Better.com said to be planning third round of layoffs
Digital mortgage company Better.com is gearing up for another round of layoffs, multiple sources with knowledge of internal happenings at the company have told TechCrunch. This time, the company is…
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Braid aims to untangle pooling money with friends
Entrepreneur Amanda Peyton has always been “the friend that’s good with money,” whether as the treasurer of her high school at age 16 or today as the founder of Braid,…
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Expense management provider Emburse goes head-to-head with Brex and Ramp
With 12 million users and nearly $200 million in annual recurring revenue, expense software provider Emburse has built much of its business in the enterprise. Historically, it has competed with…
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Fintech Brex bets big on software, lands DoorDash as a customer
The corporate spend space continues to heat up. Today, decacorn Brex revealed that it is making a big push into financial software with the release of a new spend management…
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A neobank for digital entrepreneurs, founded by a former Apple Card designer, just raised $5.3M
Daniel Sathyanesan spent two years at tech behemoth Apple as a user experience designer on the Apple Card before venturing out on his own. While running his own business —…
Read More »PayMaya owner Voyager Innovations raises $210M at a valuation of $1.4B
Voyager Innovations, the owner of the Philippines’ payment and financial services app PayMaya and neobank Maya Bank, announced today it has raised $210 million, bringing its valuation to $1.4 billion….
Read More »Fintech Roundup: How going Fast and furious can ruin your startup
Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all…
Read More »VCs, unicorn founders back Truora, a startup that helps LatAm businesses onboard users via WhatsApp
Truora, a Colombian user authentication startup, has raised $15 million in Series A funding co-led by two Silicon Valley-based venture firms. Propel Venture Partners and Accel led the investment for…
Read More »Better.com CTO transitioning to advisory role in wake of mass layoffs
Diane Yu, CTO of Better.com, is transitioning from her position as chief technology officer to an advisory role a day after the digital mortgage lender announced a voluntary separation program…
Read More »ImaliPay gets $3M to offer financial services to underserved gig workers across Africa
The gig economy is experiencing profound growth in Africa. Yet, all that growth hasn’t changed the status of workers who are seen as contractors rather than employees. Because many of…
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