The cost of your dream vacation can easily get expensive especially when you have to lay out all of the costs upfront. Fly Now Pay Later, just like the name suggests, offers flexible payment solutions that can allow you to spread out your travel costs over twelve months. CEO and Founder Jasper Dykes chats with us about the company’s impressive growth, expansion plans, and recent funding round, which brings the total funding raises to $77.4M.
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Snoop Raises £3.2M for its Hyper-Personalised and Community-Driven Money Savings App
Snoop is the fintech app that’s helping people save money by giving them tips, or “snoops”, like switching from your current energy supplier could lower your energy bar by x percent. Cofounder Scott Mowbray shares the details on how Snoop is saving users serious money.
Billon Group Raises $6M to Bring Enterprise-Level Blockchain Solutions Fit for Central Banks
Raising capital is never easy but it’s even harder for blockchain companies. These companies are commonly thought to be involved in cryptocurrency, which really isn’t the case for most blockchain startups. Learn more about how Billon Group’s technology is powering central banks and how it was able to successfully raise capital.
Yapily Raises $13M for Open Banking API that Removes Technical Barriers to Open Finance
Yapily is addressing a huge opportunity in Europe as the backbone of Open Banking, and the infrastructure that partners need in order to take advantage of Open Finance.
The World’s Falling Apart, What Are You Going To Believe In?
I grew up believing in American exceptionalism. That the U.S. was better than other nations. That’s what I was taught. When I looked around, that’s what I saw. But among many other lessons, Trump has taught me that the U.S. is a banana republic, just like most other/every other nation in the world. And that actually makes […]
Cuvva Lets Your Secure Short Term Motor Insurance With a Few Click on Your Phone
If you’re filling out an insurance quote, you better have set aside some time because it is a slow-moving process that typically requires at least 15-minutes of nonstop, personal-data entry. But mobile insurance app Cuvva prompts users to input their data only one time when setting up an account, and users can be connected with […]
3 Mindset Shifts To Prepare For The Transformative Power Of Blockchain And Emerging Technologies
Do you remember when MapQuest first hit the scene in the late 90s? It blew people’s minds that they could print out directions for getting anywhere they wanted to go. To be sure, making a map digital and interactive was a huge step forward, but it was a linear, incremental way of thinking. This fact […]
What is Bitcoin?
As Bitcoin starts to gain the attention of the broader population again, we continue to struggle as an industry to define what Bitcoin is in a way that’s accessible to most people. I recently attended a Bitcoin 101 class taught as part of the grand opening of the awesome Bitcoin Center Miami. It’s a great way to help […]
The Three Different Bitcoins
For most, Bitcoin remains an enigma. I think part of the difficulty in understanding Bitcoin is that it’s not just one thing. Bitcoin can be many things, depending on how you look at it. Depending on the prism you look at the world throug
Facebook is Dying, Libra Won’t Save It, and Wall Street is Clueless
I was the first person to call Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and offer to buy the company (I was running Bolt at the time). In March, 2010, I published the first Wall Street style research report on Facebook on a Tumblr blog, with a $100 billion five year price target (it was actively trading in the private markets at […]