TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Embedded fintech company Zeal secured $13 million in Series A funding to continue developing its platform for building individualized payroll products. The Bay Area company’s origin was as Puzzl, a payment processing startup for the gig economy, founded in 2018 by Shenoy and CTO Pranab Krishnan. You can lose trust in your employer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The financing is yet another example of the rapid succession of funding rounds in the blockchain infrastructure space – and fintech space in general. We started Tenderly as four engineers hyperfocusing on a particular technology, which was blockchain and ethereum,” said Bencic. . My weekly fintech newsletter is launching soon!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Moreover, only 11% of finance executives say their organization has modernized systems to the point where they can easily incorporate new digital technologies, according to Deloitte. Amount recently raised $99 million at an over $1 billion valuation for its suite aimed at helping banks better compete with fintech companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Curacel , the YC-backed startup that is developing insurance infrastructure for the African market, has launched a new interface that allows digital businesses like those in retail, fintech, e-commerce and logistics to add insurance to their core products. Curacel is building insurance infrastructure for emerging markets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. Robert Nyangate is the company’s CTO. What it says it does : Building an open-source webhooks infrastructure. Location : Lagos, Nigeria. And Convoy is the first to fill in that gap.

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CIO

JUNE 16, 2023

It has also increased top-line revenue by enabling MoneyGram to execute far more transactions in the 200 nations it serves — exceeding the volume of business its infrastructure could handle in the past, says CTO Joe Vaughan. “We We were able to ramp up on the technology side.” The answer was the elasticity of the cloud.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

As with most technologies, Africa is playing catch up in this food-tech segment. said the CTO in a statement. Orda is somewhat replicating the business model of companies like Toast that have noticed massive growth after launching fintech technology solutions. Last year, 80% of the U.S. Last year, 80% of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

As the region continues to experience rapid growth in mobile usage and the corresponding growing young population, these fintechs think this is the right time to provide financial services to every market category, from the banked to the unbanked. The news comes almost two years since the fintech raised a seed round of $2 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week, we’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 our job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. On Friday, PitchBook’s Q1 2023 B2B fintech investment report showed that investment into enterprise fintech was $11.8

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Nigerian households and businesses have little or no access to affordable and reliable solar technology, which reduces their reliance on grid-based power that suffers from insufficient generation capacity and fails to serve most of Nigeria’s 200 million people who live in rural areas. Think about it. The SunFi team.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It brings the fintech startup’s total funding to date to ~€3 million. Today’s card payment infrastructure based on 30 to 40-year-old technology is still in use across the global payment landscape. This legacy infrastructure is costing everyone time and money: consumers, merchants, payment-service-providers and banks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

CRE Ventures led that round , but this time, the company, which has offices in Cape Town and New York, brought in a blue-chip group of investors spanning gaming, media and fintech. The firm is known for its investment in the video gaming industry’s infrastructure, technology, tools and platforms.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Telda was launched last month by CEO Ahmed Sabbah and CTO Youssef Sholqamy. Before Telda, Sabbah was the co-founder and CTO of Egypt’s ride-hailing company Swvl , and Sholqamy, a former senior engineer in Uber’s infrastructure team. Fintech darling Nubank raises blockbuster $400M Series G at $25B valuation.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2023

Spotting promising talent requires keeping a close pulse on both the enterprise and its people, says Carter Busse, CIO at business automation technology provider Workato. Schwarz points to generative AI as a technology that’s suddenly leaped into the IT spotlight.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

“As software developers ourselves — working in health tech and fintech, where even minor bugs could have an outsized impact on people’s lives — we know firsthand how critical robust end-to-end testing is for all software businesses,” Perl said. ” QA Wolf promises a lot.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

It has raised $90 million, a Series B round that values the Miami-based startup at $700 million, funding that it will use to build out its infrastructure (going from 24,000 customers to 150,000 is no small feat); to add in new products, specifically around lending; and to acquire more customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

In 2019, Membere-Otaji finally launched the company with CTO Tobi Amusan after securing a $100,000 pre-seed investment from Oui Capital , a pan-African VC firm. Ghana’s Jetstream lands $3M to build the digital infrastructure for Africa’s trade corridors. The company was called MVXchange at first.

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Lacework

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Bill Dougherty, CISO, Omada Health As Bill has extensively experimented with different AI technologies, he’s noticed a pattern from generative AI tools like ChatGPT — it sometimes confidently asserts incorrect data and information (and sounds pretty convincing, too). But it scares me because it has tons of risk. This is the future for us.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. Fintech M&A hasn’t been as robust as one might expect in recent months. So when Goldman Sachs announced this week it was buying NextCapital – a fintech company that provides automated advice to corporate retirement plan participants – my ears perked up. Will Holland resign?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

In 2019, William Hockey, the cofounder of fintech business Plaid, announced that he would step down from his position as Plaid’s chief technology officer and president. “We are both the bank and the technology provider.” billion, builds out its global finance network.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Fintech reporter Ryan Lawler interviewed Lin, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi, Credit Karma’s chief people officer Colleen McCreary and other executives to learn about how they weathered COVID-19 and divestment while simultaneously crafting a new management structure. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The startup has been doing so well that it hasn’t even touched the $80 million it raised in its Series B, according to Alchemy CTO and co-founder Joe Lau. Its developer tool aims to remove the complexity and costs of building infrastructure while improving applications through “necessary” developer tools.

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GreenBar

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

But the skills needed to ace a corporate website are far different from those needed to build, say, a FinTech (financial technology) service. Here’s how I break it down, again keeping it high level: Looks Good vs Works Good These are not mutually exclusive. This includes source code and other digital assets.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Venture investment in 2023 into financial services and fintech, which just a few years ago was the top sector for startup funding globally , totaled $43 billion, its lowest level in six years, according to Crunchbase data. Early-stage investment in fintech and financial services in 2023 was $12.4 billion — the lowest since 2016.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

But long before she worked in the technology industry, Lin was the daughter of the owner of a trade contracting business. In general, Lin — who got a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University — admits that she “loves building fintech infrastructure at scale.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Welcome back to The Interchange, the weekly TechCrunch series that looks at the latest — and what’s ahead — in the global fintech industry. It’s an incredible time to be a financial technology journalist. Ali Heron, Petal CTO. Do you want The Interchange in your inbox every Sunday? Sign up here: techcrunch.com/newsletters.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2022

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. Last week, TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers gave us a glimpse into Plaid co-founder’s William Hockey’s latest venture : the platform for what he believes is the first bank of its kind: a “financial infrastructure” bank. We are both the bank and the technology provider.”. But what can I say?

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Mobilunity

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Any successful business requires the use of cutting-edge technological solutions. Technology is employed in every aspect of business: from marketing and brand promotion to external and internal business processes management. Companies use this method to implement business strategies through advanced technology. Contact us.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

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 Hello, and welcome back. Rebrands are not uncommon in the startup world, and the fintech space is no exception.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Finantier was founded earlier this year by Diego Rojas, Keng Low and Edwin Kusuma, all of whom have experience building products for fintech companies, with the mission of enabling open finance in emerging markets. Building Southeast Asia’s financial infrastructure. ” 4 takeaways from fintech VC in Q3 2020.

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OpenCredo

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I’ve spent a lot of time working in the Financial Services and FinTech spaces and there is often a strong feeling that the challenges in this sector are unique and we are somehow special. The last talk that I recommend watching was delivered by the CTO of Nationwide Aubrey Steam. Building a CloudPlatform at Nationwide Building Society.

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Mobilunity

APRIL 29, 2024

The number of fintech companies worldwide grew by 2.5 A Few Words about FinTech Apps Fintech apps perform a variety of tasks related to finances. As for technologies, many companies and startups prefer NET Core, ASP, and Microsoft Azure in banking and financial services. times and reached 30,000 during 2018-2023.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Volopay , a Singapore-based fintech startup, raised a $29 million Series A in debt and equity financing as it seeks to further expand its footprint in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa. . To date, Volopay has raised approximately $31.4 million since its inception in 2019, which includes its $2.1

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The CTO can always boast how many tickets their team has closed and the release dates they’ve met, but a growth manager’s key performance metrics may not manifest for weeks — or months. .” Lessons we learned from the last week of fintech earnings. ” Lessons we learned from the last week of fintech earnings. .”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

In a market where internet-enabled app-based banking can reach 300 million subscribers on the continent, USSD technology, predominantly offline and used mainly by feature phones, outpaces it with 850 million connections. But USSD does come with its unique challenges. Enter Stax. Mobile money is more used in Kenya than anywhere else globally.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

South Africa makes up a large bulk of it; without it, the continent is on a 1% to 2% rate even with other developed technology and financial markets like Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt. The insurance market is still one of the industries least disrupted by technology on the continent. However , it was difficult to achieve, CTO Nauman said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It now has capital (investors), founders, talent and infrastructure, each growing by the day given the attractiveness to the area. As a firm, we focus broadly on consumer, marketplaces, e-commerce infrastructure, real estate technology and fintech. Where do you see Miami’s startup scene five years from now?

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