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Robinhood offers $15 discount, blames outage on record trades
It wasn’t the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood’s massive outages yesterday and today that…
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Leap Finance raises $5.5M to democratize financing for foreign-bound Indian students
Tens of thousands of Indians move to the United States to pursue higher education each year. But like many others…
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Robinhood suffers prolonged outage on the day the Dow enjoyed its single biggest point gain
Robinhood, the startup with a stock trading app valued upwards of at least $7.6 billion, suffered one of its worst…
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DoorDash files to go public
DoorDash prepares to go public, Roblox raises $150 million and Reddit’s CEO takes aim at TikTok. Here’s your Daily Crunch…
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Africa e-tailer Jumia reports first full-year results post NYSE IPO
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia got into the black (by a small amount) on its gross profit vs. fulfillment expenses, expanded…
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The Plaid “mafia” begins with John Whitfield joining student loan fintech startup Summer
So far this year, one of the most eye-popping startup exits has been Visa’s $5.3 billion acquisition of fintech data…
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Fintech startups raised $34B in 2019
Financial services startups raised less money in 2019 than they did in 2018 as VC firms looked to back late…
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Gaming-focused investment firm Bitkraft closes in on at least $140 million for its second fund
Esports, video games and the innovations that enable them now occupy a central space in the cultural and commercial fabric…
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