TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Nigerian fintech startup, Kuda, which bagged $10 million last year, comes to mind, for example. Typically, pre-seed rounds are raised when the startup is still in the product development phase, yet to make revenue or discover product-market fit. “Fintech is compelling. Okra is an API fintech startup.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech platform OPay is in talks to raise up to $400 million, The Information reported today. Opera’s Africa fintech startup OPay gains $120M from Chinese investors. While none of these services has significantly scaled, OPay’s fintech and mobile money arm (which is its main play) is thriving.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Lee Li is a project manager and B2B copywriter with a decade of experience in the Chinese fintech startup space as a PM for TaoBao, MeitTuan and DouYin (now TikTok). The fintech sector has been hugely successful (and hugely profitable) for much of the last decade, and even more so during the pandemic. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

In a statement, Square CFO and executive chairman for Square Financial Services, Amrita Ahuja said that bringing banking capability in house will allow the fintech to “operate more nimbly.”. Jessica Jiang, Capital Markets and Investor Relations Lead. The trend of fintechs becoming bank continues.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Today, Bankly , a Nigerian fintech startup digitizing cash for the unbanked, announced that it has closed a $2 million seed round. These investors include co-leads Vault, the holding company of VANSO , a fintech that was sold to Interswitch in 2016; and African payments company Flutterwave. It was there Bankly started.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Indian fintech KreditBee has raised an additional $100 million in a funding round, it said, as the lender looks to scale its business in the South Asian market. Fintechs use modern-age underwriting systems to lend to customers and a maze of regulatory arbitrage — that is increasingly getting narrow — to operate.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Still, Sheel Mohnot, who was formerly a general partner at the fintech fund of 500 Startups, and Jake Gibson, co-founder of personal finance startup NerdWallet, were a little taken aback by investor interest in their fintech-focused early-stage venture firm, Better Tomorrow Ventures , or BTV. Everybody became a fintech investor.

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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. An alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing a mobile money user to transact with a bank account would fix this problem, and that’s the premise of Ghana-based fintech Dash.

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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

JULY 16, 2022

As venture capital grew around the world , tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. So it is not a huge surprise that fintech had a big part to play in the venture boom that is now behind us.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2023

SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe, the Americas and Australia — has picked up some growth funding to navigate the choppy waters of the current fintech market, waters that have tipped and swayed SumUp itself.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist with nearly 30 years of experience in creating financial products for banks, fintechs and large tech companies. So if you’re building a fintech idea and you need funding today, it’s vital to get your product into the hands of customers quickly. The decade-long summer of free money is over.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

Welcome to my new weekly fintech-focused column. Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the many ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. Besides Esusu, last week saw yet another fintech unicorn being born.

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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. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Fintech startup and alternative credit asset manager Viola Credit has closed its latest $700 million fund, which provides asset-based lending capital to fintech, proptech and insurtech startups. If this fintech play reminds you of Silicon Valley Bank, think again. Instead, Viola provides lending capital to fintech lenders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The fintech which provides credit lines for businesses has raised $17 million, funding that it will be using to bolster its offerings and expand geographically. The idea for the YC-backed Ghanaian fintech came during the chief executive’s time at OMG Digital, a media company he founded that also got into YC , in 2016. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Clear Street , which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation. The company makes money by charging fees for transactions and the financing of public market securities. “We billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

With so many fintechs laying off staff , it can be easy to assume that the entire industry is in distress. “The brightest stars in fintech today are similarly succeeding despite the macro backdrop because they’re solving real problems that consumers, businesses, and financial institutions are dealing with every day.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

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 Now hiring Hello, hello! It’s not fun covering layoffs, and unfortunately we’ve had too many of those.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

But with the SPAC market facing a lot of troubles, and the tech IPO market drying up at the end of 2021, Acorns scrapped its SPAC IPO plans in January of 2022. GoHenry will help it extend in that market segment. based fintechs already offering debit cards to children and/or teens, including Greenlight , Step and Current.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

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 Last week, I dug into CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 report.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Some of India’s biggest fintech startups are making deeper inroads into soundboxes, unveiling new push to the pocket-sized devices whose chimes are fast becoming the new ‘ka-ching’ for millions of Indian merchants.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It was at that point that TripActions made the decision to accelerate the timeline for its fintech expense product, TripActions Liquid, which had launched only a month before the pandemic. This means it is in the same category as fast-growing fintechs such as Brex and Ramp.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Andy Bromberg, CEO of the a16z-backed startup Eco, is claiming that Pebble , another fintech startup that came out of stealth this morning, “plagiarized” Eco’s materials and business model. They stole our marketing copy. They stole our blog posts. They copy/pasted our T&Cs and Privacy Policy.

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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

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

APRIL 27, 2023

But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. So he started researching markets with large populations of Muslim people. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. As our fellow fintech enthusiast Alex Johnson pointed out , there was one name that stood out on that list for being “not like the others”: fintech startup Brex. But far less common are fintechs dedicated to serving older members of our society.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Lalji, who helped creators with digital content before jumping into the world of fintech, says that the startup was born out of his own frustration at the expectation that couples would just use Venmo unless they were married. Braid, another startup working on social fintech, recently launched “Pools” as a twist on consumer payment links.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Investment giant Fidelity announced today that it has acquired Shoobx, a venture-backed fintech startup, for an undisclosed amount. Fidelity makes first acquisition in 7 years, snapping up fintech Shoobx by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Parsing the latest data on the startup fundraising market in Q2, TechCrunch has explored the global perspective , taken a closer look at fintech , asked how much dry powder VCs have and brought the latest from unicorn land. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. But we are not yet done.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Vo was in the credit risk department at Barclays and a full-stack developer at Fintria, a fintech company, while Krishnamoorthy was an associate at several law firms including Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. ” Denim competes with other fintech firms in the space, including TriumphPay, HaulPay and OTR Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

While the public market correction has been widespread, tech and fintech stocks have seen the largest declines, according to a recent report. trillion in late 2021, the F-Prime Fintech Index slid to $397 billion by the end of 2022. After hitting a peak of $1.3 In other words, the bigger the exit, the larger the decline.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Speaking of these uncertain economic times, all financial institutions — including Varo — are clearly operating in a very different market than you were a year ago. Our largest reduction in spend is coming from marketing. Prior to the market shift, you had secured a big funding round and talked about going public.

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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

MAY 17, 2023

Jia, a blockchain-based fintech providing loans to micro and small businesses in emerging markets, has raised $4.3 Angel investors Packy McCormick, the Not Boring founder; Anand Iyer of Canonical Crypto, and Jared Hecht and Rory Eakin, the founders of fintech lending companies Fundera and CircleUp, also took part in the round.

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