TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

While banks use rigorous credit policies and don’t care much about small businesses, particularly those without any local credit history or track record, informal lenders act as loan sharks to the detriment of these businesses. “The Africa is home to some of the highest mobile money penetration and has decent bank account usage.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

We needed credit and proceeded to get an overdraft from a long-term partner bank where we had transacted more than $100,000. But the bank wanted us to deposit 100% collateral in cash before they could give the overdraft,” the two-time YC founder told TechCrunch in a June interview. “I

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often struggle to deal with several siloed functions, such as company secretary, bookkeeping, banking, tax, payroll, employment services, insurance and more. Sleek will add its stack to the existing Ltd Companies offering to build an operating system for U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2022

In the mix were anticipated improvements to its various operating systems and computers — and plans to expand its fintech footprint. ” “Banks, lenders and merchants need not view Apple Pay Later as a threat but rather as an opportunity to carve out their own niche in what has become the payments standard.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Within the last 18 months, the four-year-old startup worked on analyzing fraud data from global money networks, verification of mobile money financial statements and blocklist data from various banks and fintechs within the last 18 months. Before the acquisition, Smile Identity had just crossed over 60 million verifications.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2024

These include: lack of knowledge about legacy components and the overall architecture; no regular process for assessing the impact of production load on all components of the system; missing component-level load testing; absence of production-like infrastructure to simulate the behavior of the whole system under the production load.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

They’ve since built an operating system aimed at giving “ everyday investors access to the types of investment products and experiences that they’ve historically been locked out of.” All clients have direct access to its investment team and investor relations via Titan’s mobile operating system.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The contribution of these enterprises is pivotal to the country’s economy yet they remain underserved by traditional banking institutions making it hard for them to access the financing needed to grow. We will factor in their b2b transactions, cash flow, sales, liabilities and expenses because all this information is in the app.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Root’s first product was programmable bank accounts and cards but it has moved on to providing insurance APIs which is now its core offering. . For instance, telcos, retailers and banks. Hopley launched Root in 2016 to cater to this need. Jonathan Stewart joined as a co-founder leading sales and partnerships in 2018.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In the past 18 months, several startups serving medium and small businesses with credit, bookkeeping tools and an operating system to manage their operations have increased immensely. The startup partners with financial institutions (banks and fintechs) to lend to businesses that need loans.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

address and bank account, access to U.S. Formation is our wedge to build the operating system for creators globally: from formation to financial to legal stack, by providing technical, educational and personal support every step of the way.”. payments, a free tax consultation, U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Miller says that business was briefly impacted by the Silicon Valley Bank collapse — Halcyon was a corporate credit card and loan customer with the bank — but that Halcyon has since “diversified its banking relationships” to better manage risk.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

With the informal nature of their jobs and a nonexisting credit profile, considering the majority don’t own a bank account, it’s difficult for them to access loans. How do you derisk a truck driver to a bank or financial institution? “How How do you derisk a truck driver to a bank or financial institution?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

“Attackers have adapted and they have shifted abuse to browser mechanisms, versus the old days of exploits or attacks on people’s operating systems,” he said. A large percentage of users with updated operating systems” — which internconnect to the internet — “were using antivirus.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As a product lead at Google, he was in charge of ChromeOS, the company’s desktop operating system. We realized that once you get to the $10 million to $15 million range, you can get the private bank to engage with you, and they will help you. Last year, he left Google with scores of colleagues to start a new venture.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

The startup claims that by using its proprietary banking-as-a-service infrastructure, any company can spin up their finance function “in minutes” and get access to 30 days of credit on a corporate card (with 4% cash back), non card payment rails, as well as cross-border payments. Image Credits: Jeeves.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Nicolás Giménez , the co-founder of Argentina-based startup Fidu , has convinced over 1,000 schools across the Latin America region to place their operations in the hands of a scrappy edtech startup. Fidu’s revenue-financing products are currently being piloted in Mexico City and Bogota. The challenge is that adoption takes time.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Define – Define is a legal technology company that optimizes the contract drafting and reviewing process for lawyers, serving the world’s largest banks and consulting companies. HomeHero – HomeHero is an operating system for the house, making running a home simple and easy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Fund IV has already backed Vietnamese digital bank Timo; Singapore back office operating system Sleek; Indian D2C consumer electronics brand Atomberg; Web3.0-based based social-crypo-community platform for women Eveworld; and inFeedo, an employee retention SaaS platform. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

After Send, Thepeer partnered with Flutterwave — the unicorn whose API gateways are the most extensive in Africa for mobile wallets and bank accounts — and built on its platform to gain more reach. As a user of Nguvu Health, there are different methods to fund a wallet, such as cards and bank transfers; Thepeer is another option.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

billion, had about $780 million to $800 million in the bank as of three months ago (per Agarwal’s public comment at a recent conference) and raised $660 million in debt in July. Oyo, which recently raised about $5 million in a strategic investment from Microsoft , operates in nearly three dozen countries.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

million in a Series C funding round co-led by Closed Loop Partners’ Leadership Fund and Piper Sandler Merchant Banking with participation from MissionOG, Harbert Growth, Grotech Ventures, Lavrock Ventures and Point Field Partners.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Payments will act as the company’s flywheel to acquire a merchant base and build out a financial operating system, founder and CEO Omar Kassim told TechCrunch. In Saudi Arabia, for instance, only 3% of more than 1 million registered businesses have access to bank credit. The company has raised $3.4

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

It is building what it describes as an “operating system” for MSMEs and currently claims more than 6.5 He added, “We have already run successful lending experiments with partners in fintech and banks and are on track to monetize our merchants backed by our deep payments, accounting and other data that we collect.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Created by developer who needed to test apps at scale, TestGrid is an on-demand platform that lets users run tests on websites and apps across browsers, operating systems.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Weavit’s co-founder, Emmanuel Lefort , came up with the idea for the note-taking app in his past life working at a bank. The bank was tasked with selling financial products to its clients, but the sales staff wasn’t fully able to take advantage of latent information that resided within people’s personal networks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The startup says it offers industry-based invoicing and bookkeeping with integrated banking and payments. BusinessOnBot is banking on the popularity of WhatsApp in India, where the Facebook-owned app has amassed over 450 million monthly active users. Banks and other credit card companies are still not addressing this opportunity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

So when we say we’re building the operating system for food supply, this is what we mean,” said Kara, who founded the company with Olumide Fayankin , Gatumi Aliyu and Wale Oyepeju. Kara says the company will use the funding to expand into other cities and countries before the end of Q1 next year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

On any device and operating system, softPOS is easy to implement, and requires no certifications. In M&A activity, investment banking firm UBS picked up financial robot-advisor Wealthfront for $1.4 In this vision, merchants own their own data. Expensive, dedicated devices become obsolete. billion in an all-cash deal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Over time, SoftBank has seen a few exits in the region, including Itaú, Brazil’s largest private bank, acquiring 35% of Avenue; Paystand, a U.S.-focused million in seed funding from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and NFX toward its effort to become “the operating system for every venture-backed company in LatAm.”

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Lacework

MARCH 29, 2024

Regulation Reporting timelines Who is impacted Effective date CISA Within 72 hours of detecting a significant cyberattack Within 24 hours of making a ransom payment Companies that own or operate systems classified as critical infrastructure by the US government.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The funding has been led by Greycroft Partners and SignalFire, with additional participation from Primary Venture Partners, Contour Venture Partners, Red Sea Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank. The virtual concert industry didn’t have as big of a lockdown moment as some hoped for. Spotify experimented with virtual events.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

First, she wrote about Cross River Bank, which secured a giant round of $620 million that put its valuation at over $3 billion. Next, we go over to Chrome OS, which is launching a new version of its operating system — the 100th, to be exact. . – Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While Vendease applies data to how it disburses working capital via its BNPL offering, there’s been a change of strategy from what it operated last year: Instead of using its books, the company now partners with banks and financial institutions to provide financing through its platform. Vendease founders. Image Credits: Vendease.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Its end-to-end service includes the interview platform, a bank of calibrated questions across 20+ essential software engineering skills, and an assessment after the fact. A group of experienced engineers review and rate the interviews. And this evaluation is handled anonymously, with the aim of taking the bias out of the process.

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CTOvision

APRIL 17, 2014

We knew this day would come – when Windows XP, the twelve-year-old operating system for Windows, stops receiving technical support from Microsoft. However for many banks, simultaneously upgrading thousands of ATMs is not a viable decision, and several are making special deals with Microsoft to extend their coverage.

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