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

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 27, 2022

It’s not news that times have changed in the world of fintech. After financial technology startups saw their fortunes rise during the venture capital boom that loosely wrapped as 2021 came to a close, they’re now suffering from a slump of a similar scale. Instead, pain around the fintech sphere is varied and multifactorial.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

And it is a big market. Synapse and Figure Technologies were among the first to hold layoffs; Synapse laid off 18% of its employees in June, and Figure Technologies, which includes Figure Pay, laid off 90 people — or about 20% of its workforce — in July. Companies continue to attract venture capital, too. million , and U.K.-based

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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

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. securities industry, which moves trillions of dollars a day, still relies on mainframe technology from the 1980s. 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

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

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

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

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

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 25, 2021

Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. 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. Dana Stalder.

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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

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

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

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

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

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Joshira Maduro joined the LendingTree team in April 2020 and uses her background in market research and branding to write about credit card news and better ways to spend. Now, a new concern lingers: Is the market getting oversaturated? Fintechs should take note of subscription services. Joshira Maduro. Contributor.

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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. We are starting to see some of the public market valuations impact private market valuations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 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. Based on that categorization, the fintech space ranked third behind food and transportation, respectively.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2022

Fintechs dominated the fundraising, accounting for nearly $3 billion, or two thirds of all the investment realized by startups across the continent last year, a report by markets insights firm Briter Bridges shows. billion investment that fintechs in Africa raised in 2020, and triple the amount in 2019.

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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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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

MAY 26, 2022

Fintech startup and alternative credit asset manager Viola Credit has closed its latest $700 million fund, which provides asset-based lending capital to fintech, proptech and insurtech startups. If this fintech play reminds you of Silicon Valley Bank, think again. Instead, Viola provides lending capital to fintech lenders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

Welcome to my new weekly fintech-focused column. It’s an incredible time to be a financial technology journalist. Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the many ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By Pavel Shynkarenko The fintech industry recorded its highest year ever in terms of investment value in 2021, but the market has been a lot more challenging for the past two years. This doesn’t mean launching a new fintech venture is impossible. It means that the rules have changed.

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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. Capital is flowing into the region’s financial technology companies at a slicing pace, leading to a wave of startups that are building private-market value at a simply astounding rate. A rising tide of capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 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. Companies are raising less money at lower valuations than in 2021, which reflects the market sentiment.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

The fintech sector has had its ups and downs as of late, with Klarna experiencing hefty valuation cuts , Fast shutting down and Robinhood and Better conducting mass layoffs. Despite the market turbulence, investors remain bullish on the potential value that financial technology startups can bring worldwide.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Pomelo, a startup building a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America, has raised $9 million in a seed round of funding. The Buenos Aires-based startup’s new infrastructure aims to allow fintechs and embedded finance players to launch virtual accounts and issue prepaid and credit cards via “compliant” onboarding processes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Vo was in the credit risk department at Barclays and a full-stack developer at Fintria, a fintech company, while Krishnamoorthy was an associate at several law firms including Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. ” Denim competes with other fintech firms in the space, including TriumphPay, HaulPay and OTR Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2022

Fintech founders that set out to solve big problems for consumers almost always begin with the best intentions — they want to help people. But they often miss that mark by a country mile, which spurs questions about how effective other fintech founders can be at helping consumers. So where do altruistic fintech founders lose their way?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 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. As we all know, the housing market goes through cycles. More fintechs are focusing on nonprofits.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

They are responsible for communication between banks and fintechs to settle transactions for consumers and businesses swiftly. An alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing a mobile money user to transact with a bank account would fix this problem, and that’s the premise of Ghana-based fintech Dash.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The logic behind many fintech companies’ automated decisions — decisions that determine whether a customer is approved for a credit line, for example — is hard-coded into their app’s backend. “This round will help us further accelerate our ongoing expansion in the U.S., ” Image Credits: Taktile.

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