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Vendr Announces $60 Million Series A to Fuel the Future of SaaS Buying
The new round of financing, led by Tiger Global, will enable Vendr to boost product development and expand globally. Vendr, the SaaS buying platform, today announces a $60 million Series A led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from existing investors Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Sound Ventures, Garage Capital, and F-Prime Capital. Launched in 2019, […]…
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What is a Data Catalog? Value, Benefits, and Features
No matter where data comes from, becoming data-driven depends on every member of your organization being able to find, access, and use the data they need. This kind of system of organization paves the way for data teams to respond to your business objectives with accuracy and speed — without it, your analysis will always have a […]…
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Starling achieves Unicorn status on £272 million funding round
Starling Bank has entered Unicorn territory on the back of a new £272 million investment led by Fidelity Management & Research Company. Starling, which was founded in 2014, embarked on an attempt to raise £200m last autumn when Rothschild, the investment bank, was hired to canvass interest from investors. Alongside Fidelity, the Series D round […]…
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ING invests in credit scoring startup Flowcast
ING Ventures is investing an additional $3 million into Flowcast, a fintech startup that applies AI to the credit and collection process for non-performing loans. Silicon Valley-headquartered Flowcast has built an API-based machine learning platform that harnesses alternative data to unlock credit at scale. In 2020, Flowcast launched Tillful, a consumer-facing platform which provides credit […]…
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Open Banking Europe and the European Third Party Providers Association Sign a Mutual Cooperation Agreement
Today Open Banking Europe (OBE) and the European Third Party Providers Association (ETPPA) announced a Mutual Cooperation agreement had been signed to foster collaboration, enhance industry understanding and establish a framework for sharing information between the two organisations. The Mutual Cooperation Agreement formalises and strengthens the interaction and existing relationship between OBE and the ETPPA […]…
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Nissho has partnered up with Nethone’s online fraud protection expertise, to help e-commerce businesses in Japan eliminate fraud
Nethone, a Machine Learning-based fraud prevention company, and Nissho Electronics Corporation, announced a business collaboration on delivering cutting-edge online fraud and account takeover detection and prevention solutions in Japan. Nethone will be part of the already existing Tranfis brand offered by Nissho and will be distributed under the name “Tranfis powered by Nethone”. Nissho is […]…
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Jack Dorsey launches in-house bank through Square Inc
Square Financial Services – a new in-house bank and subsidiary of Square Inc, opened for business this week. The operation is the culmination of a year’s work, following Square Inc’s announcement to open its own bank back in March 2020. Jack Dorsey, CEO and co-founder of both Twitter and Square Inc, spearheaded the initiative, which launched […]…
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Fintech behemoths Backbase and Zafin form new partnership
Canadian SaaS banking software service provider will collaborate with Backbase to integrate Zafin’s solutions onto its platform. Canada’s leading relationship-based product and pricing capability solutions service provider, Zafin, has announced a strategic partnership with the Dutch banking engagement platform, Backbase. According to reports, Zafin, which is one of North America’s leading fintech companies, will join forces with […]…
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Klarna becomes Europe’s most valuable startup, now worth $31bn
The company’s now worth three times what it was six months ago. Swedish buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna has closed a $1bn private fundraising round, bringing the company to a $31bn valuation and tripling what it was worth six months ago. The new round follows a $650m round in September last year, led by Silver Lake, that valued […]…
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