Bartering meets tech platforms

Bartering meets tech platforms

Through Go Flex, Uber hopes to use bartering and a semblance of consumer freedom as a strategy for growth. But this payments scheme obfuscates a deeper crisis in supply.

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AI is about to get expensive

AI is about to get expensive

From Matt Ober: The downstream cost of leveraging AI, I believe, will become more expensive or be continuously funded by VC money in the near team. We are already seeing the lawsuits pop up with the New York Times. Owners of data and content want to get paid!

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Innovation and insurtech investing with Anthemis

Innovation and insurtech investing with Anthemis

Kate Sampson, Managing Partner at Anthemis, helps spearhead Anthemis’s growth-stage insurtech investments. A self-identified insurtech futurist, Sampson has a celebrated career in leadership positions at both traditional as well as tech-driven insurance players, helping create new insurance products for emerging risks.

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The future of payouts with Onbe

The future of payouts with Onbe

Onsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with sat down with Tracy Monson, Chief Product Officer at Onbe, discussing check fraud, security-focused product development, and the future of payouts solutions as new technologies emerge.

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The scavenging growth strategy

The scavenging growth strategy

Coupled with the accelerated nature of venture-backed economics, it’s easy for a privately funded fintech to sink and go defunct without making much of a splash.

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The evolving fintech VC landscape with Portage

The evolving fintech VC landscape with Portage

Stephanie Choo is a partner at Portage Ventures, and has played a keystone role in the group’s fintech-focused funds since its founding. Choo primarily invests in consumer fintech, payments, infrastructure, and wealthtech.

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Automated vehicles and the future of insurance

Automated vehicles and the future of insurance

How will automated vehicles change insurance products and the industry writ large? Will these insurance solutions complicate regulators’ deflationary efforts?

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The evolution of the digital identity market

The evolution of the digital identity market

Onsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with sat down with Ricardo Amper, CEO & Founder of Incode, discussing the identity stalwart’s plans for expansion, and diving into the relationship between public trust and Incode’s growth strategy.

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AI and a wave of efficiency

AI and a wave of efficiency

From Matt Ober: One thing that is clear to me is that AI is going to give us all a lot more free time. We are going to get comfortable in the coming years having AI automate a lot of our repetitive tasks and we will soon have AI agents or assistants in all industries. What will we all do with all this free time?

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Promoting equality and diversity in fintech with Galileo

Promoting equality and diversity in fintech with Galileo

Onsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Sheri Chin, CMO at Galileo, discussing how and why fintech may see advancements in gender equality now.

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As brands jump on AI bandwagon, regulators respond

As brands jump on AI bandwagon, regulators respond

Artificial intelligence has arguably existed for decades. But AI’s branding—in addition to the complexity of technologies that fall under its umbrella—has been profoundly dynamic over that same time period.

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The expanded world of payments with Ingenico

The expanded world of payments with Ingenico

Onsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Bradford Giles, SVP of Marketing and Sales Enablement at Ingenico, discussing how a range of technological developments in the payments space are upending merchant-consumer interactions.

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It's not wrong to down-round

It's not wrong to down-round

In a piece for The Financial Revolutionist, Fluent Ventures’s Alex Lazarow looks at the misconceptions surrounding down-rounds—and fundraising writ large.

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