Founded by ex-dLocal and AstroPay execs, Datanomik is bringing open banking to LatAm
Cross-border payments platform dLocal is one of the most notable Latin American startups in recent history — the company became Uruguay’s first unicorn in 2020 and went public on the…
Read More »Egyptian financial super app Khazna raises $38M from Quona Capital and Lendable
In a country where 50% of its 100 million people are active smartphone users, two out of every three individuals have little or no access to formal financial services in…
Read More »Klarna launches new Klarna Kosma division for its open banking platform
Visa surprised the European fintech industry last year when it announced that it would acquire Tink for €1.8 billion ($2.15 billion at the time of the deal). Klarna now wants…
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January raises $10M to be a ‘tech-enabled debt collector’
Most people have a negative association with debt collection. A startup called January is out to change that with a fresh $10 million fundraise. Founder Jake Cahan says most debt…
Read More »Cross River Bank goes from tiny to mighty, with a $3B+ valuation and a crypto-first strategy
Financial technology startups raised $121.6 billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value — and include a range of outfits, from payments companies to…
Read More »Palantir alums raise $25M from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and other VCs for their finance startup, Mosaic
Mosaic, which aims to change the way CFOs of high-growth companies operate, has raised $25 million in a Series B round of funding led by Founders Fund. Bijan Moallemi, Joe…
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Equi is building a family office for non-billionaires
The exclusive club of family offices just got one comma shorter. For the paltry sum of $350,000, or just over five times the median U.S. household income, individuals can invest…
Read More »Migrante steps on the gas of vehicle leasing for gig workers in Latin America
Having reliable transportation is at the top of any gig worker’s list, but in Latin America, that’s not always easy to secure. Chile-based Migrante is working to change that. Initially…
Read More »How Plaid’s CTO grew his engineering team 17.5x in 4 years
When you first launch a startup, you’re just trying to build a product and get it to market. The first group of engineers has an “all hands on deck” mentality,…
Read More »Australian fintech Zepto raises $25M AUD Series A to enhance payment infrastructure
Zepto, an Australian real-time account-to-account (A2A) merchant payments platform, said Monday it raised a $25 million AUD Series A (about $18.8 million USD) co-led by AirTree Ventures and Decade Partners….
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