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Fintech Fills a Gap for Divorced Parents Co-managing Money

Rome formed a startup, Onward, that developed an app that helps parents who have split co-manage their children's expenses.
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Top VCs are Bullish on Payments Startups. These Are the 5 types of Fintechs They're Most Excited About.

Through 2020 and 2021, it seemed like the value of both private and public financial-technology startups could only go up. But this year, there's been no shortage of pain for the fintech names that once nabbed dizzying valuations. . .
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Would You Sell Your Vacation Days for Cash?

When newly-licensed social worker Javon Garcia was hired in late 2020 by Howard Brown Health, an LGBTQ nonprofit in Chicago, he was thrown into a new life as a virtual therapist. Between the pandemic-induced spike in the number of people seeking help ...
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Banyan Raises $43M to Grow Its Network of Item-level Purchase Data

Banyan, a platform for product purchase data that allows customers such as banks, fintechs, hotels and merchants to automate expense management and more, today announced that it raised $43 million in a Series A funding round.
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Bookkeep Raises Another $6.6M to Automate Accounting Entries from Any Platform

Bookkeep is an accounting automation platform for businesses and accounting firms that streamlines the process of recording manual entries. The platform integrates directly with 30 sales, e-commerce, and payment platforms while also processing PDFs...
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OpenSea Ventures Among Backers for $7M Round for Crypto Security Startup

Web3 Builders Inc, a new smart contract and non-fungible token (NFT) security startup, raised $7 million in seed funding with backers that included Road Capital and the venture capital arm of NFT marketplace OpenSea. The funding will help build out ...
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Exclusive: International Money-Transfer Startup Higlobe Gets $14 Million from Battery Ventures

International payments-transfer startup Higlobe has raised $14 million in a Series A round that Battery Ventures led. Higlobe, founded in 2020, uses asset-backed stablecoins to facilitate money transfers between countries, but end users never ...
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The Deal Podcast: Neil Kapur—TTV Capital

Neil Kapur is a Partner at TTV Capital. We discuss what great looks like in FinTech deals and what he is excited about in the future.
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These 61 Fintechs are Primed to Take a Big Step in 2023, According to Top Investors

Even as funding in fintech fell to one of its lowest levels since the pandemic started, investors still see bright spots in the sector. Insider surveyed 43 investors — including those from Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, ...
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“There's a Storm Coming, but We're on a Good Boat." KOHO Says it's Ready to Navigate Downturn

In the last two years, the Canadian tech sector’s growth has been rampant, as pandemic-fuelled demand for digitization proliferated across the economy. Toronto-based FinTech startup Koho’s growth has more or less mirrored that of the broader...
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