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Fintech outperformed the market in 2021, and it’s set to do even better

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The former commercial chief (Product, Sales and Marketing) at PayPal, he now leads fintech investing at Matrix Partners, where he also invests in consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. Fintech continued to outperform the market by 3x. More posts by this contributor.

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5 emerging use cases for productivity infrastructure in 2021

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Gleb Polyakov is co-founder and CEO of Nylas , which provides productivity infrastructure solutions for modern software. As demand continues to grow, companies are taking advantage of the benefits productivity infrastructure brings to their organization both internally and externally, especially as many determine the future of their work.

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Wonder Brands’ pivot to acquiring e-commerce infrastructure pays off

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We profiled the company in 2021, about seven months after the company first launched to acquire digital brands in the MercadoLibre and Amazon ecosystem. In 2021, the e-commerce roll-up, or aggregator, scene was in full force. The company will also hire additional employees, develop new distribution channels and invest in go-to-market.

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Southeast Asian payments infrastructure unicorn Xendit banks $300M

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Xendit , a payments infrastructure platform for Southeast Asia, has raised $300 million in fresh funding. The company’s new valuation wasn’t disclosed, but it hit unicorn status in its last round of funding in September 2021. Part of the funding will be used to expand into new markets, like Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam.

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Sensat raises $20.5M to build digital twins for infrastructure companies

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Sensat , a platform that helps physical infrastructure companies map and visualize all their data, has raised $20.5 Ultimately, it’s all about helping companies better plan and manage major infrastructure projects, assess risk, predict outcomes and optimize efficiency before building work even begins. Infrastructure as a service.

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Is the RPA market in trouble?

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PitchBook notes that shares of UiPath — Automation Anywhere’s main rival, which went public in April 2021 — plummeted 71% this year. Gartner predicts that while the RPA market will reach $2.9 billion by the beginning of 2023, the growth rate will end substantially lower than it was in 2021, when the segment expanded by 30.9%

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2021

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When we penned the intro for this piece last year , little did we know that — in many ways — we’d still be deep in it by the time 2021’s feature rolled around. 2021 also largely lacked the kind of blockbuster crashes we saw last year, courtesy of names like Quibi and Essential. Abundant Robotics (2016-2021).