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3 investors explain why earned wage access startups are set to cash more checks

It always feels good to get paid, so it’s no surprise that a payroll model like earned wage access (EWA), which lets employees withdraw their accrued wages at any time, has exploded in popularity.

Spain’s Payflow, a salary advance startup, banks $9.1M to fuel a super app growth strategy

Barcelona-based Payflow, a YC-backed salary-advance fintech with ambitions to evolve into a neobank, has banked a $9.1 million Series A funding round — bringing its total raised since January 20

Receeve, a debt recovery and collection platform, takes total funding to $16M with ABN AMRO

Banking is undergoing a huge transformation, and how debt collections operations engage customers is becoming a big issue, especially with things like BNPL schemes. Hundreds of billions of dollars hav

Seaya Ventures, Cathay Innovation launch $125M fund for LatAm startups

The Seaya Cathay Latam Fund will invest in between 12 to 15 companies and will write check sizes of between $5 and $10 million.

White label fintech platform Toqio secures $9.4M Seed led by Seaya and Speedinvest

The upside of the Open Banking regulations which have swept jurisdictions like the UK and the EU is that many more challenger banks have appeared. The headache for either incumbent banks or for upstar

Look out Amazon Go — A Lisbon startup plans to offer autonomous stores to other retailers

Look out Amazon Go. A Lisbon startup plans to offer the same autonomous store technology to other retailers. Lisbon-based Sensei, a computer vision startup that allows convenience stores to offer chec

Alma raises $59.4 million for its Klarna-like payment option

French startup Alma is raising a $59.4 million Series B funding round (€49 million). The company has been building a new payment option for expensive goods. You can choose to pay over three or four

Spain’s Savana Medica raises $15 million to bring to the US its AI toolkit turning clinical notes into care insights

Savana, a machine learning-based service that turns clinical notes into structured patient information for physicians and pharmacists, has raised $15 million to take its technology from Spain to the U

Biome Makers closes $4M to assess the quality of the ‘gut bacteria’ of a farm’s soil

The agriculture industry faces huge problems of sustainability. The world’s population is increasing, leading to higher food demand, but this then threatens increasing deforestation, pesticide u

Glovo faces safety protests after delivery rider killed on the job

Spanish on-demand delivery startup Glovo is facing angry protests from couriers on its platform following the death of a 22-year-old rider on Saturday in Barcelona where the business is headquartered.

Movo grabs $22.5M to get more cities in LatAm scooting

Madrid-based micromobility startup Movo has closed a €20 million (~$22.5M) Series A funding round to accelerate international expansion. The 2017-founded Spanish startup targets cities in its home m

Eventbrite acquires Spanish ticketing platform Ticketea

Eventbrite has been shopping again in Europe — announcing today that it’s picked up Spanish ticketing firm, Ticketea. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed but we’re asking arou

Spanish vacation rental search engine Hundredrooms books €4.1M Series A

Just like London buses, you wait for a European vacation rental search engine to raise funding and three come along at once. Following <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/07/holidu/">Holidu</a> an

Rakuten Backs Spanish And Latin American Taxi App Cabify

You'd be forgiven for thinking that Uber has sewn up the on-demand transportation space. But actually in a number of specific markets there are taxi apps that are holding their own against the multi b

European Pre-Owned Clothing Startup Percentil Bags €3.2M Series A

European pre-owned clothing startup <a target="_blank" href="http://percentil.com/">Percentil</a> has closed a €3.2 million Series A. Leading the round is Seaya Ventures, with participation from exi

Just Eat Acquires Mexican Online Take-Out Ordering Service SinDelantal.Mx

They say lightning doesn't strike twice, but in the case of Just Eat's latest acquisition, that is exactly what has just happened: The online take-out ordering behemoth (and recently <a href="https

Another LatAm Bet For Seaya Ventures With $4M Investment In Price Comparison Site ComparaGuru

Chalk this up as Seaya Ventures’ third investment in Latin America. After backing online takeout delivery service SinDelantal.Mx, and Uber competitor Cabify, the Spanish VC is placing a $4 milli

Plenummedia Raises $6.5M To Help SMEs In Spain And LatAm Do Business Online, More Acquisitions Expected

More investment activity from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/seaya-ventures">Seaya Ventures</a>, after it <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/17/restalo/

European OpenTable Competitor Restalo Raises $10M Series B Led By Seaya Ventures

Barcelona-based <a target="_blank" href="http://www.restalo.es/">Restalo</a>, an online restaurant reservation service similar to OpenTable, has raised a $10 million Series B round from <a target="_bl

Mexican Online Take-Out Ordering Service SinDelantal.Mx Raises €2.5M From Seaya Ventures

Mexico's <a target="_blank" href="http://SinDelantal.Mx">SinDelantal.Mx</a>, the online takeout delivery service started by the founders of Spain's SinDelantal.com, has raised €2.5 million from Spa