Former Revolut employees have raised $10m in a funding round led by Lightspeed and MMC Ventures for their business verification startup Condukt.
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Ex-Revolut duo raise $10m led by Lightspeed and MMC for compliance startup Condukt
Founders Paulo Guichard and Bhasker Rao met while working at Europe’s biggest fintech
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Tom Matsuda is a fintech reporter at Sifted and writes our weekly fintech newsletter. Find him on X and LinkedIn

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