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MoneyNeverSleeps: Web3 Gender Gap | Pitching the Right VCs | Revolut’s Neo-Profits | WhatsApp Brazil

In this episode of MoneyNever Sleeps, Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend look at the outsized web3 gender gap, then riff on the realities of venture capital ‘dry powder’ and crypto VCs, before stepping through what’s wrong with Revolut’s neo-profitability, an unfortunate slip switch for Railsr and WhatsApp B2B payments in Brazil as a WeChat-like foundation.

STORIES COVERED:

The Web3 gender gap, by the numbers (Sifted, 6-Mar-23)

Crypto startups, beware the ‘dry powder fallacy’ (The Block, 6-Mar-23)

Revolut auditor flags concern about $576 mln of revenue in long-delayed 2021 accounts (Reuters, 1-Mar-23)

Railsr investors on brink of deal to salvage parts of payments group (Sky News, 7-Mar-23)

WhatsApp gets Brazilian green light for business payments (Finextra, 6-Mar-23)

WhatsApp Picks Brazil To Launch In-App Business Directory And Shopping (Forbes, 17-Nov-22)

UK BaaS platform Griffin becomes a bank (Finextra, 7-Mar-23)

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