With high smartphone penetration, a surge in digital adoption accelerated by the pandemic, and a population still largely unbanked, Southeast Asia is...
Perspectives
September 13, 2021September 13, 2021
B2B Fintechs Are the Unsung Heroes of Embedded Finance
When fintech insiders talk about embedded finance, we often focus on companies offering financial products on platforms and or other services. It’s...
September 7, 2021September 8, 2021
Flourish Adds Jetty to the Embedded Finance Portfolio
By Emmalyn Shaw and Sarah Morgenstern After several months of keeping our excitement under wraps, we can finally share about our investment...
September 1, 2021September 2, 2021
Why we invested: Apnaklub
By Anuradha Ramachandran and Harsh Gupta Embedded Finance Platform Apnaklub Digitally Connects India’s Retailers, and Kiranas to Consumer Goods and Wholesale Partners India’s unwieldy consumer...
August 6, 2021August 6, 2021
Fintech Founders in Bangladesh, Egypt & the US Share Customer-first Focus and Offerings
Today, embedded finance is one of the most influential, seemingly all-encompassing technology trends taking place around the world. It involves non-bank companies and fintech start ups offering financial products and services to targeted customers.
July 21, 2021July 23, 2021
5 Years of Partnership: Why We Continue to Bet On Kin
by Emmalyn Shaw It was the summer of 2016 when co-founders Sean Harper and Lucas Ward took the stage for the first...
May 4, 2022May 5, 2022
What holds women entrepreneurs in India back? Maybe it’s the questions [The Times of India]
India ranked 140 out of 156 countries in The World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Index for 2021. The US, despite its strong economic position and democratic tradition only reached #30, well behind poorer nations with spottier political histories, such as Rwanda or Lithuania.
May 3, 2022May 3, 2022
Syndicate raises ‘informal’ round from over 50 partners to bring DAOs to the masses [TechCrunch]
Web3 startup Syndicate‘s goal is to demystify the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization). Its “Web3 Investment Clubs” product, which TechCrunch covered in January, lets users spin up an investment group with their peers by pooling their capital together and voting on how to allocate the funds.
May 3, 2022May 3, 2022
50+ Customers, Partners, and DAOs Invest in Syndicate
Today, we’re proud to announce that 50+ customers, partners, and DAOs have strategically invested $6M into Syndicate, bringing our total to over $28M raised from more than 300 values-aligned investors, operators, companies, partners, customers, and DAOs since our founding just a year ago.
April 29, 2022May 5, 2022
Grab-led digital consortium to accelerate access to financial services in Malaysia [Tech Wire Asia]
Grab Holdings Limited and Singtel are among the five recipients of Malaysia’s digital banking license. GXS Bank Pte. Ltd, their digital bank joint venture, and a consortium of Malaysian investors including Kuok Brothers Sdn.
April 12, 2022April 12, 2022
Fundos estrangeiros de venture capital querem investir no Brasil mesmo com alta de juros [Forbes]
Visão a longo prazo permite que fundos aproveitem o mercado em crescimento do país.
April 11, 2022April 11, 2022
MyShubhLife raises Rs 100 Cr [Entrackr]
MyShubhLife, a full stack financial services platform, has closed a funding of Rs 100 crore from Gojo & Company, Inc. The fresh investment will help MyShubhLife grow its NBFC book and increase disbursements through its co-lending partners,
November 9, 2021December 2, 2021
Flourish Conversations: Meet the Director of NPR’s “Out of the Blocks”
November 18, 2021
Based on the award-winning Baltimore WYPR podcast, Out of the Blocks looks at the impact of COVID on people living “on the blocks” of Baltimore, Seattle, Charleston, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
September 22, 2021October 29, 2021
Flourish Embedded Finance: Plug-ins
Oct. 28, 8:30pm PDT | Oct. 29, 9:00am IST
More and more non-bank businesses—such as fintech companies, retailers, small businesses, and manufacturers—are now offering online financial products within their apps to better serve customers.
September 20, 2021October 7, 2021
Flourish Focus: Jetty
October 7, 2021
A conversation with Mike Rudoy, co-founder and CEO of Jetty.com—a high growth fintech start up that just raised a $23M funding round co-led by Citi and Flourish Ventures.
July 20, 2021September 9, 2021
Flourish Focus: Apollo Agriculture
August 26, 2021
Flourish Focus a series featuring 1:1 exchanges with fintech innovators around the world.
July 14, 2021September 9, 2021
Flourish Focus: Grab Financial Group
July 29, 2021
Flourish Focus a series featuring 1:1 exchanges with fintech innovators around the world.
June 25, 2021September 9, 2021
Flourish Embedded Finance: Plumbing
July 14, 2021
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.