FINOS’ New Silver Members Pave the Way for Further Commercial Open Source Adoption in Financial Services
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) today announced three new silver members including Canonical, the publisher of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, Databricks, an open core cloud data and AI company and Codethink, a provider of open source engineering services.
Fintech Start-up Launches to Help SMEs Manage Cash Flow
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Payments, FinTech StartUps
Manchester-based fintech start-up Hydr today announces the launch of its proprietary invoice finance platform to help small businesses optimise their cash flow. Co-founded by fintech experts with first-hand experience of the challenges that long payment terms and late payments can create, Nicola Weedall and Hector Macandrew are on a mission to tackle poor payment culture in the UK.
4 Unique Startup Financing Strategies
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Millions of startups are launched every year, but only a fraction of those enterprises are ever successful. The primary factor in these failures is the lack of proper funding. You may have a winning idea for a business, but if you don’t have the money to build capital that will get your company going, you may find yourself quickly out of business.
Xiggit Unveils First-of-a-Kind Solution to Help SMEs Offer “Large Company Benefits''
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Xiggit, a next-gen fintech startup modernizing benefits, formally unveiled its solution that delivers for the first time benefits down market. Xiggit’s new offering helps small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) offer workers a broad set of high-value financial benefits. Xiggit is the first and only provider to offer SMEs a simplified provision of benefits that requests employers set a budget for employees.
Payslip closes an additional $10M to its Series A financing round
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, Accounting, BPM
Payslip, an automation and integration technology platform for global payroll management, today announced a successful close of an additional $10M to its Series A financing round, bringing the company’s total financing to $14.5M.
ScaleXP announces seed funding round
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Data, FinTech StartUps
ScaleXP - the automated analytics platform that helps small businesses consolidate their financial and sales data - today announces that it has raised £600,000 in a seed funding round.
Amount — One of the Fastest Growing FinTech Players Worldwide — Reaches $1B Unicorn Status
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Banking, FinTech StartUps
Amount, a leading technology provider for financial institutions, today announced it has closed a Series D capital raise, bringing in nearly $100 million of additional primary equity capital from WestCap, a growth equity firm founded by Laurence Tosi, Hanaco Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Invus Opportunities and
Antler Closes Oversubscribed Nordic Fund at $36M
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Investment, FinTech StartUps, Technical
The global early-stage venture capital firm Antler has closed their first Nordic fund. Following strong interest, Antler’s Nordic fund was oversubscribed, closing at $36m, including participation from Draper Esprit, Kistefos, the Danish state fund Vækstfonden, and the Norwegian state fund Investinor.
UK-based FinTech Infinity Circle Selects Zensar for End-to-End Development
- 2 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
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UK RegTech Startup ALT/AVE Secures £535,000 Investment in Pre-seed Funding and Innovate UK Grant
- 2 years 11 months ago
- RegTech, FinTech StartUps
ALT/AVE (www.altave.co.uk), the London-based RegTech startup that uses distributed ledger technology to combat the masses of paper waste in banking, today announces that it has raised a combined total of £535,000 in new growth capital.
SEON Opens New Office to Tackle the North American Fraud Prevention Market
- 2 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, Technical
SEON, the fraud fighters, today announces the launch of its new office in Austin, Texas. The move marks the company’s expansion in the North American market, as it adds strategic new hires to better serve its customers and continues its mission to remove the barriers to fraud prevention around the globe.
Canada’s Top 4 FinTech Companies Which Attract Students
- 2 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
The finance game is on a rise and those who seek a career in this field have a lot to be happy about because their prospects are enormous. Nowadays, top fintech companies are earning hundreds of millions of dollars plus these firms are among the favorite startup enterprises among investors. If you don’t like math or statistics or anything that has to do with numbers then finance might be the most boring thing in the world for you.
Hong Kong ICT Awards 2021 Opens for Enrolment
- 2 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
The Hong Kong ICT Awards (HKICTA) 2021 is open for enrolment today (April 23). Entries of locally developed information and communications technology (ICT) products and solutions are invited to compete for the Grand Awards in the eight award categories, and the top accolade of the competition - the Award of the Year. The deadline for enrolment is July 16, 2021.
Instamojo Acquihires Entertainment Start-up Showman
- 2 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Instamojo, a full-stack solutions provider for MSMEs, today announced its first ever acquihire of Bengaluru-based virtual theatre and vernacular content platform, Showman. The acquihire will see the on-boarding of the founding member team of Showman. Kshitij Bhatawdekar, Cofounder & CEO of Showman joins Instamojo as Product Manager, while Rutveez Roopam Rout, Cofounder & COO of Showman joins as User Research Manager.
Three Highest-Valued US Startups Now Worth $208 Billion Following Stripe’s $95 Billion Valuation
- 2 years 11 months ago
- Payments, FinTech StartUps
Three Highest-Valued US Startups Now Worth $208 Billion Following Stripe’s $95 Billion Valuation Following its most recent funding round, Stripe became the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley. According to the research data analyzed and published by ComprarAcciones.com, the digital payments giant raised $600 million at a $95 billion valuation.