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

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Founders : Before beU delivery, Hao Zheng, who leads the team as chief executive, was the founder and CEO of Yooul, a social networking app in China. Thus, its platform makes it “easy for these businesses to issue corporate expense cards (Visa for now) and software, mainly for sales and marketing teams, to track and control spending.

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Founders Fund backs Vest, a startup out to give Latin Americans a bridge to investing in the US stock market

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It plans to have both the active and passive products built with the same user interface so that investors “can use both strategies in the same place, rather than having the fragmented, multi-platform experience that is the norm today,” said Polhamus, who is the former CTO of Mexican fintech Credijusto. Image Credits: Vest.

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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. Interestingly, Kelman appears to be putting his own personal bets into real estate markets outside the U.S.

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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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Nigeria’s Indicina raises $3M to help businesses offer credit to their customers at scale

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Africa’s credit bureau systems are due a revamp to tackle these issues, but since it’s a hard ask, infrastructural platforms that provide credit underwriting processes are positioning themselves as options in the market. The fintech partners with credit bureaus and open finance platforms. Image Credits: Indicina.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Midwest VC boom, advice for CISOs, Facebook’s next chapter

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Given the high cost of care in the United States compared to other nations, pairing fintech with health tech is just good business. Fintech for affordability and reducing friction. Fintech’s growing role in the healthcare revolution. residential housing market became feverish as well. Congress passed a $1.9

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The half-billion-dollar profit swing that led to Better.com’s myriad layoffs

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TechCrunch in February reported that Sarah Pierce, who served as executive vice president of customer experience, sales and operations, and Emanuel Santa-Donato, who was senior vice president of capital markets and growth, were no longer with the digital mortgage company. The company’s $875.6 Last year Better.com’s revenue grew to some $1.23

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