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| 21.08.2026 | Fintech Lending Market Trends: Digital Transformation and Accessible Financing Driving Growth | The fintech lending market is witnessing rapid growth as digital technologies transform how consumers and businesses access credit. Fintech lenders use digital platforms, artificial intelligence, automated underwriting, alternative data, an... |
| 04.06.2026 | GCash Powers Philippine MSMEs with Frictionless Capital | BANGKOK, June 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- By using its artificial intelligence-driven proprietary underwriting tool, GCash, the Philippines' number one finance super app, enables frictionless funding for first-time borrowers who have long been ... |
| 21.05.2026 | Checker: $8 Million Raised For Digital Asset Infrastructure Platform Serving Financial Institutions | Checker, a digital asset infrastructure company focused on stablecoin liquidity and cross-border financial services, announced it has raised $8 million in funding from Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, and Framework Ventures.
Additional pa... |
| 20.05.2026 | Checker Raises $8M in Funding | checker’s logo
Checker, a NYC-based network that enables financial institutions to plug into stablecoins and digital asset liquidity, cross-border payments, treasury, and credit via a single API, raised $8M in funding.
The round was led by ... |
| 22.07.2025 | M-KOPA lawsuit alleges racial disparity in employee equity, firm says claim is baseless | When M-KOPA Holdings, a UK-headquartered fintech with over five million users across five African markets, restructured its shareholding in 2019, it was viewed internally as a safeguard against dilution — a routine measure in the startup sc... |
| 20.03.2025 | Tala Receives US$150M Debt Facility with Neuberger Berman | Tala, a Santa Monica, CA-based financial infrastructure company delivering accessible financial services, raised US$150M in Debt Facility with Neuberger Berman.
The company intends to allocate the amount to accelerate its reach, innovate fu... |
| 19.03.2025 | Tala Secures a US$150 Million Debt Facility with Neuberger Berman to Accelerate Growth in Mexico | Tala | Neuberger Berman
This facility marks Tala's largest capital markets transaction to date.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. and NEW YORK, March 19, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Tala, the global financial infrastructure company delivering the world's... |
| 24.01.2025 | Raenest Returns as Headline Partner for Africa Tech Summit Nairobi 2025, Championing Global Growth for African Tech | Africa Tech Summit Nairobi is delighted to announce that Raenest, a pioneering Nigerian fintech, has returned as the headline sponsor for the second consecutive year, reaffirming its commitment to fostering growth, and collaboration across ... |
| 18.12.2024 | Rackhouse Ventures: Interview With Managing Partner & Founder Kevin Novak About The AI-Focused Firm | Rackhouse Ventures is a global venture capital firm purpose-built to support early-stage founders and firms that sit at the intersection of AI/ML and the real world. . Pulse 2.0 interviewed Rackhouse Ventures managing partner and founder Ke... |
| 14.11.2024 | Tala marks a decade of serving the global majority, surpassing 10 million customers worldwide | Tala celebrates reaching 10 million customers in 10 years
With nearly $6 billion in credit provided to date, Tala is unleashing economic power on a global scale
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Tala, the world's fir... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Role of FinTech in Promoting Financial Inclusion for Women and Marginalized Groups | Share
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| 14.05.2024 | Fintech Rises as Most Equitable Field for Female-Founded Startups | - |
| 24.04.2024 | Closing The Financial Access Gap: Top Fintech Players Leap Further Towards Financial Inclusion With an Industry-Leading Partnership | Tala establishes a $48.5 million loan channeling partnership (LCP) with Maya Bank to increase Filipinos’ access to financial services
Tala establishes a $48.5 million loan channeling partnership (LCP) with Maya Bank to increase Filipinos' a... |
| 08.09.2023 | Роль AI в Финтехе | Искусственный интеллект (AI) - это не просто технология, а целая революция, которая меняет мир вокруг нас и делает его умнее, быстрее и лучше. AI присутствует везде, где мы общаемся, работаем, учимся или развлекаемся. Но особенно сильно он ... |
| 21.07.2023 | Tala Reaches More Than Eight Million Customers Worldwide | In the first six months of this year, Tala gained more than 800,000 new customers, a 114% increase compared to the first half of 2022.
Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) July 21, 2023
Tala, the world’s leading money app for the underbanked, today ann... |
| 08.03.2023 | How Fintech Boosts Economic Equity For Women Worldwide | NEW YORK, USA - JUNE 19: Shivani Siroya, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Tala speaks at Forbes ... [+] Women's Summit 2018 in New York, United States on June 19, 2018. (Photo by Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)Getty Imag... |
| 18.01.2023 | The Bullet: The Importance of Microfinance in SEA | Microfinance, or the practice of providing small loans and financial services to underserved communities, has become increasingly important in Southeast Asia in recent years. In a region where many people lack access to traditional banking ... |
| 06.09.2022 |
Bitwarden Raises $100M to Meet Online Security Demand | Bitwarden, an open-source password manager, has raised $100 million as the rise of remote work and our increasingly online lives boosts demand for digital security tools.
Growth equity firm PSG led the funding round and was joined by Batter... |
| 07.07.2022 |
Text Message Marketing Startup Emotive Lays Off 18% of Staff | Marketing startup Emotive laid off 30 people this week as the outlook on the economy continues to sour.
CEO Brian Zatulove said that 18% of the Sawtelle-based company’s roughly 167-strong workforce was cut, adding in an email statement that... |
| 27.06.2022 | A New Tide of LA Startups Is Tackling the National Childcare Crisis | The pandemic exacerbated a problem that has been long bubbling in the U.S.: the childcare crisis.
According to a survey of people in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers conducted by the city’s WiSTEM Los Angeles ... |
| 06.06.2022 | SoCal SaaS is Back With Recurring Revenue Conference | Sutton Capital Partners’ annual Recurring Revenue Conference returns June 23rd, offering for the first time a hybrid model for in-person and virtual access to the subscription economy-focused event at the Hilton Los Angeles in Culver City.
... |
| 13.05.2022 | 30 Executives’ Perspectives On Remote, Hybrid, And In-Office Work | As employees and employers navigate the return to normalcy, flexibility is something that's here to ... [+] stay post-pandemic. Karl Weimer |
| 02.05.2022 | FaZe Clan Announces New West Hollywood Pop-Up Shop | Though it’s not an invite to FaZe Clan’s Burbank mansion, fans of the Los Angeles-based esports and entertainment organization will soon be able to plug themselves into its hype house vibes with the launch of a new pop-up store.
Founded in ... |
| 12.04.2022 | Snapchat Partners With Newsrooms on New ‘Dynamic Stories’ Feature | Snap wants to be at the forefront of breaking news.
On Tuesday, the Santa Monica-based social media firm launched Dynamic Stories, which allows news organizations to more easily share their content on the Snapchat app. The feature uses a pu... |
| 07.04.2022 | Female-Led Emmeline Ventures Launches, Backs Crypto Wallet Startup | Emmeline Ventures—a new all-female, minority-led venture capital firm—has set up shop in Los Angeles, with its first check going to a local early-stage crypto startup.
The new venture firm, based in L.A. and Phoenix, is still in the process... |
| 29.03.2022 | ‘Are You Guys Tech Dorks?’: Inside the Opening Night of the NFT LA Conference | On opening night of the inaugural NFT LA conference, a crowd of entrepreneurs, marketers, engineers, YouTubers, hucksters and NFT holders filed into the Los Angeles Convention Center to dish on the nascent technology that had brought them a... |
| 29.03.2022 | Fashion Tech Works Opens New Coworking Space for Emerging Designers | For Cindy Keefer, CEO of Fashion Tech Works, sustainability has always been a way of life. The woman behind Downtown Los Angeles’ new coworking incubator for designers and artists grew up a far cry from Hollywood, on an organic farm in Wisc... |
| 23.03.2022 | 1Question Aims to Gamify Educational Screen Time | After the pandemic shuttered schools and social activities, screen time among children nearly doubled as digital devices became their sole source of education, recreation and social activities.
The obsession with screens was noted in the El... |
| 23.03.2022 | Santa Barbara Cybersecurity Startups Are Having a Moment | Two cybersecurity startups that call Santa Barbara home have announced sizable Series B funding rounds.
Theta Lake, which makes security software for companies that use Zoom, Slack and similar tools to communicate, unveiled a $50 million Se... |
| 23.03.2022 | Snap Buys NextMind To Bolster Its AR Hardware Research | Social media giant Snap has bought NextMind, a Paris-based neuro-tech company that builds mind-controlled headbands, for an undisclosed amount.
The Santa Monica-based company said Wednesday that NextMind will bolster its augmented reality (... |
| 07.03.2022 | GoodRx Acquiring Pharmacy Platform VitaCare to Make Name-Brand Drugs Cheaper | Prescription drug platform GoodRx has made its latest foray into the lucrative world of name-brand drugs with the $150 million acquisition of pharmacy services platform VitaCare, it announced Monday.
Santa Monica-based GoodRx has agreed to ... |
| 07.03.2022 | The Revolution Is Coming for the Curb—Is LA Ready? | Sign up for dot.LA's daily newsletter for the latest news on Southern California's tech, startup and venture capital scene.
It may look like unassuming concrete at first glance, but the curb could be the most valuable piece of real estate i... |
| 24.02.2022 | Wave Sports + Entertainment Raises $27 Million To Grow Its Sports Media Brands | Sign up for dot.LA’s daily newsletter for the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
Sports media startup Wave Sports + Entertainment (WSE) has raised $27 million in new funding from a host of investor... |
| 21.02.2022 | Art Created By Artificial Intelligence Can’t Be Copyrighted, US Agency Rules | Computers can now write poems, paint portraits and produce music better than many humans. But when it comes to the realm of intellectual property law, artwork made by machines can’t receive copyright protection, a federal agency has decided... |
| 17.02.2022 | 'Siberia Is Actually a Very Holistic Place': How Profi Founder Alina Trigubenko's Background Inspired Her New Startup for 'Soloprenuers' | Alina Trigubenko’s journey has taken her far and wide—from working at her parents’ restaurant in Siberia at age 9, to producing for one of Russia’s largest TV networks at age 18, to moving to the U.S. and founding her own startup at age 28.... |
| 16.02.2022 | With New Funding, Auticon Looks to Grow Job Opportunities for Autistic Adults | Technology consulting firm Auticon just received a boost to its mission of helping companies hire more autistic employees.
Auticon (which styles its name “auticon”) announced Wednesday that it has received over $4 million in funding from th... |
| 16.02.2022 | Snapchat Partners With Ticketmaster to Match Users to Local Concerts | Snap and Ticketmaster are making it easier to “match” with your next post-pandemic concert experience.
On Wednesday, the Santa Monica-based social media firm unveiled a partnership with the ticketing marketplace to curate local concerts and... |
| 16.02.2022 | Proptech Investor Fifth Wall Raises $159 Million For Its First European Fund | Fifth Wall—the Marina del Rey-based venture capital firm focused on real estate technology, also known as proptech—unveiled its first fund dedicated to the European market on Wednesday.
The venture firm said it had raised €140 million, or m... |
| 03.02.2022 | Text Message Marketing Startup Voyage SMS Raises $10 Million, Buys ‘Frenemy’ LiveRecover | Voyage SMS, which builds text message marketing tools for online stores, has closed a $10 million funding round as well as its first-ever acquisition, the company announced Thursday.
East Coast venture firms RiverPark and York IE led the fu... |
| 02.02.2022 | Inside Machina Labs, the AI Robotics Startup That Wants to Transform Manufacturing | The nondescript two-story building in Chatsworth still has remnants of its previous life as a coworking space; inside, there are vibrant abstract murals on the walls, meeting rooms and a full coffee bar. Only now, the ground floor is bustli... |
| 01.02.2022 | Snap Teams With Universal to Stream Its First Virtual Concert, Starring J.Lo | Social media giant Snap is teaming with Universal Pictures to present its first-ever virtual concert, starring Jennifer Lopez and Colombian singer Maluma.
The Santa Monica-based social media firm isn’t exactly hosting the event, which won’t... |
| 31.01.2022 | What Are LA’s Hottest Startups of 2022? See Who VCs Picked in dot.LA’s Annual Survey | In Los Angeles—like the startup environment at large—venture funding and valuations skyrocketed in 2021, even as the coronavirus pandemic continued to surge and supply chain issues rattled the economy. The result was a startup ecosystem tha... |
| 28.01.2022 | How LA Beverage Startups Are Using NFTs to Build Their Brands | While you can’t drink an NFT, that isn’t stopping some beverage startups from looking to capitalize on the blockchain-enabled craze.
Non-fungible tokens have gained traction in the art world, where artists and creators are using the digital... |
| 27.01.2022 | Odell Beckham Jr. Is Feeling Bitcoin’s Current Dip—But Could Have the Last Laugh | Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. may be one game away from the Super Bowl, but he’s likely feeling a little lighter in the wallet amid Bitcoin’s ongoing selloff.
If the math is correct, Beckham is heading into the weekend’s ... |
| 25.01.2022 | ServiceTitan Reportedly Files for IPO at a Possible $18 Billion Valuation | ServiceTitan—which has parlayed its field service software for contractors into one of Southern California’s most valuable tech startups—has reportedly confidentially filed for an initial public offering, Business Insider reported Tuesday.
... |
| 14.10.2021 | Tala grabs $145M to offer more financial services in emerging markets | Tala, an emerging markets digital lender that offers loans between $10 to $500 to consumers and small business owners, has raised $145 million in Series E funding.
Upstart, a company founded by ex-Googlers Dave Girouard, Anna Counselman and... |
| 14.10.2021 | Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar throws down a gauntlet to social media companies—and to herself | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Social media is a double-edged sword full of unintended consequences, as recent election cycles a... |
| 14.10.2021 | Fintech Tala Raises $145M to Launch Crypto Product for Emerging Markets | Fintech startup Tala has raised $145 million in a Series E funding round to expand its financial services and develop a mass-market crypto product for emerging markets. Lending platform Upstart led the round, which Tala says brings its tota... |
| 14.10.2021 | Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar throws down a gauntlet to social media companies—and to herself | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Social media is a double-edged sword full of unintended consequences, as recent election cycles a... |
| 14.10.2021 | Tala Raises $145M in Series E Funding | Tala, a Los Angeles, CA-based global technology company building accessible financial services, raised $145m in Series E funding.
The round, which brought total funding to more than $350m, was led by Upstart with participation from the Stel... |
| 14.10.2021 | Tala Raises $145 Million Series E to Become Largest Financial Platform for the Global Underbanked | - |
| 14.10.2021 | Tala Takes Its Mass-Market Crypto Platform to New Countries with a $145M Raise | PayPal-backed fintech startup Tala has raised $145 million in a Series E round to expand its financial services in countries in emerging markets and to develop a mass-market crypto product.
The raise was led by lending platform Upstart with... |
| 25.05.2021 | Interest in crypto payments is widening among US consumers, per BitPay study | Eighteen percent of the US adult population—46 million consumers—said they will likely use cryptocurrencies to make a purchase this year, according to a recent study from PYMNTS and crypto payment service provider BitPay. The study found th... |
| 05.05.2021 | Visa Partners With Fintech Firm To Boost Crypto Adoption In Emerging Markets | California-based fintech startup, Tala, has partnered with Visa and USDC operator, Circle, to provide unbanked individuals in emerging markets with access to participate fully in crypto.
According to an official announcement on Wednesday, T... |
| 05.05.2021 | Stellar and Visa Join Forces with Fintech Startup to Bank the Unbanked | Financial services giant Visa, the Stellar Development Foundation and payments technology company Circle have all partnered with California-based fintech firm Tala to boost cryptocurrency adoption in emerging markets, according to a May 5 a... |
| 05.05.2021 | Visa, Circle Team Up With Fintech Firm to Drive Crypto Adoption in Emerging Markets | Visa has partnered with fintech startup Tala to drive crypto adoption for underbanked customers in emerging markets.
The companies will begin by providing access to USD coin (USDC), the stablecoin backed by the U.S. dollar, according to an ... |
| 19.04.2021 | LA's Top VCs Are Watching These 10 Female Founders | From helping save beehives to healing the human body, some of L.A.'s most innovative companies are helmed by female founders. Who stands above the pack? We asked the region's top VCs participating in our recent dot.LA sentiment survey to we... |
| 04.01.2021 | What Are LA’s Hottest Startups of 2021? We Asked Top VCs to Rank Them | Despite — or in many cases because of — the raging pandemic, 2020 was a great year for many tech startups. It turned out to be an ideal time to be in the video game business, developing a streaming ecommerce platform for Gen Z, or helping r... |
| 04.01.2021 | What Are LA’s Hottest Startups? We Asked Top VCs to Rank Them | Despite — or in many cases because of — the raging pandemic, 2020 was a great year for many tech startups. It turned out to be an ideal time to be in the video game business, developing a streaming ecommerce platform for Gen Z, or helping r... |
| 28.10.2020 | GoodRx Is Named Startup of the Year at dot.LA Summit Awards | GoodRx earned dot.LA's top 2020 Startup award on Wednesday, beating out the popular sneaker reseller GOAT, the meditation application Headspace, mobile gamer Scopely and viral-video app TikTok.
"GoodRx started in Los Angeles, and will ... |
| 06.04.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [06/04/2020] | Correction (6 April 2020): We incorrectly had it that Kuda had raised $1-million for its Covid-19 fund. The amount is actually in naira. Sorry. We got ahead ourselves.
Kuda, a digital bank that operates in Nigeria, has raised almost 1-mill... |
| 06.04.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [06/04/2020] | Correction (6 April 2020): We incorrectly had it that Kuda had raised $1-million for its Covid-19 fund. The amount is actually in naira. Sorry. We got ahead ourselves.
Kuda, a digital bank that operates in Nigeria, has raised almost 1-milli... |
| 13.02.2020 | Interested in Investing in Early Stage Firms? OurCrowd Has a Long List, Reports 36 Exits to Date | OurCrowd is arguably the leading investment crowdfunding platform in the world. Based in Israel but listing offerings from companies around the world, OurCrowd has seen approximately $1.4 billion in committed funding since inception. Of the... |
| 27.01.2020 | The race to dethrone cash in Africa is on | Share this:
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| 29.10.2019 | Twiga’s $30m Goldman Sachs-led Series B towers over African agri-food tech like a friendly giraffe | Kenya’s mobile money market has reached a point where the value of cell phone-based transactions is equivalent to half of the country’s GDP. It’s spurred on by a young, growing population that benefits from ever cheaper smartphones and cell... |
| 19.09.2019 | US-based Mobile Lender Startup Tala, shuts down Services in Tanzania | Tala, a mobile lending startup based in the US has shut down its services in Tanzania. The company which didn’t give much explanation as to why it is shutting down, took to its social media handle to make the exit announcement.
The statemen... |
| 18.09.2019 | Despite raising $210 million, Tala halts its mobile lending operations in Tanzania | Share this article:
Tala – the mobile lending and financial accessibility startup providing under-represented people loans – has suddenly halted its lending operations in Tanzania. Tala Tanzania made this statement on Twitter.
This occurred... |
| 25.08.2019 | Tala Raises $110M in Series D Funding | Tala, a digital lending app company offering unsecured lending via smartphone direct to consumers, raised $110m in Series D funding.
The round was led by RPS Ventures, with participation from GGV Capital and previous investors including IVP... |
| 21.08.2019 | Tala, A Digital Lending Startup, Raises $110M, Eyes India For Expansion | - |
| 21.08.2019 |
Tala Takes $110M More In Funding For Fintech Efforts
| Santa Monica-based Tala, the fintech startup led by CEO Shivani Siroya, has raised $110M more in a Series D funding round, the company said this morning. The funding was led by RPS Ventures, and also included GGV Capital, IVP, Revolution Gr... |
| 21.08.2019 | PayPal-backed money lender Tala raises $110M to enter India | Tala, a Santa Monica, Calif.-headquartered startup that creates a credit profile to provide uncollateralized loans to millions of people in emerging markets, has raised $110 million in a new financing round to enter India’s burgeoning finte... |
| 21.08.2019 | Tala Raises $110 Million Series D Led by RPS Ventures | - |
| 21.08.2019 | Tala, a Company that Offers Loans for as Little as $10, Just Raised $110M | - |
| 02.05.2019 | Как ИИ изменит финансовые сервисы Статьи редакции | По версии команды разработчиков Django Stars.
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| 15.11.2018 | Wonder Ventures aims to dazzle L.A. startups with its new seed-stage fund | Dustin Rosen thinks L.A. has a problem, aside from its famously car-choked highways. There aren’t enough investors willing to write small checks.
Why not? The way he sees it, most of the so-called micro venture funds have grown their funds ... |
| 25.10.2018 | Payments space not over saturated in Africa argues Village Capital head | African fintech startups are beginning to branch out away from the payments space into other sub-sectors — such as agri-finance, insurtech and alternative credit scoring — a report by US-based venture capital (VC) firm Village Capital has f... |
| 25.10.2018 | Payments space not over saturated in Africa argues Village Capital head | African fintech startups are beginning to branch out away from the payments space into other sub-sectors — such as agri-finance, insurtech and alternative credit scoring — a report by US-based venture capital (VC) firm Village Capital has f... |
| 23.10.2018 | PayPal acquires stake in Tala help it expand globally | PayPal
PayPal Inc Holdings Inc has made a strategic investment in Tala, a financial technology startup that lends to underserved consumers in emerging markets, with operations in Kenya, Tanzania, Philippines and Mexico.
The companies declin... |
| 23.10.2018 |
Tala Finds New Funding From PayPal
| Santa Monica-based Tala, which provides financial services for underserved consumers using their mobile phones, has scored new funding, from PayPal, the company disclosed this week. Size of the new funding was not announced. Tala is led by ... |
| 19.04.2018 | Tala Raises $65M in New Financing | Tala, a Santa Monica, California, United States-based global technology company committed to financial inclusion, raised $65m in new financing.
The round, which brings Tala’s total financing to more than $105m, included a new $50m Series C ... |
| 18.04.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday April 18 | On Crypto
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| 18.04.2018 |
Tala Finds $65M More
| Santa Monica-based Tala, which provides financial services for underserved consumers using their mobile phones, has raised $50M in a Series C funding, plus an additional $15M in separate funding, according to the company. The funding was le... |
| 18.04.2018 | With loans of just $10, this startup has built a financial services powerhouse in emerging markets | Peris Kimeli and Betsy Cheruyot were students at Kenyatta University thinking about launching a business when they applied for their first loans from the mobile lending company, Tala.
Hoping to get a clothing business off the ground and mak... |
| 17.04.2018 | Tala: Tala Expands to Mexico, India Fueled by $65M in New Financing | - |
| 17.04.2018 | Tala Expands to Mexico, India Fueled by $65M in New Financing | - |
| 22.03.2018 | Meet Jules Maltz, Partner at IVP | In his 10th year as investor in freemium and fintech, Maltz is optimistic about every new startup
As entrepreneurship has become a global meme, with the title of "Founder" worn like a badge of accomplishment, there's no shortage o... |
| 08.12.2017 | Ex-Uber data chief Kevin Novak joins LA-based startup Tala in big win for LA ecosystem | In a huge win for the early-stage financial services startup Tala (and for the Los Angeles tech ecosystem), Uber‘s former data chief, Kevin Novak, has agreed to join the company as its chief data officer.
Novak’s achievements at Uber can’t ... |
| 01.08.2017 | Juvo raises $40 million to bring financial inclusion to emerging markets | San Francisco-based startup Juvo wants to help mobile users in emerging markets improve their financial standing by combining data and identity to provide micro-loans. It’s an ambitious goal, and to help achieve it, the company has raised $... |
| 09.06.2017 | Alternative Credit Scoring Providers In Southeast Asia You Have To Know | Globally, almost 50% of adults have no access to banking-type services of any description. The lack of access to basic financial services has created major barriers for people to overcome poverty by making it almost impossible for individua... |
| 05.04.2017 | Meet 3 of our Disrupt NY Founder Spotlight companies: Duo Security, Lemonade, and Tala | Disrupt NY is right around the bend, and with it comes a brand new type of content: The Founder Spotlight.
Each of these companies will have a total of 15 minutes to tell their story, from origin to potential pivot to real solution, with al... |
| 23.02.2017 | Tala Raises Over $30M in New Financing | Tala, a Los Angeles, CA-based mobile credit scoring and financial services technology and data science platform, raised more than $30m in Series B financing.
The round was led by IVP with participation from Ribbit Capital and existing inves... |
| 23.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, February 23 | Cirque du LBO
Fortune’s latest feature story, published this morning by my colleague Michal Lev-Ram, is about what happens when private equity takes over the circus. Specifically, TPG Capital and Cirque du Soleil, which the firm acquired in... |
| 22.02.2017 | Tala: Tala Raises Over $30 Million in New Financing Led by IVP | - |
| 22.02.2017 | Tala Raises Over $30 Million In New Financing Led By IVP | - |
| 14.02.2017 | Investing in GoodBusiness | Ted Rheingold Contributor
Ted Rheingold is a profit-from-purpose entrepreneur. He was the founding COO of Tala and founder of the social networks Dogster and Catster.
Since 2001, impact VC firms have raised $13 billion to invest in companie... |
| 13.02.2017 | Dopamine Labs slings tools to boost and reduce app addiction | Dopamine Labs, a small startup in Los Angeles, not just creates tools that can hook users to an app… the company is now also giving people a way to kick their app habit.
Formed by two neuroscientists who received their doctorates from the U... |
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| - | US-based Mobile Lender Startup Tala, shuts down Services in Tanzania | Tala, a mobile lending startup based in the US has shut down its services in Tanzania. The company which didn’t give much explanation as to why it is shutting down, took to its social media handle to make the exit announcement.
The statemen... |
| - | Сбережения на учебу и кредиты для жителей развивающихся стран: 5 финтех-приложений, популярных за границей | Финтех-стартапы помогают решать разные проблемы: от очевидных (вроде страхования и погашения кредита) до тех, о которых мы даже не задумываемся. Рассказываю о финтех-компаниях, которые почти неизвестны в России, но пользуются популярностью ... |
| - | Tala | “A money app for the majority. Tala bridges digital and cash ecosystems to help customers seamlessly manage their financial lives, all in one app.” |
