TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

The relationships between banks and fintechs are multi-faceted. Well, today, an announcement by global payments giant Visa is aimed at helping facilitate banks and fintechs’ ability to work together. I talked with Terry Angelos, senior vice president and global head of fintech at Visa, to understand just exactly what that means.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. I’m not going to lie — upon learning this, my fintech-loving ears perked up. And fintech represented nearly a quarter of the firm’s deals. More than a quarter (28%) of a16z’s fintech investments in 2022 went to the payments category.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

This years categories of FinTech , Life Sciences , and Environmental Impact reflect Delawares evolving innovation and industry landscape. The finals for each of the three categories will take place in person during a different industry event taking place in Wilmington.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The former commercial chief (Product, Sales and Marketing) at PayPal, he now leads fintech investing at Matrix Partners, where he also invests in consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. Matt is an early stage fintech investor at Matrix Partners. Matt Brown.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. On a high level, it’s no surprise that funding flowing into fintech startups was down both globally and in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. Based on that categorization, the fintech space ranked third behind food and transportation, respectively.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Disrupt will have six industry tracks , each with its own stage, including AI , fintech , hardware , SaaS , security and sustainability. On the Fintech Stage we will have some of the biggest industry players discussing some of the hottest topics in the industry. Come join us !

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

While waiting for full first-quarter venture capital results for fintech startups to drop, we knew that they were going to be outsized. But the largest venture capital rounds are only part of the fintech investing picture, so we were looking forward to getting a deeper look into what happened in the critical startup sector more generally.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It was at that point that TripActions made the decision to accelerate the timeline for its fintech expense product, TripActions Liquid, which had launched only a month before the pandemic. This means it is in the same category as fast-growing fintechs such as Brex and Ramp.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As a result, fintech — one of its hottest and most-funded sectors — is evolving in a similar manner. For late-stage fintech companies, it’s great news. Fintech appears to be in a very similar boat. billion in 2019, consumer-facing fintechs in North America and Europe have already raised $5.9 More big, and more late.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019). Four are fintechs: Flutterwave, OPay, Wave and Chipper Cash, while one is tech talent marketplace Andela. The only non-fintech deals were Andela and TradeDepot (although the latter has an embedded finance play). billion and $1.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

is a really apt term is I’m just naming certain categories of software that I know well, but I fail to see a future where all of those [categories], given the advances in compute and data and algorithms, don’t get more intelligent. Visual generation is not an existing software category. The reason I think that software 3.0

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

We found seven categories of VC theses, plus an eighth: the non-thesis. and Germany; and “tech” means B2B SaaS/fintech or consumer apps. We found seven categories of VC theses, plus an eighth: the non-thesis. Our four primary conclusions: Public theses are often inconsistent with how firms actually deploy capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While Adesanmi worked for years in Nigeria’s banking and fintech space, his family’s real estate background pushed him to establish a startup in proptech. For years, proptech, unlike fintech, hasn’t witnessed exploding growth in Africa despite real estate needing as much innovation as financial services in the region.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest cohort of founders have opinions on the future of fintech. The most popular problem area among this batch’s fintech cohort has to do with payments, which is unsurprising. YC’s concentration of neobanks feels somewhat contrarian to general fintech sentiment these days. Thank U, Neobanks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

You can’t stop fintech startups. After raising staggering sums of capital through 2021, the financial technology startup industry ran into a valuations wall this year as public markets retreated and many formerly high-flying fintech giants took lumps. Late-stage fintech startups got caught up in the wave of revaluations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Less than a year after its $3 million seed round, San Francisco- and Africa-based fintech Pngme has snapped up another $15 million for its financial data infrastructure play. Pngme’s platform caters to fintechs and other financial institutions across sub-Saharan Africa. “It’s a highly data-driven user experience.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The former commercial chief (Product, Sales and Marketing) at PayPal, he now leads fintech investing at Matrix Partners, where he also invests in consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. Critical innovations in fintech.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

India’s Decentro , the Y Combinator-backed startup that helps companies enter the fintech market by deploying its APIs, has raised $4.7 “Whenever a fintech startup or a company wants to launch a new product in the market, it takes them a minimum of a few months to launch. million in a Series A round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The highlighted showcase categories. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. FinTech + Blockchain.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

We need to narrow our lens and peer more deeply into standout categories to understand how the U.S. And then we’ll take a look dig into PitchBook data concerning the fintech sector, a huge recipient of venture capital time, attention and money. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a cliff last year. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. But first, let’s talk about fintech. Hello, hello. Soooo exciting! Come see us! Get 15% off here ).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Fintech startups are taking the downturn harder than most other sectors, data indicates. So much so that even the largest and best-known private fintech companies are suffering from embarrassing revaluations. If we slice the market more finely, we can see even greater valuation compression in fintech.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 30, 2024

$15 Million Series A supports the startup’s growth with a $10M Net Revenue Run Rate In 2021 real estate fintech startup Backflip launched an all-in-one platform for real estate entrepreneurs to support their acquisition and renovation of single-family homes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s our job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. More headlines Apple and fintechs like Robinhood chase yield-hungry depositors as Fed rate hikes continue.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Technology aimed at older people, whether it be healthcare, fintech or entertainment, is not new, but a new community of startups, investors and global industry leaders are shining a light on what they say is an $8.3 Fintech is also one of the areas that Nigel Morris, managing partner of QED Investors, has been keeping his eye on.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. When the pandemic hit, there was perhaps no other category of businesses impacted as greatly as small businesses. My weekly fintech newsletter, The Interchange, launched on May 1!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Now it has its sights set on helping “everyday Americans” find deals and savings across multiple categories , including travel and shopping, via its super app, Christine reports. If not, there’s a good reason: Despite a lot of hype, they’re just two of several fintech innovations that fizzled over the last decade.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 8, 2019

Blockchain is clearly the category with the steepest slope. FinTech - challenger banks, new electronic stock brokers, AI-powered investment advisors; startups are besieging the incumbents of this regulated world and assailing them in ever greater numbers. Software - up more than 3x, Software is a perennial category.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

When broken down by industry AI models and tools reflected 25% of companies, with 25%, data platforms, ETL and BI 18%, developer and devops tools 10%, security 10%, fintech 8%, and defense/aero 5%. No security, fintech, or defense/aero companies were identified in early and mid-stages for the ET30 in 2023. years for 2022 and 5.0

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

Welcome to The Interchange, a take on this week’s fintech news and trends. But last year, Visa said that “a growing list” of issuers, acquirers and fintechs were using its technology to offer BNPL options to their customers. In February 2021, corporate spend startup Brex was the latest fintech to apply for a bank charter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Meanwhile, in the last-mile category , p ricing, reach and delivery times are common headaches that startups and small businesses encounter; these features are what Fez Delivery’s solutions optimize for, according to Alley. I’ve realized we can build and create solutions around payment and core fintech.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

On the relatively brief application form for START, a16z names six categories — American dynamism, consumer, enterprise, fintech, games or other. The remote-first program will accept founders on a rolling basis and wants to connect folks with partners for advice, potential customers or investors, and of course, other entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. This will now be offered to 22 fintech companies across Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It’s one reason why the region is home to many fintech businesses born elsewhere that need proximity to a large banking ecosystem, as well as the blockchain/crypto crowd, which have found a highly amenable regulatory environment in Zug, right next door to Zurich. Maximilian Spelmeyer , partner, SIX Fintech Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

There may be a dearth of late-stage checks despite a surfeit of early-stage deals, and the African startup economy remains weighted toward a single country (Nigeria) and category (fintech). Any heating market won’t warm evenly, and the African startup scene is no exception to the rule.

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