Category: Founders
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Bitcoin Mining Chip From Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Enters Prototype Stage!
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Block’s Bitcoin mining chip will make Bitcoin mining easily accessible for individual miners and crypto mining firms. After resigning as Twitter CEO in 2021, Jack Dorsey shifted his focus toward building Block (website), a Web3-friendly financial services company. Block allegedly completed the prototype design of a 5-nanometer high-performance Bitcoin mining…
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Meet Entrepreneur Paul Klansckek And Bitpanda!
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In 2014 Paul Klanschek founded with Eric Demuth and Christian Trummer Bitpanda, one of the most popular crypto trading Platforms in Europe!
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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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Former Tinkoff Executives Raise $16 Million For FinTech Startup!
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Three former executives of Russian online bank Tinkoff, George Chesakov, Pavel Fedorov, and Raffy Montemayor, have raised $16 million to launch a fintech startup focused on Southeast Asia, initially targeting the Philippines, they announced.
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Fintech Pioneer Bill Harris Launches Nirvana Money!
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Fintech pioneer and serial entrepreneur Bill Harris launched Nirvana Money, an accessible credit card product designed to simplify money management for middle-income people. The company plans to combine the best features of a credit card, bank account and rewards program into a single card.
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Kenyan Pezesha Receives $11M from Women’s World Banking And IOG!
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The Kenyan embedded finance fintech company Pezesha (website) secured an $11 million pre-Series A equity round led by Women’s World Banking Capital Partners II with participation from Verdant Frontiers Fintech Fund, cFund, and Cardano blockchain maker Input Output Global (IOG). The round also included a $5 million loan from Talanton…
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Funding Circle Co-Founder Unveils New fintech Super Payments With $27M Investment!
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Samir Desai (pictured above), the co-founder of Funding Circle, has unveiled Super Payments, a fintech startup he founded back in February but very little was known about until now. The startup successfully raised £22.5 million (about $27 million) in a funding round led by Accel, with participation from Union Square…