TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Fintech startups are having one hell of a week. The Seattle-based fintech company sold 12,162,777 shares (7,000,000 primary) at $43 apiece. It’s an incredibly bullish set of results for fintech startups; they are worth more than they might have thought, or than their investors previously were willing to pay. Notable.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

The investor previously worked as a partner at 500 , previously known as 500 Startups, where he raised and ran a dedicated fintech fund as well as helped build an accelerator. There he met his eventual founding partner at BTV – Jake Gibson – and backed a cadre of fintech startups, including Chipper and Albert, each at $2.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

The current budget-constrained environment should be seen as a net positive by marketers,” he writes. “It It will force teams to think deeply about what’s absolutely necessary, which tools will add efficiency (or subtract from it).” but don’t have a work permit yet?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Ivorian payments-led fintech startup Julaya has extended its pre-Series A round by $5 million. Ivorian fintech Julaya raises $2M to digitize business payments in Francophone Africa. Last July, Léopoldie said the fintech was processing more than $1.5 Byld Ventures, a $15M fund, backs fintechs in Africa. “I million monthly.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Vise , a fintech firm that focuses on helping financial advisors rather than automating them out of existence, has today announced that it is bringing on Andrew Fong as its chief technology officer. Trillions are at stake in the retirement wars, and Vise nets $14.5M from Sequoia to manage it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Kenya-based fintech company 4G Capital , which provides unsecured credit to micro enterprises, has raised $18.5 Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained. International Development Finance Corporation, the Ford Foundation, Kenya’s Co-operative bank and high net-worth individuals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Now, its insurance APIs are suited for businesses in other sectors, including fintech, e-commerce and logistics. Promises include : The company says its KYC/identity platform allows African fintechs and government bodies to capture a “wholistic, end-to-end verification of an individual.” Website : www.tryduplo.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

I think it nets out to a changing market, but not one that has settled on a new level of risk tolerance. and that Mary Ann’s fintech newsletter is coming soon. The net is that some investors appear to be dialing back their appetite for high-priced startup rounds, while others are, well, not. What the heck does that mean?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Launched in February 2019, Kroo, the London-based consumer-facing fintech, raised some seed funding last year for its prepaid card service which claims to offer more “social features” in its drive toward offering full-blown banking services. B-Social, the UK fintech building a ‘social bank,’ raises additional £7.8M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The raise is another example of how infrastructure companies in the fintech world continue to be resilient despite an apparent slowdown in global funding overall. What we have done is build a modern connectivity layer that sits on top of the payment systems on the global net core networks. The company did not disclose its valuation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

The embattled fintech startup laid off its real estate team on June 7, shifting from an in-house agent model to a partnership agent model. According to HousingWire, other Aurora filings from July showed that Better.com had posted a net loss of $89.9 While Better.com seems to have narrowed its loss compared to a net loss of $327.7

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

consumer fintech closed the first quarter with 22.8 million “net cumulative funded accounts,” up 100,000 from Q4 2021 and 4.8 Now, we cannot directly compare net-funded accounts with monthly active traders. However, it’s fair to note that we expect MTUs to work out to a fraction of net funded accounts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Fintech startups set VC records as the 2021 fundraising market continues to impress. “He came from the streets of Atlanta, Georgia, and had to overcome so much in his life,” Agarwal told TechCrunch. Clarence is the type of person that when we started True, we wanted to fund. We admire his perseverance and grit to come to this point.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Now two years later, despite a much different funding environment, especially for fintech startups , Endowus is announcing another round. Since TechCrunch last covered Endowus, it has launched more services like low cost passive index funds in Singapore and Endowus Private Wealth for high-net-worth individuals.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

The fintech company is slashing 23% of its workforce , as first reported by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed by TechCrunch. Robinhood also today released its second quarter financials , revealing a 6% increase in net revenue of $318 million on a net loss of $295 million or 34 cents per diluted share.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

The all-in-one fintech app Revolut has released its annual report for 2021. In addition to these basic banking features, the company offers a ton of fintech products — but more on that later. In 2021, Revolut reported a net income of $31 million (£26 million) vs. a net loss of $270 million (£223 million) in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

More consolidation is apace in the world of payments: Nexi , the Italian fintech that scooped up rivals Danish-based Nets and then Italy’s SIA to create a $12.5 “Joining forces with the Nets / Nexi Group, a recognized European PayTech leader, allows us to take this mission to the next level.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. I know there are a ton of fintech-focused newsletters out there, so it really does mean the world.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

However, Fazal said his company is modeling its super app after WeChat by breaking into verticals like travel and fintech. The company grew double digits over the past year and is on track to do well over $1 billion in gross merchandise volume and over $100 million in net revenue in 2023.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Several fintech startups are tackling this problem, including Retirable , which believes that retirement planning should be just as easy to get even if you won’t ever have millions of dollars set aside. But what about those who don’t? It does this by allocating an individual’s assets into three buckets: cash, stability and growth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

revealing that the digital lender expected a net loss between $85 million and $100 million in the third quarter. The same employee also scoffed at the notion that Better lived up to its image of being a fintech where opportunities to grow were plentiful. Securities and Exchange Commission. This was untrue,” she said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

This week, the company is adding savings accounts thanks to a partnership with French fintech startup Cashbee. net of taxes. But Cashbee’s savings accounts aren’t net of taxes. But many people pay 30% in taxes on accrued interests, which means that you end up earning 0.42% in interests net of taxes with a Cashbee account.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. Another example of fintech for good. But I digress. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Here’s how.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Slowing growth this year, potentially slipping net income, and a market in which interest rates are expected to rise even more have made Upstart an un-darling in investors’ eyes. There are myriad startups in the BNPL market, meaning that a large piece of fintech was just heavily repriced.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

For instance, banks and fintech companies offer credit products in their apps thanks to partnerships with Younited Credit. In 2021, the B2B offering represented 30% of Younited Credit’s net banking income. Embedded finance might represent fintech’s future. Examples include N26, Lydia, Orange Bank and Fortuneo.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

In addition, the company offers payment terms that Sibous said make sense in the context of e-commerce — think net terms on every transaction. For example, if you buy something on March 1 and then on March 3, you can have net 30 or 60 days on each of those and not pay on that transaction until May 1 and May 3, respectively. “We’ve

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The Singapore-based fintech, which enables cross-border payments in more than 170 markets, announced today that it has raised $16.9 He began as a product manager for the e-commerce vertical at Indian bank ICICI, before moving onto position at NETS, PayPal and Stripe. million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2023

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. For the unfamiliar, the fintech company has had its fair share of struggles that have cast doubt on its future. Then in the first quarter of 2022 alone, Better.com recorded a staggering net loss of $327.7 million, according to an SEC filing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Founder and chief executive officer Tom Niparts told TechCrunch that Jeff had a net profitable second quarter and wasn’t planning on raising again, but investors were interested because of its strong growth since the beginning of the year. Jeff raises $1M to build alternative credit scoring and other fintech products for Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

The Fort Lee, New Jersey-based institution is also a technology infrastructure provider that powers lending and payments for many of the fintechs that top VCs are also backing. And as fintech has exploded in recent years, so has Cross River Bank’s business — as well as investor interest. Cross River Bank is not just any bank.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Alternative investment platform Yieldstreet announced today that it has agreed to acquire Cadre, an online real-estate-focused investment platform aimed at institutional and high net worth investors. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

In turn, this has increased the market opportunity for startups, especially fintechs and e-commerce, which try to provide various solutions to meet the financial needs of the populace. Thus, the need for fintechs and digital businesses in Africa to perform stringent KYC and verification checks on their customers. million. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Instead, they can pay a variable return assurance fee when an order is sold, and instantly lock in the net revenue and streamline a significant amount of revenue operations.”. Seel sits at the intersection between fintech and e-commerce, and both markets are growing rapidly with strong secular trends,” Peng said. With the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

” The unicorn consumer fintech company halted trading in stocks like GameStop that had become the center of the trading storm yesterday, leading to frenetic accusations from incensed users that something nefarious was afoot. That’s a good showing for fintech, both startup and incumbent alike.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

In the rest of the newsletter, we’re talking about spicy venture firm pivots, fintech drama and a duo of inclusive play in exclusive worlds. For now, that means no net new Backstage companies, even though the firm is growing assets under management. Fintech MainStreet cuts about 30% of staff, citing ‘incredibly rough market’.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

It plans to have both the active and passive products built with the same user interface so that investors “can use both strategies in the same place, rather than having the fragmented, multi-platform experience that is the norm today,” said Polhamus, who is the former CTO of Mexican fintech Credijusto. “That’s not us.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In 2018, Carbon , a Nigerian fintech startup, made its financials public for the first time. Why this Nigerian fintech startup is volunteering audited financials. In recent memory, most of these startups play in the fintech and crypto-exchange space. It’s a tradition Dozie hopes the company will keep this year.

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