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$10B crypto developer platform Alchemy buys coding bootcamp in first-ever acquisition

August 25, 2022 Anita Ramaswamy 242 Viewsacquisition, Alchemy, Amazon Web Services, articles, bloc, blockchain, coding bootcamp, crypto, deal, distance education, Education, education startup, Encode Club, ethereum, Lambda School, lightspeed, M&A, Nikil Viswanathan, online education, OpenSea, silver lake, Startup company, valuation, web services, web3, world wide web 4 min read

Web3 developer infrastructure startup Alchemy, which last raised a $200 million Series C1 last February, has just made its first acquisition ever — and it’s in the education space. The company purchased education startup ChainShot, which runs coding bootcamps for aspiring web3 developers, Alchemy cofounder and CEO Nikil Viswanathan told TechCrunch exclusively. Alchemy did not disclose […]

Social investment platform eToro to acquire fintech startup Gatsby for $50M

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Social investment platform eToro to acquire fintech startup Gatsby for $50M

August 17, 2022 Mary Ann Azevedo 229 Viewsetoro, Fintech, gatsby, investment, M&A, Mergers and Acquisitions, Startups 4 min read

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. Israel-based eToro told TechCrunch this week that it just received approval from FINRA, the […]

Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

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Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

August 7, 2022August 10, 2022 Mary Ann Azevedo 220 Viewsfinancial services, Fintech, Fintech Roundup, M&A, PayStand, The Interchange, Yaydoo 12 min read

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 take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous […]

Crypto startup Blockdaemon continues acquisition spree, buying Sepior

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Crypto startup Blockdaemon continues acquisition spree, buying Sepior

July 20, 2022August 10, 2022 Anita Ramaswamy 303 Viewsacquisition, blockchain, Blockdaemon, citibank, coinbase, crypto, cryptography, digital assets, economy, entrepreneurship, key management, M&A, Market Leader, MPC, multi-party computation, Private Equity, security, Sepior, Startup company, Startups, valuation, web3 4 min read

Crypto infrastructure provider Blockdaemon has acquired Danish startup Sepior, a digital asset security company providing key management services for institutional clients, for an undisclosed price. The deal marks the startup’s fourth acquisition in two years, the latest of which was Blockdaemon’s purchase of fiat-to-crypto onramp Gem.com in March of this year. The crypto markets have […]

IBM acquires Databand to bolster its data observability stack

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IBM acquires Databand to bolster its data observability stack

July 6, 2022August 10, 2022 Kyle Wiggers 268 Viewsacquisition, analytics, big data, data observability, databand, IBM, M&A 2 min read

IBM today announced that it acquired Databand, a startup developing an observability platform for data and machine learning pipelines. Details of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Tel Aviv-based Databand had raised $14.5 million prior to the acquisition. Databand employees will join IBM’s data and AI division, with the purchase expected to close on July 27. […]