TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Welcome to my new weekly fintech focused column. It’s been really tough concentrating during the latter part of this week due to global events so forgive me if my tone is less upbeat than normal. This week, I wrote about a couple of instances in which fintech companies went horizontal with their approach. Women in Fintech.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Stripe is the latest high-profile fintech company to take a massive valuation cut as the market downturn begins to hit the sector especially hard. Despite the 409A valuation remaining separate from Stripe’s latest round price, it is still a relevant cut due to the sheer decrease. The Interchange: Stripe takes a swing at Plaid.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 6, 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. Wow, I take off one week and come back to all hell breaking loose in the fintech world.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 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. This will now be offered to 22 fintech companies across Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

At a high level, Mantl is an enterprise software company that is really focused on helping traditional financial institutions modernize and grow,” Harley told TechCrunch. The company says its software also automates application decisioning for over 90% of cases while also reducing fraud by more than 60%.

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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. Use discount code BELFAST to save 25% off an annual or two-year Extra Crunch membership. We’re strong in cybersecurity and (to an arguably lesser extent) fintech. Cloudsmith.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” In classic TC+ “how to” style, Raissi, a former software engineer, explains the process his team used to accelerate their Series B, the tactics they used to manage investors and how the strategy led to a $40 million round.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2021

What’s more, explainability is important for fintech companies so that they can show regulators how decisions are made,” Diao said. “It Many of the current rules engine offerings tout a no-code UI to build rules with a few mouse clicks the duo believes that won’t work out well “when the logic gets more complex,” Diao said. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Amount, a fintech that reached unicorn status last year, has laid off 18% of its workforce. In a written statement, CEO Adam Hughes said: Due to the current macro-economic environment, we have decided to take some proactive adjustments to ensure Amount’s ability to thrive for years to come. customers.

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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. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

As part of the exclusive deal, Kwara is also set to acquire Kuscco’s subsidiary IRNET, a software company and provider for saccos, for an undisclosed amount. They are stacking their bets on us but we have been able to prove that we can do it as we continue to grow,” said Wandia, who co-founded the fintech with David Hwan (COO) in 2019.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Sarah writes that the social media giant is seeing a spike in one-star reviews, which include calling for its removal. In essence, Auto-GPT uses the versatility of OpenAI’s latest AI models to interact with software and services online, allowing it to “autonomously” perform tasks like X and Y. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. Having spent time in Israel and Europe, where fintech was more developed, Shalev says he “spent a lot of time looking at all the different options in this space” in the United States. Image Credits: NorthOne.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, a fintech company could use Forest Admin to review and validate documents and make sure it complies with KYC and AML regulation (‘know your customer’ and ‘anti-money laundering’) — Qonto is one of the startup’s biggest customers with 2,000 people using Forest Admin.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Alloy, which has built an identity operating system for banks and fintechs, announced Thursday that it has raised $100 million at a $1.35 Alloy was founded primarily to fix a “broken” onboarding process that has historically involved manual review when people applied for bank accounts online. billion valuation. Will they defraud us?”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 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. More fintechs are focusing on nonprofits. Fintech for good? Suddenly, many needed more space.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Some investors still scoff at the idea that their portfolio companies may be asked to review what it’s like to work with them; similarly, founders are surprised when stories, not Cultureamp surveys, are where honest feedback truly lives. The disconnect between Y Combinator Demo Day and due diligence. Fintech Brex confirms $12.3B

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

For them, accessing loans can be difficult, which is a problem fintechs try to solve. Annual percentage rates fall within 30% to 260% — the high APR, Hainy says, is due to higher default rates in Nigeria. There are over 1.7 billion underbanked people globally , the majority of which are from emerging markets. 1,500 ($3.30) to ?500,000

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Fintech Portabl announced the closing of a $2.5 Harlem Capital Partner Brandon Bryant said what initially drew the fund to Portabl was the idea that the verification of identity in fintech is still unsolved. Fintech app Portabl raises $2.5M million seed round today led by Harlem Capital Partners.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Unit21 , a startup that helps businesses monitor fraudulent activities with its no-code software, announced today it has raised $34 million in a Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global Management. The startup also plans to evolve its platform for generalized flag and review use cases beyond financial crimes and fraud.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

By modern, I refer to an engineering-driven methodology that fully capitalizes on automation and software engineering best practices. Every SQL query, script and data movement configuration must be treated as code, adhering to modern software development methodologies and following DevOps and SRE best practices.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

In addition to the equity raise, the San Francisco-based fintech said it has also closed on a new $100 million debt facility for lending to its loan customers, bringing its total raised to $375 million in equity and debt financing since its 2015 inception. My weekly fintech newsletter is launching soon!

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In the banking industry, for example, fintechs are constantly innovating and changing the rules of the game, he says. An organization might be using technology that is largely accepted as best in class in general or within a particular industry, and yet that technology is probably already outdated due to the looming disruptions,” he says.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

His practice focuses on technology transactions, including counseling, structuring and negotiating deals across industries with a particular focus on the fintech, healthcare and technology sectors. William Wilson is a partner in Goodwin ’s technology group and intellectual property practice. Ensure former employers cannot claim IP ownership.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Before starting Beam in October of 2022, Adam Eagle had spent five and a half years as a software engineer at the fintech company, building core APIs and infrastructure for Stripe billing, invoicing, commerce, and payments. Before he started writing code, Eagle said he was always “super interested” in architecture and housing.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2022

It’s a robust start to a new year that follows one which saw venture investments into fintech startups in Latin America skyrocket — to over $13.2 Notably, Fidelity Management & Research LLC led Creditas’s latest investment, which also included participation from other new investors Spanish fintech fund Actyus and Greentrail Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

QA Wolf , a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs in software, today exited stealth and announced a $20 million funding round led by Inspired Capital with participation from Notation Capital, Operator Partners and Thiel Capital and several angel investors (among them Peter Thiel). Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Early use cases include code generation and documentation, test case generation and test automation, as well as code optimization and refactoring, among others.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 6, 2025

national security review on UAE-based G42 ‘s minority investment in the AI chipmaker. In 2002, prior to founding SymphonyAI, Wadhwani founded Symphony Technology Group , a private equity firm investing in software and technology-enabled services companies. It filed to go public openly in September. That made sense.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

No further due diligence? As history often reminds us , due diligence matters from a human perspective — and vetting a founder beyond their ability to attract talent can save firms from headaches or legal woes. “Our approach? This is our data set, let’s see if we can put money into them,” he said. No problem.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Morton, who has also reviewed thousands of YC applications, shares his thoughts on when to submit an application, what to do if you miss the deadline and whether you’ll need to relocate if accepted. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Fintech startups based in Israel raised more than $1.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Stax , a startup that allows Africans to buy airtime, send and request money, and transfer funds between accounts via automated USSD codes, has raised a $2.2 Telcos and banks dominate this mass market, providing the tech infrastructure that facilitates these code-based transactions. million seed extension round. Enter Stax.

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