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Colombia’s Bold raises $55M in Tiger Global-led round to enable digital payments in LatAm

TechCrunch

Bold , a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia, has raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. It claims that merchants supported by Bold have seen sales grow about 25% on average simply by enabling digital payments. . “If

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BarbAIrians at the Gate: The Financial Opportunity of AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Instead of financial engineering and the improved management techniques that PE promotes , we’ll start seeing AI cut costs and make existing companies vastly more profitable…while also enabling new business models to emerge. As technology continues to improve, the answer is an unequivocal “yes.” billion, against almost $2.8

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YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance

TechCrunch

The API-based tool, dubbed Grow, has so far been integrated with 22 tech entities across Africa including Topship, Barter by Flutterwave, Float, Fingo and Payhippo, enabling them to either bundle their main products with insurance packages or offer insurance as a standalone service. The opportunity is massive.

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Zego, the tech-enabled commercial motor insurer, raises $150M at $1.1B valuation

TechCrunch

Zego , the insurtech that got its start by offering flexible motorbike insurance for gig economy workers but has since expanded with a range of tech-enabled commercial motor insurance products, has raised $150 million. Leading the London-based company’s C round — giving it a $1.1

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Why India Leads in Digital Payments

Andreessen Horowitz

The groundwork was Aadhaar (“foundation” in Hindi), a nationwide database established by the government in 2009 to enable digital identity verification. By 2019, the government had issued a unique ID to nearly every adult resident in India; today, the system is used by 1.3 This helped with fraud and enabled smooth KYC compliance.

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Next Level Entrepreneurship: Investing in a New Generation of Startups

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In fact, the work he does outside of his original business helped him earn the 2019 EO Global Citizen of the Year. In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation.

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India’s higher education startup Sunstone raises $35 million

TechCrunch

Founded in 2019, Sunstone is addressing these challenges by offering students a wide-range of additional courses and helping them with securing jobs, its co-founder Piyush Nangru told TechCrunch in an interview. Piyush Nangru (left) and Ashish Munjal co-founded Sunstone in 2019. “The colleges are operating at 40% occupancy.

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