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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 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. billion last year — would join the long list of fintech giants letting go of workers. Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Skyflow , which sells data privacy tools for corporate customers, this morning announced a partnership with Plaid , a unicorn that helps pass fintech data between parties through an API. TechCrunch has a longer dig into how the startup’s technology works here , from our first coverage of the company.). in 4 years. Everyone wins?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

But without the big budgets of larger institutions, keeping up technology-wise can be a challenge. Enter MANTL , a startup that has developed technology to make it easier for people to open accounts digitally at community banks and credit unions so that those institutions can increase deposits and ultimately, profits.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Brian Smith was an early believer in the city, founding S3 Ventures with a $20 million first fund after a career as an electrical engineer at companies like IBM before starting his own company, Crossroads Systems. In fact, the firm believes that Texas is going to be the second-largest tech ecosystem in the U.S.

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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. In emerging markets, insurtech is following the path of fintech, where we are seeing fast followers of models that have worked elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Factor in today’s soaring construction costs , material and labor shortages and supply chain constrain ts , and there is more demand than ever from contractors for technology that will help them operate more efficiently and less expensively. He believes the construction industry has been “underserved” by technology “for far too long.”.

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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. And so we built the system for them,” said Mascot.

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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. which our systems flagged as fraudulent. — Andy Bromberg (@andy_bromberg) May 23, 2022.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 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. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Weekly News.

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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

MARCH 7, 2023

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. With its $25 million Series B funding — which takes its total funding to over $42 million — Banyan Infrastructure is seeking to align sustainable project finance with the technology it is meant to support and develop.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 2021. With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Symend today announced that it raised $42 million in a Series C round led by Inovia Capital with participation from Impression Ventures, Mistral Venture Partners, BDC’s Growth Venture Co-Investment Fund, BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Fund, Plaza Ventures and EDC. delinquent credit card).

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Lacework

JANUARY 17, 2024

Beyond technology, it’s their adaptability, creative problem-solving, and commitment to progress. Recognizing the increasing challenges yet often underappreciated role of these professionals, we launched the 50 CISOs to Watch initiative last year to celebrate the CISOs demonstrating outstanding technical and leadership qualities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As a partner in a fund of funds, I attend a lot of annual meetings, talk with a lot of venture fund general partners and review a lot of investor decks. While not nearly as bad as marketing tech, we are seeing a huge inflation in the number of cybersecurity and fintech companies as well.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Fintech Portabl announced the closing of a $2.5 Harlem Capital Partner Brandon Bryant said what initially drew the fund to Portabl was the idea that the verification of identity in fintech is still unsolved. Fintech app Portabl raises $2.5M million seed round today led by Harlem Capital Partners.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Startups and VC Shopify last week announced that it would be the latest Big Tech firm to undergo mass layoffs. Also included in the announcement was news that the Canadian e-commerce giant had found a new owner for 6 River Systems, the warehouse automation firm it purchased in 2019 for nearly a half-billion dollars , reports Brian.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

When Daniel Simon sold Bread , a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building another startup. Coast co-founders Daniel Simon and Andrew Woolf.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tooling around : Two years ago, two former Palantir engineers started Kurtosis, a crypto-focused developer tool system, and have now raised $20 million in fresh funding to hire a team to get a new product out in the next year, Jacquelyn reports. Diving into due diligence. Big Tech Inc. The road to an LOI.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The year has been marked by a general increase in state-sponsored attacks due to geopolitical conflicts. Ransomware attacks have also increased in 2023 probably due to their perceived profitability. The skills challenge is likely going to be key as a result of the rise of disruptive technologies such as Generative AI.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Slowing the progression of AI may be impossible, but approaching AI in a thoughtful, intentional, and security-focused manner is imperative for fintech companies to nullify potential threats and maintain customer trust while still taking advantage of its power. Exploiting technology vulnerabilities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Kenyan fintech Kwara was launched in 2019 to help credit unions (savings and credit cooperatives societies, SACCOs) in the East African country shift to digital platforms by providing them with its proprietary Back-end-as-a-service (BaaS) software.

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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

APRIL 21, 2022

Convoy, a digital freight network that connects shippers with carriers , has raised $260 million in fresh funding to scale up initiatives that will push the trucking tech industry into new ground. A later-stage company, Convoy already has fintech offerings like a fuel card and quick payments.

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CIO

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A simple Google search can reveal that some of the major airlines with state-of-the-art IT infrastructure had customer data stolen due to security breaches. In addition, the world of e-commerce technology seems to be perpetually evolving with fintech innovations and payment orchestration platforms. Well not exactly.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

We featured generative AI companies five years before the popular investors took notice and climate tech 2.0 We’re seeing input/output startups that want to rewrite the rules of recycling and purification with new tech. It’s deep tech but actionable. Silver tech – Life expectancy is on the rise and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Nearly one in three American households have delayed medical care due to its cost, per a 2019 Gallup poll. . The artificial intelligence technology underlying the platform allows hospitals to leverage patient data to determine payment plans specific to each patient while keeping administrative costs low. Healthcare costs in the U.S.

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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. Often, you will find talent where you least expect it.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Credable , an upstart in this category that provides its clients with the technology stack, scoring capabilities, and banking partners, has raised a $2.5 valuation Fintechs offering banking-as-a-service in the U.S. million seed round. So far, over 1.2 Banking-as-a-service startup Unit closes on $100M at a $1.2B

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TechCrunch

JUNE 19, 2021

Eindhoven might not immediately spring to mind as a high-tech hub, but the Netherlands city is keen to position itself as a center for deep tech in Europe. Philips launched in Eindhoven in 1891 and played no small part in the municipality’s ambitions to become a tech hub. What industry sectors is your tech ecosystem strong in?

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As a fintech company, the reliability of our products and services is critical to ensuring that Discover® Financial Services customers can access their money, credit, and accounts when they need to. This helps ensure that systems are ready for any peak times. My team at Discover Financial Services is responsible for digital payments.

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Trigent

AUGUST 22, 2023

InsurTechs and Carriers are adopting a transformative approach rather than incremental partial improvements to their current systems. It attributed organizational performance to excellence in software delivery and operational performance as technology transformations remained at the helm of initiatives.

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. I spoke to tech leaders, technical recruiters, and CIOs about how they have cracked this nut to hire the top-tier tech talent they need. We’re creating things that don’t exist yet.

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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. Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

In Nigeria, POS terminals are used to process card payments at retail locations as well as for agency banking purposes, a branchless banking system where agents act like human ATMs. One of the biggest challenges to the mass adoption of card payments at retail locations is the rate of transaction failures due to poor internet connection.

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Mobilunity

APRIL 25, 2024

Luckily, FinTech UI UX design offers a promising solution. Consequently, banking UI design adapts and constantly embraces new techs and trends. Some FinTech companies use AI for hyper-personalization, while others leverage generative AI to power chatbots, prevent fraud, and automate time-consuming tasks.

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