The Entrepreneurial Way with A.I.: Mary Ann Azevedo
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Showing posts with label Mary Ann Azevedo. Show all posts

Saturday, September 7, 2024

How a viral AI image catapulted a Mexican startup to a major adidas contract #Ecommerce

3:24 PM

#SeoTips Antonio Nuño, Fatima Alvarez, and Enrique Rodriguez have been friends since they were five years old. As teenagers, they became volunteers helping indigenous communities — first in Mexico, then in other countries — and saw that many of the...

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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Sequoia bets big on Stripe, LatAm fintechs clean up and one African startup’s outsized Series A #Ecommerce

1:19 PM

#SeoTips Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Sequoia Capital’s effort to give its LPs liquidity on the firm’s investments in Stripe, how LatAm fintechs are still catching investors’ attention, a sizable Series A from an Afric...

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Sunday, July 14, 2024

Synapse’s collapse has frozen nearly $160M from fintech users — here’s how it happened #Ecommerce

2:54 PM

#SeoTips Here is a timeline of Synapse’s troubles and the ongoing impact it is having on banking consumers.  © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Mary Ann Azevedo, Khareem Sudlow ...

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Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Bootstrapped for over a decade, this Dallas company just secured $110M to help people pay bills by text #Ecommerce

8:59 AM

#SeoTips Solutions by Text, a company that gives people a way to pay their bills and apply for loans via text messaging, has secured $110 million in new growth funding. Edison Partners and StepStone Group co-led the equity portion of the raise whil...

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Monday, April 29, 2024

Backflip raises $15 million to help real estate investors flip houses #Ecommerce

10:55 AM

#SeoTips Flipping houses is not for the faint of heart, no matter how fun or easy HGTV might make it seem. One startup wants to make the process less complicated by offering a different way to borrow money to fund such a purchase. Founded in late 2...

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Sunday, April 28, 2024

Stripe’s big changes, Brazil’s newest fintech unicorn and the tale of a startup shutdown #Ecommerce

12:29 PM

#SeoTips Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Stripe’s big product announcements, a bump in valuation for a Brazilian fintech startup and much more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories d...

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Sunday, March 31, 2024

Robinhood’s new Gold Card, BaaS challenges and the tiny startup that caught Stripe’s eye #Ecommerce

10:59 AM

#SeoTips Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at Robinhood’s new Gold Card, challenges in the BaaS space and how a tiny startup caught Stripe’s eye. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most imp...

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Sunday, March 10, 2024

Why does every startup want to help you get paid? #Ecommerce

11:24 AM

#SeoTips Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at the piping hot global payroll space, neobank Dave’s financial results and related stock boost, and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and mos...

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Sunday, March 3, 2024

When startups fail, these startups clean up #Ecommerce

3:44 PM

#SeoTips Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! Apologies for being out last week — a cold got the best of me, but I’m back and here to talk about the fact that shutting down startups is big business, Stripe’s new valuation, Klar...

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Rasa, an enterprise-focused dev platform for conversational GenAI, raises $30M #Ecommerce

3:59 PM

#SeoTips It’s no fun as a customer to have an interaction with a bot when it’s clearly a bot with which you’re engaging. Rasa is a startup that claims to have developed the infrastructure to give developers at large enterprises the ability to build...

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Sunday, February 11, 2024

Maybe we’ll finally see a fintech IPO in 2024 #Ecommerce

12:39 PM

#SeoTips Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! We’re back after a brief hiatus, and I can tell you that judging by the volume of pitches I received last week, venture investing in the fintech space is definitely picking up. This...

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Sunday, January 28, 2024

Inside Brex’s efforts to burn less cash #Ecommerce

10:44 AM

#SeoTips Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! In this edition, I’m going to look at Brex’s latest round of layoffs, the state of fintech investing in 2023 and more! I may be taking some time off in coming weeks but never fear, ...

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Thursday, December 7, 2023

Simply Homes nabs $22M, leverages AI to tackle affordable housing crisis #Ecommerce

11:22 AM

#SeoTips The United States has long had an affordable housing crisis, but it’s been exacerbated as of late by a surge in mortgage interest rates and low inventory. The problem is especially acute for lower-income families. One Portland, Maine-based...

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Mesh Payments closes on $60M as demand for its corporate spend offering surges #Ecommerce

10:19 AM

#SeoTips Financial management startup Mesh Payments has landed $60 million in new funding, 10 months after its last raise. Founded in Israel and now with headquarters in New York, Mesh Payments is one of a growing group of startups focused on helpi...

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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Landa can make you a landlord with just $5 #Ecommerce

1:29 PM

#SeoTips It’s safe to say that millions of Americans dream of becoming real estate investors but can’t or don’t due to a variety of challenges, including lack of accreditation, capital and time. So it’s no surprise that in recent years, a flurry of...

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Sunday, July 31, 2022

How fintech startups are navigating the extension-round rush

11:23 AM

#Tech As the fintech venture market goes, so goes the venture market itself. Why? Because fintech investment has historically made up around one-fifth of every venture dollar invested — at least in recent years. And after both fintech investing and...

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A tale of two surveys: Fintech VCs change tune on investment landscape #Ecommerce

10:54 AM

#SeoTips Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll...

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A tale of two surveys: Fintech VCs change tune on investment landscape

10:33 AM

#Tech Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll ta...

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Thursday, July 7, 2022

Embattled digital mortgage lender Better.com reveals string of new senior exec hires in ‘rebirth’ attempt #Ecommerce

8:44 AM

#SeoTips Online mortgage lender Better.com is on a mission to reinvent its image. The embattled startup announced today several new hires of senior executives, including a new chief growth officer and a new head of sales. In case you missed it, Bet...

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Sunday, June 12, 2022

Investors show LatAm fintechs the money #Ecommerce

12:49 PM

#SeoTips Welcome to The Interchange, a take on this week’s fintech news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Greetings from Austin, Texas, where the temps have been over 100 degrees for days now and we’re trying hard just not to m...

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