Months after the initial close of its seed round, Talk360, a South African Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) startup, has raised an additional $3 million, …
Despite the venture slowdown, fintech startups are still hiring
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Why build a fintech any more when you can just raise €20M and white-label it to banks?
Financial institutions have struggled to develop their own technologies, hence the rise of neo-banks which used Open Banking regulations to build their own fintech stacks. …
Inside the human cost of Better.com’s brutal layoffs
Digital mortgage lender Better.com continues to lay off staff, and seemingly in as callous a way as possible. Indeed, whereas most companies try to avoid …
This new app is helping Gen Z invest in cars, food, video games and other ‘themes’
Michael Haddix Jr. is a former college basketball player who was pre-med until he discovered investing after finishing his undergrad studies. After being exposed to …
Iliad launches its own payments processing platform Stancer
Iliad, the telecom company owned by French billionaire and startup investor Xavier Niel, is launching a payment subsidiary called Stancer. The team has focused on …
Regate modernizes accounting and financial tools
French startup Regate has raised a $20 million Series A funding round (€20 million) led by Valar Ventures. The company has built a modern software-as-a-service …
Insurtech goes niche
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With new cuts, Klarna joins the ranks of companies having to conduct more than one layoff
They say if you’re going to cut, cut deeply so you only have to do it once. Alas, a growing number of companies are realizing …
A quick checkup on consumer fintech activity ahead of Q3 data
Heading into the final days of the third quarter, I am looking forward to more than just a new sheaf of data concerning venture capital …