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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Fintech Roundup: Will financial technology startups dodge the venture slowdown?
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…
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TechCrunch+ roundup: PLG handbook, hiring early-stage sales teams, abolishing pro-rata
In a previous era, startups that gained influence with CIOs could skate through the procurement process and start planning seminars for new customers as soon as contracts were finalized. Today,…
Read More »It’s a fintech world, and we’re just living in it
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. It was a live recording this week, which…
Read More »Ola to acquire fintech Avail Finance
Ola said on Thursday evening it has reached an agreement to acquire Avail Finance, a financial services startup that serves the blue-collar workforce, as the ride-hailing giant looks to expand…
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