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Ameya Upadhyay, Venture Partner and Lisa Mikkelsen,
Head of Global Human Capital
Events
opinion
[Finovate Podcast] Tilman Ehrbeck, Flourish Ventures
The social impact of fintech, and a shifting VC landscape, and predictions for 2021. Listen to the podcast on Finovate Podcast.
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opinion
[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...
Blog
opinion
[Business Day Nigeria] Pandemic puts gig-economy workers in even more precarious financial position
The global gig economy has emerged as a vast secondary labour market over the past decade.
News
embedded finance
[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...
Events
embedded finance
Digital Infrastructure for Fair Finance: Flourish Ventures at Singapore Fintech Festival 2020
The shortcomings of America’s retail financial systems became evident when the government responded to the economic fallout of the pandemic.
Blog
embedded finance
Why We Invested in Unit: Modern Infrastructure Fintech Unit Launches Easy to Deploy Banking Services
From Uber and Apple to Shopify and Mindbody, a prominent mix of technology platforms have rolled out financial services including payments and banking features in the United States over the past two years. Because these...
News
news
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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embedded finance
[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...
Blog
embedded finance
Why We Invested In Heru: A Mexico-based Gig Worker Platform Heru Offering Online/Offline Services
The vast majority of employment in Latin America isn't formal, and across the region, there are 145 million independent workers. Independent workers and gig-economy workers have been overlooked in Mexico and other Latin American countries,...
News
opinion
[Nikkei Asia] Ant Group and WhatsApp show the risks and upside of Big Tech finance
Originally posted on Nikkei Asia WhatsApp was finally cleared earlier this month to launch its long-awaited payment functionality in India. It is not hard to imagine the new service taking off rapidly when sending money...
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