By Arjuna Costa & Stella Klemperer Imagine a world where a Brazilian street vendor can easily transition to a new job in food...
Perspectives
Bangladesh VC Panel Recap: Fintech Opportunities in the World’s Fastest Growing Economy
While COVID-19 is affecting Bangladesh as everywhere, the economy is still projected to grow at 6% – possibly the fastest in the...
Racial Injustice Has No Place in Our Society
At Flourish, we stand against racial injustice that has plagued America and other societies for a very long time. We recognize the...
New Brazil Banking Survey: Consumer Trends Shift As a Result of COVID-19 Outbreak
Since March, Flourish has been taking the pulse of the economies where we invest, gauging the global impact of COVID-19 on families...
Helping Smallholder Farmers Grow in Africa: Why We Invested in Apollo Agriculture
Traditionally, the transaction costs of serving farmers have been too high to permit commercial models. However, a new wave of technology-driven ventures...
Early Stage Funding in Africa — A Pulse Check (Webinar)
By Arjuna Costa and Ameya Upadhyay Entrepreneurs everywhere are dealing with much uncertainty right now, especially in Africa, where capital markets are...
Finding India’s next fintech unicorn [Express Computer]
Early stage fintech investors looking for the next PayTM need to focus on four key factors – Seasoned founders, proven monetization, a real ‘moat’ around the product and a full technology stack are key considerations.
Hear from these amazing investors and founders on TechCrunch Live this February [TechCrunch]
TechCrunch Live (formerly Extra Crunch Live) is coming back this February, and we have a fantastic lineup to start the new season. Changes are coming to the show, too. In 2022 look for more pitch decks, more pitch-offs and more of the best founder/investor combos.
Indian Neobank Fintech Kaleidofin Finalizes $10M Series B Round led by Dell Foundation [Crowdfund Insider]
The capital injection has now taken the total funding secured by Kaleidofin to $18 million. Existing institutional investors, Oiko Credit, Flourish Ventures, Omidyar Network, Blume Ventures and Bharat Fund also joined the investment round.
For FinTechs, Outcomes ‘The One Thing’ to Focus on in 2022 [Pymnts.com]
Many people are in a better financial position than before the pandemic.
At least by some metrics.
They’ve paid down debt. Perhaps they’ve padded their savings cushions with funding from the waves of stimulus payments. And yet the pressures of daily life remain.
Top Ten 2022 Fintech Predictions [Forbes]
2021 was a transformative year for fintech. What felt like a corner of the technology industry a decade ago, is today the largest funded category globally: fintech received over $130b in capital representing 20% of all capital invested in 2021.
ShopUp Extends Series B Funding Round with $34 Million from Tiger Global and Others [Future Startup]
ShopUp, the Dhaka-based full-stack B2B commerce startup digitizing neighborhood shops with an ecosystem of solutions from marketplace to logistics to capital, has closed a $34-million Series B extension round led by Tiger Global Management.