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[Rebank Podcast] Purpose Driven Investing for Financial Return with Flourish Ventures

Originally posted on Rebank Click here to listen to the podcast (49 min) It’s great to be back after taking nearly a year off from regular content to build and launch BELLA. The break wasn’t really planned, but between launching the business, having a son and moving to LA all...

[EVENT Recap] B2B Fintechs Are the Unsung Heroes of Embedded Finance

When fintech insiders talk about embedded finance, we often focus on companies offering financial products on platforms and or other services. It’s easy to miss just how much work goes on behind the scenes, to make those features possible. And yet, one of the fastest-growing, most innovative sectors in fintech...

Pitch It Emmalyn Shaw

[PitchIt FinTech News Podcast] #19: Emmalyn Shaw of Flourish

Originally posted on LendIt Fintech News By Todd Anderson In episode 19 of PitchIt: the fintech startups podcast we talk with Emmalyn Shaw of Flourish. With 18 founders under my belt I thought it was time to start bringing investors on the podcast. Flourish are a venture firm investing in entrepreneurs whose innovations...

Flourish Focus: Apollo (Nairobi)

[Flourish Focus] A One-on-One with Apollo Agriculture Co-Founders

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, fintech companies in Africa saw a surge in venture capital last year and today the region stands out among its emerging-market peers. Africa’s growing population of 1.2B people, its rising mobile adoption and digitization as well as the drop in Internet costs are among key factors...

[EVENT Recap] Fintech Founders in Bangladesh, Egypt & the US Share Customer-first Focus and Offerings

Today, embedded finance is one of the most influential, seemingly all-encompassing technology trends taking place around the world. It involves non-bank companies and fintech start ups offering financial products and services to targeted customers. Many suggest this is the beginning of a transition to fintech 3.0 where a customer’s experience...

Flourish Focus: Grab (Singapore)

[Flourish Focus] A One-on-One with Reuben Lai, Head of Grab Financial Group

The pandemic has accelerated the move towards digital finance with new opportunities to embed financial services into non-financial platforms that are relevant in people’s daily lives. One such platform is Grab, the Southeast Asian ride-sharing, delivery, and logistics platform that is used by ten millions of consumers, millions of drivers,...

Plumbing Event

[Flourish Conversations] Embedded Finance Plumbing

With the pandemic and economic lockdowns, people around the world adopted new habits - work from home, online shopping and online banking. The trend of introducing traditional financial services—such as online payments and online credit—into apps that consumers use daily took off. We think about this technology trend as “Embedded...

[Flourish Conversations] How Adopting Open Data for Finance Could Boost Economic Growth in 10 Years

Open data allows access to and sharing of consumer-approved financial data across financial organizations, creating a digital ecosystem for financial institutions and consumers. Once created, this digital ecosystem provides new opportunities for governments, businesses and entrepreneurs to easily build new data-driven products for the benefit of consumers and small businesses....

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[Financial Health Network] The Evolving Role of Fintech in FinHealth

Originally posted on Financial Health Network In this discussion, learn and share perspectives with financial health experts to start planning for the future of fintech and finhealth.

[Flourish Conversations] Embedded Finance Platforms

Embedded Finance allows traditionally non-bank businesses—such as consumer tech companies, retailers, small businesses, and manufacturers—to incorporate financial offerings like payment options, credit, or insurance into their products and better serve their customers. As the world moves increasingly online, embedded finance can play a powerful role in helping consumers and small...

Efayomi One Jollof

[One Jollof] Building A Career Across The African Continent with Efayomi Carr

Originally posted on One Jollof Pepper Soup #19 features Efayomi Carr, Principal of Fintech focused Venture Capital Firm Flourish Ventures. Over the last 10 years Efe has worked in finance, governance and the entrepreneurship space across the African continent, including Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Kenya.

[Flourish Focus] A One-on-One with Pamitra Wineka, Co-Founder & CEO, TaniHub Group

Leading Indonesia Agritech Firm TaniHub is set for growth in 2021. Don’t miss this engaging conversation between Flourish Investor Smita Aggarwal and Co-Founder and CEO Pamitra Wineka of TaniHub Group, a rising agritech startup based in Jakarta, as they sit down to discuss how TaniHub emerged from a challenging year with the COVID-19...