By Tilman Ehrbeck If we ever needed it, the past 12 months have provided a stark reminder that good government, a functioning...
Perspectives
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...
February 25, 2021February 26, 2021
Strengthening Our Global Team to Address Accelerating Tech Trends and Growing Need for More Financial Health
With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we are more determined than ever to double down and empower passionate fintech entrepreneurs around the globe....
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.
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.