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Staying on the beat. – August 10 – August 16 From Startups to Funding WorkMotion announces a $24m Series A. German startup WorkMotion plans to scale its platform for hiring and managing employees abroad. Following on the general trend for VCs continuing to bet big on remote working as a cure for talent shortages. Upgrade […]
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Staying on the beat – August 2 – August 9 2021 From Startups to Funding Octane raises $52m in Series D Helping people finance large recreational purchases -and now with a $900m+ valuation led by Progressive Investment Company. CEO and co-founder Jason Guss projects that the company will see “over $100 million in revenue” this […]
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Staying on the beat – July 26 – August 2 2021 From Startups to Funding Prime Trust raises $64m Prime Trust, a one-stop shop for API-based financial infrastructure for fintech and digital asset innovators, has raised $64 million in a Series A funding round led by Mercato Partners. Nium closes $200m Series D Cross-border B2B […]
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Staying on the beat – July 20 – July 26 2021 From Startups to Funding Funding flows into Cybersecurity With 2021’s halfway point just crossed – funding has more than doubled the $4.4 billion in 2020 to $7.8 billion 2021. Why the influx? Reasoning may be linked to the SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline, and Kaseya attacks. […]
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Staying on the beat – July 12 – July 19 2021 From Startups to Unicorns Railsbank raises $70M expanding fintech-as-a-service platform. Financial services as a service — where neobanks, retailers and others can create and sell their financial products has been one of the bigger trends in the world of fintech. Embedded finance is on […]
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Staying on the beat; 6 July – 12 July 2021 From Startups to Unicorns Tide rises on $100 million cash injection UK business banking platform Tide has raised over $100 million in Series C funding at a valuation of $650 million. Tide, which has recruited 350,000 SMEs and opened over 410,000 business accounts since its […]
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Staying on the beat; 28 June – 5 July 2021 Big Beats Industry Clouds – the next Mega-Trend The next mega-trend in financial services is Industry Clouds – collections of cloud services, tools, common data models, APIs, and applications optimized specific use cases. Multi-cloud environments also benefit organizations needing to share data and access with […]
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Week – 21-28 June 2021 Stay on the weekly beat. In this weeks Pulse: Fundings – from Mollie to Voyager Visa acquires Tink for $2.2 billion 2021 – a record year for European fintech investment Crypto mining crackdown in China – what does it mean for Bitcoin? How PCN launched a 4-day workweek in a […]
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14/06/2021 – 20/06/2021 Stay on the weekly beat. From Startups to Funding Scale-Up Europe present to Emmanuel Macron. Bringing together more than 200 members of the European tech ecosystem – the initiative aims at developing actionable proposals to support the emergence of 10 technology leaders valued at over $100 billion by 2030 while at the […]