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LATIN AMERICA Treinta Raises Largest Series A in Colombia 💸  Treinta, a fintech startup providing e-commerce services for SMBs, just raised $46M Series A —marking the largest one for a Colombian startup and one of the largest in Latin America. The fintech is focused on the digitalization and financial inclusion of microbusinesses, a sector that has…

VENTURE Female VC Funding Data… Obscured? A colleague sent me an article this week where the author argues that the data measuring venture capital dollars reaching female-founded startups is obscured, and there are more positive trends we could be seeing.  Woah. This article should be going viral. The idea that the 2% metric I’ve relied on in everyday…

PAYMENTS Fintech App Nate Changes the Payments Game  Nearly every American consumer believes that data privacy is important to them, with 87% calling it a human right. In a study from KMPG, 56% of Americans reported wanting more control over their personal data.  And, unsurprisingly, consumers worry about what companies, like payment services, are doing with their data (54%). In…

VENTURE  Katie Haun Raises Record-Breaking $1.5B Fund Crypto investor Katie Haun raised $1.5 billion for her new fund, Haun Ventures, and broke a few records with the announcement:  Largest debut venture fund  Largest solo general partner venture fund  Largest fund ever raised by a woman “As web3 grows to touch every aspect of our lives, we’ll need more voices…

CRYPTO ‘We’re Not Serving Crypto Because It’s In Vogue’: Acorns CEO Acorns just added the option for its 4.6M users to invest up to 5% of their portfolio in bitcoin through the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO), a bitcoin futures fund that went public on the New York Stock Exchange last October. This makes Acorns one of…

SMBs Retirement Fintech for SMBs Raises $2.1M  Meet Penelope – a female and AAPI-founded and led 401(k) platform that gives small businesses an affordable way to provide retirement benefits and attain financial security.  The startup, launched in January, just raised $2.1 million in pre-seed fundraising.  I’m bullish on fintech products for SMBs to flourish and preserve the…