Tensions rise in Silicon Valley over sales of startup stocksTensions over the shadowy and often enigmatic market of private company stocks have reached a boiling point, just as the buying and selling...
07 May, 2024, 11.01 AM IST
Want to invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There's a fund for thatA new fund, Destiny Tech100, is offering a publicly traded fund that contains shares of 23 private tech companies including Stripe, SpaceX,...
06 Apr, 2024, 06.32 PM IST
Thousands of fintech jobs are gone as companies cut costs for first timeFintechs boomed during the early days of the pandemic, ambitious to grow and driven by low interest rates and consumer hunger for debt.
11 Feb, 2023, 04.47 PM IST
Proptech startup Landeed raises $8.3 million fundingThe startup plans to hire ten more software developers to help it become an IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) provider for all real estate...
24 Jan, 2023, 02.46 PM IST
Crypto Price: XRP drops; Ethereum, Shiba Inu, Dogecoin gain 1% eachHigher interest rates would make riskier assets like cryptocurrencies and stocks less attractive as investments. However, the top crypto to...
15 Jul, 2022, 10.01 PM IST
Atlan bags $50 million from Insight, Salesforce and SequoiaSeveral founders in the data space, including Fivetran founder Taylor Brown and ThoughtSpot founderAjeet Singh, participated in the round.
11 Mar, 2022, 02.41 PM IST
Stocktwits raises $30 million, plans to enter the Indian marketNew York-based Stocktwits, which brings together traders of stocks, crypto and other emerging asset classes, has partnered with Times Bridg...
17 Dec, 2021, 04.55 PM IST
Pakistan’s fintech startup TAG gets funding at $100 million valuationFintech startup TAG Innovation has received $12 million from investors including New York-based Liberty City Ventures and Canaan Partners t...
22 Sep, 2021, 06.14 PM IST
AI startup Prodigal gets $12 million funding from Menlo Ventures, othersFounded in early 2018 by Shantanu Gangal and Sangram Raje, Prodigal uses conversational AI to provide lenders and collections agencies insi...
22 Jul, 2021, 06.36 PM IST
A wise move? London listing may open fintech floodgates"London has the potential to be a global fintech centre, and someone like Wise listing on the stock markets gives other companies options,"...
10 Jul, 2021, 12.08 PM IST
Plaid gets $425 million funding at $13.4 billion valuationThe funding round comes a few months after Plaid and Visa Inc. called off a planned $5.3 billion merger following a US lawsuit aimed at sto...
07 Apr, 2021, 06.46 PM IST
Between Brexit and coronavirus, UK togetherness is frayingEngland, Scotland and Wales have been joined since 1707 with Northern Ireland added in 1921 -- four parts of a single country -- but since ...
21 Dec, 2020, 11.13 AM IST
Goldman plans to raise about $2 billion for a new venture fundInvesting in startups at different stages could help Goldman Sachs work with some of these same businesses when they go public through its ...
22 Aug, 2020, 12.15 PM IST
It’s Karma: Once struggling startup unlocks fintech richesIt initially struggled to raise funding from venture capitalists and its first office was an apartment located by a San Francisco overpass ...
26 Feb, 2020, 11.24 AM IST
Voters turn out for historic General Election to decide UK's Brexit fateBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn were among the first to cast their ballots in London in an electio...
12 Dec, 2019, 09.17 PM IST
A guide to what’s happening in the fintech revolutionIn the second quarter, India—home of mobile payments startup Paytm—surpassed China in the number of deals.
10 Oct, 2019, 09.20 AM IST
Scotland's referendum: One without issues of race and religionElsewhere in the world nationalism asks aggressive questions of how people qualify to be part of the nation, but not in Scotland.
20 Sep, 2014, 04.00 AM IST