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June 14, 2023

Alan Chang’s Tesseract amps up acquisitions as it preps for launch

How Tesseract plans to upend energy by cutting out the middle-man — with a sprinkling of crypto

Tom Matsuda

4 min read

Tesseract, the energy startup headed up by Revolut’s former chief revenue officer Alan Chang, has quietly made several acquisitions ahead of the scheduled launch of its first consumer product next month. 

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Tom Matsuda

Tom Matsuda is a fintech reporter at Sifted and writes our weekly fintech newsletter. Find him on X and LinkedIn

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