Fintech has a ledger problem, according to Fragment! techcrunch.com/2024/07/22/dig…

Now do this for live music, but in SF and other cities too: techcrunch.com/2024/07/22/the… via @techcrunch

A look inside Iconiq Growth two months after it closed a $5.75B fund, its largest ever and 42% larger than its previous fund (Jessica Mathews / Fortune) fortune.com/2024/07/22/ico… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240722/p16#a24…

H2 Forecast: Who’s Next To IPO? news.crunchbase.com/public/ipo-pre… via Crunchbase News

Digital banking startup Mercury is no longer serving customers in certain countries, including Ukraine, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. A collab with Christine Hall - Taking a break and tage techcrunch.com/2024/07/23/mer…

Global Funding To Financial Services Slowed Down In The Past 5 Quarters news.crunchbase.com/fintech-ecomme… via Crunchbase News

Sequoia Capital invested early in Google, Nvidia, and Apple. Can Roelof Botha keep the legendary venture capital firm ahead in the AI future? fortune.com/2024/07/25/seq…

Vertical Farming Venture Capital Has Dried Up, But Startups Are Still Planting Seeds news.crunchbase.com/agtech-foodtec… via Crunchbase News

Siddhi Capital grabs $135M for Fund II to invest in consumer packaged goods startups techcrunch.com/2024/07/30/sid… via @techcrunch

Zoe, a microbiome-focused nutrition company, raises $15 million to expand in the U.S. techcrunch.com/2024/07/30/nut… via @techcrunch

Even after $1.6B in VC money, the lab-grown meat industry is facing ‘massive’ issues tcrn.ch/3WuFPfX

38 startups have become unicorns so far in 2024: Here’s the full list tcrn.ch/3ysREeI

Who cut the plant-based cheese? Plonts did with microbes, and it’s stinky tcrn.ch/3WwpozP

Scoop from earlier. After many cracks (and a massive devaluation) Good Eggs found a buyer techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/gru…

Scoop and sad news for the fintech community. Tally, a nine-year-old fintech that helped consumers manage and pay off their credit card debt, has shut down. techcrunch.com/2024/08/12/a16…

Fintech shutdowns, Klarna’s move into banking and which companies are hiring tcrn.ch/3YTUww0

This has been updated with more listings! (Still more to come in the future so stay tuned) techcrunch.com/2024/08/26/the…

Kenya-based Wasoko and Egypt-based MaxAB, two of Africa's largest B2B e-commerce platforms, merge in an all-stock deal; the companies raised over $240M combined (tage / TechCrunch) techcrunch.com/2024/08/27/was… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240827/p30#a24…

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