TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Meniga , the London fintech that provides digital banking technology to leading banks, has closed €10 million in additional funding. In addition, the fintech will bolster its sales and service teams. US regulators need to catch up with Europe on fintech innovation . Also participating are Industrifonden, the U.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

On the other hand, the financing gap left by conventional banking institutions has presented an opportunity for innovation, leading to the birth of fintechs like Asilimia. Asilimia is set to use the funding to hire talent as it looks to fine tune its technology and to expand to another market within East Africa.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

The startup also intends to improve its technology and operation efficiency, hire more talent and increase its marketing spend. Last year, the two-year-old startup launched a vertical: FEZ for fintechs, where it helped fintechs deliver debit cards and POS terminals to all their customers and agents across Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And what’s more surprising is that the buy is outside payments or fintech. With Flutterwave, we now have a way to drive both value for creators and revenue to sustain the business. Oyemade will continue to lead the technology behind the product with a new role as software and architectural lead.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

From lithium battery chemical recycling to smart media, blockchain infrastructure to student-centric educational software, and Sub-Saharan African fintech to cultured-meat production, this batch of companies is sure to wow the investors and the audience. Verdi , EyeGage , Animal Alternative Technologies , RoboDeck , Adventr.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

Amid the turbulence of AI, technologies are emerging rapidly, startups are clamoring for attention, and hyperscalers are scrambling to corral market share. Brian Hopkins, vice president for emerging technology at Forrester Research, agrees. It’s an environment that taxes the decision-making skills of the even the most savvy CIOs.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

In the years leading up to 2018, I have spent my time bringing innovation to the financial services space. Fintech, as this sector is colloquially referred, focuses for the most part on disrupting the state of affairs induced by the use of technology. As such it is all about innovation. Let’s study a bit about Innovation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

E-commerce penetration was at an all-time high and the market cap of public technology companies was growing much faster than the region’s GDP. The Atlantico Digital Transformation Index, which measures tech penetration by tracking the value of public technology companies as a percentage of GDP, rose to 3.4% in 2021 from 2.3%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Focus on growth with good economics and don’t “buy” growth, as that will come with poor economics and hence is not sustainable. There has been continuous innovation over the last several years thanks to more digital adoption and lower data pricing. Focus on the core business and deprioritize experimental investments.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

Like many legacy markets poised for change, the insurance industry has already seen its first wave of innovation. It follows that digital insurance innovation should primarily focus on digital underwriting innovation — in essence, using technology to correctly assess and price risk in real time.

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OTS Solutions

JULY 28, 2022

The financial services industry has traditionally been a slow adopter of modern technology. But with the rise of FinTech, consumer expectations, and government pressures being felt throughout the industry, the pressure is on. And other things push for reinvention and innovation. Cloud Computing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Robots that can make salads and cheeseburgers are fascinating, which means they’re more likely to hog the headlines than companies making technology that optimizes governmental operations. Why LatAm’s fintech boom is more than hype and superlative venture investment. Female founders are making a buzzing, venture-backed comeback.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between. For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. It’s also a platform for making connections.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many African households and communities cannot access affordable and reliable solar technology, limiting their ability to generate their electricity and reducing their reliance on grid-based power. Sun King is leading the way in providing sustainable, safe and reliable electricity access to emerging consumers in Africa and Asia.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

While leagues behind fintech as a whole, insurtech startups have still attracted a significant amount of investment over the last few years — $43 billion between 2016 and 2022, according to a recent report. “If The pace of innovation and funding outside of the U.S. These companies will struggle to survive.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The group has already invested in startups in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, including Aleph (B2B SaaS for e-commerce), Apperto (social commerce), Choiz (healthtech), Exactly (DeFi), Elevva (e-commerce brands), Inipay (fintech), Leef (sustainability), Wibson (e-privacy) and Yerbo (wellness).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Our survey respondents said the city was strong across a broad range of tech industries, particularly those with practical applications: cybersecurity, energy and sustainability, fintech, health care and medtech, edtech and silver tech among others. Lukas Inokaitis , business development, NFQ Technologies. Rokas Tamoši?nas

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

So we’re hooking up with Extreme Tech Challenge (‘XTC’) to present the Extreme Tech Challenge Global Finals , a startup competition focused on powering a more sustainable, equitable, inclusive, and healthy world. What are the breakthrough tech innovations transforming industries to build a radically better world? Going Green.

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Capgemini

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Follow the money : How are Big Tech and venture capital influencing innovation in the new model? Lucia Sinapi 10 Feb 2023 Facebook Twitter Linkedin So far in this series of blogs and vlogs on startups and their role as a catalyst for sustainable innovation, we’ve focused on the relationship between startups and corporates/the public sector.

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Modern CTO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Today we’re talking to Ed McLaughlin, President & Chief Technology Officer, Mastercard. We discuss the ethos that allows for sustainable economic development, how Mastercard makes fraud scoring more precise, and why Ed thinks multitasking isn’t worth it. In this role, I oversee all the company’s technology functions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It’s one reason why the region is home to many fintech businesses born elsewhere that need proximity to a large banking ecosystem, as well as the blockchain/crypto crowd, which have found a highly amenable regulatory environment in Zug, right next door to Zurich. Maximilian Spelmeyer , partner, SIX Fintech Ventures.

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CIO

APRIL 7, 2023

Digital transformation is crucial for the sustainability and resilience of professional accountancy organizations to meet changing business and market demands,” according to the International Federation of Accountants. Others like him sometimes go further than the technological solution itself and add the focus on those who develop them.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

And, it plans to invest in more innovation around its rental services. “Now more than ever, consumers value convenience, flexibility and sustainability when they shop for and use products. “Now more than ever, consumers value convenience, flexibility and sustainability when they shop for and use products.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

She stated that Lori has been focusing on growth, sustainability and a path to profitability since its last funding round. There is so much potential in the region, but it’s only through innovation that this can be fully unlocked,” commented Gajria on Google’s participation. Image Credits: Lori Systems.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Grant Easterbrook Contributor Share on Twitter Grant Easterbrook is a fintech consultant based in Amsterdam. Much has been written about the success of fintech and how this wave of technological innovation has changed consumers’ lives. He also co-founded Dream Forward, which was acquired in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 19, 2021

Our survey respondents consider the city strong in areas like photonics, robotics, medical devices, materials science, deep tech, automotive tech, sustainability tech, medtech, Big Data, hardware and precision engineering. Lithography makes a major contribution to that, as well as medical devices and production technologies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

Mary Ann reports that Peter Ackerson has departed from his role as general partner at fintech-focused venture firm Fin Capital and started a new firm, Audere Capital , with the rather vague thesis of “championing American innovation through early-stage technology investment.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Sebastián Vidal is the chief innovation officer at Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and former executive director at parallel18. As Latin America bathes the startup spotlight, players there need to consider how its startup growth can translate to self-sustaining economic and social development across the board.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Still, tracking the layoffs helps us to understand the impact on innovation, which companies are facing tough pressures and who is available to hire for the businesses lucky to be growing right now. Combined with the initial cuts in January , the self-driving technology company has let go of 8%, or 209 employees, of its workforce.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s been talk of a slowdown in venture funding recently, with TechCrunch looking at it from different angles, including the fintech sector, a PitchBook report and even earlier on how startups should prepare in case it happens. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Still, tracking the layoffs helps us to understand the impact on innovation, which companies are facing tough pressures and who is available to hire for the businesses lucky to be growing right now. Combined with the initial cuts in January , the self-driving technology company has let go of 8%, or 209 employees, of its workforce.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Still, tracking the layoffs helps us to understand the impact on innovation, which companies are facing tough pressures and who is available to hire for the businesses lucky to be growing right now. Combined with the initial cuts in January , the self-driving technology company has let go of 8%, or 209 employees, of its workforce.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Marqeta has agreed to acquire two-year-old fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $223 million in cash, marking the first acquisition in the publicly-traded company’s 13-year history. In other words, it provides the tools for companies — fintechs and otherwise — to provide cards, wallets and other payment mechanisms.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is helping startups that innovate in areas like payments, financing, insurance and compliance. ” The startups that are first to market with innovative “adjacent services will emerge as winners in the next few years,” she advises. .” 4 takeaways from fintech VC in Q3 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Still, tracking the layoffs helps us to understand the impact on innovation, which companies are facing tough pressures and who is available to hire for the businesses lucky to be growing right now. Shift Technologies Announced March 29 that it laid off 30% of its workforce in Q1 2023. First reported by The Wall Street Journal.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Still, tracking the layoffs helps us to understand the impact on innovation, which companies are facing tough pressures and who is available to hire for the businesses lucky to be growing right now. Combined with the initial cuts in January , the self-driving technology company has let go of 8%, or 209 employees, of its workforce.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Still, tracking the layoffs helps us to understand the impact on innovation, which companies are facing tough pressures and who is available to hire for the businesses lucky to be growing right now. Shift Technologies Announced March 29 that it is laid off 30% of its workforce in Q1 2023. First reported by The Wall Street Journal.

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