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Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinDanielle Cohen-Shohet, founder and CEO of GlossGenius, one of 19 newcomers on the Fintech 50 list. Glossgenius; Creative Crop/Getty Images Venture capital funding is down dramatically, but innovation is still thriving, with 19 of the companies on our eighth annual honor roll new to the list. Reported by Steven…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinPatrick Collison, cofounder and CEO of Stripe, the payments giant that remains the most valuable privately held U.S. fintech despite a steep drop in its valuation. Photo by Ethan Pines for Forbes; Yevgen Romanenko/Getty Images Its valuation has fallen by nearly half, but Stripe, at $50 billion, remains the…

COVID-19 has upended many aspects of busienss, including the way enterprises sell software. As the pandemic kept people at home, SaaS sales teams were forced to adjust their strategies. In the past, they relied mostly on in-person meetings to close deals, but with social distancing measures in place during the pandemic, they turned to the…

The DevOps software provider’s shares accomplished something impressive today…

While cloud computing has transformed just about every industry on Earth, a burgeoning backlash has led some businesses to seek alternatives to the Big Tech-dominated public cloud. Vendor lock-in, spiralling costs, security concerns, and a lack of control over how their data is processed are just some of the reasons companies might retreat from cloud-first…

Ceci Kurzman has spent much of her career building and investing in brands and serving as one of the few Black female board members for companies, including Lanvin, Revlon and Warner Music+. While investing on behalf of some clients interested in beauty and personal care, Kurzman saw a gap in what kinds of products were…

The Netherlands-based automaker has big plans for new electric vehicles…

The e-commerce giant clarifies its views…

The European Union is leaning on signatories to its Code of Practice on Online Disinformation to label deepfakes and other AI-generated content. In remarks yesterday following a meeting with the 40+ signatories to the Code, the EU’s values and transparency commissioner, Vera Jourova, said those signed up to combat disinformation should put in place technology…

There’s room for startups to cut their cloud costs, even if they have to balance the implicit costs of doing so, such as the time required and the potential for slower development. The question then becomes: How much of a priority is finding incremental savings for young tech companies? A recent survey of founders by…