Emphasis Ventures CEO & Founding Partner Melissa Frakman in conversation with Jill Malandrino of Nasdaq highlights how “global investors, institutional investors and our partners around the world are seeing India as a very attractive business climate. It’s no longer a niche and global investors sitting in Wall Street are seeing it as a financial hub.”
Read MoreOur portfolio company Bureau raised $4.5mm in its extended Series A round led by GMO Venture Partners and others to further scale its identity verification and fraud prevention platform. This brings its total Series A funding to $16.5mm.
Read More“Digital public infrastructure (DPI) refers to blocks or platforms such as digital identification, payment infrastructure and data exchange solutions that help countries deliver essential services to their people, empowering citizens and improving lives by enabling digital inclusion.”
Read MoreMelissa spoke on the topic of Digital Public Infrastructure and India’s startup ecosystem at the G20 Sherpa’s meeting alongside global leaders and change makers. “Global policymakers and business innovators alike should pay attention, as India aspires to become a $5 trillion economy in the future, and the world’s third-largest economy within a decade. Its thriving DPI will be central to delivering on this economic promise and achieving these audacious goals.” she said.
Read MoreEMVC portfolio company Monnai, which is a global consumer insights infrastructure for financial institutions, raised $6.5mm from Tiger Global, 500 Global, EMVC, Better Tomorrow Ventures and others.
Read More“India’s fintech entrepreneurs who will be the most successful are those tackling big generational challenges with a long view but a sense of urgency. They arm themselves with deeply-aligned early team, community, and capital to build the future. Being their chosen partner is an honor,” said Melissa Frakman in this wide-ranging podcast discussion.
Read MoreFlash, founded by former head of payments and checkout at Flipkart, has raised $5.8mm in seed capital from EMVC and top-tier angel investors.
Read MoreThe Centre for Financial Inclusion has featured our portfolio company, Bimaplan, in its annual list of Inclusive Fintech 50 winners.
Read MoreMonnai is using XAI to address a $60Bn digital financial services opportunity in for developing markets. It is building a ‘global infrastructure, connecting disparate data, risk insights and network behavior to power fintech decisioning at scale’ and is already providing insights on more than 3 billion consumers in India, Southeast Asia and Latin America.
Read MoreOur portfolio company and a fintech API infrastructure platform, M2P, raised ~$2.7mm from Visa as a part of its ongoing Series C1 round led by Insight Partners.
Read MoreOur portfolio company Monnai, which is an infrastructure platform for global financial institutions raised $3.15mm in seed capital from Better Tomorrow Ventures, Commerce Ventures and others.
Read MoreEMVC portfolio company Jar, which is an investment platform for financial products including digital gold, raised $22mm led by Tiger Global.
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