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Startup or start up is a company or project initiated by an entrepreneur to seek, effectively develop, and validate a scalable business model. Hence, the concepts of startups and entrepreneurship are similar.
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987B2B PaymentsOn-Demand Payroll Leads B2B FinTech Funding
This week saw B2B FinTechs targeting a range of pain points for business customers around the world, as investors put nearly $462...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsOn-Demand Payment FinTech Hastee Helps Cos Pay Workers On Demand
A FinTech payday startup called Hastee has received a $270 million investment from Umbra Capital Partners, with participation from IDC Ventures and...
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4.0KSecurity & FraudInsurTech Players Turn Their Attention To Startups
In the land of startups, speed matters. Scale matters. Funding matters. But the other nuts and bolts of running a business require attention,...
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2.1KInvestmentsIndia’s Bounce Notches $150M For Affordable Scooter Rentals
Bangalore-based startup Bounce has raised roughly $150 million in a Series D funding round led by existing investors Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital...
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2.4KFintech InvestmentsAnt Financial Ramps Up SEA Capital With $1B Fund
China’s Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial is drumming up $1 billion to fund startups in Southeast Asia and India, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday...
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2.7KInvestmentsSilicon Valley Braces As VCs Pump The Brakes
Profits are being pushed over progress as Silicon Valley investors start reeling in the billions that startups have come to expect, The...
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2.6KInvestmentsBuguroo To Use $11M Funding Round For ML-Driven Fraud Detection
A startup that analyzes banking activity to identify fraudulent behavior has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round, according to...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsMiddlegame Launches €150m FinTech Fund
MiddleGame Ventures has launched a new €150MM fund targeting FinTech investments in Europe and North America. MGV’s Venture Fund I has already...
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2.7KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Singapore Blockchain Firm To Boost Philippine Startups With $300K Fund; OKEx Crypto Exchange Lands New Partners For OKB Coin
Singapore-based BCB Blockchain announced that it has launched a $300,000 fund to support incubators and startup accelerators in the Philippines under the...
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1.8KInvestmentsAlibaba To Purchase Stake In Milk Delivery Platform For $21M
The Alibaba Group is planning to invest about $21 million in a milk delivery startup that uses an SMS or QR code...
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1.7KGoogleGoogle Sets Up Shop In Tokyo’s Chic Shibuya Neighborhood
Google relocated its head office to Tokoyo’s hip Shibuya neighborhood, taking up most of the 35th floor of the Shibuya Stream skyscraper,...
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1.4KInvestmentsOhi Lands $2.75M To Enable Quick Delivery For Smaller Brands
Ohi, an eCommerce startup, announced that it has closed a $2.75 million Seed funding round led by Flybridge Capital Partners. Founded last...
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1.9KStartupsStartups Hoard Cash, Accelerate Fundraising Timetables
Tech startups fearing anticipated instability are scrambling to conserve an age-old commodity — cash — the New York Times (NYT) reported on...
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2.3KSouth East AsiaGrab CEO: No IPO Until Business Shows Profits
Grab Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Co-Founder Anthony Tan said the Southeast Asia ride-hailing platform will not launch an initial public offering...
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3.3KDeliveryUK’s Magway Aims To Build Tunnels For Package Delivery
A U.K. startup has proposed building a system of tunnels in the U.K. to deliver as many as 600 million packages a...
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3.6KInvestmentsInvestors Raise Billions To Invest In Later-Stage Companies
Later-stage tech startups are getting cash infusions from big investors eager to make deals, The Financial Times (FT) reported on Wednesday (Nov....
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1.7KInvestmentsAfrica’s PalmPay Debuts In Nigeria On Heels Of $40M Funding
After a $40 million Seed funding round, payment startup PalmPay has officially launched in Nigeria. The funding round was led by Chinese...
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1.2KRegulationColombia Watchdog Investigates Rappi Delivery App For Noncompliance
On-demand delivery app Rappi is under investigation again in Colombia, accused of failing to comply with regulatory orders to improve its customer...
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2.0KInvestmentsChinese EV Startup XPeng Reaches $4B Valuation With $400M Fundraise
Alibaba-backed Chinese electric vehicle (EV) startup XPeng has raised nearly $400 million from investors, including Xiaomi Corp, in a new funding round,...
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4.2KDataThe Clearing House Aims To Ease Data Sharing With FinTech Startups
The Clearing House, a payments firm owned by 25 of the biggest U.S. banks, is campaigning for contract terms that would give...
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1.6KMobileEgyptian Transit App Swvl Plans Global Expansion
Egyptian mobility startup Swvl will be expanding into the Philippines, Indonesia and Bangladesh by the end of 2020. Launched in Egypt in...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsInstamojo Opens Credit Book As Digital Ledger For SMBs
Small business (SMB) tech startup Instamojo announced the launch of its Instamojo Credit Book, which aims to get rid of manual ledgers...
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1.5KInvestmentsChina Powers Up Strategy To Entice Tech Startups
China is looking to coax tech listings, following a failed attempt with mainland investors, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Thursday...
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2.8KIPOChina To Update Rules To Lure More Public Tech Listings
China has changed some IPO rules to entice more tech companies to list publicly in the country, according to a report by...
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3.1KInvestmentsFinTech Startup Digits Notches $10.5M
FinTech startup Digits has announced the close of a $10.5 million Series A funding round, led by Benchmark. There was also participation...
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3.2KRetailIKEA, H&M Funding Tech Startups To Sidestep Retail Disruption
IKEA and Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) are putting money into technology startups as a way to help them sidestep retail disruption, the...
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3.2KInvestmentsWeWork Write-Off Triggers $6.5B Loss For SoftBank
Japan’s SoftBank reported a $6.5 billion loss on Wednesday (Nov. 6), its first quarterly drop-off in 14 years and far larger than...
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2.0KRegulationSoftBank Tightens Startup Regs After WeWork’s Washout
SoftBank is looking to develop stricter regulations for startups in the wake of the near collapse of WeWork. Sources have said the...
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2.2KInvestmentsCapital’s Venture Debt Alternative To Invest $100M In Startups
New York-based FinTech startup Capital, an alternative financing company for startups, launched on Wednesday (Oct. 30) with a $100 million fund to...
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2.2KInvestmentsIDnow Lands $40M To Grow Online Identity Verification Service
ID verification startup IDnow has received a $40 million growth equity investment from private equity group Corsair Capital, according to reports. Corsair...
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3.4KBankingStudy: FIs Must Be Stronger To Prepare For Economic Slump
McKinsey’s annual review of global banks shows that financial institutions are generally not strong enough to weather an economic slump, Bloomberg reported...
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3.1KInvestmentsThiel’s $3B Fund Looks To Inject Cash Into Private Tech Cos
Billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who wrote Facebook its first check and invested heavily in SpaceX, is looking to raise almost $3 billion...
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2.7KEarningsAmerican Express Rides Higher Spending To Q3 Revenue Win
Card member spending, higher-net interest income and card fees combined to produce an 11 percent year-over-year revenue gain for the Global Consumer...
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3.1KB2B PaymentsInvestors Back Different Points Of The Procure-To-Pay Ecosystem
It was a week of (mostly) Series A funding rounds for B2B FinTech firms, as startups secured new funding to tackle various...
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3.4KB2B PaymentsAmex Targets Startups With Bank-Linked Cards
American Express is introducing a suite of new commercial card products targeted at startups and entrepreneurs in a move that is aimed...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsSmall Business InsurTech Finds The Next Unicorn
After one of the busiest weeks of the year for B2B startup venture capital funding, this week revealed a bit of a...
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2.1KInternationalIndian Digital Startups Could Be Headed For Slump
New internet startups in India are tumbling, pointing to the possibility of an overall decline in entrepreneurship, DealStreetAsia reported on Sunday (Oct....
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5.5KInvestmentsMercury Notches $20M To Fund Startups
California-based digital bank Mercury has announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding that will be used to build a...
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5.1KIPOSilicon Valley Investors Seek IPO Funding Substitute
Investors and attorneys from Silicon Valley are pressing for an initial public offering (IPO) alternative to help new businesses raise funds, The...
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3.7KSMBsSquare: Why We Want To Innovate Payroll For SMBs
The average SMB owners on the eve of starting their first business is a person with a passion. They have a good...
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2.8KInvestmentsFoundry Group Leads $30M Seed Funding For Matchstick Ventures
Minneapolis-St. Paul-based Matchstick Ventures raised $30 million in a second seed funding round led by Foundry Group, reports said on Friday (Sept....
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2.5KStartupsFrench Tech Startups To Get $5.5B Cash Infusion
Emmanuel Macron, president of France, has announced that institutional investors are ready to loan $5.5 billion to assist tech startups over the...
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3.8KDigital PaymentsStartups, Instant Payments Could Put $280B In Global Payments Revenue At Risk For Banks
As more startups penetrate the $1.5 trillion global payments market with free services, banks could lose as much as $280 billion in...
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2.2KAMLBridging The Security Gap To Win Customers’ Trust
Fraudsters are increasingly targeting mobile banking services and that’s a challenge for financial app startups that don’t have long fraud-fighting histories to...
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2.0KInvestmentsIndia’s FPL Technologies Lands $4.5M To Modernize Credit
FPL Technologies, an Indian startup that is less than a year old, has raised $4.5 million in a funding round led by...
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1.7KInvestmentsInvoice Startup Upflow Raises $2.7M
French startup Upflow, a company that wants to streamline the invoicing process for companies, help them stay organized and ensure they get...
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3.0KInvestmentseCommerce Startups Find Funding Favor In India
In India, funding activity over the past weeks headed into the end of August showed that eCommerce startups focused on home delivery...
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3.0KInnovationIsraeli PayTech Firms Team With Visa’s Tel Aviv Innovation Center
Tel Aviv’s new Visa Innovation Center is teaming up with three Israeli payment technology startups to offer more payment solutions, Reuters reported...
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3.5KStartupsSpotHero Raises $50M To Expand Digital Parking Platform
Digital parking company SpotHero has raised $50 million in a series D funding round led by Macquarie Capital, according to a release. ...
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2.0KFacebookFacebook Launches New ‘Playground’ Hub For Israeli Startups
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg was in Tel Aviv on Wednesday (Aug. 14) to introduce the social media giant’s “Playground” as a new...
