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Tandem CEO will tell you why building a bank is hard at Disrupt Berlin (Mi, 19 Sep 2018)
Challenger banks, neobanks or digital-only banks… Whatever we choose to call them, Europe — and the U.K. in particular — has more than its fair share of bank upstarts battling it out for a slice of the growing fintech pie. One of those is Tandem, co-founded by financial technology veteran Ricky Knox, who we’re excited […]
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‘Brotopia’ inspired OODA Health to raise its $40.5M round only from firm’s with female partners (Mi, 19 Sep 2018)
OODA Health, a startup developing technology to make the U.S. healthcare payment system more efficient, has raised $40.5 million in a round led by Oak HC/FT and DFJ.
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Vegan meal delivery startup Allplants is served £7.5M Series A funding (Mi, 19 Sep 2018)
Allplants, a London-based startup that delivers ready-made “plant-based” meals (that’s vegan, to you and me), has raised £7.5 million in Series A funding. The round is led by VC firm Octopus Ventures, which was an early backer in healthy snack delivery company Graze. Additional investors in the round include existing backer Felix Capital (which I’m […]
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Committed to privacy, Snips founder wants to take on Alexa and Google, with blockchain (Mi, 19 Sep 2018)
The story could be a harbinger of things to come when voice becomes more and more ubiquitous. After all, Amazon announced the launch of Alexa for Hospitality, its Alexa system for hotels, in June. News stories like this simply reinforce the idea that voice control is seeping into our daily lives. The French startup Snips […]
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Inside the pay-for-post ICO industry (Di, 18 Sep 2018)
In a world where nothing can be trusted and fake news abounds, ICO and crypto teams are further muddying the waters by trying – and often failing – to pay for posts. While bribes for blogs is nothing new, sadly the current crop of ICO creators and crypto projects are particularly interested in scaling fast […]
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