Contributors

About

Finch Capital is a Financial Technology Investment firm founded in the fall of 2013. We invest in high growth companies primary in EMEA and prefer to invest after the seed round, when there is proof of concept and there are some revenues.

Contact

Concertgebouwplein 9, Amsterdam Piccadilly 105, London
www.finchcapital.com

Statistics

	Posts:	3176
	Reposts:	0

Finch Capital Archive

0 0

Facebook's WhatsApp hires senior exec from London remittances startup: sources

Radboud Vlaar

July 1, 2019

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

Radboud Vlaar

payments

WorldRemit’s chief product officer, Alice Newton-Rex, will join WhatsApp’s product team later this year to work on the app’s messaging service

Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) WhatsApp has hired a senior executive from London-based money transfer startup WorldRemit, three people familiar with the matter said this week. WorldRemit’s chief product officer, Alice Newton-Rex, will join WhatsApp’s product team later this year to work on the app’s messaging service, one of the people said. Newton-Rex did not respond to requests for comment. WhatsApp is one of the world’s most popular messaging tools, with more than 1 billion users in over 180 countries. It has been expanding its team in Europe, including in London.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-newtonrex/facebooks-whatsapp-hires-senior-exec-from-london-remittances-startup-sources-idUSKCN1TT2UV