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Citi backs Crowdz, a Pipe competitor that just raised $10M for its blockchain-powered invoice financing marketplace

TechCrunch

In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5 The company’s latest financing is part of an ongoing $200 million investment from Citi into technology creating social impact, and was led by its Spread Products Investment Technologies (SPRINT) team, the strategic investing arm of the bank’s Global Spread Products division.

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Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets

TechCrunch

Bademosi was the Director of Binance Labs in Africa, overseeing the incubation and development of blockchain projects when he decided to start Bundle as CEO in 2019. Bademosi thinks this is because crypto trading alone cannot drive mass adoption of blockchain and crypto native applications.

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The Biggest Digital Transformation Must-Haves for 2019

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Blockchain technology. Blockchain started as a way to track cryptocurrency trade on the deep web. Since then, blockchain has been repurposed into a business-centric technology. Recent data shows that 90% of banks across North America and Europe continue to experiment with blockchain implementation.

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3 ways to beat the competition and stay ahead in the Media and Entertainment industry

Trigent

The media and entertainment sector saw quite a few changes with respect to content development, aggregation, and delivery as major players in the business adopted new strategies and agile approaches to leverage the changing consumer demands. hours of viewing time spent on OTT video content as compared to the global average of 6.8

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Radical Ethereum entrepreneurs are redefining what ‘rape kit’ means

TechCrunch

Vaidya said Leda Health’s Ethereum-powered mobile app gives survivors the choice to document their own accounts, using blockchain technology for time-stamping evidence collected in the kit, which puts power back in survivors’ hands. . Back in 2019, our office was broken into,” Vaidya said. We’re not in the business of proving consent.

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Chipper Cash gets $2B valuation with $150M extension round led by FTX

TechCrunch

Chipper Cash has also been busy tapping into the world of social payments. The social media company integrated with some payments platforms to make it accessible in different regions. . — the CEO says that users in Uganda, South Africa and Kenya will be the first to get access next year. stocks to Ugandans).

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Daily Crunch: Elon Musk unveils three-pronged strategy to fund his $43B Twitter purchase

TechCrunch

It outlines Musk’s proposal to purchase all outstanding shares of the social media giant and where he is getting the money to do it. Now we know what William Hockey has been doing : The Plaid co-founder stepped down in 2019 and founded a bank, Column. Today, Alex reads a new SEC filing so you don’t have to.

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