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...
Perspectives
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, 2021September 14, 2022
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...
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, 2021September 3, 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...
August 1, 2022August 29, 2022
Interview of Emmalyn Shaw, Managing Partner at Flourish Ventures [Paris Fintech Forum Communities]
Discover each week a new episode of our exclusive Interview Video Series where top leaders of the Fintech / Insurtech / Banking international scene speak about their vision of the future of finance.
July 22, 2022July 22, 2022
An Unequal Burden: Measuring Financial Worry In Developing Countries During The Pandemic (Forbes Finance Council)
What does financial worry mean for people globally? The answer depends on objective factors such as how much you earn along with subjective perceptions about what constitutes a financially secure life in a particular society.
July 22, 2022July 22, 2022
M2P Fintech Acquires Syntizen, Its Third Acquisition This Year
It acquired cloud lending platform, Finflux and core banking solutions provider BSG ITSOFT earlier this year.
June 28, 2022June 29, 2022
Mapan’s services helps low-income Indonesians users afford goods and services [TechCrunch]
In Indonesia, arisans are traditionally rotating savings and credit associations (RSCA) that let groups of people, primarily women, save and borrow money together. Mapan digitized that concept and turned it into a service where users, also mostly women, can use it to pay for goods and services.
June 27, 2022June 29, 2022
Bangladesh tech startup ShopUp nets $65m in new funding [Nikkei Asia]
Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures leads latest round for mom-and-pop platform
June 13, 2022June 13, 2022
Qoala aims to be top insurance intermediary in Malaysia [The Sun Daily]
Qoala, through its Malaysian branch Qoala Technology Sdn Bhd (Qoala Malaysia), aims to become the biggest insurance intermediary in Malaysia within two years, by providing more information, choices and convenience at a competitive price point.
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.
June 16, 2021September 9, 2021
Flourish Conversations: How Adopting Open Data for Finance Could Boost Economic Growth in 10 Years
June 24, 2021
In this conversation, uncover the effects of open data for finance within different economies around the world.
May 20, 2021September 9, 2021
Flourish Embedded Finance: Platforms
May 19, 2021
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 19, 2021September 9, 2021
Flourish Focus: TaniHub Group
April 29, 2021
Don’t miss this engaging conversation between Flourish Investor Smita Aggarwal and Co-founder and CEO Pamitra Wineka of TaniHub Group, a rising agritech startup based in Jakarta, as they sit down to discuss how TaniHub emerged from a challenging year with the COVID-19 pandemic stronger and poised for growth.