By Anuradha Ramachandran and Harsh Gupta Mobile adoption is on the rise among India’s fish and shrimp farmers. With half a billion...
Perspectives
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...
April 13, 2021April 14, 2021
Why We Believe Credflow Will Empower Indian Business Owners
Empowering Indian Business Owners with an Automated Cashflow and Payments Collection Service
March 15, 2021December 15, 2021
Why we invested in M2P Fintech: this API infrastructure drives financial inclusion
by Anuradha Ramachandran and Harsh Gupta The financial ecosystem in India is being rapidly disrupted by technology. Large and specialized fintech players...
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.
June 13, 2022June 13, 2022
Mobile-based PoS app QueueBuster raises Rs 63.3 cr in series A round [Business Standard]
Funding led by Chiratae Ventures, Omidyar Network India and Flourish Ventures
June 8, 2022November 7, 2022
Accelerating financial inclusion through the use of embedded finance [The Standard]
Embedded finance demonstrates an opportunity for fintechs, banks and lenders to create more tools and resources for those that may not have access to traditional banking.
April 13, 2021September 9, 2021
Flourish Conversations: Digital Acceleration – Opportunities in India
April 13, 2021
In this conversation, entrepreneurs in India talk frankly about the challenges, losses and successes of running a startup during a global pandemic.
March 25, 2021December 15, 2021
Flourish Focus: Embedded Finance in India – A Conversation with M2P Fintech (formerly YAP)
March 25, 2021
YAP is part of the burgeoning fintech market category of embedded finance. Its modular API platform allows SMEs in India to connect and roll out their own branded financial offering through its end-to-end service.
February 25, 2021September 8, 2021
Flourish Focus: Heru
February 25, 2021
Join us for a discussion between Flourish Managing Partner, Arjuna Costa and Mateo Jaramillo, CEO and Co-founder of Mexico City-based Heru. They’ll discuss the inspiration behind Mateo’s startup that offers Latin American gig workers digital services and community safe stops.
December 8, 2020September 8, 2021
Digital Infrastructure for Fair Finance: Flourish Ventures at Singapore Fintech Festival 2020
December 8, 2020
The shortcomings of America’s retail financial systems became evident when the government responded to the economic fallout of the pandemic. The payment system moved slowly—it took as long as three months to get government payments to an estimated 100 million Americans.
October 10, 2020September 8, 2021
Flourish Focus: Thought Leader Spotlight – ShopUp
October 10, 2020
We have remained inspired by ShopUp's vision for a more inclusive financial system that begins with providing SMEs access to the formal financial sector. Smita Aggarwal sits down with Afeef Zaman, Co-founder and CEO of ShopUp, to tell his founder story.
May 7, 2020September 8, 2021
Flourish Conversations: Early Stage Funding in Africa A Pulse Check
May 7, 2020
Watch as Arjuna Costa and Ameya Upadhyay convene with leading Africa-focused VCs to discuss investing and fundraising in the current health and financial crisis.