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Another step into the journey of NAYA - Financial data platform NAYA is now part of the Google for Startups program for AI Startups as we are on a mission to reimagine Fintech Infrastructure and Operations powered by Intelligence. #NAYA #Fintech #infrastructure

SIGMA Financial AI will be at Google UK today with CFO Simon Peter White speaking on a panel at their Fintech and AI Conference. CEO Andrew Simpson will also be delivering the latest from SIGMA Financial AI. Follow SIGMA Financial AI to keep up to date on the event and whats to come in the future. #google #fintech #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #ai #tradingai #trading #googlecloud #tradinganalysis #technicalanalysis

🔮 Ed Sim, Founder and Managing Partner at boldstart ventures, shares his 2023 scorecard and predictions for 2024, including 8 enterprise tech trends. 👇 1. AI will go mainstream in the enterprise in the second half of 2024, triggering substantial IT spending on cloud, tools, infrastructure and security. 2. AI will expand from specific tasks to enterprise workflows, utilizing various models, modalities and human-in-the-loop interactions. 3. AI security will gain prominence in 2024 due to a significant hack, leading to increased spending and the launch of AI security offerings by major companies. 4. Existing leaders in dev tooling and infrastructure will face reinvention challenges, creating opportunities for new startups with VC support. 5. AI will shift from proactive chat to seamless suggestions, evolving applications for more user-friendly AI interactions. 6. AI will extend beyond coding to testing, ops and AIOps, gaining trust for routine decision-making among DevOps professionals. 7. The PLG concept will diminish, emphasizing the need for traditional sales approaches to close significant enterprise deals in 2024. 8. Crypto will see a resurgence in 2024, driven by real-world use cases in large financial institutions utilizing blockchain for instantaneous, low-cost settlements with stable coins. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gapm-Mt2 #2024predictions #VC #OpenLP

👇🏼 What's 🔥 for 2024 in enterprise software? Summary below along with links to founder Ed Sim's newsletter!

Fisker collapsed under the weight of its founder’s promises Welcome backmost to TechCrunch’s Week successful Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it successful your inbox each Saturday? Sign up here. Over the past 8 years, famed conveyance decorator Henrik Fisker suggested his EV startup would present connected a batch of promises, but nary came true. As Fisker looks for an improbable rescue, employees told TechCrunch that the blasted rests mostly connected the shoulders of the husband-and-wife squad who steer the company. This week besides had a large disturbance successful the fintech space. After years of missteps and struggles, the banking-as-a-service fintech Synapse officially went bankrupt. Based connected Synapse’s filings, arsenic galore arsenic 100 fintechs and 10 cardinal extremity customers could person been impacted by the company’s collapse. Elon Musk conscionable got a batch of currency for xAI. The AI startup raised $6 billion astatine an $18 cardinal pre-money valuation arsenic it aims to vie with OpenAI, Microsoft and Alphabet. In different large wealth moves, Google is investing astir $350 cardinal into Flipkart. The caller concern gives the Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce startup a valuation of $36 billion. Google, which reaches much than fractional a cardinal radical successful India, identifies the South Asian federation arsenic a cardinal overseas market.  News Image Credits: Darrell Etherington with files from Getty nether license Was Sam Altman fired from Y Combinator?: Paul Graham is mounting the grounds straight. In a bid of posts connected X, the Y Combinator co-founder brushed disconnected claims that Sam Altman was pressured to resign successful 2019 owed to imaginable conflicts of interest. Read More Spotify doles retired Car Thing refunds: Spotify is facing backlash implicit its determination to discontinue enactment for its in-car streaming device, Car Thing. Spotify has present instituted a refund process, but immoderate users are asking the institution not to ceramic their devices. Read More Are earbuds the aboriginal of AI hardware?: Unlike generative AI gadgets similar Humane’s Ai Pin and Rabbit’s R1, Iyo is aiming to physique its exertion into an already palmy category: the Bluetooth earbud. Read More Firefly forges on: On the heels of idiosyncratic tragedy, the Tel Aviv-based startup has raised $23 cardinal for its “infrastructure arsenic code” solution to the increasing contented of unreality plus management. Read More Is Apple going to “sherlock” Arc?: Apple is reportedly readying to merchandise a caller exertion called “smart recaps” successful iOS 18, which appears to intimately mimic Arc Search’s innovative “Browse for me” functionality. Read More Misinformation is truthful back: A brace of caller studies offers grounds that misinfor...

It's always wonderful to train the motivated Fintech startups, participating in the Visa Innovation Program Europe . Today I will lead a webinar on Reducing Costs and Efforts on Your PCI DSS Journey. I will demonstrate how Fintech startups can (and should) use serverless cloud components such as AWS and GCP to optimize their PCI DSS implementation and maintenance, and we will discuss some real cases. The main goal is clear - to empower the startups to create secure, cost- and time-efficient PCI-compliant environments so they can stay focused on their main products and growth. #pcidss #visainnovation #webinar #training #fintechstartups

xPay (YC W24) is building an all-in-one solution to help businesses in India and Southeast Asia accept international payments while saving them from managing global compliance, remittance, and integrations. International payments are broken. If you need to accept international payments from customers today as a business, it is typically a painful 6-8 month process. You spend 2+ months each talking to multiple vendors, doing developer integrations, and setting up compliance. This is only becoming harder, with rapidly evolving payment behavior in every country. All of this leads to a $500k+ expense upfront and delayed time to market, so most small businesses eventually give up on their international journey. At xPay, Aniket Gupta and Rakshit Bansal are trying to fix this. xPay is a single solution for SMEs in India and Southeast Asia that: 1. Unifies their integrations: Provides them with major global gateways like Stripe and Razorpay pre-integrated so they only do a single integration 2. Unifies their onboarding: Provides a managed gateway solution so they only go through the onboarding once instead of for each gateway xPay has already empowered SaaS, edtech, healthtech, and D2C businesses to go international within 2 weeks of their beta launch. This was a problem Aniket and Rakshit would constantly face while running a profitable blockchain dev services firm, leading to 100s of hours wasted in figuring out solutions. So they decided to solve it for everyone. Sign up for the waitlist at https://lnkd.in/g5XYj67d. Congrats on the launch, Aniket and Rakshit!

At the RAK DAO launch, our CCO Masha Tankushina got a chance to chat with Dominic Williams ∞ Founder, President & Chief Scientist at DFINITY, responsible for building the Internet Computer. M: You said that achieving full-stack decentralization is the future of tech. How will Web 3.0 change the way we interact with online services? D: One of the big problems in blockchain is, people still don't really understand what ‘built on blockchain XYZ’, means. Today, it really means built on Amazon Web Services, with just tokens and NFTs that link to external content on the chain — and users can't own anything that's built on Amazon Web Services. It is owned by either Amazon, or the developers who can log in to the Amazon account, and arbitrarily change the content and data, computation, and the user experience that is hosted there. So, to some extent, ownership is an illusion. That's the prevailing model for Web3 today, but what we’re seeing on the Internet Computer is an explosion of “open internet services,” which run fully on-chain in full-stack decentralization. User data is fully on-chain, all the computations are on-chain, user experiences are on-chain; everything is built using advanced smart contract software running on the blockchain. These smart contracts are autonomous, meaning they can exist independently of a centralized entity like Amazon Web Services. And you can assign full control over such services to a DAO. The real juice of Web 3.0 is the inversion of traditional business models, through provision of ownership to communities of users, developers, and investors via DAOs. The community of governance token holders gain ownership over open internet services in the same way one might get ownership of a digital asset using an NFT. So, it moves the game on from users who just own tokens and NFTs to users who actually own the internet services themselves. That’s much more powerful. Web 3.0 involves full-stack decentralization, and the creation of borderless services operated by DAOs. There's no CEO, board of directors, and Amazon can’t switch them off. A social media service can reward users creating viral content by giving them DAO governance tokens, incentivizing industrious behavior, making them part of a giant virtual team, and making them into co-founders. The user community directly controls the service through decentralized governance, there's no back doors, and everything’s transparent. That's the profound promise of Web 3.0 that we are now beginning to see realized. Read full interview: https://lnkd.in/gTUKW6Cw

Exciting News in the World of Web3! Zetrix, Web3Labs, and Summer Capital join forces to accelerate Hong Kong's Web3 roadmap initiatives.   Here's a summary of the collaboration. https://lnkd.in/ge3RfpY8 Partnership Overview: Zetrix, teams up with Hong Kong’s trusted Web3Labs and Summer Capital to drive HK's Web3 ambitions. The goal is to establish Zetrix as the preferred blockchain infrastructure for HK government-aligned applications.   Key Objectives: #1 Strengthening Zetrix's Position: Zetrix will enhance its role as the preferred Layer-1 platform for blockchain applications aligned with HK’s government's Web3 vision. Significant collaborations with industry and business communities are in the pipeline.   #2 Financial Innovation: Catalysing HK’s financial systems and corporate players to explore innovative blockchain use cases such as Real World Asset (RWA), stablecoin issuance, and financial instruments tokenisation.   #3 Global Accelerator Program: Launching a dedicated program to incubate startups building on the Zetrix platform. This initiative will offer mentorship, technical support, and funding opportunities, fostering a thriving Web3 ecosystem.   Strategic Moves: Investment Consideration: Zetrix is exploring a strategic investment in Web3Labs, aiming to leverage its extensive network of Web3 experts and ecosystem partners.   Quotes from Key Players: Wong Thean Soon, co-founder of Zetrix: "This collaboration will add immense value to Zetrix and provide invaluable support to the burgeoning Web3 ecosystem with key stakeholders in HK." Caspar Wong, CEO of Web3Labs: "By combining our capabilities and focusing on government and enterprise-aligned applications, both parties aim to foster a thriving Web3 ecosystem."   Henry Chen, Head of Fintech and Blockchain of Summer Capital: "Bringing Zetrix to HK marks our strong commitment to embracing the market and its opportunities."   More About Our Partners: Web3Labs: Dedicated to supporting global Web3 companies in Hong Kong through investment acceleration, technical collaborations, and compliance assistance. As of July 2023, they've assisted nearly 1,000 Web3 enterprises. Summer Capital: An investment management and advisory firm investing in new economy sectors, including fintech and blockchain infrastructure. Summer Ventures, their affiliate, focuses on the real-world application of blockchain technology. The collaboration signifies a major stride towards making HK a global Web3 hub. Zetrix's expanded mission aligns with HK's Fintech Promotion Roadmap, reinforcing its commitment to government and enterprise-focused Web3 development in addition to other key partnerships announced in China, Malaysia and the Philippines. #Web3Innovation #ZETRIX #BlockchainRevolution

Amazing News!! We have been selected to participate in the AWS Global Fintech Accelerator! The program is run by @Amazon Web Services in partnership with @NVIDIA and @Vestbee and will last until mid-November. 🚀 #vestbee #nvidia #fintech #aws #accelerator #emea #latam #namer #awsfintechaccelerator #awsglobalfintechaccelerator