More than any year in the past decade, 2020 put payment systems to the test as more than 200 national and regional...
Perspectives
October 19, 2020April 13, 2021
Flourish Thought Leader Spotlight: Afeef Zaman, Co-founder and CEO, ShopUp
Bangladesh is the world’s 8th most populous country and is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. The 4.5 Million neighborhood...
October 11, 2020November 11, 2020
LendIt 2020 Panel Showcases Fintech Success with Low- to Middle-Income Earners in COVID-19 Era
COVID-19 has exacerbated income volatility and work hour instability for low- to medium- income (LMI) Americans. The good news is, some innovative...
October 6, 2020November 19, 2020
How We Kept Up Making a Difference
By Tilman Ehrbeck Towards the end of February, we got increasingly nervous in our firm about the spreading pandemic. We decided to...
September 22, 2020September 22, 2020
Done Right, Digital Identity Could Enable More Inclusive Finance (Panel Recap)
When the fintech community talks about digital wallets, the conversation often revolves around payments. For years, however, innovators have dreamed of digitalizing...
September 2, 2020February 1, 2021
Fintech and Open Finance Could Better Serve LATAM Gig Workers
Latin America’s formal financial sector reaches too few of the region’s millions of gig workers and independent workers – a growing and...
February 16, 2022February 24, 2022
Unit CEO Itai Damti and Flourish’s Emmalyn Shaw to explain fundraising strategies on TechCrunch Live [TechCrunch]
Itai Damti co-founded Unit in 2019 to help businesses integrate banking services into their consumer products. In 2020, Emmalyn Shaw, as Flourish’s managing partner, invested in Unit’s Series A round, and later, in the company’s B round.
February 10, 2022February 15, 2022
LendIt Fintech Live – February 10, 2022 [LendIt]
On today's news show Todd Anderson, Kabir Kumar and Peter Renton discussed big #fintech news from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Silvergate Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Polygon Technology, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), GoCardless, DriveWealth, Betterment and more.
February 9, 2022February 24, 2022
Brick closes $8.5M seed to enable open finance across Southeast Asia [TechCrunch]
Financial apps are proliferating across Southeast Asia, making things like bookkeeping or securing an online loan easier. But this means fintechs need access to large amounts of data that they can use to verify customer identity, creditworthiness or aggregate information from online accounts.
February 7, 2022February 11, 2022
Nigerian startups raise over $1.2 billion fundings in 2021 [Nairametrics]
Nigerian corporates recorded deals estimated at $8.88 billion in 2021.
February 5, 2022February 11, 2022
I’m an advocate for inclusive capitalism. Here’s why I’m intrigued by Web3 [Fast Company]
The global managing partner of Flourish Ventures, backed by Pam and Pierre Omidyar, shares his perspective on a digital future that could expand economic opportunity—if innovators and society can harness its potential.
January 31, 2022February 1, 2022
India’s Fintech Funding Broke Records In 2021; Can 2022 Top It? [BW Disrupt]
Identifying technological innovations that directly or indirectly advance financial health and economic resilience for families, small businesses and individuals will be a source for enormous opportunity for India’s fintechs.