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Insurtech Platform Authentic Raises $5.5 Million Seed Round
A startup that's bringing the practice of "captive insurance" to smaller businesses has raised a new round of funding. About the round: This week, Authentic announced that it had raised $5.5 million. The seed round was led by Slow Ventures along with participation from Altai Ventures, MGV, Upper90, Clocktower, Commerce Ventures, Mischief Ventures, Core Innovation Capital, and others. About Authentic: Authentic is a startup that provides vertical software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies with...
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Spiral Announces Partnership with nkbc to Enable Easy Giving
The FinTech Spiral has announced its latest banking partnership. About the partnership: This week, Spiral revealed a new partnership with Kansas City-based bank nbkc. Under this agreement, the FinTech will brings its Giving Center to nbkc customers. In turn, users will be able to give to their favorite charities and non-profit organization in a variety of ways. In addition to creating a portfolio of their supported charities, customers will also...
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Bilt Partners with Odynn for Live Hotel Award Booking Search
Bilt has unveiled a new feature that will help customers book hotel rooms using points. About the partnership and feature: This week, Bilt Rewards announced a partnership with Odynn that brings their Awayz platform to the Bilt app. With this integration, Bilt members can search and view real-time hotel award booking options. Currently, Bilt offers transfers to two hotel loyalty programs: IHG and Hyatt. In turn, the new Awayz-powered search...
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Comingle Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for Basic Income App
An app aiming to create a community that provides unconditional income is currently in its crowdfunding phase. About the campaign: Earlier this week, Comingle launched its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. The company is currently looking for supporters to contribute as little as $1 toward the app's goal of raising $75,000. As of this writing, Comingle was 44% of the way to that goal with a tally of more than $33,000...
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Point.Me Announces $10 Million Series A
A FinTech that makes it easier for flyers to find and book award travel has closed a fresh round of funding. About the round: This week, Point.Me announced that it had raised $10 million. The Series A was led by Thayer Ventures with participation from new investors PAR Capital Ventures, RiverPark Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures, and MoreThanCapital, as well as returning investors Gaingels and ITA Software co-founders David Baggett and Carl de Marcken. Combined...
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Robinhood Wallet Adding Support for Ethereum Swaps and More
Robinhood Wallet has announced a number of new features coming to the Wallet app. About the updates: Robinhood's standalone, non-custodial crypto wallet app aptly called Wallet is expanding. First, the app will now support custody for Bitcoin and Dogecoin. This means that all users will now be able to send and receive these assets using Wallet. These two networks join those previously supported including Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, and Ethereum. Speaking...
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