Surviving a war zone. Unrelenting fear. Decimated strategies. This is how startups in India describe the catastrophe that the Covid-19 pandemic and...
Perspectives
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...
March 10, 2021March 10, 2021
What The Headlines Won’t Tell You – A Deeper Look at the U.S. Economic Recovery and Its Fragility
By Shrey Shetye A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, there is no doubt the U.S. economy has begun to show signs of...
March 4, 2021March 4, 2021
When Investing Under Pandemic Uncertainty, Purpose Matters Even More
By Tilman Ehrbeck When the pandemic hit a year ago, I tried to make sense of the broader economic outlook. A few...
May 17, 2022May 17, 2022
Bill Pay Solution Cushion Closes $12 Million Series A To Grow Talent Roster [Cushion]
Cushion, a leader in bank and credit card fee negotiation, announced today that it has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The funding will enable Cushion to hire talent across product, engineering, data analytics, and marketing as it readies its bill pay solution for a general audience after months of beta testing.
May 17, 2022May 17, 2022
Fighting Financial Discrimination with Thoughtful Product Design [Hummingbird]
Here’s a simple truth. There is no way to understand the financial industry without also understanding our country’s long and difficult struggle against financial discrimination. Discrimination and economic disenfranchisement go hand in hand, and some of the worst forms of racism and discrimination can be found where prejudice and bias meet with the financial system.
May 13, 2022May 17, 2022
Qoala becomes SEA’s fastest growing insurtech through $65m Series B funding [Reinsurance News]
Indonesian insurtech start-up Qoala, has announced that it has successfully raised Series B funding of US$65 million, a thirty times growth since the company’s Series A round in April 2020.
May 12, 2022May 17, 2022
Wholesale Ecommerce Startup ApnaKlub Raises $10 Mn From Tiger Global To Take Its Platform To 20K Partners [Inc42]
Since 2020, ApnaKlub has welcomed more than 5,000 partners on its platform and is planning to expand its reach. The startup raised about $4 Mn in funding from Sequoia India’s Surge, Blume Ventures, Whiteboard Capital and Flourish Ventures in August 2021.
May 12, 2022May 17, 2022
Bill pay fintech Cushion gets $12M Series A financing to become one-stop bill payment shop [ZD Net]
Proceeds from the financing will be used for hiring talent across its products, engineering, data analytics and marketing as its bill pay solution is in the beta-testing stages.
May 11, 2022May 17, 2022
Qoala Raises US$ 65 Million in Series B, Clocking 30X Business Growth Since Series A [PR Newswire]
Qoala raised US$ 65 million in Series B funding led by Eurazeo with participation from several existing investors including Flourish Ventures, KB Investment, MassMutual Ventures, MDI Ventures, SeedPlus and Sequoia Capital India. In addition, BRI Ventures, Daiwa PI Partners, Indogen Capital, Mandiri Capital Indonesia and Salt Ventures also joined the investment round as new investors.
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.