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Who says financial advice is only for the wealthy? Clove is building an AI‑powered financial advisory platform that combines machine intelligence with human advisers to deliver personalized guidance at a fraction of traditional costs. Founded by Christian Owens of Paddle and Alex Loizou of Trouva, the London company raised
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The Portuguese startup is now helping Europe guard its digital currency. Feedzai is a fraud prevention company based in Coimbra. If you've ever made an online payment that felt instant and safe, there's a chance this team had something to do with it. Their platform already
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UK‑Nigeria remittances in seconds, no hidden fees. SendOva is a London‑based payments startup created by diaspora entrepreneurs to make sending money home transparent and instant. Their mobile and web app offers instant transfers, transparent FX rates, zero hidden charges, and 24/7 local support for both senders and
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BNP Paribas bets on digital identity. UK regtech Encompass Corporation has spent years building EC360 - a corporate digital‑identity platform that aggregates real‑time data, documents, and beneficial‑ownership information from public and private sources. BNP Paribas invested an undisclosed sum and selected Encompass to deploy EC360 across its
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Health benefits people actually use. Employers set a monthly budget; employees pick the plan they prefer: medical, dental, vision, and spend any leftover on therapy, prescriptions, and more in Thatch's marketplace. No one-size-fits-all. This runs on ICHRA - a U.S. rule in effect since 2020 that lets
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Financing Latin America's checkout revolution. Colombian fintech Addi upsized its debt facility by $50 million, partnering with Victory Park Capital Advisors and Neuberger Berman. The company has surpassed $150 million in annual revenue, recorded four consecutive profitable quarters, and is still growing 100 % year‑over‑year. Addi'
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Meet Lais, your AI realtor sidekick. Brazilian proptech Lastro raised $16 million Series A led by Prosus Ventures with FJ Labs, Endeavor Catalyst, Canary, QED, 1Sharpe Ventures, and others on the cap table. Lastro's AI assistant Lais chats with buyers via WhatsApp, cutting response times from six hours
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Logins without the headache. Drop-in login for your app: Face/Touch ID (passkeys), one-tap email links, codes by SMS/email, and Sign in with Google, as plug-ins you add, not a system you rebuild. Used by 1,000+ organizations with hundreds of millions of identities managed, a sign it works
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Banking built for landlords. Baseline raised $34.4 million to accelerate its vision of a vertical banking and bookkeeping platform for real‑estate investors. Over 50,000 landlords already use Baselane, driving 900% year‑over‑year growth. Its new AI product, Baselane Smart, auto‑tags transactions, matches receipts, and executes
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For millions of Brazilian micro‑entrepreneurs, access to credit is still broken. Zippi fixes that by offering flexible working‑capital loans and weekly repayment plans through a mobile app. The company recently secured an 85 million BRL ($15.9M) Credit Rights Investment Fund (FIDC) led by Banco Itaú and Verde
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AI meets hacker to harden your stack. SafeHill (formerly Tacticly) blends automated asset discovery and risk scoring with human penetration testers to deliver continuous threat exposure management. Its subscription model ships validated vulnerabilities instead of false positives. Early customers report faster remediation and fewer incidents. The Chicago-based team emerged from
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Your insurance wallet, finally in your pocket. Rehuman aggregates all of your insurance policies from Gmail or Outlook into a single secure wallet, then uses a proprietary generative model trained on policy documents to summarise coverage and alert you to renewals. It sells its customer experience infrastructure to brokers and