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10 finalists emerge at the Ecobank Group’s 2020 fintech challenge finals
Ecobank Group has announced the finalists from its 2020 Ecobank Fintech Challenge. The challenge, in its third edition, is designed to deepen collaboration ...
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Regtech kompany raises €6 million
Business verification and KYC regtech kompany has raised almost €6 million in a funding round led by Fairway Global Investment together with Global ...
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N26 vs. Revolut – The battle of the challenger banks
Dubbed as “challenger banks” not that long ago, the digital banks N26 and Revolut have acquired over 15 million registered users (10 million for ...
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Nigerian fintech startup AtaraPay launches escrow service
Nigerian fintech startup AtaraPay has launched its escrow service in a bid to provide a trusted and reliable service that removes monetary bottlenecks ...
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ZenBusiness Acquires Fintech Startup Joust
Micro business platform ZenBusiness has completed the acquisition of fintech platform Joust, the companies announced Thursday. Austin-based Joust, founded in 2017, marks ZenBusiness’ first acquisition, and ...
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Money Transfer Startup Remitly Nets $85M On $1.5B Valuation
Remitly, which works to provide remittances and financial services for immigrants, announced an $85 million funding round amid a worldwide surge in demand ...
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Fintech unicorn TransferWise sees valuation climb to $5 billion
TransferWise employees and early investors sold some of their stakes in a $319 million secondary deal. The company’s $5 billion valuation makes it ...
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Propeller Closes $18M Series B Funding Round
Propeller, a Denver, CO-based 3D mapping and worksite analytics company that builds hardware and software to simplify data capture, processing, and analysis for ...
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India -Vernacular ed-tech startup Entri tops up pre-Series A funding round
Novoy Software Pvt Ltd, which operates the vernacular language-focussed education-technology platform Entri, has raised an additional $1.7 million (Rs 12.71 crore at current ...
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Hippo challenging Lemonade for insurtech supremacy in unicorn battle of Israeli entrepreneurs
After rival Lemonade reached a market cap of over $4 billion, Hippo has completed a $150 million financing round at a valuation of ...