Fintech / Startup News May 31 - 2020

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Fintech / Startup News for May 31, 2020

Monthly update of some of the news that I found to be relevant to the Fintech and Startup world.

The News:

A few weeks ago I started this newsletter/blog to include some of the most pressing and important news going around in the startup fintech world. However, when COVID hit, it was quite depressing to read about layoffs all the time. So instead of posting every week, I decided to post an article once a month. So here are the most important and pressing news for the month ending on May, 31 st, 2020

The Status of Open Banking in Mexico
Zubale raises US$4.4 million to expand collaborative marketing platform
Atix Labs, OS City, and Prescrypto are UNICEF Innovation Fund’s first blockchain cohort—here are their plans
500 Startups LatAm talks challenges and opportunities in Covid-19 era
Trust busted! Mexico’s anti-monopoly body fines WeWork and SoftBank US$138,000
Didi Food is hungry for more of the Mexican market
Business owners inherit disaster, Kichink owes them over US$16,000, they claim
Duolingo is growing like crazy, is it preparing to take IPO flight?
Cor·ner·shopped: the curse of not being able to exit
Julian Coulter becomes Google Mexico’s Managing Director
Vocational skills platform raises funding to teach you what other edtechs don’t
Google nombra a Julian Coulter como nuevo director para México
Despite Current Environment, Fintech Startups Continue To Hire And Raise Funds
Zoom releases 5.0 update with security and privacy improvements
Facebook takes $5.7 billion stake in Indian internet giant Jio
Y Combinator officially shifts its next accelerator class to fully remote format
Apple and Google pledge to shut down coronavirus tracker when pandemic ends
Bird Brained – Inside the electric scooter startup with big workplace problems
Walmart’s streaming service to be bought by Comcast-owned Fandango
19 Business Moats That Helped Shape The World’s Most Massive Companies
Pandemic Software: What Software Are People Buying During COVID-19?
Free ‘Sonos Radio’ streaming music service arrives with 60,000 radio stations
Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail
US-Based Startup Unicorns See The Impact Of Covid-19
What SMBs’ Cash-Flow Crisis Means For Fintech
What Early-Stage Investors Really Care About
Confluent Gets $250M In Series E Round To Reach $4.5B Valuation
Guru Raises $30M From Accel, Slack & Others As Philly Startup Scene Heats Up
Report: Number Of Startup Layoffs Surpasses 20K Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
From B2B To D2C: Cheetah Raises $36M For Contactless Food Pickup & Delivery
Despite Current Environment, Fintech Startups Continue To Hire And Raise Funds
Tencent buys 5% stake in Australian buy-now-pay-later firm Afterpay
Blogging platform Ghost hacked through Salt vulnerability
Activist investor Elliott Management funds patent lawsuit against Quibi
Intel in talks to buy Israel’s Moovit public transit app for $1 billion: media
In the note, written by Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky, the company said that 1,900 employees will be laid off
Canada’s Newest Unicorn: Edtech Startup ApplyBoard Raises $75M At $1.4B Valuation
WeWork Lays Off Staff As Part of A ‘Realignment’
Female founders face funding hurdles amid the pandemic
Dropbox quarterly results beat estimates
Google unifies consumer & enterprise messaging teams, now led by G Suite chief
Deliv Shutting Down Operations; Target to Buy Its Tech
Lyft to require passengers and drivers to wear masks
Facebook, YouTube remove ‘Plandemic’ video with ‘unsubstantiated’ coronavirus claims
Lower Costs, Laid-Back Lifestyle Continue To Draw Tech Companies To Austin, Texas
Briq Aims To Bring Fintech To Construction Industry With $10M Series A
You Got Rejected By A VC, Now What?
Sports App Sleeper Nets $20M In a16z-Led Series B, Counts NBA Stars Kevin Durant & Baron Davis As Investors
Getting The Job Done, DispatchTrack Scores $144M For At-Home Delivery Solutions
Intel Capital-Backed Lilt Raises $25M Series B To Expand AI-Powered Translation Technology
New York’s Newest Unicorn: DigitalOcean Raises $50M At $1.15B Valuation
Facebook Buys Giphy For A Reported $400M
Telemedicine Is Becoming More Popular. That’s Good for Prescription Delivery Startups
Waymo Banks Another $750M .
Babytech Boom: Millennials, Startups Pave Way For Growth
Survival Of The Fittest: Impact Of COVID-19 On Venture Funding
Why Startups Should Become ‘Camels’–Not Unicorns–During COVID-19
Magic Leap has raised another 350 M
New $250M Round Helps Apeel Sciences Make Saving Food More Appealing
Founder Institute CEO: Now Is The Time For Startups To Step Up
Canada’s Shopify CEO says era of ‘office centricity is over; most staff to permanently work from home
Amazon in talks to buy driverless-technology startup Zoox