San Francisco and Bengaluru-based fintech startup Leap Finance recently said that it has raised $5.5 million in a round led by Sequoia India.

Co-founded by IIT Kharagpur alumni Vaibhav Singh and Arnav Kumar, Leap Finance offers education loans to students based on the students’ future income.

Founders of Leap Finance - Vaibhav Singh and Arnav KumarSpeaking on the problem the startup is solving, Vaibhav Singh, Co-founder of Leap Finance, said,“Indian students make up for 25 percent of a class in many top graduate programmes in the US.

Yet, the education loans they avail of are at interest rates twice as high as their American peers.

A competitive financing product is the first offering and sets the base for our larger vision to become a cross-border neobank,” said Arnav Kumar, Co-founder, Leap Finance. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583247605.98431/[Funding-alert]-Fintech-startup-Leap-Finance-raises-$5.5M-led-by-Sequoia-India?ref=audio_experience

Let’s go over some of the information you need to know to create a proper integration between Fishbowl and QuickBooks.

Also, the beginning stages of integrating Fishbowl and QuickBooks require you to have accurate information in your QuickBooks.

Then, when you import your QuickBooks inventory information, Fishbowl will update its values to match.

After you’ve integrated QuickBooks with Fishbowl, Fishbowl will then manage all of the inventory.

The QuickBooks Integration Wizard is designed to help you integrate QuickBooks and Fishbowl. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583245809.006836/Integrating-QuickBooks-with-Fishbowl:-What-You-Need-to-Know-–-Business?ref=audio_experience

Thought Machine, a London, UK-based cloud native core banking technology company, raised $83m in Series B funding.

The round was led by Draper Esprit with participation from existing investors Lloyds Banking Group, IQ Capital, Backed and Playfair Capital.

The company intends to use the funds to continue investment in its core engineering capability and to expand into Asia Pacific.

Founded in 2014 by entrepreneur and former Google engineer Paul Taylor, Thought Machine has built Vault, a cloud built core banking solution, which is enabling established and challenger banks to compete and deliver high levels of scalability, resilience and security.

Thought Machine currently has a team of more than 300. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583244109.8472302/Thought-Machine-Secures-$83m-in-Series-B-Funding?ref=audio_experience

Xilio Therapeutics (fka Akrevia Therapeutics), a Waltham, MA-based company developing potent, tumor-selective immuno-oncology (IO) therapies for patients with cancer, closed a $100.5m Series B financing.

The round was led by Takeda Ventures, with participation from new investors SV Health Investors, MRL Ventures Fund, RiverVest Venture Partners, Bay City Capital, Solasta Ventures, M Ventures, and Ipsen Ventures, which joined existing investors F-Prime Capital and Atlas Venture in the syndicate.

Founded in 2016 and led by Rene Russo, Chief Executive Officer, Xilio Therapeutics is is a biotechnology company developing its proprietary technology to create a new class of ultra-potent IO therapies that are activated selectively within the tumor.

These tumor-selective therapies are designed to overcome the significant toxicities associated with validated IO therapies, such as IL-2 and aCTLA4, which have historically limited the number of patients that can be treated and prevented patients from completing full courses of treatment.

XTX201 (IL-2) and XTX101 (aCTLA4 mAb) have demonstrated tumor-selective activity in preclinical models, significantly widening the potential therapeutic index for these therapies. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583242210.7390628/Xilio-Therapeutics-Raises-$100.5M-in-Series-B-Financing?ref=audio_experience

Here is our small interview with Geeta Kumana, Proprietor at Prime Health Support.

ST - What Challenge did you face as a woman entrepreneur and How did you solve it?

ST - What policies your company has adopted to support women at your workplace?

ST - As a women entrepreneur, What kind of support have you got from the government?

Geeta Kumana - Prime Health Support is still growing and hasn’t really reached that stage where we can ask for support from the government. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583240621.7049823/Geeta-Kumana,-Proprietor,-Prime-Health-Support,-On-Women-Entrepreneurship?ref=audio_experience

Bregal Sagemount, a NYC-based growth-focused private equity firm, closed its Bregal Sagemount Fund III, at $1.5 billion.

Fund III is supported by institutional investors with a long-term commitment to private equity, including endowments, pension funds, insurance companies, and principal advisory firms.

Led by Gene Yoon, Founder and Managing Partner, Bregal Sagemount is a growth-focused private capital firm with $3.5 billion in committed capital.

The firm invests $40 million to $150 million per transaction into both control and non-control positions and will make equity and/or junior debt investments.

Bregal Sagemount is part of Bregal Investments, a global private equity investment firm with investment teams based in New York, London, Munich and Dallas, managing commitments on behalf of multiple limited partners. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583238609.1137016/Bregal-Sagemount-Closes-Private-Equity-Fund,-At-$1.5-Billion?ref=audio_experience

In simple terms, integrated care systems represent an evolution of pre-existing sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs).

In this respect, integrated care systems simply represent a more collaborative and intertwined partnership.

Interestingly, the private sector has played a key role in the formation of effective integrated care systems.

From the perspective of patients, there’s evidence to suggest that integrated care systems trigger a direct increase in patient satisfaction.

In addition, the Prime Minister’s 80-seat majority also enables the Tories to prioritize healthcare and make integrated care systems fit for their purpose. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583236805.2123783/Integrated-Care-Systems:-What-Does-the-Future-Hold?-–-Healthcare?ref=audio_experience

Citrus Pay founder Amrish Rau has now joined point of sale service provider Pine Labs as its chief executive officer.

“Pine Labs is an amazing platform which converges everything from everyday payments, to credit and gift cards.

Using cloud technologies, Pine Labs wants to be all things commerce for merchants, help them save time and operate businesses efficiently.

Founded in 1998 by Rajul Garg and Tarun Upadhaya, Pine Labs pivoted to a cloud-based unified point-of-sale platform in 2014.

Transactions on Pine Labs PoS devices can be initiated by cards, QR codes, or phone number billing. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583235107.8144665/Citrus-Pay-Founder-Amrish-Rau-Joins-Pine-Labs-As-CEO?ref=audio_experience

Speaking at the third edition of Future of Work, India’s largest product, design, and tech conference, Rohan Choudhary, Vice President and founding member of Glance, spoke about the 'Evolving Role of a Product Manager'.

There were practical learnings as a product manager.”Practical learningsAddressing product managers and entrepreneurs looking to start a product-run business, Rohan spoke about his personal learnings as a product manager.

Build half a product, but not a mediocre feature bloat.”Rohan also highlighted that many people assume product consumer fit is the most important thing in an organisation, but he said product user fit is also very critical in B2B2C environments.

In the initial stages and even through the journey, Rohan said it is important for a product manager to be authentic and true to themselves.

Another important thing he stated was the product manager should be a problem owner and not a solution owner. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583233213.1804814/Future-of-Work-2020:-Rohan-Choudhary-of-Glance-says-product-user-fit-is-very-critical-in-B2B2C-environments?ref=audio_experience

Noida-based merchant payments provider Pine Labs on Tuesday said that it has appointed fintech veteran B Amrish Rau as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Amrish will replace Vicky Bindra, who, after a two-year successful stint as CEO at Pine Labs, will be moving back to San Francisco.

In a statement, the company said that Bindra will continue to be an advisor to Pine Labs, supporting strategic initiatives.

Amrish RauSpeaking of the transition, Lokvir Kapoor, Executive Chairman, Pine Labs said,“I am excited to welcome Amrish to the Pine Labs family.

Using cloud technologies, Pine Labs wants to be all things commerce for merchants, help them save time and operate businesses efficiently. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583231405.0654156/Pine-Labs-ropes-in-former-PayU-exec-Amrish-Rau-as-CEO?ref=audio_experience