Month: October 2022
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Solaris CEO Roland Folz Hands Over To Carsten Hoeltkemeyer!
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After six years at the helm, co-founder and CEO Roland Folz is waving goodbye to Solaris next year. He will leave the company on April 30, 2023, to be succeeded by Carsten Höltkemeyer, former chairman of the supervisory board of lending platform auxmoney.
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Climate And FinTech Startup Carbonˣ Raise €900,000 In Pre-Seed Funding!
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The carbonˣ (website) team announced a successful €900,000 pre-seed funding round with leading fintech, SaaS, and impact investors, including Algolia co-founders Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine. Carbonˣ is a climate and fintech startup that helps companies meet their net-zero targets by lowering the risk of procuring permanent carbon credits while…
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FinTech Tomorrow Wants Money From The Crowd, Again!
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The green German fintech has been a hit with small investors. But professional investors gave significantly less money this year. In October 2020 and 2021, the Hamburg-based Tomorrow Bank (website) had already raised single-digit million amounts via crowdinvesting. The founders Jakob Berndt, Inas Nureldin, and Michael Schweikart now want to…
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Mexican B2B PayTech Yaydoo Acquires Oyster Financial!
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Mexican B2B paytech company Yaydoo has acquired Oyster Financial, a startup specializing in financial services for small and medium-sized businesses, to strengthen its presence in Latin America. With the acquisition for an undisclosed sum, Oyster CEO Vilash Poovala becomes Yaydoo’s chief technology officer (CTO).
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Egyptian FinTech Money Fellows Raises $31 Million For Expansion!
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The fourth funding round since 2018 was led by CommerzVentures, Middle East Venture Partners, and Arzan Venture Capital. The company announced on Sunday that Egyptian FinTech company Money Fellows had raised $31 million to diversify its service portfolio and expand in Africa and Asia.
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FinTech StartUp Tymit Raised $26 Million In Series A Funding Rund
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Tymit is a credit company that offers traditional credit cards and a “buy-now-pay-later” service. The UK-based FinTech has now closed a $26 million funding round at the beginning of Q4, after successfully raising $5 million earlier in 2019. The round was led by Frasers Group, which operates U.K. retail brands,…
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The New Spin-Off FinTech Of The Hypofriend Founders!
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The construction financing platform Hypofriend (website) is launching a spin-off. With Pensionfriend, the creators want to sell low-cost private pension insurance. But the ambitious plans raise questions. Nick Mulder is founding a new startup. Together with his father, Chris Mulder, the entrepreneur has already built up a fintech without millions…
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High-Risk Payment Processor Fasto Listed On PayRate42
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The cyberfinance rating agency PayRat42 listed the high-risk payment processor and merchant services provider Fasto a/k/a Fasto Payments, which is doing business via legal entities in the U.S. and Estonia. PayRate42 included Fasto in its “Green Compliance” list.
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Tel Aviv Stock Exchange wants to create crypto platform
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On October 24, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) has announced that it is developing a blockchain-based platform to expand its trading services to cryptocurrencies and other digital assets as part of a new strategic plan scheduled for 2023 to 2027.
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Amazon Now Accepts Social Payment Provider Venmo
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Amazon announced that it is introducing Venmo (PR42 profile) as a payment option at checkout. It will launch the feature in the Amazon app and on amazon.com starting Tuesday before it becomes available to U.S. users on Black Friday, Nov. 25, according to Amazon. Amazon thus wants to offer its…