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Ameya Upadhyay, Venture Partner and Lisa Mikkelsen,
Head of Global Human Capital
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embedded finance
January 19, 2021
Why We Invested In Brigit: Fintech Designed to Help Consumers Build a Brighter Financial Future
Even if you have cash on hand, managing personal finances can feel like a chore – being sure to set an automatic transfer to savings every month or remembering to pay off your credit card...
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embedded finance
January 14, 2021
Why We Invested In Grab Financial Group: Grab a seat at the embedded finance table
We’re excited to announce Flourish’s participation in Grab Financial Group’s (GFG) $300 million Series A funding round which was covered in the Financial Times earlier today. Through this investment, Flourish has yet another opportunity to learn,...
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opinion
December 09, 2020
[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.
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embedded finance
December 08, 2020
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...
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embedded finance
December 02, 2020
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,...
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opinion
October 06, 2020
How We Kept Up Making a Difference
Towards the end of February, we got increasingly nervous in our firm about the spreading pandemic.  We decided to cancel our global team retreat scheduled for the following week in India and asked everyone to...
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digital banking
July 13, 2020
Why We Invested in SWAP: It's All About BaaS
If you are an up-and-coming fintech entrepreneur, how do you connect your offering into existing banking and payments systems? If you are a consumer platform and want to offer financial products to your engaged customer...
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opinion
June 12, 2020
Racial Injustice Has No Place in Our Society
At Flourish, we stand against racial injustice that has plagued America and other societies for a very long time. We recognize the problem is deep-seated with a prolonged and tragic history of systemic racism and...
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embedded finance
May 21, 2020
Why We Invested in Apollo Agriculture: Helping Smallholder Farmers Grow in Africa
Traditionally, the transaction costs of serving farmers have been too high to permit commercial models. However, a new wave of technology-driven ventures are trying to prove that large segments of smallholder farmers can be served...
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opinion
May 13, 2020
[Medium] New Indicators Are Giving Us a Sense of Where We Are Headed…For Now
At the macro level, the uncertainty under the current pandemic is great, and predictions are difficult. Physicians are still discovering new ways the COVID-19 virus is behaving. And it is unclear how well we will...
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