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Female FinTech Founders’ Funding Behind Male Counterparts

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Female FinTech entrepreneurs are getting left out of funding even as record venture capital money is being pumped into startups. percent of FinTech startups with female founders received funding January through October, according to Crunchbase, per a Bloomberg report on Wednesday (Nov. percent of total monies raised. .

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Data: London FinTechs Netted $3.6B In VC Investments So Far In 2020

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London's FinTech sector has been going strong this year, even in spite of the pandemic, with $3.6 billion in venture capital investments between January and September 2020, according to a press release from London & Partners emailed to PYMNTS. New York City is also high up there, with $2.2 billion in investments.

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Centana Growth Partners closes $375m fintech fund

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Centana Growth Partners, a New York and Palo Alto, Calif.-based based growth equity firm, closed its second fintech valued at $375 million this week. The firm, which closed a $250 million fund in 2015, primarily invests in business-to-business technology companies.

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Fintech’s Power Grab — in The New York Times

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Ok, it’s safe to say fintech has hit the big time. The New York Times covered the subject — and the word — in depth yesterday, in a special section called “Fintech’s Power Grab.” ” The lead item, by Andrew Ross Sorkin of CNBC fame, focuses on the fintech challenge to Read More.

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Fintech venture firm Nyca raises $210m for third fund

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Nyca Partners has closed on $210 million for its third investment fund, a vehicle that will let it continue to support the growth of fintech innovation, David Sica, partner at the New York- and San Francisco-based venture firm, told Bank Innovation. “There’s really good entrepreneurs […].

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New York Seed Investors Stayed Strong in 2016 As Others Stepped Back

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Top seed investors in the New York startup community showed their muscle in the final quarter of 2016 and are likely to continue doing so in the coming year, says a new report from Primary Venture Partners. Among the winners in an otherwise difficult year for startups were fintech companies like Read More.

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FinTech Firms Courted Abroad, Legal Spat Marks US Bank Charters

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Singapore Signs On With FinTech Firms. In Singapore, news came this week that the country will open up its real-time payment system to FinTech firms. The movement to open that FinTech access, said the minister, brings “greater convenience to consumers” as those individuals use their eWallets. While In New York, New York….

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