Hello Alice, Global Entrepreneurship Network unveil $70M Equitable Access Fund
Hello Alice, a fintech helping small businesses access capital, and entrepreneurship ecosystem Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) created a $70 million Equitable Access Fund designed to bridge the financing gap experienced by women and BIPOC-owned founders. “There’s an estimated $40 billion gap among the BIPOC community alone,” Elizabeth Gore, Hello Alice
Read moreNo SSN, no problem, says Maza, a fintech startup aimed at undocumented immigrants
Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here. While there are a multitude of fintech companies offering digital banking services to a variety of demographics, there has been one segment of the population that historically has been underserved even more than others: the undocumented immigrant. Because undocumented immigrants
Read morePayPal launches support for tap to pay on Android for merchants using Venmo and Zettle in the U.S.
PayPal announced today that the company is launching a tap-to-pay feature for merchants with an Android phone through the Venmo and Zettle apps in the U.S. As a reminder, PayPal owns both Venmo and Zettle. Last November, the company launched similar functionality for businesses to accept payments by tapping cards
Read moreWorkflow automation startup Parabola raises $24M
Parabola, a San Francisco-based startup that uses AI to help expedite back-office processes, particularly in the logistics and ecommerce sectors, today announced that it raised $24 million in a Series B funding round led by OpenView with participation from strategic investor Flexport alongside Matrix, Thrive, Flexport, Good Friends, Webflow, Otherwise
Read moreMemphis.dev looks to simplify event streaming with open source and SaaS products
Startups have been looking for ways to disrupt event streaming, popularized in the last decade by Kafka, the open source event streaming platform. Just this week we looked at Redpanda getting a $100 million Series C for its event streaming platform, and today Memphis.dev, an earlier stage startup announced a
Read moreIndigo ransomware attack cost millions, company says
Canadian retailer Indigo Books and Music says a February ransomware attack “heavily impacted” its fourth quarter by millions of dollars. The attack drove a decrease in revenue of $26.5 million to $194.2 million for the quarter ended April 1, 2023, the company said in its annual financial statement released Tuesday.
Read moreCyber Security Today, June 28, 2023 – More banks added to the target list of Android malware, and the latest data breach news
More banks added to the target list of Android malware, and the latest data breach news Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday June 28th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. More financial institutions in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Austria,
Read moreAsk Sophie: How do we relocate Ukrainian and Russian team members to the U.S.?
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by
Read moreProton launches its password manager Proton Pass
A couple of months after unveiling Proton Pass, Proton — the company behind end-to-end encrypted email service Proton Mail — is officially launching its password manager to everyone. As a reminder, Proton Pass is an end-to-end encrypted password manager for individuals and (soon) families. Everybody should use a password manager
Read moreHashtag Trending Jun.28- Is immigration the secret to AI dominance?; Google addressing user frustrations from Reddit blackout; Windows updates you do not want to miss
Is immigration the secret to AI dominance? If so, is it Canada’s secret weapon? Google tries to fix the damage done by Reddit’s moderator strike and two Windows updates you don’t want to miss. These and more top tech news stories from Hashtag Trending and Tech News Day. I’m
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