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Nigerian banking-as-a-service platform Maplerad raises $6M, led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures
TechCrunch via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoFintechs offering BaaS services in the U.S. and Europe, such as Unit, Rapyd and Treasury Prime, have...
Valar Ventures leads $20M round in online brokerage platform baraka
TechCrunch via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoStock-trading apps have multiplied over the past couple of years, targeting varying demographics and...
Majority, a mobile bank for migrants, closes third venture round in just over a year
TechCrunch via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoNine months after raising a Series A round, Majority has raised tens of millions in both equity and...
Lease-to-own fintech startup Kafene raises $18M to battle BNPL
TechCrunch via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoKafene, a lease-to-own startup aimed at underbanked consumers who don’t have access to traditional...
India seizes $46 million from crypto exchange Vauld in money-laundering probe
TechCrunch via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoIndia’s anti-money laundering agency has frozen assets worth $46.4 million from the local entity of...
Link raises $30M to help merchants accept direct bank payments
TechCrunch via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoThe two entrepreneurs -- friends since their first day as Wharton undergraduates -- for years...
Kuda takes digital banking play to the UK with its remittance product
TechCrunch via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoKuda, the London-based and Nigerian-operating startup taking on incumbents in the country with a...
Petal raises $35M, spins off data unit 'to bring credit scores into the 21st century'
TechCrunch via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoThe United States credit system as it exists today has been around for decades and many would argue...
Daily Crunch: Kanye West reaches agreement to acquire social media platform Parler
TechCrunch via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoManish has the basics on the deal. Flipping over the metaverse: Manish had yet another chart-topper...
Taxfix, the $1B German accounting startup, slashes 120 jobs amid funding crunch
TechCrunch via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoTaxfix leaped to a $1 billion valuation in 2022 on the back of a popular mobile app used by...