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Mobile Lending App Branch Partners With Visa, Announces $170 Million In Fresh Funding
Branch International, a fintech startup that assesses creditworthiness using smartphone data, has raised $170 million in Series C financing and announced a new partnership with Visa.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African e-health startups secure $1.5m Skoll Foundation grants
African e-health startups mPedigree and mPharma are among the five organisations to have been awarded US$1.5 million in grant funding after winning the 2019 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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18 women-led tech startups bag funding from empoWer accelerator program
This third edition of empoWer had the backing of a galaxy of organisations that included Indian Clearing Corporation Limited (ICCL), a wholly owned subsidiary of BSE Ltd. (BSE), as the lead Industry Sponsor.
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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- accelerators, startups
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India’s first female unicorn owner in Forbes 30 under 30 list; retail, e-com disruptors to watch out
Ankiti Bose, who got in the limelight for becoming the first female owner of a $1 billion company named Zilingo, featured in the list among several other notable Indians.
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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- e-commerce, startups
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PayPal Makes Its First-Ever Investment in a Blockchain Startup
Neither PayPal nor Cambridge Blockchain disclosed the investment amount, but recent filings with the SEC indicate that Cambridge Blockchain has raised a total of $3.5 million in new equity from several investors over the past nine months.
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- Technology
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- blockchain, startups
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Why Fintech Startups Are Rapidly Becoming Unicorns in Latin America
In the past few years, over 300 fintech startups have been born in Mexico alone, coming in just second to Brazil, which boasts nearly 400 startups in its own fintech sector.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Latin America
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Women-owned startup Ellevest raises $33 million from Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, PayPal, others to help women achieve their financial goals
Ellevest was founded in 2014 by Charlie Kroll and Sallie Krawcheck with a mission to close the gender-investing gap. Ellevest helps women achieve their financial goals through modern, low-cost investing, with a beautifully designed digital platform backed by a unique investing approach.
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- Investing
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Tackling the water crisis will be just as hard as it sounds
More than 2 billion people around the world lack what the UN considers “safely managed drinking water supplies,” and millions of people across the United States—as much as a quarter of the country, by some estimates—drink water contaminated beyond legal levels.
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- Environment, WASH
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