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Female-led startups dominate Catalyst Fund’s inclusive fintech 2021 cohort

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Catalyst Fund , a global accelerator managed by BFA Global , announced the 8th cohort for its Inclusive Fintech Program today. The accelerator, backed by the JP Morgan Chase and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, runs the flagship program annually. In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

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Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. growth from 2020 to 2021. Importantly, the traditional accelerator model has enjoyed the fruits of these potential paradigm shifts. Moreover, rumors of deeply unethical behavior at accelerators are starting to surface frequently.

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5 emerging use cases for productivity infrastructure in 2021

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According to McKinsey & Company, the pandemic accelerated the share of digitally enabled products by seven years, and “the digitization of customer and supply-chain interactions and of internal operations by three to four years.”

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Indonesian Startup BintanGo Raises $2.2M to Accelerate Live Commerce Expansion

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BintanGo’s prior funding included a pre-seed round of $500,000 conducted in June 2021, just ahead of its launch in September of the same year. The newly introduced features enable brands to showcase their products or services in real-time interactions, adding an interactive layer to marketing strategies.

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The AI App Store Is Here

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And second, it’s stuck in an internet time capsule from September 2021. For consumer applications, companies that run marketplaces or platforms that enable brands (like Instacart, Expedia, or Shopify) will likely be early beneficiaries because they allow users to reach a variety of goods and services through a single portal.

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

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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. Then in the first quarter of 2021, it began offering a “pay-by-link” service as well. Bold ended 2021 with more than 100,000 merchants using its services.

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NeuReality lands $35M to bring AI accelerator chips to market

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Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., NeuReality’s NR1, an FPGA -based SKU within the NAPU family, is a network-attached “server on a chip” with an embedded AI inferencing accelerator along with networking and virtualization capabilities.