TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

Fintech has fallen a long way from the highs of 2021, and while 2022 was largely about the reset of the funding environment, 2023 is going to be a year of recalibration for fintech companies. First, let’s take a look at the sectors likely to be most challenging: lenders, neobanks and fintechs that serve SMBs. Online lenders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Rali_cap , an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets fintech, has launched a $30 million fund. The two-year-old VC fund invests in B2B and API-first fintechs across Africa, Latin America and South Asia at pre-seed and seed stages. About 40% are based in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Some of India’s biggest fintech startups are making deeper inroads into soundboxes, unveiling new push to the pocket-sized devices whose chimes are fast becoming the new ‘ka-ching’ for millions of Indian merchants.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Many big companies in the fintech world cut jobs in the past month. Well, according to Spiros Margaris , a fintech venture capitalist and founder of Margaris Ventures, the current layoffs by some of these larger fintech companies were “caused by the challenging geopolitical market environment and inflationary pressures.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

You can’t stop fintech startups. After raising staggering sums of capital through 2021, the financial technology startup industry ran into a valuations wall this year as public markets retreated and many formerly high-flying fintech giants took lumps. Late-stage fintech startups got caught up in the wave of revaluations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

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 Now hiring Hello, hello! It’s not fun covering layoffs, and unfortunately we’ve had too many of those.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist with nearly 30 years of experience in creating financial products for banks, fintechs and large tech companies. So if you’re building a fintech idea and you need funding today, it’s vital to get your product into the hands of customers quickly. The decade-long summer of free money is over.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

How to execute an amplified marketing strategy. But quality will always beat quantity when it comes to content marketing; Googlebot may be hungry for new links, but potential customers demand expertise and insights. How to execute an amplified marketing strategy. to Canadian fintech startups in the first half of the year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Indian fintech KreditBee has raised an additional $100 million in a funding round, it said, as the lender looks to scale its business in the South Asian market. Fintechs use modern-age underwriting systems to lend to customers and a maze of regulatory arbitrage — that is increasingly getting narrow — to operate.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. So he started researching markets with large populations of Muslim people. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Global fintech funding totaled $15 billion in the first quarter of this year, growing 55% from the fourth quarter, according to CB Insights’ latest State of Fintech report. First, 2020 and 2021 were unique years where investment in fintech broke records. By comparison, fintech funding amounted to $75.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 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. billion last year — would join the long list of fintech giants letting go of workers. Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

But frankly, it isn’t shocking to see another well-known fintech company losing value in today’s market. Indeed, fintechs haven’t fared well at all even when you account for the broader dip in valuations at tech companies. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. It almost feels unfair.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Fintech was hot in 2021, but looking back on it … maybe too hot? But it was at least refreshing that Klarna’s CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, was one of the few who didn’t shy away from the realities of startup valuations in this market. So, how are the other fintech hotshots from last year doing? Well, not so hot.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Welcome to my new weekly fintech focused column. This week, I wrote about a couple of instances in which fintech companies went horizontal with their approach. Women in Fintech. It feels like we are seeing an increasing number of fintech startups led by females and I’m very much here for it. sign up here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

And it is a big market. BaaS involves a lot of facets and can be quite confusing, so to make sense of what’s going on, we sat down with people representing BaaS companies, fintech experts and investors to chat about the sector and where it goes from here. The challenge was the actual market price of that transaction was underwater.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

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 Last week, I dug into CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 report.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

It’s not news that times have changed in the world of fintech. Instead, pain around the fintech sphere is varied and multifactorial. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. trillion, though that number likely includes some zombie valuations no longer pertinent in a more conservative investing market.).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

India’s Money View is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a unicorn valuation, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, in a boost to the local fintech community that has been rattled by the central bank’s stringent guidelines and funding crunch in recent months.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. There was also a mega-raise, and an acquisition too. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Clear Street , which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation. The company makes money by charging fees for transactions and the financing of public market securities. “We billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

While the public market correction has been widespread, tech and fintech stocks have seen the largest declines, according to a recent report. trillion in late 2021, the F-Prime Fintech Index slid to $397 billion by the end of 2022. After hitting a peak of $1.3 In other words, the bigger the exit, the larger the decline.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 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. Wow, I take off one week and come back to all hell breaking loose in the fintech world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

If you thought the fourth quarter of 2022 felt slow when it came to investment activity in the fintech space, that’s because it was. fintech funding since 2018, according to CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 Report. Specifically, global fintech funding amounted to $75.2 fintech funding in 2022 was down 50% to $32.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

But with the SPAC market facing a lot of troubles, and the tech IPO market drying up at the end of 2021, Acorns scrapped its SPAC IPO plans in January of 2022. GoHenry will help it extend in that market segment. based fintechs already offering debit cards to children and/or teens, including Greenlight , Step and Current.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

As venture capital grew around the world , tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. So it is not a huge surprise that fintech had a big part to play in the venture boom that is now behind us.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Solid , which rebranded from Wise in 2021, raised a $63 million Series B round of funding to continue providing its fintech-as-a-service offering for companies wanting to launch and scale their own fintech products. We are going after the mid-market, so we had to go back and fine-tune our product as we figured out what businesses need.

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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

MAY 12, 2023

Michael Beckley Contributor Share on Twitter Michael Beckley is a co-founder and CTO of Appian , where he drives the technical vision for the company, leads product and solutions marketing teams, and oversees customer initiatives. On paper, this looks like a slam-dunk scenario for the burgeoning industry of new nimble fintech providers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

For nearly all fintech startups, lending has long been the end game. Fintechs typically partner with banks to issue cards and then tie up with non-banking financial institutions or use their own NBFC unit to offer credit lines to consumers. But market is market and regulation will eventually come around to what market needs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

As the fintech venture market goes, so goes the venture market itself. Because fintech investment has historically made up around one-fifth of every venture dollar invested — at least in recent years. of The Fintech Fund, Jay Ganatra of Infinity Ventures. Their answers have been lightly edited for clarity.).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

But we can get a peek at a critical part of the VC universe early, thanks to a preview of global fintech investment results from CB Insights. The dataset deals with worldwide investments into fintech companies from the start of October through December 12th. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

We’re putting aside the IPO news cycle this morning to check in on the venture capital world and the fintech market in particular. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The preceding period, Q4 2020, for example, saw 30 fintech rounds across the globe that were worth nine figures. Let’s find out.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest cohort of founders have opinions on the future of fintech. And while the pitches are diverse, some concentrations show key ways that a group of vetted entrepreneurs are thinking about the landscape’s shift in light of finicky venture markets, a downturn, and some public market meltdowns.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. As our fellow fintech enthusiast Alex Johnson pointed out , there was one name that stood out on that list for being “not like the others”: fintech startup Brex. But far less common are fintechs dedicated to serving older members of our society.

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