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Daffy aims to make it easy (and cheap) to funnel money to a donor-advised fund with a few phone taps

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Renowned Silicon Valley operator Adam Nash thinks you want to donate much more than you do, and he’s about to make it dead simple for you. In fact, it’s that last role with Acorns, a micro-investing app, that informed what he’s building now, which is a new financial platform for giving called Daffy.

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Burn, baby, burn. Real estate-focused fintech startups feel the heat

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Now, to be fair, Reali and Better.com aren’t the only ones facing challenges in the real estate tech world. The goal, it says, is to increase average donation values for nonprofits. TC’s Sarah Perez reports that “ PayPal is expanding further into the charitable donations business with its August 25 launch of support for Grant Payments.

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@Jack (Dorsey) quits Instagram, putting the first-name handle up for grabs

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Today, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, now Block CEO, announced he has deleted his Instagram account — the one with the coveted first-name handle. The timing of the account deletion is, of course, interesting, given that Instagram is now competing in the same market as Twitter with its own microblogging app, Threads.

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Insurtech startup Luko acquires Coya and gains insurance license

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While Luko isn’t disclosing terms of the deal, the company says it’s a 100% share deal, which means that Coya investors are now Luko investors. When it comes to transparency, Luko takes a 30% cut on monthly payments. If there’s money left at the end of the year, you can choose to donate your portion of what’s left of the 70% share.

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Green-Got is a neobank for climate-conscious customers

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That’s why the company has selected a few nonprofits with its customers so that Green-Got can make donations based on those interchange fees. “It The startup will soon enable payment roundups for donations as well. Neobanks have been around for a while and many people are now familiar with the concept.

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A second wave of consumer BNPL startups is taking the model to new markets

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The buy now, pay later (BNPL) market, estimated to be worth $120 billion in 2021 , has grown significantly over the last few years. Now, the credit method is moving beyond its e-commerce roots. In the past few months, large companies have joined the BNPL market, also hoping to quickly approve consumers for installment loans.

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How European startups are aiding Ukrainian refugees

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I was just there a few weeks ago with my wife and newborn child, and it was normal, and now suddenly, there’s Black Hawk helicopters and s**t is going down there,” he said. “We We’ve been divided by COVID, by nationalistic influences, but now we are unified. Donate here. . We decided right away we needed to do something.”.