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 6, 2022

Financial infrastructure startup Fidel API has raised $65 million in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. With this infrastructure, developers are able to create highly contextualized and event-driven user experiences at the point of purchase,” it claims. The company did not disclose its valuation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This is where fintech can step in. As more and more retailers make this move, partnering and collaborating with fintechs can help them build, scale and secure their financial offerings. Building infrastructure and providing top-notch cybersecurity is at the core of what we do, not the sideshow.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Meet Tatum , a blockchain infrastructure startup that wants to make it much easier to develop your own blockchain-based product. While blockchain development was quite easy at first, it quickly became much more complicated as new blockchains emerged. There are now dozens of different blockchains.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Exactly six months after raising $80 million at a $505 million valuation, blockchain and Web3 development SaaS startup Alchemy has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round that values the company at $3.5 For one, it represents one of a16z’s largest Web3/blockchain investments to date. In June, the firm revealed its $2.2

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The Scotts Valley, California-based company is using cloud technology and the Ethereum blockchain as the engine for its Paystand Bank Network that enables business-to-business payments with zero fees. The company said it will use the new funding to continue to grow the business by investing in open infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Nikhil Sachdev is a managing director at Insight Partners, where he focuses on investments in high-growth software, fintech and crypto companies. Apoorva Goyal is a vice president at Insight Partners, where he focuses on investments in high-growth fintech, internet and software companies. Apoorva Goyal. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Welcome to my new weekly fintech focused column. It felt like there was wayyyy too much fintech news this past week than there normally is – and there’s always tons – so I’ll just cover the highlights here. blockchain infrastructure startup Alchemy had closed on a $200 million Series C extension that valued the company at $10.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Vadym Synegin is a Ukrainian impact entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor in fintech and crypto projects with more than 15 years’ experience as an entrepreneur in Europe and the UAE. Ukrainians have often pioneered market-leading companies and built products that positively impact society, especially in the fintech sector.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

According to a statement, the company seeks to “disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses and developers with the tools to access credit” via blockchain technology. The core principle for blockchain centers on the ownership of assets, including money and financial data.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These founders represent the next iteration of products and possibilities across the blockchain, cryptocurrency, DeFi, NFT and web3 ecosystem. The app auto-generates exciting visual assets with an NFT’s blockchain data, helping the web3 community create posts that are more engaging, credible and informative.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Blockset , the blockchain infrastructure platform for enterprises by BRD , announced early access to its Wallet-as-a-Service today. For example, if you’re running an ETF, like a Bitcoin ETF, or if you’re offering customers buying and selling, you need a way to store the crypto, and you need a way to access the blockchain.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

About three-fourths of the teams are focusing on NFTs, infrastructure or decentralized finance (DeFi), while the majority of the teams are building on layer-1 blockchains Ethereum, Polygon and Solana. channels like Twitter or Discord onto blockchains. While 24 teams were admitted into the cohort, only 16 teams graduated.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

On the Chain Reaction podcast this week, Lux Capital’s newest investor, Grace Isford, joined us to talk about the opaque but crucial world of web3 infrastructure. Before joining Lux this February, Isford was an investor at Canvas Ventures focused on enterprise software and fintech.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Shares in Kakao Pay, the fintech unit of South Korea’s largest messaging app operator Kakao Corp, closed up 114% in its market debut on Wednesday. . Southeast Asia and Middle East-based companies have been reaching out to the fintech company to seek strategic partnerships, Ryu mentioned. Kakao Pay’s shares surged as high as $194.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Bogota-based payments infrastructure startup Minka has secured $24 million in a funding round co-led by Tiger Global Management and Kaszek. The network was designed to connect separate legacy systems through blockchain concepts and APIs “to simplify the movement of complex money flows.”. “The Image Credits: Minka.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Chainalysis , a blockchain analysis company, announced Friday it has closed on $100 million in Series D financing, doubling its valuation to over $2 billion. Among its 400 customers are fintechs such as Square, financial institutions like Barclays and cryptocurrency businesses like Gemini, Bitstamp and BitPay.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Twig , a London-based fintech targeting Gen Z and younger Millennial consumers with an e-money account that gives them instant cash-outs on fashion and electronics they want to sell, has closed a $35 million Series A round of funding. Now fintech startups compete to offer the most appealing feature mix to net a target youth demographic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

From lithium battery chemical recycling to smart media, blockchain infrastructure to student-centric educational software, and Sub-Saharan African fintech to cultured-meat production, this batch of companies is sure to wow the investors and the audience. With just over a 1.5% TC aims to pick companies from a range of industries.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

For fintechs to thrive in such a way that they remain meaningful to economies, a synergy between them and regulatory bodies is inevitable. If we can modernize financial infrastructure, central banking is where we can probably have the most impact.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Businesses of this nature require a lot of upfront investment and buildout of infrastructure and often don’t break even for several years,” said John Dinsdale, chief analyst at Synergy Research. Fintech outperformed the market in 2021, and it’s set to do even better. But VCs don’t seem to mind. SPACs had a great run.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Via FTX, he has invested in many businesses, including blockchain startups Sky Mavis and Circle and brokerage trading company DriveWealth (Chipper Cash recently partnered with DriveWealth to offer U.S. It fundamentally allows developers to leverage the company’s infrastructure to collect and disburse payments into Chipper wallets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Featuring topics like green infrastructure, new mobilities, sustainable tech, urban mobility The Fintech Stage: Dive into the evolution of monetary exchanges and follow the technology that is powering new ways of capturing and distributing value and wealth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

On the other hand, Omolara, its operating partner, has worked as country manager of Jumia’s fintech arm in Nigeria and was a senior program manager at Facebook. After exiting Jobberman, Awoyemi, the firm’s managing partner, was a senior technical product manager at Indeed.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The London-based company describes itself as “a crypto infrastructure company” that aims to make blockchain useful for businesses via its “digital asset payment gateway.” Mercuryo , a startup that has built a cross-border payments network, has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round of funding.

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OTS Solutions

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Fintech Industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution, has revolutionized the fintech industry, transforming it in numerous ways. The adoption of blockchain technology has facilitated faster and more secure transactions, eliminating intermediaries and reducing transaction costs. Consequently, Industry 4.0 Overall, Industry 4.0

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Propel is no stranger to investing in fintech, having backed the likes of Coinbase, DocuSign, Guideline and Hippo. Mort acknowledges that much of the innovation in fintech has historically focused on the banking industry while the insurance industry has been slower to innovate.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 22, 2024

tied) Figure Markets , $60M, fintech: San Francisco-based Figure Markets, a platform where investors can trade a wide range of blockchain-native assets, raised a more than $60 million Series A led by Jump Crypto , Pantera Capital and Lightspeed Faction. Founded in 2016, BigID has raised $320 million, per the company.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 15, 2024

Web3 Berachain , an Ethereum-compatible blockchain for financial applications, raised $69 million by selling digital tokens led by BH Digital and Framework Ventures. The bear-themed blockchain company based in the Cayman Islands was valued at $1.5 AI Open-source generative AI company Together AI provides infrastructure to train models.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 14, 2024

Web3 Blockchain platform Berachain , a 2-year-old company based in the Cayman Islands, raised a $100 million Series B. The company is a layer 1 blockchain that can process Ethereum transactions faster. The 4-year-old company based in Los Angeles was valued at $1.2

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

According to McKinsey , nine out of ten insurance companies identified legacy software and infrastructure as barriers for digitalization. However, the forefront of innovations are insurtech startups and technology consulting companies which employ the power of AI, Blockchain, and IoT technologies. Self-Governance.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

” The pain of the current downturn set in more slowly in the crypto market , perhaps because the blockchain domain is something of a parallel economy to the one we interact with every day. Sure, they are directly linked, but perhaps not as closely as, say, traditional startups and the Nasdaq.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

What it says it does : Building an open-source webhooks infrastructure. Promises include : The startup claims its “open source cloud-native” webhook services is “secured, reliable, and scalable for customers’ webhooks infrastructure. Location : Lagos, Nigeria. And Convoy is the first to fill in that gap.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We like a startup with a fun name : Cryptocurrency is a hot market in Africa, and Tage writes about one blockchain payments startup, called Bitmama, that raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to show what it can do in new markets. Startups and VC. million to make it all paperless, Mike reports.

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