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Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

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Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. This will now be offered to 22 fintech companies across Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru.

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Fintech app Portabl raises $2.5M to help consumers securely store financial data

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Fintech Portabl announced the closing of a $2.5 Harlem Capital Partner Brandon Bryant said what initially drew the fund to Portabl was the idea that the verification of identity in fintech is still unsolved. Fintech app Portabl raises $2.5M million seed round today led by Harlem Capital Partners.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS burn multiples, 8 fintech VCs spill the tea, all my apes gone

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Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” In classic TC+ “how to” style, Raissi, a former software engineer, explains the process his team used to accelerate their Series B, the tactics they used to manage investors and how the strategy led to a $40 million round.

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Meet the newest crypto builders from web3 accelerator Alliance DAO’s demo day

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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. platforms that exist today for communication, like Twitter or Discord, “don’t work” due to unrelated content and spam, according to Tam.

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Raise, a startup building Africa’s Carta, gets backing from 500 Startups

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In 2019, Marvin Coleby, Tina Nyamache and Eugene Mutai set out to create a blockchain solution that would make it easier for people to buy and sell shares in pre-IPO companies in Africa. It’s a similar play to what Carta, a $3 billion company offering cap table software, does for U.S.

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How To Build A Fintech App In 2022

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Fintech applications prevail in the financial sphere, but the process of their development doesn’t look easy at the first glance. So, how to build a fintech app to deliver the best quality to end-users and beat the competition? Before asking “How to build a fintech app,” it’s worth knowing why one should do it.

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Kenya’s fintech Kwara lands $4 Million in seed round from Breega, SoftBank to build neobank for credit unions

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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. last year to reach $5.6

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