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.
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
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
The Seaya Cathay Latam Fund will invest in between 12 to 15 companies and will write check sizes of between $5 and $10 million.
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 the same autonomous store technology to other retailers. Lisbon-based Sensei, a computer vision startup that allows convenience stores to offer chec
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
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
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
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.
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 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
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
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 <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
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
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
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/
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
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