard Steggall is the CEO of Urban FT , a New York-based fintech company. He has more than two decades of experience in fintech, capital growth, mergers & acquisitions and strategic IPO advisory. Richard Steggall. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Traditional banks miss the digital mark.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

For nearly all fintech startups, lending has long been the end game. Fintechs typically partner with banks to issue cards and then tie up with non-banking financial institutions or use their own NBFC unit to offer credit lines to consumers. But market is market and regulation will eventually come around to what market needs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Francophone Africa has its first unicorn, and if you’ve been following tech on the continent, you will be very unsurprised to hear that it’s coming from the world of fintech. The mobile money market in sub-Saharan Africa is growing exponentially. Wave , a U.S. L-R: Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The move comes just days after the payment card issuing company reportedly filed confidentially for an initial public offering, making it the latest fintech to make a move to the public markets. Providing card services to fintech companies around the world gives Marqeta a $4.3 billion valuation. Image Credits: Marqeta.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

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. Based on that categorization, the fintech space ranked third behind food and transportation, respectively.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Indian fintech Money View said on Monday it has raised $75 million in a new funding round, its second this year, despite the market slump as it looks to scale its core credit business and build more products in the South Asian market. Money View is currently disbursing about $1.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. Its main marketing channels thus far have been social media marketing and the use of game ad networks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A. Scaling our U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Michael Beckley Contributor Share on Twitter Michael Beckley is a co-founder and CTO of Appian , where he drives the technical vision for the company, leads product and solutions marketing teams, and oversees customer initiatives. On paper, this looks like a slam-dunk scenario for the burgeoning industry of new nimble fintech providers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

The fintech’s new growth strategy follows its plan to power its embedded finance offering beyond its current markets, including Uganda and Ghana, to bridge the financing gap affecting millions of micro, small medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across these markets. Image Credits: Pezesha.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. Fintech M&A hasn’t been as robust as one might expect in recent months. So when Goldman Sachs announced this week it was buying NextCapital – a fintech company that provides automated advice to corporate retirement plan participants – my ears perked up.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

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. Companies are raising less money at lower valuations than in 2021, which reflects the market sentiment.”.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. Fintech’s recent explosive growth is reflected in the increase in fund size for BTV, and the firm remains squarely focused on the space. . “

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. Acorns’ SPAC listing depicts a consumer fintech business with a SaaSy revenue mix. Then in 2018, Walter went live with a new company — Blast.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Human rights activist and Mos founder Amira Yahyaoui couldn’t afford to go to college, so when she first launched a platform to connect students to scholarships, the innovation felt full circle. Our market cap is 10 times higher than what we were before,” she said. Yahyaoui said, starting with students. Image Credits: Mos.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

According to the survey, the city is strong in sectors such as fintech, agritech, hospitality tech, emerging tech, cybersecurity, SaaS and medtech. markets gives us advantages that we would be foolish to waste.”. We’re strong in cybersecurity and (to an arguably lesser extent) fintech. What are you most excited by?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. Indeed, customers include large financial institutions, fintechs, retailers and software companies, among others.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Gleaning his company vision from the enterprise side, Almond said what Venmo does for consumers, Paystand does for commercial transactions between mid-market and enterprise customers. She told TechCrunch that while the venture firm is a generalist, it is rooted in fintech and fintech infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Many tech workers have never experienced a job market like this one. Depending on where you worked and what you did, you may already have the experience investors are looking for when it comes to reaching product-market fit and solving engineering problems. Losing a job unexpectedly is more than a financial shock.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The holiday shopping season is coming: How are growth marketers preparing? With only three weeks left to the start of the holiday shopping season, Miranda Halpern checked in with several growth marketers to find out how they’re advising their clients to prepare for supply chain disruptions. Bring on the low-cost NFTs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2022

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. Watching one-click checkout startup Fast crash and burn was certainly one of the biggest stories in fintech this year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market? Before joining Kleiner Perkins, Case worked at Uber, where she supported the SVP of operations and helped scale the Uber Eats business to international markets. He is also the GP of the 500 Fintech fund.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Technology aimed at older people, whether it be healthcare, fintech or entertainment, is not new, but a new community of startups, investors and global industry leaders are shining a light on what they say is an $8.3 Fintech is also one of the areas that Nigel Morris, managing partner of QED Investors, has been keeping his eye on.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The Salt Lake City, Utah-based company’s API-delivered product, which focuses on payroll data, powers 70 banks, credit unions and fintech companies such as Coinbase, Dave and Propel. When it comes to direct deposit acquisition, Davis believes Atomic was among the first in the market to provide that for large neobanks. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When you are the founder of a young startup, it is always very hard to gauge the right amount of effort to dedicate to marketing. Australian growth marketing agency Ammo , in contrast, wants to make sure that its clients aren’t overinvesting nor underinvesting. Botch it and you risk looking unprofessional. Cam Sinclair.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2023

The financial services sector is undergoing rapid change as fintechs develop convenient, consumer-focused services that were once the province of traditional banks. These organizations have two choices: They can modernize their architecture and develop the technology they need in-house or collaborate with fintechs to do it for them.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Welcome to The Interchange, a take on this week’s fintech news and trends. Rather than rehash all that here, I’ll point you to some of our recent articles on the topic and just summarize: The two fintech startups have recently grown (much) more competitive. ” But not all fintechs are laying off. So how are they different?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It plans to take its product up market to eventually cater to those at all ends of the credit spectrum, according to Desai. “We We raised this money to take advantage of the opening that the market provided by having traditional lenders tighten up,” he told TechCrunch. “We Founded in 2019, New York-based Kafene has 100 employees.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

After working together for nearly one decade, three former managing directors of Amex Ventures in early 2022 branched out to form their own fintech-focused venture firm, Vesey Ventures. The trio had made early investments in more than 50 fintech companies, including the likes of Stripe, Plaid, Melio and Trulioo.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The proliferation of fintech services across Africa remains in full swing as investors remain bullish about the opportunities that abound in the sector. African fintech firm Flutterwave raises $35M, partners with Worldpay. The company says it plans to use the funds to speed up customer acquisition in its present markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

In the latest fintech megaround, Brex has confirmed that it has raised $300 million in a Series D-2 round that ups its valuation to $12.3 For his part, Anand described Brex as “a market disruptor.”. TechCrunch in October was the first to report that Brex was raising the capital and had achieved decacorn status. Image Credits: Brex.

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