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Companies often spend an incommensurate amount of time chasing overdue payments, which distracts them from their core businesses, and brings forth cash flow issues.The time wastage and other challenges suffered during payment collection mainly stem from a reliance on manual billing cycles and...

Maple VC is based in San Francisco, but don’t let that fool you, says its founder, Andre Charoo. The young fund, which launched in 2016 with $1.2 million in capital commitments, just closed on $16.5 million in capital commitments for a second fund that promises to almost exclusively back savvy...

Bangalore-based fintech startup Simpl has raised $40 million as it looks to expand its online buy now, pay later service’s offerings in the world’s second-largest market.Valar Ventures and IA Ventures led the six-year-old startup’s Series B round. LFH Ventures and some existing investors also...

ThreeFlow, which provides software for insurance brokers selling employee benefits, announced today that it raised $45 million in Series B funding. New investor Accel led the round alongside existing investors Emergence Capital, Equal Ventures, and First Trust Capital Partners.The...

Paris-based VC firm Partech has announced the closing of the fundraising of its new growth fund. Partech Growth II is the firm’s second growth fund. And the team managed to raise $750 million.As a reminder, Partech Growth I was a smaller fund with €400 million under management, which...

Sifting through over 30,000 grants in the company's database, MintPress can reveal that the Gates Foundation has bankrolled hundreds of media outlets and ventures, to the tune of at least $319 million

Originally published on www.mintpressnews.com by Alan MacleodSifting through over 30,000 grants in the company's database, MintPress can reveal that the Gates Foundation has bankrolled hundreds of media outlets and ventures, to the tune of at least $319 millionread more

Fintech startup Jefa has raised a $2 million seed round to build a challenger bank with a product specifically designed for women living in Latin America and the Caribbean. The company has managed to attract 115,000 women on its waitlist and participated in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield last...

Camlist, a video marketplace for pets, has raised $1.3 million in a pre-seed round, funding that the startup plans to use to develop its platform and grow its workforce — as it looks to expand its reach in the UK, its second market (after the U.A.E.), which it entered earlier this year.Unlike...

The pill hasn’t been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, but President Biden wants to be prepared if the drug receives federal signoff.

A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $34.9 million at Sotheby’s, an auction record for any Latin American artist.

A scheduled increase in loan limits is a boon for borrowers but also stokes debate over the government’s role in the housing market.

Faire’s latest funding round values the company at $12.4 billion and allows it to expand hiring, including in its finance function.

The throngs of fans who follow the entrepreneur on social media jumped at the chance to own the NFT in exchange for buying books. Some bought hundreds of books to secure a stash of them.

CGI Merchant Group, a Miami-based investment firm, is in contract to acquire the hotel lease for the Trump International Hotel.

ADT to Buy Solar-Panel Installer for About $825 Million The home-security company is buying Sunpro Solar in a push to offer more products and services to its residential customers. The home-security company is buying Sunpro Solar in a push to offer more products and services to its residential...