Slope Brings On New CFO, Customers, Capital As It Rises To Offer Businesses Buy Now, Pay Later
Slope, a company that makes it simple for businesses to provide purchase now, pay later options, has had a busy six months. Given that the…
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No Signs of a Slowdown in Africa’s Tech Funding, Data Show
Is it possible that Africa’s IT sector would be unaffected by the global investment slump? It appears to be a strange question to pose. “Africa,…
Elon Musk Says He ‘Doesn’t Care About the Economics’ Of Buying Twitter
Elon Musk stated this morning that he has made a $43 billion deal to acquire Twitter. He just purchased 9.2% of the firm for $3…
Ecological Footprint – a Tool for Measuring Human Demand
The Global Footprint Network promotes the ecological footprint as a tool for measuring human demand on natural capital, i.e. the amount of nature required to…
Digital Bank Umba Raises $15M, Plans To Expand Into Three New African Markets
In Nigeria, as well as the rest of Africa, there is no scarcity of digital banks. These fintechs believe that now is the appropriate moment…
Natural Capital
Natural capital is the world’s stock of natural assets, which includes geology, soil, air, water, and all living things. Humans derive a wide range of…
Primary Care Ethics
Ethics is a broad term that encompasses the study of the nature of morals as well as the specific moral choices that must be made.…
Blackrock, Fidelity and Others to Invest $400M in USDC Stablecoin Issuer Circle
Circle, a crypto-focused financial technology startup, has announced that it has agreed to a $400 million investment round. It’ll be finished in the second quarter…
How Going Fast And Furious Can Ruin Your Startup
Hello and welcome to my weekly fintech piece. I’ll be posting this every Sunday, but in the meanwhile, listen to Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas, and…
Crypto’s Latest Disruption May Be Investor Expectations
I’ve seen a web3-sized asterisk next to the long-awaited re-correction of private tech company valuations and fundraising expectations. While many funds are returning to more…
Branch Carves Out New Furniture Collection As Folks Return To the Office
Branch, a New York-based office furniture firm, has spent the last two years focusing on furnishing everyone’s home office with its core items. It is…
Just How Much Has Late-Stage Venture Capital Slowed
According to CB Insights statistics, the first quarter of 2022 generated a historically large amount of funding for global startups, outpacing any quarter in 2018,…
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