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Two new recruits in two weeks as we welcome Jess Jones to Usurpo. Jess brings six years' experience hiring Commercial and Technical talent across emerging markets and fits perfectly into our Industry 4.0 practice. Get in touch with Jess if you're on the lookout for your next position or if you're indeed looking to hire within your Sales and/or Engineering teams. 📧 jjones@usurpo.com ☎ +44 (0) 7553 283 620 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eiiJZsJE All the best Jess, we look forward to working with you! #industry40 #gtm #technicalhiring #executivesearch

With the addition of Harry Price to the team here at Usurpo, it made sense for this week's Funding Friday to focus on the FinTech and Payments space. Agree.com | San Francisco | Pre-Seed | $3m "Securely send and sign any agreement with AI-powered workflows, free e-signature, automated invoicing, and integrated payments." Propelle | London | Pre-Seed | $1.2m "Propelle focuses on empowering millions of women financially." Flex | San Francisco | Seed | $3.2m "Flex is a financial services company that provides analysis, integration, and management solutions for HSA/FSA payments." NOQ | London | Seed | $3.43m "NOQ is an end-to-end POS, payments and operational management solution. Built for events & festivals." UniFox | Bordeaux | Seed | undisclosed "UniFox is a sustainable investment ecosystem and trading platform powered by a sustainable AI." Sedric.ai | Tel Aviv | Series A | $18.5m "Sedric is a compliance excellence platform for next-gen fintech companies." Ziina زينة | Dubai | Series A | $22m "Ziina is a financial service company that provides peer-to-peer payment for mobile apps." Malaa Technologies | Riyadh | Series A | $3.67m "Mala'a Technologies is a finance management app that helps manage finances and provides recommendations on finances." Cobre | Bogota | Series B | $35m "Treasury management to accelerate money movement for companies in LatAm." BillEase | Manila | Series C | undisclosed "BillEase is a consumer finance app with AI-driven financial products and services." Congratulations to everyone involved! #fintech #payments #funding #venturecapital

We're delighted to announce Harry Price to Usurpo, working closely with Karin Themsen to deliver world class GTM and Product talent across the FinTech & Payments space. Harry joins with more than 6 years' experience in executive search with the last 4 being across FinTech & Payments. Get in touch with Harry if you're looking to hire within Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Presales and Product or indeed if you're looking for your next role: 📧 hprice@usurpo.com ☎ +44 (0) 7912 886 927 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dSMr-9ic We wish you all the best, Harry and look forward to watching your success with Usurpo! #fintech #payments #gtm #product #executivesearch

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Thanks for all the continued support, input and engagement from our now SIXTY THOUSAND FOLLOWERS! Looking forward to tomorrow's big announcement... Watch this space... #executivesearch #gtm #product #engineering #saas #technology

Fantastic news this Friday in the world of SaaS, via our Managing Partner, Damian Bird and long may it continue! #saas #softwareasaservice #gtm

It's almost the end of the summer holiday months. August is a notoriously slow month for recruitment processes across Europe. So as we edge closer to September, which areas are you looking to hire in? #saas #technology #gtm #product #engineering

A slightly different feel this Friday - but who knows the significance of the 15 Fintechs emblazoned on the graphic below? According to research by Gilgamesh Ventures and The Wharton School, these businesses have produced the most Founders across the Americas - a whopping 2,578 to be precise. In the article (attached below) "Dynasties in the Making: 15 Companies Cultivating Tomorrow’s Fintech Leaders" by Miguel Armaza, he covers: - How they approached the research process - The "Fifteen Fintech Families" identified - Current trends around company size - The role Product & Engineering has to play when setting up a business - Raising capital regardless of market conditions. - What the next 5-10 years has in store for FinTech Within the link you can also listen to the podcast where Miguel, along with his GV Co-Founder Andrew Endicott discuss their findings in even more detail. You can also reach out to Usurpo's resident FinTech expert, Karin Themsen, to discuss the role recruitment has to play in the industry and why choosing the right recruitment partner can both reduce cost and allow you to use your time more effectively. https://lnkd.in/e5H5JpBW #fintech #startups #technology

This week Funding Friday's focus falls on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, simply known now as Industry 4.0. "4IR" can be defined as "the integration of intelligent digital technologies into manufacturing and industrial processes. It encompasses a set of technologies that include industrial IoT networks, AI, Big Data, robotics, and automation." We've got participants from Australia to the US to Germany and amounts up to and over half a billion dollars. Congratulations to all. Details below: ProhostAI | $1.47m | Pre-Seed San Francisco-based AI-powered operating system for Airbnb hosts. Cognitivo | undisclosed | Pre-Seed Sydney HQ'd and building solutions to help organisations adopt and scale AI faster and in a responsible way. Napkin AI | $10m | Seed Back to California, a visual AI for business storytelling. Napkin transforms your text into visuals, perfect for presentations, blogs and more. Aviva | $5.5m | Seed Mexico City-based fintech startup building an AI-powered digital bank with a laser focus on the needs of the underbanked in LatAm. DC Connected Car GmbH | €2.1m | Seed German startup from the automotive and AI environment that has set itself the task of revolutionising the future of vehicle maintenance. Opteam | $570k | Seed Decision Intelligence for Asset Management based in Dubai. EDIMA solutions | €40k | Seed The Czech Republic has given us EDIMA solutions, an AI generative tool that provides comprehensive solutions in industrial digitisation and process optimisation. Protect AI | $60m | Series B Seattle headquartered Protect AI offers a cybersecurity platform specialising in protecting machine learning models and artificial intelligence systems. Groq | $640m | Series D California's third entrant this week, Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing. FLYR | $225m | Series D Santa Monica's FLYR is a technology company that unlocks freedom to innovate for the travel industry. #industry40 #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #iot #bigdata #automation #robotics #funding #investment

Following from yesterday's post about Cybersecurity focusing on "Optimising for Performance" from Gartner's "Top 9 Trends in Cybersecurity for 2024", today we'll look at the 4 trends under "Optimising for Resilience": Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) Organisational attack surfaces have expanded enormously in recent years. This growth has been driven notably by accelerated adoption of SaaS, expanding digital supply chains, increased corporate presence on social media, custom application development, remote working and internet-based customer interaction. Third-Party Cybersecurity Risk Management The inevitability of third parties experiencing cybersecurity incidents is pressuring SRM leaders to focus more on resilience-oriented investments and move away from front-loaded due-diligence activities. Extending IAM’s Cybersecurity Value Identity and access management’s (IAM’s) role in cybersecurity has been increasing steadily. As of 2023, IAM is the second-most-popular topic of discussion by security and risk management (SRM) leaders who use Gartner’s client inquiry service. Privacy-Driven Application and Data Decoupling Multinational companies that have relied on single-tenant applications for decades face rising compliance demands and business disruption risks. This is due to increasing nationalistic privacy and data protection and localisation requirements that result in enforced fragmentation of enterprise application architectures and data localisation practices. Again, we invite members of our #cyber community to comment and give their thoughts on these findings #cybersecurity #gartner