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Sardine raises $51.5M led by a16z to sniff out fishy fintech transactions

September 20, 2022 Anita Ramaswamy 162 Viewsa16z, Activant Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Andrew Steele, Angela Strange, autograph, Banking, coinbase, Cross River Digital Ventures, cryptocurrency, economy, entrepreneurship, Eric Schmidt, financial technology, Fintech, fraud, google ventures, identity, identity verification, ING Ventures, nyca partners, Private Equity, Revolut, sardine, Series A, series B, sound ventures, Startup company, Startups, tom brady, venture capital, wealthsimple 5 min read

As fintechs become more efficient, so too do fraudsters. “Faster instant payments mean faster fraud,” Sardine CEO and co-founder Soups Ranjan told TechCrunch. That’s the thesis behind his startup, which uses behavioral, financial and device-specific user data to detect fraud on behalf of its clients in the crypto and fintech industries. Those conditions also mean […]

FTX CEO leads Trustless Media’s seed round to help build community-owned web3 shows

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FTX CEO leads Trustless Media’s seed round to help build community-owned web3 shows

July 27, 2022August 10, 2022 Jacquelyn Melinek 191 Viewscrypto, Crypto Economy, FTX, google ventures, journalist, NFT, NFTs, non-fungible token, Sam Bankman-Fried, Startups, web3 4 min read

A new web3-focused production hub, Trustless Media, has launched out of stealth mode as it aims to build an NFT community-owned media company.

SingleStore raises additional cash to grow its database business

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SingleStore raises additional cash to grow its database business

July 12, 2022August 10, 2022 Kyle Wiggers 188 Viewsanalytics, big data, database, Dell Technologies Capital, developers, funding, google ventures, IBM, Insight Partners, real time data, relational database, singlestore, startup 3 min read

SingleStore, a provider of databases for cloud and on-premises apps and analytical systems, today announced that it raised $116 million in an extension of its Series F. The new cash brings the company’s total raised to $382 million at “unicorn status” (i.e., a valuation of $1 billion or more post-money), which CEO Raj Verma says […]