Zest AI’s mega funding

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📈 Zest AI secures $200M for smarter, faster lending.

🌍 Delio’s new leadership is reshaping global private markets.

🦘 Kobble launches embedded finance in Australia—tech meets banking!

💸 Fintech funding roundup: Sourcefin, Leap Financial, and more cash in.

Zest AI, a company revolutionizing lending with machine learning, just got $200M to expand and explore acquisitions.

🚨Breaking News:
Zest AI secures $200M funding to grow its machine learning-driven lending platform and plans high-impact mergers and acquisitions.

⚡Wire Simplified:

  • Zest AI helps lenders make faster, fairer decisions with machine learning.

  • The $200M funding is from a mix of private equity and strategic investors.

  • They’re now looking for game-changing companies to acquire.

  • Zest AI aims to democratize access to credit and enhance lending accuracy.

  • This investment marks one of the largest in the fintech lending space this year.

✔️Straight to the Point:
Zest AI is doubling down on growth and acquisitions, pushing to make lending smarter and fairer for everyone.

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3️⃣ Embedded Finance Goes Down Under!
🦘 Discover How Kobble is Changing Aussie Banking

Delio, a UK-based fintech specializing in private market investments, welcomes a new chair and reveals ambitious plans for 2025.

🚨Breaking News:
Delio's new chair, an experienced financial leader, is steering the firm toward greater scalability and enhanced client solutions in 2025.

⚡Wire Simplified:

✔️Straight to the Point:
With fresh leadership and bold 2025 goals, Delio is set to innovate private market investing and grow its global footprint.

🧐 Will Delio’s 2025 strategy make private markets easier for everyone?

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Whether you like Trump or not isn’t important.

Ask yourself why no CEO was either able or willing to do this under the Biden Administration?

All future Presidents need to be able to bring this quantum of capital and jobs into the US economy if we want to be great.

Met the funniest tech guy at a startup happy hour today

Him: I work at a consumer startup.

Us: Wow, consumer is so rare these days! What's it do?

Him: Uhh... (hesitates), it's a social media startup

Me: How's it going?

Him: Uhh... it's not doing so well, might go under soon

Me: Oh no, what's the startup called?

Him: TikTok

Me: ...🫠

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