News Roundup: Indonesia’s mPOS firm Cashlez to raise US$6M via IPO to acquire IT firm

Finance Medtech startup Biolidics plans to raise US$2.2M to fuel expansion...


Startup founders are building companies on WhatsApp

In Asia, where I work as a partner at an early-stage VC, startups are regularly...


Nvidia acquires data storage and management platform SwiftStack

Nvidia today announced that it has acquired SwiftStack, a software-centric data...


Israel’s maturing cybersecurity startup ecosystem

It often feels like half of the new security startups that receive funding are...


Greylock’s Reid Hoffman and Sarah Guo to talk fundraising at Early Stage SF 2020

Early Stage SF is around the corner, on April 28 in San Francisco, and we are...


Bolt raises €50M in venture debt from the EU to expand its ride-hailing business

Bolt, the billion-dollar startup out of Estonia that’s building a...


2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns

Two years ago, we created the Matrix FinTech Index to highlight what we saw as...


Elavon to acquire Sage Pay, a gateway that competes with Stripe, PayPal and Adyen, for $300M

E-commerce continues to gain momentum — a trend we’ll see played out...


Luge Capital raises $85M to invest in Canadian fintech startups

There are 831 financial technology startups headquartered in or operating in...


Kenyan telco Safaricom’s Alpha incubator faces uncertain future

Safaricom’s Nairobi-based Alpha innovation incubator may have an uncertain...