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[Crunchbase] SeedFi Banks $65M To Help Americans Build Credit, Savings
Saving and building credit are two of the most difficult challenges for a majority of Americans. In fact, statistics show that 69 percent of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings, while 61 percent ran...
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[FinLedger] Women in Fintech: Flourish Ventures’ Emmalyn Shaw
Fintech will shift from products to audiences, and mortgage, core banking and insurance will expedite digitization. As a managing partner at Flourish Ventures, a $500 million global venture fund that was launched in 2019 by...
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[FinTech] Investing for impact as a woman in fintech
Emmalyn Shaw at Flourish Ventures provides us with a personal take on how women can make an impact in fintech investing. When I co-founded Flourish Ventures, focusing solely on fintech was relatively new to me....
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[Forbes] This Fintech Startup Wants To Cover Your Overdraft Fees, And It Just Announced $35 Million In Series A Funding
Nearly two decades before Zuben Mathews co-founded a consumer fintech app, he was studying economics at the University of Chicago as a recent immigrant to the U.S. Despite earning a scholarship and regular allowances from...
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[Reuters] Grab raises $300 million for fintech arm's ambitious expansion
Southeast Asian ride-hailing and food delivery giant Grab has raised more than $300 million from investors led by South Korea’s Hanwha Asset Management Co. Ltd for its rapidly-expanding financial services business.
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[Forbes] Forbes Fintech Awards 2020: Jack Dorsey Gives Banks A Wake-Up Call
This past year was a whirlwind for fintech. The pandemic hit many businesses like a hurricane, with lenders suffering the most damage. But as government stimulus checks hit bank accounts and consumers began buying everything...
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[CNBC Africa] COVID-19: How the pandemic has impacted Africa’s gig economy
Originally posted on CNBC Africa According to a report by Flourish Ventures, 66 per cent of gig workers across the globe reported a large decline in income, with ridesharing drivers being hardest hit. Watch the...
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[TechCrunch] Unit raises $18.6M to offer banking features as a service
Companies like Stripe and Twilio have changed the game for online businesses by making it easier to integrate payments and communications services into their customer interfaces without having to build those features from the ground up, or make...
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VIDEO: [Falk Marques Group] Flourish Ventures' Emmalyn Shaw on Making Impactful Financial Service Investments
In our latest interview, Flourish Ventures’ Emmalyn Shaw discusses her journey to becoming an impact investor – a journey spurred by a desire to “marry” her interest in the entrepreneurial space with a “positive outcome.”...
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[TechCrunch] YC-backed Heru raises $1.7M to build software services for Latin American gig workers
Given the attention that TechCrunch pays to Y Combinator’s Demo Days, we also try to keep tabs on the same startups as they scale and raise more capital. Today we’re taking a look at Heru, a startup...
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