Goldman and MIT-founded LinqAlpha bags $22M: Can it compete with AlphaSense’s $1.74B head start? — TFN
LinqAlpha, an AI research platform for hedge funds and asset managers, has raised $22 million in a Series…
Prague’s EquiLibre raises Series A at $500M valuation to scale AI trading agents — TFN
EquiLibre Technologies, based in Prague and started by three former DeepMind researchers, has completed a Series A funding…
PayPal Ventures folds: how $1.5B in cuts wiped out a 24-year bet on 14 unicorns — TFN
PayPal is closing PayPal Ventures, its corporate venture capital arm, which began in 2002. New CEO Enrique Lores…
AI: Morgan Stanley to open its wealth management funnel to agents
Morgan Stanley’s office in Canary Wharf financial district on Jan. 30, 2025 in London, UK. Mike Kemp |…
SoFi Launches AI Coach to Personalize Financial Planning
SoFi Plus members can now get personalized help and financial insights through an artificial intelligence-powered, chat-based platform within…
AI is crushing startup valuations for pre-ChatGPT firms
Matthias Balk | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Five years ago, venture capitalists were pouring money into American…
Flexprice Secures $1.5 Million in Seed Funding to Revolutionize AI Billing Solutions, ETEntrepreneur
Founded in 2024, Flexprice is building an open-source billing and metering platform designed for AI and API-first companies,…
Nigerian startups: Apply for the AfCFTA-Korea programme
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on Nigerian entrepreneurs, innovators, and startup enterprises to apply for the…
Global Fintech Pine Labs Enters the Philippines Market with GCash for Business as Its First Payments Partner
GCash for Business, backed by the largest cashless ecosystem in Philippines, is partnering with global fintech platform Pine…
Journalists Mourn as Venmo Finally Fixes Its Most Glaring Privacy Issue
In many ways, Venmo is the MySpace of P2P payment fintech. In a time when the cowed American…
Call for Applications: iHatch Cohort 5 Startup Incubation Programme for
Farmers across Kwara State have received agricultural inputs aimed at boosting food production and strengthening farming activities under…
Fortune Tech: Weaponizing AI, Meta lawsuit, Nadella testifies for Altman v. Musk
Good morning. Huge news if you’re a Venmo user: The PayPal-owned service will reportedly change the default setting…