by Ekrem Duman | Oct 21, 2026 | Finance, Sectors & Exits by Year, Venture Capital
⚡ TL;DRBetween 2015 and 2020 global venture investment roughly doubled, from about $140 billion to about $300 billion a year (KPMG Venture Pulse), while US deal value rose from $87 billion to $175 billion (PitchBook-NVCA). The money moved in waves: on-demand...
by Ekrem Duman | Oct 20, 2026 | Netherlands Banking & Finance, Netherlands Company Stories, Startup
⚡ TL;DRAdyen was founded in Amsterdam in 2006 by Pieter van der Does and Arnout Schuijff, who had sold their first payments company, Bibit, to Royal Bank of Scotland and wanted to start over on a single platform built from scratch. It listed in June 2018 at €240 a...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Company Stories, Vietnam Telecom, Tech & Startups
⚡ TL;DRMoMo is Vietnam’s largest e-wallet, with more than 30 million users and a valuation that passed $2 billion in December 2021 when Mizuho led a $200 million round. It got there by spending heavily for a decade: cashback, merchant subsidies, a sales force...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Fintech, Startups & Global Trade, Philippines Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRMaya began as a payments business serving merchants and consumers, then obtained one of the Philippines’ digital banking licences — which changed the model fundamentally. A wallet holds customer money in trust and cannot lend it; a bank takes...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Fintech, Startups & Global Trade, Philippines Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRGCash reached tens of millions of Filipinos who had never had a bank account, by solving the problem that had defeated every previous attempt: converting cash into digital value. Neighbourhood shops became agents, a phone number became an account...
