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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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May 12, 2020
Why We Invested In Qoala: On a Mission to Make Insurance Accessible
As much of our lives are digitizing, this is rapidly changing. Take Indonesia as an example. The country has the largest and fastest-growing internet economy…
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May 04, 2020
[Medium] Why We Invested In Summer: Why We’re Helping Students Minimize Debt Loans
At Flourish, we have tracked market innovations in student debt closely, given our focus on technology-led financial health solutions. While first-generation startups like SoFi have…
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April 22, 2020
[Medium] As We Approach the End of the Beginning: What Is the Economic Outlook?
Informed by the expertise of epidemiologists, a consensus view of the most likely global economic outlook is emerging. And the virus and its likely behavior…
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April 19, 2020
[Medium] How Fintech Lenders Can Cope with the Impact of the Pandemic — Lessons from Flourish’s Portfolio Leaders
While the policy interventions being proposed at the national and multilateral levels could partially cushion the shock, these lending start-ups are going to have to…
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April 14, 2020
[Medium] A Bold Ask to Tech Companies and VCs: Match Our $1M Donation to Struggling Families
In six weeks, the United States shifted from a 50-year-low unemployment rate to likely the highest one since the Great Depression. No economic downturn has…
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