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TheVentureCity Adds Ex-White House Staffer, Facebook Exec As Partner
Tuesday, August 3, 2021 - 3:08pm | 552Great companies are built by the great teams that surround them. That is according to Francesca de Quesada Covey, TheVentureCity’s newest partner, who caught up with Benzinga to talk about her role in expanding the firm’s seed and Series A investments across the United States. Context:...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For May 9, 2021
Sunday, May 9, 2021 - 9:16am | 1108Founder At Miami-Based Accelerator TheVentureCity Talks Returnly Exit, #MiamiTech And More Affirm, a leader in payments, recently announced it would acquire Returnly, a return and post-purchase payments solution, for $300 million. Benzinga spoke with Laura González-Estéfani, the...
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Founder At Miami-Based Accelerator TheVentureCity Talks Returnly Exit, #MiamiTech And More
Monday, May 3, 2021 - 2:55pm | 930Affirm, a leader in payments, recently announced it would acquire Returnly, a return and post-purchase payments solution, for $300 million. Benzinga spoke with Laura González-Estéfani, the founder and CEO of Miami-based TheVentureCity, on her firm’s role in bolstering Returnly...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For March 27, 2021
Saturday, March 27, 2021 - 8:23am | 1166Dan Gilbert-Backed Social Media App Plain Sight Launches Republic Crowdfunding Campaign Plain Sight, a social media app geared toward in-person networking, has launched a funding campaign on Republic, a robust system for private investing in pre-seed to pre-IPO companies. Benzinga chatted with...
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Fintech Focus For March 25, 2021
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 - 9:36pm | 2283Quote To Start The Day: Brainpower doesn’t have a zip code. Source: Laura González-Estéfani One Big Thing In Fintech: A new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicates that asset management giant Fidelity is seeking to create a bitcoin exchange-traded fund...
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Miami's Path To Becoming A Tech Hub, According To TheVentureCity's CEO: 'Brainpower Doesn't Have A Zip Code'
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 - 1:50pm | 1310“Thinking of moving to Miami? DM me.” That’s according to a tweet from Miami Mayor Francis Suarez that's plastered across billboards along California. The initiative, sponsored by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and early Uber Technologies Inc (NYSE: UBER) and...