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👋  Thanks again for subscribing. Here’s what’s worth watching this week….. 👇 Pinned to the Top Square is becoming Block. The financial services company announced Wednesday (two days after Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter) that it is changing its name and rebranding in an effort to distinguish
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👋  Thanks again for subscribing. Here’s what’s worth watching this week….. 👇 Pinned to the Top In the UK, two banks are truly looking to make a difference. Standard Chartered and Starling are teaming up to launch a digital platform that will allow UK customers to invest in green and
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👋  Thanks again for subscribing. Here’s what’s worth watching this week….. 👇 Pinned to the Top Reported last week Lemonade will acquire Metromile. While Lemonade has been at the forefront of using big data and AI in home and pet insurance, Metromile has been trailblazing a parallel path for car
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👋  Thanks again for subscribing. Here’s what’s worth watching this week….. 👇 Pinned to the Top Brex and Ramp Want to Take On Amex. First, They’ll Fight Each Other Brex employees haven’t had to look hard for reminders of their startup’s ambition to reign supreme over the
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👋  Thanks again for subscribing. Here’s what’s worth watching this week….. 👇 Pinned to the Top Brazilian fintech Nubank is shooting for the stars with a US IPO and a $50bn valuation target. The move would see the online lender eclipse the country’s largest traditional lender Itau Unibanco Holding
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👋  Thanks again for subscribing. Here’s what’s worth watching this week….. 👇 Pinned to the Top NerdWallet, the S.F.-based personal finance platform, has set IPO terms to 7.3 million shares at $17-$19. Were it to price in the middle, the company would have a $1.3
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👋  Thanks again for subscribing. Here’s what’s worth watching this week….. 👇 Pinned to the Top For years, the most avid investors in crypto startups have been firms that specialize in the category—with the notable exception of Andreessen Horowitz, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm that got crypto religion
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👋  Thanks again for subscribing. Here’s what’s worth watching this week….. 👇 Pinned to the Top The race for tech providers to fold all of restaurants’ digital needs into one POS-centric solution is growing more competitive. Yesterday, Fiserv announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire restaurant marketing
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👋  Thanks again for subscribing. Here’s what’s worth watching this week….. 👇 Pinned to the Top On Friday, NerdWallet made public its paperwork for a U.S. initial public offering. Which revealed a more than 32% jump in revenue YOY. In the six months ended June 30, the company reached
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👋  Thanks again for subscribing. There's a LOT packed in here. Have a read...👇 (NOTE as always if you have something you want to share (company, news, etc.) use the form here -> ) Pinned to the Top Betterment, announced this past week that it has raised $60 million in
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👋  Thanks again for subscribing. Here’s what’s worth watching this week….. 👇 Pinned to the Top PayPal has been talking about its “super app” plans for some time, having recently told investors its upcoming digital wallet and payments app had been given a go for launch. Last week, the first
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👋  Thanks again for subscribing. Here’s what’s worth watching this week….. 👇 Pinned to the Top Varo Bank, which last year became the first U.S. neobank to be granted a national bank charter, announced last week that it has raised a staggering $510 million in a Series E funding