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Meet the 18 Finalists for the 2024 Global Fintech Hackcelerator

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SmashFi (South Korea) SmashFi is a service designed to help individual investors easily accumulate and securely store Bitcoin. Often, new investors purchase Bitcoin through exchanges and leave it there, exposing their assets to risks such as exchange bankruptcy or hacking.

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Fintech Fundings: 12 Companies Raise $205 million Week Ending June 18

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P2P mortgage lending. Tags: Bitcoin, mobile, social media, P2P payments. Total raised: $120.8 million (includes $100 million debt). Source: Crunchbase. LendInvest. HQ: London, England, UK. Latest round: $34.2 million Series A. Total raised: $34.2 Source: FT Partners. Latest round: $2 million. Total raised: $2 million.

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Fintech Fundings: $148 Million Raised by 14 Companies Week Ending July 10

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Blockchain and bitcoin security. Online remittances & P2P transfers. Tags: Loans, credit, consumer, P2P, peer-to-peer, underwriting, investing. Source: Crunchbase. LSQ Funding. Receivables financing. HQ: Maitland, Florida. Latest round: $40 million. Total raised: $140 million. Source: FT Partners. Source: Crunchbase.

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Fintech Fundings: 14 Companies Raise $160 Million Week Ending May 15

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Vouch landed $6 million to help put the “first P” back in P2P lending. Building bitcoin ecosystem for the Philippines. Tags: Bitcoin, cryptocurrency. Two FinovateSpring 2015 presenters landed big rounds: Credit Sesame raised $16 million to expand its debt management and credit tracking platform. HQ: Tokyo, Japan.

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Fintech Fundings: 18 Companies Raise $210 Million Week Ending Sep 10

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Bitcoin wallet (hardware). Tags: Bitcoin, blockchain, analytics, cryptocurrency, FinDEVr alum. Total raised: $196 million ($150 million debt, $46 million equity). Source: Crunchbase. Enterprise blockchain technology. HQ: San Francisco, California. Latest round: $30 million Series B. Total raised: $43.7 Source: Wall Street Journal.

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Fintech Fundings: 24 Companies Raise $440 Million Week Ending May 21

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Bitcoin-denominated P2P lending. Tags: Crowdfunding, social money management, P2P, peer-to-peer. Latest round: $100 million Private Equity. Total raised: $100 million. Source: Crunchbase. Argon Credit. Online consumer alt-credit. HQ: Chicago, Illionois. Latest round: $75 million debt. Total raised: $85.1 million ($5.1

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Fintech Fundings: 20 Companies Raise $300 Million Week Ending July 17

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Israel-based P2P loan platform. Bitcoin wallet. Tags: Bitcoin, virtual currency, blockchain, mobile wallet. Total raised: $45.1 Source: Finovate. Online alt-lender. HQ: Palo Alto, California. Latest round: $35 million. Total raised: $42.7 Source: Crunchbase. AcadiaSoft. Margin-call automation software. Credit Benchmark.

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