Real estate tech companies continue to get hammered by high mortgage rates
Once valued at over $2 billion, rent-to-own startup Divvy Homes conducted its third round of layoffs in a year’s time.
Read More »Alza emerges from stealth to offer affordable and inclusive financial tools to immigrants
Arturo Villanueva spent over four years on Stripe’s financial partnerships team. During that time, he led partnerships with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and regional banks across Latin America, struck strategic deals…
Read More »CertifID, which develops products to prevent wire fraud, raises $20M
CertifID, a startup developing fraud prevention tech for the real estate market, today announced that it raised $20 million in a funding round led by Arthur Ventures at “over double”…
Read More »Finding business opportunity in startup failure
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. if you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every…
Read More »Fintech faces its reckoning: It’s only a matter of time until the house of cards collapses
The fintech business models that wooed consumers look increasingly tenuous. It’s only a matter of time until the house of cards collapses.
Read More »Square says it has resolved daylong outage
Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a daylong outage left small business owners unable to process payments. The Block-owned company had, up until Friday morning…
Read More »Firstcard raises seed funding to help college students build better credit
Kenji Niwa, an immigrant entrepreneur, experienced the challenges of getting financial products, including a credit card, without a credit history when he moved to the U.S. in 2017 to get…
Read More »Inside Rent Butter: Why credit scores shouldn’t tell the whole story
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. As we head into a long holiday weekend here in the…
Read More »All that fintech investment had a real impact on banking penetration in Latin America
When a group of startups works on a similar set of problems, they frequently bring about massive shifts in how day-to-day life is lived.
Read More »MoonPay launches venture arm to invest in web3 infra, gaming and fintech
Web3 infrastructure firm MoonPay has launched an investment arm that will focus on early-stage startups in web3, gaming and adjacent fintech categories, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The investment arm, dubbed…
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