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Fintech Roundup: How going Fast and furious can ruin your startup

TechCrunch

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. The big events in the fintech world over the last week felt like a very different vibe from 2021, which was filled with mega rounds, celebrations and lofty valuations. Here’s to empathetic leadership as some startups potentially face tough times. Now on to funding rounds.

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

TechCrunch

As part of the investment, Tribal received $3 million from the Stellar Development Foundation , a nonprofit organization that supports the development and growth of the open-source Stellar blockchain network. . Tribal uses a proprietary AI-driven underwriting approval process to evaluate businesses and approve them for credit lines.

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Meet the 50 CISOs to Watch in 2024

Lacework

Recognizing the increasing challenges yet often underappreciated role of these professionals, we launched the 50 CISOs to Watch initiative last year to celebrate the CISOs demonstrating outstanding technical and leadership qualities. Dr. Anand Singh blends exceptional cybersecurity leadership with academic brilliance.

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Mural raised $5.6M to help brands deploy DAO treasuries

TechCrunch

For reference, DAOs are community-led groups with no central leadership. The company is rolling out a beta for its fintech-focused platform to help brands deploy DAO treasury funds ranging from $50 to $100 million in size, Alvarez-Fung shared. Decisions are made by group members voting on governance proposals.

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What has KOBO360 been up to in the last 2 years?

TechCrunch

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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Sapphire Ventures secures largest capital raise to date across two new funds

TechCrunch

It has 40 investment professionals investing in areas including enterprise SaaS, infrastructure software, fintech, healthcare IT and crypto-infrastructure. He expects more investments to go into software and business applications, with fintech and health IT also being “great opportunities,” and blockchain across all of those.

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Healthcare IT in Atlanta: ?ompanies and Jobs

Altexsoft

This is not a big surprise: The city boasts a rich fintech ecosystem and is recognized as a national leader in payment solutions, no matter the industry. Payspan maintains leadership in reimbursement automation and electronic payment processing. And that’s where digital tools could really come in handy.