TechCrunch

JUNE 26, 2022

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. We saw fewer layoffs, but also less fintech-related news in general. Some observations, though.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Andy Bromberg, CEO of the a16z-backed startup Eco, is claiming that Pebble , another fintech startup that came out of stealth this morning, “plagiarized” Eco’s materials and business model. They stole our marketing copy. — Andy Bromberg (@andy_bromberg) May 23, 2022. They stole our blog posts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Less than a year after its $3 million seed round, San Francisco- and Africa-based fintech Pngme has snapped up another $15 million for its financial data infrastructure play. Pngme’s platform caters to fintechs and other financial institutions across sub-Saharan Africa. “It’s a highly data-driven user experience.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

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. And former employees admit that the underlying technology the business built is actually good.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Less than seven months after closing on a $57 million Series B , fast-growing fintech Jeeves has raised $180 million in a Series C round that values the company at $2.1 Financial technology companies raising multiple rounds in a short period of time has become more the norm than an exception as of late. Image Credits: Jeeves.

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Modern CTO

APRIL 11, 2024

Chris shares the lessons he learned from leading under 8 different CTOs, the ways in which the construction industry is evolving through technology, and how to transform product development in your organization. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! Have feedback about the show? Let us know here.

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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 6, 2022

Welcome to my new weekly fintech focused column. while it continues to serve startups or e-commerce companies that might be smaller businesses with higher growth, it is now adapting to serve mid-market to larger businesses, which have different financial needs as they grow. sign up here. Public state of affairs.

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Modern CTO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Today we’re talking to Ed McLaughlin, President & Chief Technology Officer, Mastercard. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! In this role, I oversee all the company’s technology functions. About MasterCard Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

At the time, he was working for Andy Carra, who served as that company’s CTO before going on to co-found SoFi. It was Salisbury’s first foray into fintech, and high on the excitement of getting a new product live in a highly regulated industry, he admittedly got bit by the fintech bug. I wanted to meet these people.”.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bfree , a Nigerian credit management fintech, has embarked on global expansion after raising $1.7 million in a pre-Series A round, to tap the opportunities in emerging markets, where digital lending apps have recently sprung up in droves. million, having realized $800,000 in a seed round last May. Image Credits: Bfree.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Fairbanc will use its new funding on expanding in Indonesia, and exploring new markets like Vietnam and the Philippines in partnership with Unilever. Fairbanc was founded in 2019 by Wharton-graduate Mir Haque, who first piloted the startup in Bangladesh before choosing Indonesia as its main market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

HotelOnline , a Kenya-based Yanolja-backed travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries. Muliro has also been appointed as HotelOnline’s chief technology officer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. In a session called “Making Money Move with Embedded Finance,” our panel will talk about how a new breed of finance infrastructure companies have the potential to turn any company into a fintech company. The promise?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Computers, the internet, fintech, artificial intelligence, any tech you can name ( except mobile tech) people in these regions have always had to play catch up. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

The startup sells software to fintechs and others, allowing customers to create loan programs and service the resulting products. This morning, however, I want to riff a bit on the future of fintech and how the financial tech stack of the future may be built. He has an interesting take on where fintech is headed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The three co-founders of alternative financing startup Pipe are stepping down from their roles as executives of the company in one of the most dramatic management shake-ups seen in the fintech startup world in some time. CTO and co-founder Zain Allarakhia will remain on the board and serve as a senior advisor to the company.

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CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2023

So business technology leaders in financial services are carefully navigating a path toward AI. AI dominates discourse and headlines, but financial services technology leaders know there’s a lot of substance amid the noise. We’re seeing how fast this technology is maturing, so it’ll have a very different hype cycle.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

CEO Michael Sanchez told TechCrunch that the proceeds will be put toward general growth and supporting Savana’s go-to-market and product development projects. ” Savana purports to solve this problem through a combination of templates, APIs and integrations engineered to automate back-office and core banking processes. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But this means fintechs need access to large amounts of data that they can use to verify customer identity, creditworthiness or aggregate information from online accounts. Brick currently operates primarily in Indonesia, but is planning to expand into Singapore and the Philippines before eventually covering all markets in Southeast Asia.

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CIO

JUNE 16, 2023

For MoneyGram International, migrating workloads from the mainframe to the cloud has been a boon for the bottom line — and a lifeline against increasing market disruption from digital money-transfer upstarts. We were able to ramp up on the technology side.” For example, in Mexico, the company’s market remains 95% cash pickup.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Chief executive officer Tobias Fischer was former regional lending program manager at Grab Financial Services Asia, while chief technology officer Sasanadi Rukua served as vice president of engineering at Tokopedia. In Indonesia, wagely’s competitors include GajiGesa and Gajiku.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road. But early returns indicate the technology can provide benefits for the process of creating and enhancing applications, with caveats.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Fintech startup Ratio secured $411 million in equity and debt funding to continue developing what it calls “a new flavor” of buy now, pay later that combines payments, predictive pricing, financing and a quote-to-cash process. trillion subscription market for recurring revenue. trillion subscription market for recurring revenue.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

Bloom — not to be confused with the Robinhood-like app for teenagers in the US — is a fintech attempting to help Sudanese hedge against this rising devaluation. They brought on CTO Keenan and CPO Diriye, both of who also have roots in eastern Africa, to join the project. So why Sudan? “We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Sanlo , a San Francisco-based fintech startup that offers small to medium-sized game and app companies access to tools to manage their finances and capital to fuel their growth, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Konvoy. “We’re a technology company, not a fund,” Caliujnaia said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And what’s more surprising is that the buy is outside payments or fintech. We [the founders] decided to shut down the company because we ran out of resources to continue driving the very valid vision we had,” ex-CTO Oyemade told TechCrunch in an email. Disha was founded by Evans Akanno, Rufus Oyemade and Blessing Abeng in 2019.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The e-commerce market is on track to pass $ 5.5 But the gap in the market that Juni identified and built to fill is that the needs of e-commerce SMBs, and those doing business online in general, are unique among them. “However marketing is an important function in all e-commerce companies.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The market, dominated by incumbents like Toast and upcoming players such as MarginEdge and Brazil’s Zak , has its value pegged at over $70 billion globally and is expected to reach $116 billion in the next four years. As with most technologies, Africa is playing catch up in this food-tech segment. said the CTO in a statement.

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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

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Before beU delivery, Hao Zheng, who leads the team as chief executive, was the founder and CEO of Yooul, a social networking app in China. Thus, its platform makes it “easy for these businesses to issue corporate expense cards (Visa for now) and software, mainly for sales and marketing teams, to track and control spending.

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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. without the outsized market of South Africa. The opportunity is massive.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In 2018, he co-founded Aspire, a solar installation company based on the knowledge he acquired in college on renewable energy and working in several roles relating to energy, gas and power projects across Nigeria and other African countries, including a five-year stint at Siemens as head of market development. Think about it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Truora participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 cohort and soon after expanded into digital identity and authentication technologies. Today, Truora describes itself as a SaaS startup that builds authentication and communication tools for Latin American startups, marketplaces, fintechs and banks. That March, it raised $3.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire. How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire. The air taxi market prepares to take flight. ” The air taxi market prepares to take flight. . CTO Hunter Jensen writes in a guest column.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

A startup that is helping more than 125,000 neighborhood stores in India secure working capital, inventory from top brands and work with e-commerce firms to boost revenues said on Thursday it has raised a new financing round as it looks to further its reach in the world’s second-largest internet market.

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