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

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

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. More than one proptech company has been struggling as of late, as the housing market has had its share of ups and downs.

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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

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. The pitch: The NFT market has exploded and the communities surrounding them have flourished, co-founder Chris Tam said.

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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. . 193,000 won), securing a market capitalization of $21.2 billion via IPO in August, had a market cap of $23.9 Kakao Pay’s shares surged as high as $194.6

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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 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

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

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

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. The startup’s goal is to serve 1 billion people by 2030.

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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. We don’t ask them to approve a new solution, or something they don’t know.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

One recent survey of sales and marketing professionals found that only half of respondents said they were likely to attend an event in H1 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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

allowing people to send money from the European nation to Chipper Cash’s African markets. Though the margins for remittances are small, the market has grown exponentially for the better part of the past decade, except last year when total remittances stood at $42 billion, down from $48 billion in 2020, per the World Bank.

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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. When the idea is established, the venture studio finds an experienced operator they believe can achieve product-market fit, scale the product and lead the company.

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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. billion in April 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

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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. The need for insurance is only increasing.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Looking back, it appears that the feedback loop between falling public market prices and reduced startup activity first linked up in the software market. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Sure, they are directly linked, but perhaps not as closely as, say, traditional startups and the Nasdaq.

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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 The 17-year-old company plans to expand to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Quick thoughts : Off the back of DoorDash’s IPO, Y Combinator seems set on replicating that success in other markets, including Africa, where the likes of Glovo and Jumia Food are ramping up efforts to grab market share. What it says it does : Building an open-source webhooks infrastructure. Location : Lagos, Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Sustainability Stage: Tackles social and environmental solutions such as urban mobility, sustainable tech, green infrastructure, and new mobilities. Fintech Stage: Digs into the evolution of monetary exchanges across DeFi, challenger banks, blockchain, NFTs and web3. Sessions will include DeepMind and Benchmark.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

billion infrastructure bill that apply to digital assets, including a requirement for crypto exchanges to disclose their gains and provide the names and addresses of their customers. . million for its seed round in 2018, which is when Lerner noticed the crypto markets evolving in a significant way. CoinTracker last raised $1.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

This makes us a somewhat unique case in the ecosystem and among our fintech peers in general – few companies have managed to reconcile over 100% year-over-year growth with a positive bottom line,” he told TechCrunch, describing Mercado Bitcoin as “the crown j ewel” of 2TM Group.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

To get a clearer sense of where the market is, we reached out to several active investors: Lior Messika, founder and managing partner, Eden Block. “VCs tout our industry as frontier technology investors, but many of us are using the same infrastructure tools we have used for the past 20+ years.”

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Openxcell

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The fintech industry is the latest addition to the group of industries that seem to be realizing the transformative potential of Blockchain. Blockchain technology is known for the host of benefits that it brings to the table such as redesigned user experience, software delivery workflows, and reducing risks in business.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. I’m not going to lie — upon learning this, my fintech-loving ears perked up. And fintech represented nearly a quarter of the firm’s deals. More than a quarter (28%) of a16z’s fintech investments in 2022 went to the payments category.

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Lacework

JANUARY 17, 2024

LinkedIn Bill Bowman Emburse Bill Bowman is a pivotal figure in global FinTech cybersecurity. LinkedIn Jonny Herd Paddle Jonny combines his extensive background in operations and solution engineering and with his broad security expertise to transform, change, and future-proof large-scale cloud infrastructures and SaaS business operations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Most still rely on solutions built on top of bank transfers or credit cards to complete cross-border payments, which typically take 2-5 days to complete and represent a $130 trillion global market. . Using stablecoins to pay invoices also reduces transaction fees for businesses by removing third-party intermediaries, according to Paysail.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Before fintechs became the standouts of the African tech ecosystem, it was startups in the online logistics and transport space in Africa linking on-demand apps to move people and goods around the continent that was all the rave. For the online logistics space, it’s not difficult to see why investors were quite curious about the market.

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Xicom

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Though initially, pandemic put 5G network deployments work on hold this year, these efforts have resumed, and more significant markets like China are already on the target to meet their deployment goals in 2020. Tesla, the fore-runner in terms of welcoming this to the market, but this is not something Elon Musk is trying to solve.

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