Startups

There’s a godawful number of pitch deck templates out there, and there’s one thing that most of them get wrong: They forget to mention that the template is (meant to be) flexible. For some companies, using the template as-is works, but for others, it gives you a story that doesn’t

Abu Dhabi-based mobility startup Fenix has added ride-hail and courier services to its portfolio of mobility products. The company launched “Fenix Taxi” in Manama, Bahrain, on Monday and says it’s planning to add two additional markets this summer. At the same time, Fenix launched

"speakable-summary" dir="auto">As more enterprises migrate apps and workloads into the cloud, so grows the need for more sophisticated tech to secure that activity. That’s resulted in a strong run of funding rounds for startups building products to address that gap. In the latest development,

For years, Africa's credit infrastructure has lagged behind the rest of the world due to low credit coverage from its bureaus. Per a World Bank report, only 11% of Africa's population have their credit information recorded by private credit bureaus. And for those who are banked, only 17% ha

The 2022 startup market might feel like a slowly unfolding train wreck, but there’s good news to be found — provided you are willing to take a longer-term perspective. Sure, startup layoffs are spiking, venture capital is slowing, and the stock market is a hot mess. Underneath each drum

"http://localhost:81/images/resimler/speakable-summary">Welcome to The Interchange, a take on this week's fintech news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Buy now, pay later has become nearly ubiquitous here in the U.S. As such, companies that offer that technology to merchant

Hello all! Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we recap some of the top stories to cross technewss over the last 7 days. If you want it in your inbox every Saturday, sign up here. The most read story this week was about, get this: a DeLorean. As in the Back to the Future car. Yep.

From black swan memos and heart-to-hearts to not-so-subtle emails asking for on-the-record confirmations that your startup does, indeed, have revenue, investors have a lot to say about the downturn. Yet, it's a quieter and more realistic truth that has landed my attention as of late: For divers

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The rest of the startup universe may be struggling to bring in funds, but it's still a good time to get a robotic raise. Agtech is high on that list. The median age of farmers is 55 years old in the United States, and finding human help is increasingly more difficult of late. FarmWise has been

Today's cybersecurity landscape requires an agile and data-driven risk management strategy to deal with the ever-expanding third-party attack surface. When a business outsources services by sharing data and network access, it inherits the cyber risk from its vendors across their people, process

Well, this is straight from the desk of “didn’t see that coming,” but search engine toolkit company Ahrefs just told me they’ve been working on their very own search engine on the sly, plowing $60 million of resources into its own search engine, called Yep. It’s a uniq

After a month that saw nearly 16,000 tech workers lose their jobs, June is off to a similar tumultuous start. Startups across all sectors, from healthcare to enterprise SaaS to crypto, are laying off portions of staff and citing, seemingly, from the same notes: it's a tough market, a time of un

Just over five years ago, the insurance industry entered the crosshairs of the tech world. Despite serving as the backbone of global growth, insurance lagged the pace of technology adoption enjoyed by other industries. Entrepreneurs saw this as an opportunity to disrupt incumbents, and soon there w