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So much 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. The deal was just one of many M&A deals in the fintech space that occurred last week. Weekly News.

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QA Wolf exits stealth with an end-to-end service for software testing

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QA Wolf , a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs in software, today exited stealth and announced a $20 million funding round led by Inspired Capital with participation from Notation Capital, Operator Partners and Thiel Capital and several angel investors (among them Peter Thiel). Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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What goes up must come down

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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. Another example of fintech for good. But I digress. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Here’s how.

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Extra Crunch roundup: EU insurtech, 30 years of ‘Crossing the Chasm,’ embedded finance’s endgame

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According to Brittain, EU startups in this sector are “still at the very early stages of innovation,” having only shown “a fraction of what’s possible” in a market that is “as large as banking.” Innovaccer founder and CEO Abhinav Shashank and CTO Mike Sutten write in a guest column that the U.S. How to start a company in 4 days.

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Intelligenza artificiale e gen AI: i quattro elementi per passare al “next level”

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L’arrivo dell’IA generativa, poi, è una promessa senza precedenti: ChatGPT ha raggiunto il traguardo di 100 milioni di utenti in appena due mesi (analisi di Ubs su dati di Similarweb; il World Wide Web, negli Anni ’90, ha impiegato sette anni). Per i CIO, tuttavia, implementare l’IA non è così immediato.

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a16z, NFX back Latitud’s effort to become ‘the operating system for every venture-backed company in LatAm’

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When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more than $100 million in capital gains taxes due to incorporation errors made early on. Dozens of companies are using that software today, and Latitud’s goal is to make it the system of record for every VC-backed company in LatAm.

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Outsourcing Version 1: Advice from a CTO

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No offense to software contractors, but given the choice I usually prefer to build software with hired employees. On the other hand, I’ve been building software for over 30 years and managing software developers for 25. These are advantages whether you’re managing your first software project or your tenth.