Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK is home to some of the largest payments companies and most successful neobanks in the world, Wise, Starling, and Monzo among them. That success has been bolstered by the fact that the UK is among the world’s most innovative financial services regulatory environments. Regulation is generally a blocker to innovation. But the UK has used it to foster domestic competition and successfully grow its global presence.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Under the leadership of Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli, the Malaysian government will be hosting a startup convention soon. The primary objective of this initiative is to help local technopreneurs to grow within the country. Rafizi emphasized that the development of startup companies holds great importance in speeding up Malaysia’s economic transition toward technology and digital

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Over the past decade, India’s central bank—the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)—has become one of the most proactive regulators in the world, advancing the digitization of payments and financial services at a rapid pace. Aadhaar, the country’s pioneering digital ID system, and UPI, its real-time digital payments system, are largely regarded as models for delivering financial services and social benefits more widely and efficiently.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Nearly two years ago, Katie Haun left Andreessen Horowitz and raised two crypto funds totaling $1.5 billion. And then . . . a crypto market crisis happened. At TechCrunch Disrupt, she looked back at what happened over the past couple of years and confirmed that she’s still very optimistic about the future of crypto.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lee este artículo en Español. The world of finance is undergoing a profound transformation, and Mexico is no exception. In recent years, the country has witnessed a burgeoning fintech industry, particularly in the business-to-business (B2B) sector: Mexico’s fintech market now encompasses over 650 companies and counting. This evolution has been accelerated by regulatory changes that are fostering innovation and competition within the financial technology landscape.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Stuff used to break. If you’re of a certain age – *cough* like I am *cough* – you’ll remember that every city and town would have electronics repair shops. Your TV, VCR, clock radio would stop working, and you’d take it in to get it fixed. Decades ago, electronics chain stores and cell phone carriers figured this out and created point-of-sale insurance programs to cover the future cost of fixes.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

If ChatGPT is showing us anything, it’s that most entrepreneurs are wildly confused about what startups are actually supposed to do.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Leia esse artigo em Português. / Lee este artículo en Español. Software is inherently global and easily transcends borders—localizing it can be as easy as translating the language. Who is the Google of Brazil? Google. The globalization of money, however, is considerably more challenging. This is especially true for global businesses, which grapple with multiple bank accounts in multiple currencies, opaque and expensive foreign exchange rates, unpredictable money transfers, weeks-long reco

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Mehdi Taifi, the founder and CEO of RoleScale Inc. Mehdi is a seasoned entrepreneur with a strong background in both Wall Street and Silicon Valley. With over 18 years of combined experience in financial services and technology, Mehdi brings a unique perspective to the world of startups. As the founder of RoleScale, a SaaS startup specializing in recruitment technology, Mehdi is dedicated to revolutionizing the industry with cutting-edge solutions.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lee este artículo en E spañol. Colombia’s finance sector has historically been one of the most regulated in the world. Over the past decade, however, the country has quietly become the third-largest fintech hub in Latin America (trailing only Brazil and Mexico), home to nearly 300 fintech companies. Seventy-six percent of Colombians use fintech services, according to an Ernst & Young report, the highest fintech adoption rate in Latin America, and from 2008 to 2022, the percentage of Colombia

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Versatile VC is hosting a one-hour interactive webinar on Thursday, September 28, at noon EST. We’ll discuss Versatile VC ‘s strategy, how we see the market, and some of the opportunities we think are exciting. This is strictly for accredited investors. RSVP. Versatile Venture Capital backs early-stage companies which help investors generate alpha and grow.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Your customers know what they want more than you do. Find one to teach you. This week’s insight came from personal experience and from a good friend who advanced the notion of the “teacher-customer” years ago. I internalized this phrase, recalling the many times I had partnered with customers to design new feature-functionality into my hotel computer system back when such systems were brand new to the industry.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

OpenAI’s mysterious, nontraditional approach to marketing actually comes from Apple.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, which maintains the nonprofit Signal messaging app, reaffirmed that Signal would leave the U.K. if the country’s recently passed Online Safety Bill forced Signal to build “backdoors” into its end-to-end encryption. “We would leave the U.K.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

How cross-border infrastructure, instant payments, and open banking advances are creating a more integrated, financially inclusive world.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Generative AI has brought a host of copyright issues to the fore. Just this week, authors including George R.R. Martin, led by the Authors Guild, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the startup’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, was trained on their work without their knowledge or consent.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

An animated guide to the sticking points behind cross-border payments. $8 trillion moves between different currencies every single day. It’s the biggest market in the world. It’s about 30 times daily global GDP. If you’re new to foreign exchange, but you’ve experienced the pain of it taking a long time and you’re in agony wondering if the money that you sent is ever going to reach the recipient, and how much money they’re going to get, and who’s taking f

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

TikTok is testing a new feature that integrates Google Search into its own in-app search results. The test, spotted by app researcher Radu Oncescu, shows a small box midway down TikTok’s search page that invites users to search for the same terms on Google.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Read this article in English. / Read this article in Spanish. Softwares são globais por natureza e transcendem fronteiras com facilidade—localizar um software pode significar simplesmente traduzi-lo para outro idioma. Quem é o Google do Brasil? É o Google. A globalização do dinheiro , no entanto, é um desafio muito maior. Isso é especialmente válido para empresas globais, que lidam com diversas contas bancárias em diferentes moedas, taxas de câmbio obscuras e caras, transferências imprevis

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform that helps e-commerce companies build AI-powered customer service agents. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Columbus Blue Jackets and Delaware North are excited to announce a new, hassle-free checkout experience at the team’s official retail store, The Blue Line at Nationwide Arena. The new system consists of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology provided by EXO Checkout which instantly scans all the items for the customer. Read more here.

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As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Plantiga Technologies, a Vancouver-based movement analytics company, wants to help people improve rehabilitation and reduce injury risks through an artificial intelligence-powered monitoring sensor pod that can be embedded into shoes, orthotics or insoles to analyze users’ movement patterns.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Varo Bank customers can now send funds to anyone with a U.S. bank account, the company announced Thursday, part of a new feature called “Varo to Anyone.” The feature allows Varo account holders to instantly transfer funds at no cost to anyone with a U.S. debit card, the company said. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

What is a Surface event without a Panos Panay? Microsoft answered the existential question today during a New York City Windows event.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Automat-IT, a leading provider of DevOps and FinOps services, and Anodot, the augmented FinOps company, have announced a long-term strategic partnership. The partnership is focused on helping customers maximize the value of their AWS deployments.

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