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Non-sexy industries can appeal to investors too

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at some hot fintech startups in Africa, how Mint’s closure has been Copilot’s gain and why VCs have dou

VCs double down on fintech Coast, which aims to be the Brex for ‘real-world’ industries

The expense management arena is a crowded one, with well-funded players such as Brex, Ramp and Navan all clamoring for market share. Those companies are generally focused on tech startups and large co

Coast, a demo platform for ‘API-first’ companies, lands $2.1M

Spencer Levitt and Austin Pager met early on as classmates at Northwestern University and spent the next several years building apps powered by a wide range of APIs. After developers kept tapping them

Coast lands $27.5M from VC firms, slew of founders to provide expense management to fleet operators

Coast, which aims to help companies control fuel and fleet spending with its expense management software, has raised $27.5 million in a Series A financing co-led by Accel and Insight Partners.  The r

After selling Bread last year for over $500M, this founder just raised millions for his new fintech startup

When Daniel Simon sold Bread, a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building a

Michael Casey, Bitcoin Reporter, Is Heading To The MIT Media Lab

Michael Casey, the co-author of The Age Of Cryptocurrency is leaving a senior columnist position at the Wall Street Journal to work at MIT Media Lab as Senior Advisor at the Digital Currency Initiativ

Opera Brings Its Touch-Centric Coast Browser To The iPhone

Opera is bringing its Coast browser to the iPhone today. While it uses Apple's own WebKit rendering engine, the interface around it is decidedly different from any other browser you have likely tried