TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 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. billion last year — would join the long list of fintech giants letting go of workers. Weekly News.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

CEOs and CIOs appear to have conflicting views of the readiness of their organizations’ IT systems, with a large majority of chief executives worried about them being outdated, according to a report from IT services provider Kyndryl. But in conflict with CEO fears, 90% of IT leaders are confident their IT infrastructure is best in class.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Less than seven months after closing on a $57 million Series B , fast-growing fintech Jeeves has raised $180 million in a Series C round that values the company at $2.1 The market looked very different in January and February than it did in December.”. Fintech startup Jeeves raises $57M, goes from YC to $500M valuation in one year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Community banks and credit unions make up a big percentage of all banking institutions, which means Mantl’s market opportunity is pretty darn large. So the company pivoted, based on the premise that most community banks and credit unions are critical to maintaining competition and equity in the United States’ financial system. . “At

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2022

In the mix were anticipated improvements to its various operating systems and computers — and plans to expand its fintech footprint. However, while it’s earned a market footprint of sufficient scale as to matter in the consumer financial technology market, it’s not considered a fintech company per se.

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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 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

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There are some 40 million Mexicans who are excluded from certain financial products due to banks not thinking it is a segment worth going after, but Filiberto Castro does. The former banking executive worked at banks including Citi and Scotiabank for nearly a decade before moving into the fintech space to be chief of growth at Konfio.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Africa is the world’s third fastest-growing crypto market, with crypto adoption increasing by more than 1,200% over the last two years. Then, due to local bank card limitations of $20 monthly spend, we provided virtual dollar cards for Nigerians to make international purchases.”. CEO Ruth Iselema.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Since then, the fintech has enabled over six products for various businesses, from banks and mobile network operators to e-commerce platforms and fintech players across three markets: Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. valuation Fintechs offering banking-as-a-service in the U.S. If you think of a market, like the U.S.,

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They understand that their strategies, capabilities, resources, and management systems should be configured to support the enterprise’s overarching purpose and goals. Collie believes it’s far more productive to ask business leaders about their own jobs, including their view of market trends and the key business challenges they’re facing.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Demand for new aircraft, ships and advanced defense systems is a top priority for the Department of Defense. Utilizing AI/ML in design, simulation and part production as well as autonomous systems and navigation is key to achieving that. Among those are unicorns Anduril Industries , Epirus , HawkEye 360 and Shield AI.

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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. The startup’s goal is to serve 1 billion people by 2030. last year to reach $5.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

However, dispatch was one of Uber’s most critical systems, and it had a much bigger scale than previous use cases while having a very stringent latency requirement. . What’s more, explainability is important for fintech companies so that they can show regulators how decisions are made,” Diao said. “It

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Almost half of all Americans play mobile games, so Alex reviewed Jam City’s investor deck, a transcript of the investor presentation call and a press release to see how it stacks up against Zynga, which “has done great in recent quarters, including posting record revenue and bookings in the first three months of 2021.”

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Startups that fail to maintain sufficient speed face three primary risks: Resource depletion: Running out of capital before achieving product-market fit. Market position loss: Being outpaced by faster competitors. I’ve seen landing pages with associated marketing tests go live in 24 hours. billion under management.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The field of data observability has experienced substantial growth recently, offering numerous commercial tools on the market or the option to build a DIY solution using open-source components. Data science was previously the domain of tech-savvy organizations due to the technical expertise required to build models from scratch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Unlike other African countries, South Africa also has a functioning credit system with the prevalent use of credit cards. At the time, most fintechs and banks did not recognize the need for using bank payments to facilitate online transactions. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines.

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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

MAY 26, 2022

One of the startups working toward this vision is Zimbabwe’s FlexID, which is building a blockchain-based identity system for those excluded from the banking system due to their lack of identity documents. These are issues that affect Africa and emerging markets, not just Zimbabwe.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

As a Black fintech founder, I believe that venture investors are making safe bets and investing in late-stage founders instead of early or even pre-seed stages. Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Realize you are up against an outdated system.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As a partner in a fund of funds, I attend a lot of annual meetings, talk with a lot of venture fund general partners and review a lot of investor decks. But, the outsized returns only come from companies that are market leaders in enormous markets. ” The same is true for some areas of fintech.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 16, 2025

More commonly, its a negative one, like a market downturn. Over the past couple weeks, as weve seen Klarna , StubHub and others delay scheduled pre-IPO roadshows, it appears markets are to blame. But for market watchers, the questions remain: Where do IPO candidates go from here? Is the new offering market in for a long freeze?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Nearly one in three American households have delayed medical care due to its cost, per a 2019 Gallup poll. . PayZen was founded in 2018 by three fintech veterans, Ariel Rosenthal, and Itzik Cohen, and Tobias Mezger. Cohen, who now serves as PayZen’s CEO, previously served as chief executive at consumer debt fintech Beyond Finance. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Its product suite includes an HR management system, performance and competency management, HR analytics, leave management, payroll management and recruitment management. It was four years after several iterations of Insidify, an aggregator site for job seekers and a review site for companies that they started SeamlessHR in 2018.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

tied) Crusoe Energy Systems , $500M, energy: This is not the first time Crusoe has made this list. tied) Insider , $500M, digital marketing: Marketing tech platform Insider raised a $500 million Series E led by General Atlantic to fund its expansion in the U.S. billion valuation in the process. billion, per Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

on 2020, as parts of the global economy started to claw back growth after a tough 2020 due to Covid-19. Taptap Send believes that its unique place in the market is that it has built not just the easiest, but the most reliable system to initiate, manage and receive those transfers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Sudo Africa , a fintech that provides a card-issuing API for developers and businesses in Nigeria, has raised $3.7 Several African fintech founders such as Olugbenga ‘GB’ Agboola, Ham Serunjogi and Odun Eweniyi are investors in the company too. million in pre-seed funding. L-R: Kabir Shittu (COO) and Aminu Bakori (CEO).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Companies can access Sesamm’s flagship product, TextReveal , via several conduits, including an API that brings Sesamm’s NLP engine into their own systems. Elsewhere, private equity firms can use Sesamm for due diligence on potential acquisition or investment targets. and Asian markets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

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.” These customers are harder to acquire because banks hate to lose them due to their large lifetime values,” he said.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Micro and small businesses in emerging markets still struggle to access digital payments for several reasons. One, most of them are excluded from various payment ecosystems globally due to their size, and two, getting hardware from providers can be expensive. . “Our thesis is that card acceptance is a fairly homogenous action.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

Welcome back to The Interchange, the weekly TechCrunch series that looks at the latest — and what’s ahead — in the global fintech industry. While the pandemic sucked on 1,000 different levels, one silver lining is that consumers and businesses have forced more fintech to exist, and that’s a good thing. . Sign up here. Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2023

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. And the strategy seems to have paid off for the fintech company, which went public in January of 2022. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

In fact, it might be the second-best thing after fintech at the moment. These retailers are beholden to an inefficient distribution system that results in inconsistent inventory availability, opaque pricing and limited access to formal financial and banking services. The company is announcing a $10.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Blossoming business : Bloom, a Sudan-based fintech, banked $6.5 In particular, the partnership with Visa landed Bloom as the first Sudanese startup to get admitted into Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program, Tage reports. Can Medicare save the insurtech market? ” Can Medicare save the insurtech market? In 2020, the U.S.

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