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House of Finance & Tech Berlin puts fintech in the same room as its problems
Berlin spent more than €3.5 million to get HoFT started. Now the privately supported platform is selling a practical proposition: bring founders, banks and regulators closer, and give financial innovation a human purpose.
The Wellness App That Learned to Read the Benefits Manual
Grokker began by putting yoga teachers on a screen. Fourteen years later, it is trying to solve a stranger corporate problem: employees cannot use benefits they cannot find.
Pluxee UK wants a place in your weekly shop
The former Sodexo Engage business is putting cashback at the centre of its employee benefits app. Its customer stories show why the hard part is getting people to use what their employer has already bought.
Moneyhub left the app business. Your bank is its next screen.
The British fintech is trading its consumer storefront for a place inside banks, lenders and pension apps. Its pitch starts with a surprisingly expensive problem: financial data that nobody can quite make sense of.
Amr Yussif Turned a Missing Paycheck Into a Fintech Thesis
A withheld gratuity sent the Dubai finance executive to a government queue before breakfast. What he saw there became FinFlx - and a practical lesson in building from the liability nobody wants to discuss.
FinFlx
FinFlx is a Dubai-based fintech that helps UAE companies forecast, fund and manage their employees' end-of-service gratuity in line with local labour law. Its platform automates gratuity calculations for HR and finance teams, lets employers park those liabilities in a segregated, professionally managed fund, and gives employees an app with a flexible savings account paying a guaranteed 4-5% return. Founded by Amr Yussif and Matthieu Capelle after Yussif's own gratuity was withheld, FinFlx went through Y Combinator's W22 batch and is regulated by the FSRA in Abu Dhabi Global Market.