Embedded finance won’t make every firm into a fintech company
Eyal Lifshitz Contributor Share on Twitter Eyal Lifshitz is the CEO of BlueVine. More posts by this contributor Banks and fintech in 2025: An unlikely alliance A short decade after…
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Former Twitter and DreamWorks exec joins Acorns as CFO ahead of the fintech’s public debut
As fintech Acorns plans to go public later this year, it has named former Twitter and DreamWorks animation exec Rich Sullivan to serve as its new chief financial officer. Irvine,…
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The China tech crackdown continues
The Chinese government’s crackdown on its domestic technology industry continues, with Tencent under fresh pressure despite the company’s efforts to follow changing regulatory expectations. News broke over the weekend that…
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Canopy raises $15M Series A after posting 4.5x customer growth in H1 2021
Canopy Servicing announced this morning it recently closed a $15 million Series A. The startup sells software to fintechs and others, allowing customers to create loan programs and service the…
Read More »The first Zambian startup to get into YC is developing Africa’s first card-issuing API
More than 40 African startups from a handful of countries have gone through YC over the past decade. Zambia joins that list today, and its entrant, Union54, is a worthy…
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Octane raises $52M at a $900M+ valuation to help people finance large recreational purchases
Most of the time when people get loans, it’s for big life purchases such as a house or a car. But not every big purchase is a necessity. Some are…
Read More »Next up on Synapse’s fintech services platform: White-labeled credit products
When Sankaet Pathak co-founded Synapse in 2014, he had a vision of doing more than just building a platform that enables banks and fintech companies to easily develop financial services. …
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Reserve Trust raises $30.5M to become the ‘Stripe for B2B payments’
Reserve Trust, a Denver-based financial services provider, has raised $30.5 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors. FinTech Collective, Ardent Venture Partners, Flywire CEO Mike Massaro and…
Read More »Rapyd raises $300M on $8.75B valuation as fintech-as-a-service continues to boom
Neobanks, other financial startups and the basic concept of “finance anywhere” are seeing huge gains at the moment, and today one of the key companies building the infrastructure that powers…
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The next generation of global payments: Afterpay + Square
Dana Stalder Contributor Share on Twitter Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners. The former commercial chief (Product, Sales and Marketing) at PayPal, he now leads fintech investing at…
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