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Daily Crunch: New Starbucks Odyssey loyalty program ‘happens to be built on blockchain and web3’

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2001, a Starbucks Odyssey : In August, Starbucks got things percolating with plans for a blockchain-based loyalty program and NFT community. Fraud allegations get founders fired : Founders of well-funded Egyptian B2B startup Capiter are fired following fraud allegations, reports Tage. The TechCrunch Top 3. Big Tech Inc.

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Bielefeld survey highlights an emerging B2B, crypto, deep tech ecosystem

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Our survey respondents pointed out that the region is strong in sectors such as B2B because of the many old-school B2B companies in the manufacturing area. We joined the first accelerator and since then 24 startups have been founded and come through its programs. B2B, deep tech technologies. What are you most excited by?

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Glow Labs raises seed round to help NFT creators reward their loyal customers

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The NFT market was worth $41 billion at the end of last year — nearly as large as the conventional art market by some estimates — and it’s expected to nearly double in size by the end of 2022, according to a report released this week by blockchain analytics firm Nansen.

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

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Payson Johnston and Steven Lee started Crowdz in 2014 after working as B2B supply-chain senior managers for global processes at Cisco. It follows Crowdz’ recent partnership with Meta to power the social media giant’s SME financing program. . In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5

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Tribal Credit, which provides credit cards to startups in emerging markets, raises $34.3M

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The B2B payments space has seen an explosion in demand, and investor interest, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as businesses try to figure out how to pay each other digitally. Altman brothers lead B2B payment startup Routable’s $30M Series B. All B2B startups are in the payments business.

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Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

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Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

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Participants in its program would need to have a high school certificate and be computer literate, the company specified on its website. . When students apply to the program, they are provided with a home study kit in preparation for an assessment test. In AltSchool’s pipeline are courses on product, blockchain and data.