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The lowdown on Vertice, the platform enabling businesses to streamline their software purchases and renewals and lower their SaaS costs. In 2022, the global annual spend on software-as-a-service is projected to be over $145 billion. Part of this obviously reflects the fact that more and more of what we need is becoming available in handy SaaS form, but that’s still a lot of money, and a f...
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  Providing all-in-one support - Maslife is an app that's aiming to align and balance your financial, mental and physical wellbeing. Financial problems and mental wellbeing can often go hand in hand as financial struggles can sometimes result in worry and stress. Thankfully Maslife has been created to help change the narrative! The startup’s Al-assisted app was launched in 2018 and a...
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mmob, the UK’s first embedded finance network, announces the successful completion of a £5m seed round. Good news for mmob, having secured major investment from a group of angel investors including high net worth individuals and senior banking executives. The investment will be used to advance the development of its technology platform, enter new markets including Malaysia...
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Tom Britton, Co-founder of Syndicate Room shares insights on the continued popularity of the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). Since the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) was launched in 1994, it has raised more than £24bn, and benefited 32,965 individual companies. But is the scheme still popular among investors today, and if so, what are the main attractions? EIS and VCT are going s...
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Fintech platform, BFM secures major investment to support its mission of boosting access to finance for UK SMEs. It’s a great start to the month for the Business Finance Market (BFM) team with the news that they have just secured £1.3 million super seed investment for their innovative fintech platform in a round led by Growth Capital Ventures. BFM aims to boost access to finance fo...
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The lowdown on Kanda, the fintech startup that's on a mission to help tradespeople build their businesses and win better work. Any entrepreneur or freelance worker of any kind will likely have had experience of clients not paying for the work they hired them to do, whether because they change their minds, decide the work isn’t up to their impossible standards, or just think they can get ...
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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 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 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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Lloyd's Lab, the award-winning accelerator is back and is seeking innovative startups to take part in the latest cohort, Cohort 7. Check it out! Innovative InsurTech startups take note - Lloyd’s Lab wants to hear from you! The award winning accelerator, Lloyd’s Lab, run in association with L Marks, is currently on the look-out for innovative startups to take part in its latest coho...
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