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Fintech startup Vise brings on Andrew Fong (formerly Dropbox) as CTO

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Vise , a fintech firm that focuses on helping financial advisors rather than automating them out of existence, has today announced that it is bringing on Andrew Fong as its chief technology officer. Trillions are at stake in the retirement wars, and Vise nets $14.5M from Sequoia to manage it.

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

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Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. Robert Nyangate is the company’s CTO. Now, its insurance APIs are suited for businesses in other sectors, including fintech, e-commerce and logistics. Website : www.tryduplo.com.

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Super.com targets its $85M equity, debt raise into new savings super app

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However, Fazal said his company is modeling its super app after WeChat by breaking into verticals like travel and fintech. The company grew double digits over the past year and is on track to do well over $1 billion in gross merchandise volume and over $100 million in net revenue in 2023.

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Farther, a wealth tech firm, banks $15M Series A as valuation hits $50M

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The wealth technology company was co-founded in 2019 by Taylor Matthews and Brad Genser, who say Farther is “a new kind of financial institution” catering to high-net-worth professionals building generational wealth but want the freedom of both an automated system and a professional.

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What goes up must come down

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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. Another example of fintech for good. But I digress. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Here’s how.

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Money Minx aims to build a ‘Personal Finance’ OS for the everyday investor

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We built Money Minx to help people cover all their bases, better understand their personal balance sheet and grow their net worth,” Hussein said. “No We built this because we needed it as ‘do it yourself investors,’ said Hussein, who previously started crowdfunding site appsplit and works as a CTO at a San Diego-based fintech company. “I

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Zeal banks $13M to offer employers a ‘build your own’ payroll product infrastructure

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Embedded fintech company Zeal secured $13 million in Series A funding to continue developing its platform for building individualized payroll products. The Bay Area company’s origin was as Puzzl, a payment processing startup for the gig economy, founded in 2018 by Shenoy and CTO Pranab Krishnan. You can lose trust in your employer.

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