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This VC introduced Palantir’s first business hire to its earliest engineer, then his business took off

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Fubini is a Carnegie Mellon grad who cofounded an enterprise company, CubeTree, that a dozen years later, sold to SuccessFactors, which was itself acquired by SAP the next year, in 2011. Fubini helped cofound the outfit with a handful of others.) Think fintech infrastructure, she adds. It all dates back to a key introduction.

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Pinwheel raises $50M Series B at $500M valuation for its income verification APIs

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Pinwheel serves neobanks and fintechs like Block, Varo, and Lendly by providing application programming interfaces (APIs) linked to payroll, income, and employment data. billion API company Plaid, known for enabling bank account connectivity for fintechs. . “We’re Pinwheel has hired a number of its employees from $13.4

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Crypto investors have 1099 problems, but Cointracker helps make sure filing taxes isn’t one

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Over 3% of the entire global cryptocurrency market, representing over $50 billion worth of digital assets, is tracked on CoinTracker , its CEO and cofounder Jon Lerner told TechCrunch in an interview. The platform allows users to see all their crypto activity, including NFTs and decentralized finance (DeFi), in one place.

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Nigeria’s ThankUCash secures $5.3M to build infrastructure for cashback, deals and BNPL services

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CEO Simeon Ononobi started ThankUCash with Suraj Supekar, Madonna Ononobi and Harshal Gandole, who act as a chief technical officer, chief operating officer and senior vice president of engineering, respectively. ThankUCash sees a gold mine to provide plugins banks and fintechs can tap into to offer cashback and rewards.

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Endex by Praxent

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A fintech startup sees an immediate return on investment in a clickable prototype that enables cofounders to visualize a more user-focused design for their application, raise funding, and move seamlessly into development—much faster than anticipated. Not being technical co-founders, they couldn’t develop the app themselves.

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Edda wants to be the Bloomberg Terminal for private markets

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“Edda enables secure transparency for everyone managing an investment portfolio, from deal-sourcing to due diligence and funding through to portfolio management,” Edda cofounder and CEO Clément Aglietta explained to TechCrunch. “Private equity investors currently manage more than $6.5

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Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion

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. “The financial system is the backbone of our economy — through loans, investments, and the controlling of global cash flows, it is the most important vehicle when it comes to sustainably transforming our economy,” Plan A cofounder and CEO Lubomila Jordanova said. Liu said in a statement at the time.