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Taptap Send raises $65M to build cross-border remittances focused on the most underserved markets

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” The founders have arrived at their understanding of the market based on a long history in the field, having previously founded GiveDirectly (for charitable cross-border transfers) and Segovia (focused on B2B transfers). You need to have the utmost trust to take that money and send to someone else.”

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Constituent Empowerment, as old as Lady Liberty

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Of course we saw Central Park and the Zoo therein, to see if the animals from Madagascar were hanging out, and we saw FAO Schwartz and Times Square and the Empire State Building. To read a more thorough history, see the excellent National Parks Service site. We also went out to Liberty Island to see the Statue of Liberty.

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Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?

TechCrunch

The bitter history of the sweetest ingredient. Over the next 2,000 years the crop spread from those regions to Madagascar and eventually took root in India, where it was first refined in about 500 BC. 10 startups that caught our eye from day 1 of YC Demo Day S18.

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Solutionary Women: Katya Andresen

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We then store all your giving records for you so you can access your donation history any time. The child sex slave in Cambodia or the cyclone victim in Madagascar doesn’t have time for us to wordsmith our mission statements or waste time with lackluster fundraising efforts.

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