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Sweden’s Tink raises $103M as its open banking platform grows to 3,400 banks and 250M customers

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Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs, has been one of the emerging trends of the last couple of years, and today one of the leaders in the space out of Europe has closed a round of funding to expand its business. It is live in Sweden, U.K.,

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15 steps to launch your own tech startup: Part 2

The Next Web

Understand trends and markets. Both companies helped pushing the trend around the cloud – amongst users, journalists and especially investors. There was a trend around cloud business, and now also around productivity apps. Trends can help you to get attention, but be cautious. He started Skype in Sweden.

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5 takeaways on trust in NGOs to manage new innovations and technologies 

Candid

Here are five takeaways about global trends in the public’s trust in NGOs: 1. Respondents in six wealthier nations—the Netherlands, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, and Japan—fewer than half of respondents trusted NGOs. In China, however, the level of trust in NGOs fell significantly from the previous year.

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COVID was the best thing for Kitty, as insurance apps for pets boom

TechCrunch

The proceeds will be used to scale the business beyond its home base of Sweden. We are now looking to bring more products to market and take our preventive pet insurance beyond Sweden.”.

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Bitwarden acquires Passwordless.dev to help companies authenticate users without passwords

TechCrunch

Open source password management platform Bitwarden has made its first known acquisition, snapping up a fledgling Sweden-based startup called Passwordless.dev , which specializes in helping developers integrate passwordless authentication technology into their software.

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Pandemic’s shift to remote wellness helps Numan raise $40M Series B led by White Star

TechCrunch

Into this space, wellness companies have uncovered an extremely lucrative nexus of trends: an aging male population with a desire to remain sexually active, increasing awareness of their own health, the convenience of subscription, and the imperative of the pandemic to keep things remote has proven to be a powerful combination of forces.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me. Image Credits: Klarna.

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