OPay, an Africa-focused mobile payments startup founded by Norwegian browser company Opera, has raised $50 million in funding. Lead investors include Sequoia China, IDG Capital and...
When it comes to financial services in emerging markets, remittances — people sending money to each other across international borders, often not to established bank accounts...
Our 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party is a mere two weeks away, and we’re serving up a fresh new batch of tickets to this popular Silicon...
Fintech startup Bunq is announcing a handful of new features today, such as a way to track group expenses without creating a joint account, a web...
Frederic Moll has to be one of the most successful inventors and entrepreneurs who is not yet a household name. Moll’s successes include the 22-year-old, publicly...
Mobile marketing company AppLovin is announcing that it has acquired SafeDK. While AppLovin started out as a mobile ad business, it now bills itself as “a...
CEO Merrill Brown says he founded The News Project to address one of the big problems in the journalism business: “It costs too much to launch...
Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. TechCrunch’s Connie Loizos recently...
Building apps and tools on the web shouldn’t just be for the technically inclined. In the early days of the web, it was easy to make...
NiYO Solutions, a Bangalore-based “neo-bank” that helps salaried employees and blue-collar workers access company benefits and other financial services, has raised $35 million in a new...
