TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a cliff last year. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Fintech startups are taking the downturn harder than most other sectors, data indicates. So much so that even the largest and best-known private fintech companies are suffering from embarrassing revaluations. If we slice the market more finely, we can see even greater valuation compression in fintech.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

India’s Decentro , the Y Combinator-backed startup that helps companies enter the fintech market by deploying its APIs, has raised $4.7 “Whenever a fintech startup or a company wants to launch a new product in the market, it takes them a minimum of a few months to launch. million in a Series A round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest cohort of founders have opinions on the future of fintech. The most popular problem area among this batch’s fintech cohort has to do with payments, which is unsurprising. YC’s concentration of neobanks feels somewhat contrarian to general fintech sentiment these days. Thank U, Neobanks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Well, a report released today by data research organization Briter Bridges and global inclusive tech accelerator Catalyst Fund is punching above its weight to offer a holistic representation to the darling sector of these three markets: fintech. Fintechs have raised $23B across the regions since 2017. Let’s dive in.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The former commercial chief (Product, Sales and Marketing) at PayPal, he now leads fintech investing at Matrix Partners, where he also invests in consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. Matt is an early stage fintech investor at Matrix Partners. Matt Brown.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

The relationships between banks and fintechs are multi-faceted. Well, today, an announcement by global payments giant Visa is aimed at helping facilitate banks and fintechs’ ability to work together. I talked with Terry Angelos, senior vice president and global head of fintech at Visa, to understand just exactly what that means.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As a result, fintech — one of its hottest and most-funded sectors — is evolving in a similar manner. For late-stage fintech companies, it’s great news. Fintech appears to be in a very similar boat. billion in 2019, consumer-facing fintechs in North America and Europe have already raised $5.9 More big, and more late.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Southeast Asia is already home to a thriving fintech scene, where Grab , GoTo and Sea have built super apps that encompass financial services, and startups like Xendit , Akulaku and Dana (to name a few) have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for payments, banking services and other financial tools. Indonesia emerged as the best choice.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 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. This will now be offered to 22 fintech companies across Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Of all the startup markets in the world, fintech in Latin America is one of the hottest. The sheer volume of capital flowing into LatAm fintech startups may appear overheated, but several reasons explain why the flood makes sense. Regulatory tailwinds in select markets are helping build momentum for fintech products.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

We need to narrow our lens and peer more deeply into standout categories to understand how the U.S. And then we’ll take a look dig into PitchBook data concerning the fintech sector, a huge recipient of venture capital time, attention and money. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

PayPal’s BNPL results are impressive — and not just to your humble servant, but to other fintech watchers as well — which begs the question: Can the platform effect that the PayPals of the world bring to bear suffocate a growing slice of the startup market? There are obvious issues with the thought.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Less than a year after its $3 million seed round, San Francisco- and Africa-based fintech Pngme has snapped up another $15 million for its financial data infrastructure play. Pngme’s platform caters to fintechs and other financial institutions across sub-Saharan Africa. “It’s a highly data-driven user experience.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 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. Here’s what I found out: Seven fintech companies ranked in the top 50: Brex (No. 4), Ramp (No.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

It was Salisbury’s first foray into fintech, and high on the excitement of getting a new product live in a highly regulated industry, he admittedly got bit by the fintech bug. At that time, the sector was nowhere near the force that it is today, just “emerging as a meaningful and sizable category,” Salisbury recalls.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s an evolution from Mos as an edtech business built to help students navigate their way through applying and attending college into a fintech that can support the same user base through all of life’s similarly complicated demands. We’re pretty radical about why we’re doing what we’re doing,” she said. “We Image Credits: Mos.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Melas-Kyriazi will be based in the firm’s San Francisco office and focus on seed and Series A investments in emerging fintech and commerce companies — two core areas of focus for the firm. He said his firm had been “looking for a long time” for someone well-versed in the intersection of fintech and commerce. “We

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model. Undoubtedly, this is putting added pressure on FinTech executives.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 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. On my end, I know of at least two other fintechs planning to announce debt raises and/or credit facilities in coming weeks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Now, the company is not just seeing more SMB customers — a logical assumption considering that Ramp’s biggest competitor Brex recently announced it would largely stop serving businesses in that category. My weekly fintech newsletter, The Interchange, launched on May 1! Sign up here to get it in your inbox.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

It’s helpful that the more players participating continues to generate category awareness. My weekly fintech newsletter, The Interchange, launched on May 1! Most fintechs partner with banks; Varo became one, and says it’s paying off by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Less than seven months after closing on a $57 million Series B , fast-growing fintech Jeeves has raised $180 million in a Series C round that values the company at $2.1 Its success is yet another example of how competitive — and lucrative — the corporate card and expense management category has become.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Corporate spending has marked a huge opportunity in the world of fintech. Fintech Roundup: Corporate spend just can’t be a winner-takes-all space. Now one of those players, Ramp, is announcing that it is expanding into the travel space, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sharing is caring : Raylo raises $136 million to build out its gadget lease-and-reuse “fintech” platform , reports Ingrid. ” To help founders better understand their liability, Esmaeili shares tips on how to identify a company’s physical nexus and lists multiple SaaS categories that states are likely to tax.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. Indonesian fintech Xendit is now a unicorn, with $150M in fresh funding led by Tiger Global. The funding brings Flip’s total capital raised to $65million. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Finch Capital , the early-stage fintech VC with a presence in London and Amsterdam, has raised a third fund. Out of Finch Capital “Europe III,” the VC will invest in fintech startups at the Series A and B stages, deemphasising its previous inclusion of seed.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Avid Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Colle, Foundation Capital, Greycroft, and Max Levchin’s SciFi VC — as well as more than a dozen angels including founders of Plaid, Flexport, Marqeta, Bread, Albert, Addi, Lithic, and other fintech and logistics startups — also put money in the round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

About half its customers fall into this category, Desai said. My weekly fintech newsletter, The Interchange, launched on May 1! Lease-to-own fintech startup Kafene raises $18M to battle BNPL by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch. At the far end of the curve, the highest is 2.5x

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The Salt Lake City, Utah-based company’s API-delivered product, which focuses on payroll data, powers 70 banks, credit unions and fintech companies such as Coinbase, Dave and Propel. Fintech outperformed the market in 2021, and it’s set to do even better. My weekly fintech newsletter is launching soon!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Others in the same category include 10x, which was founded by ex-incumbent banking executives and has raised significant funding to build tools specifically for the behemoths. “ A lot of these fintechs start and stop and go right and left. This too is leading them to build and run better sites and apps to get this done.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

We believe building fintech products (versus other classes of products) with geo-specific dynamics in mind is key to their success. I believe the next Alibaba will start as a fintech play. Beyond embeddable fintech products, we’re excited about companies that are disrupting traditional payment rails with more efficient models.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Revolut’s revaluation raises a few questions: How much trimming is there left to do in the fintech world? This morning, we’re parsing what happened in venture in Q1 2023 as well as a handful of data points from F-Prime’s fintech index and resulting reports. If you exclude that round, the tally comes down to $8.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Meniga , the London fintech that provides digital banking technology to leading banks, has closed €10 million in additional funding. In addition, the fintech will bolster its sales and service teams. US regulators need to catch up with Europe on fintech innovation . The round is led by Velocity Capital and Frumtak Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

But the declines were not the worst we found: Biotech showed a more modest year-over-year decline in investment volume (21%) than many other sectors including fintech (37.7%), consumer tech (53%) and enterprise tech (33%). Those figures fell short of the 1,415 biotech deals struck in 2021 worth a total of $39 billion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

The provision of virtual foreign bank accounts has become a common strategy for fintechs to enable Nigerians and Africans to facilitate international transfers. The YC-backed Nigerian fintech has since expanded into East Africa, starting with Kenya. Nigerian fintech Grey gets backing from Y Combinator.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Greenlight , the fintech company that pitches parents on kid-friendly bank accounts, has raised $260 million in a Series D funding round that nearly doubles its valuation to $2.3 Atlanta gets a billion-dollar startup business as Greenlight’s family-focused fintech nabs $215 million. billion valuation. Image Credits: Greenlight.

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