by Emmalyn Shaw It was the summer of 2016 when co-founders Sean Harper and Lucas Ward took the stage for the first...
Perspectives
July 20, 2021July 20, 2021
Introducing Dinie, Our Newest Fintech in Brazil
By Arjuna Costa, Managing Partner Brazil’s 17 million micro-, small- and medium-sized businesses (MSMEs) face a significant credit gap. This is largely...
July 12, 2021July 12, 2021
Why we invested: Aquaconnect
By Anuradha Ramachandran and Harsh Gupta Mobile adoption is on the rise among India’s fish and shrimp farmers. With half a billion...
May 10, 2021May 11, 2021
TaniHub: Creating Lasting Impact for Indonesia’s Highly Fragmented Agriculture Sector
“I never imagined myself to be an entrepreneur.” Growing up, Pamitra Wineka, founder of TaniHub always envisioned himself going into research or...
April 20, 2021April 20, 2021
Eight India Fintech Companies Offer Lessons and Insights One Year After the Covid-19 Pandemic Hit
Surviving a war zone. Unrelenting fear. Decimated strategies. This is how startups in India describe the catastrophe that the Covid-19 pandemic and...
April 16, 2021April 16, 2021
Three Observations from Beyond Good and One Ask: Contribute to a Purpose-Driven Fintech Business Revolution
By Tilman Ehrbeck If we ever needed it, the past 12 months have provided a stark reminder that good government, a functioning...
July 20, 2021July 21, 2021
We must close our gender gap in the funding of fintech ventures [Mint]
Fintech firms founded by women rarely get adequate capital even though they could aid our economy in much-needed ways
July 19, 2021July 20, 2021
Embedded Finance Narrows The Gap Between Brazil’s Small Business And Capital
Underbanked small businesses around the globe have seen technology come to the rescue. FinTechs continue to step onto the scene to provide alternative financial services or digital-first ways of accessing traditional bank offerings.
July 7, 2021July 14, 2021
A year after expanding to Europe, Nigerian fintech Lidya raises $8.3M to scale lending operations [TechCrunch]
Nigerian fintech and lending startup Lidya has recently expanded into Europe, and this fundraise will help grow its lending operations for small and medium businesses across its markets.
July 5, 2021July 14, 2021
MaxAB, the Egyptian B2B food and grocery delivery startup, raises $40M for expansion [TechCrunch]
Egypt-based Embedded finance platform Max AB’s $40M fundraise will help them expand their physical footprint across the Middle East and North Africa, hire more talent and scale its recently launched business verticals, including new supply chains and embedded finance solutions.
July 1, 2021July 14, 2021
Tiger Global leads $42M Series B in Nigerian credit-led neobank FairMoney [TechCrunch]
Nigerian Neobank FairMoney’s $42M Series B will help them diversify offerings and expand to “become the financial hub for its users,” providing customers customers a full-fledged banking experience from P2P transfers and lending to debit cards and current accounts.
June 2, 2021June 2, 2021
Alloy & Chime listed on Inc’s Best Workplaces list [Inc.]
Meet the businesses that did the most to support their employees and keep them engaged through a turbulent year.
July 20, 2021August 3, 2021
Flourish Focus: Apollo Agriculture
August 26, 8:00am PDT | 5:00pm EAT
Flourish Focus a series featuring 1:1 exchanges with fintech innovators around the world.
July 14, 2021August 2, 2021
Flourish Focus: Grab Financial Group
July 29, 6:00pm PDT | July 30, SGT 9:00am
Flourish Focus a series featuring 1:1 exchanges with fintech innovators around the world.
June 25, 2021July 16, 2021
Flourish Embedded Finance: Plumbing
July 14, 2021
8am EDT | 11am EDT
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.
June 16, 2021July 16, 2021
Flourish Conversations: How Adopting Open Data for Finance Could Boost Economic Growth in 10 Years
June 24, 2021
9:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT
In this conversation, uncover the effects of open data for finance within different economies around the world.
May 20, 2021July 16, 2021
Flourish Embedded Finance: Platforms
May 19, 2021
10am EDT | 4pm EET | 8pm BST
The first event in Flourish Ventures’ Embedded Finance series tackles the embedded finance platforms including gig worker, logistics, social media, and supply chain platforms that are relevant and immediately helpful to people in their daily lives.
April 29, 2021August 3, 2021
Flourish Embedded Finance Series
Coming in September 2021
Flourish Ventures’ three-part event series on embedded finance brings together fintech founders from around the world to explore the platforms, plumbing, and plugins powering this important technology trend.
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