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London-based startup Nimbla secures investment to support scaling of its innovative invoice insurance business It’s a good start to the month for London-based fintech startup Nimbla with the announcement of a £5.1m funding round led by Silicon Valley venture fund Fin VC with participation from Barclays Bank. Founded in 2016, the Nimbla platform enables businesses to trade with a pe...
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  The lowdown on fintech startup, Juno, the financial education platform for women and non-binary people Becoming financially literate early on in life is important, and there has been a recent boost in the number of fintech focused startups (fintech startup Strive, springs to mind) creating apps and platforms to help better people’s understanding of the subject. The problem is that ...
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Innovative Debt Capital Markets Intelligence Platform, 9fin secures major funding to support its expansion into the US market. US expansion is on the horizon for 9fin, a leading provider of data, news and predictive analytics for debt capital markets with its announcement of an £8M Series A round. The investment was led by Redalpine, alongside previous investors in the company, Fly Ventu...
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  The lowdown on the innovative companies that have been selected as the latest cohort of FinTech, Tech Nation’s sector-specific growth programme for fintech entrepreneurs. We’ve heard lots of good news recently from the Tech Nation team with details of the cohorts taking part in their Net Zero programme for climate tech companies, their Future Fifty programme for late stage tec...
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The lowdown on Plend, the London-based fintech that's on a mission to end the hardship caused by financial exclusion so people are not held back by their credit history Financial exclusion is a growing issue where people are, as the term suggests, excluded from financial services and can access nothing more than a basic bank account. Financial insecurity affects more than 13 million people in t...
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  The lowdown on JustTip, the Dublin-based fintech startup that's developed an innovative solution to change the way we tip More and more, we are turning to cashless options to pay for everything, particularly in response to COVID-19 fears. Even at the till, the options aren’t always cash or card anymore, with some places offering their own apps through which you can pay with multiple...
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Fintech startup Lightyear announces major funding boost to accelerate its plans to open up transparent and low-cost investing to everyone in Europe It’s a momentous day for fintech startup Lightyear with the announcement that it has secured an additional $8.5M of funding in addition to launching its app and onboarding the first UK customers from its waiting list. The funding was led by Mo...
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  The lowdown on fintech startup Twig and its “Bank of Things” enabling users to turn their things into instant cash. We have written recently about startups helping people to sell or rent their unwanted belongings rather than having them end up in a landfill - startups such as Young Planet and By Rotation, for example. It's clear they're doing their bit to address a huge proble...
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Ntropy secures major investment to help with expansion of its team, support market growth and future product development. Fab news for Ntropy, a company removing data barriers to understand financial transactions, as they have just announced a $3.2M seed round led by QED Investors, who has previously invested in fintech unicorns Nubank, Klarna, and Current. January Ventures and founders and exe...
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Want to get into crypto but don't know where to begin? Step forward Young Platform, a fintech startup that's on a mission to help There are more than 100 million cryptocurrency holders in the world. There are numerous different cryptocurrency ‘wallets’ and all kinds of technologies, platforms, and services popping up, and it can be overwhelming to start trying to get into and wrap y...
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