Mary Ann Azevedo

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Hustle Fund doubles down on its mission to build the ‘YC of angel investing’

What do a chef in Turkey, a pilot in Australia, a physical therapist in Oregon, a submarine operator in the military and...
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As Better.com readies for its public debut, CEO Vishal Garg says he went through ‘a lot of leadership training’

Online mortgage lender Better.com is making its public debut Thursday on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker symb...
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6 fintech investors sound off on AI, down-rounds and what’s ahead

At the height of the funding boom in 2021, no single sector enjoyed as much VC money as fintech startups did. But in 202...
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Armed with new execs, dLocal rebounds from a short seller attack in a big way

Uruguayan fintech company dLocal saw its stock surge by over 30% on Wednesday on the news that the payments outfit had t...
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Brex expands into group events while Mesh Payments moves into travel

As the spend management space continues to get more competitive, the various players seem to be constantly iterating to ...
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It’s official: Better.com is going public

We didn’t think we’d see the day. Digital mortgage lender Better.com’s proposal to combine with Aurora Acquisition Corp....
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Visa’s new head of fintech talks partnerships, venture and creators as an addressable market

The relationship between fintechs and incumbents has long been fraught with tension. But Marie-Elise Droga believes it d...
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WeWork goes from a $47B valuation to ‘substantial doubts’ about its ‘ability to continue as a going concern’

WeWork is struggling to survive in a post-pandemic world. In announcing its earnings today, the flexible space provider ...
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SEC ends investigation into Better.com, which continues to bleed cash ahead of planned SPAC vote

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it does not intend to recommend an enforcement action against dig...
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Meet Lula, a startup that aims to be the ‘Stripe for insurance’ and just raised $35.5M

Lula, a startup which aims to be the ‘Stripe for insurance,’ has raised $35.5 million in a Series B funding round after ...
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As spend management space heats up, Brex and Rho turn to AI startups to help power new products

The competition in the spend management space continues to intensify. Brex and Rho today each announced AI-powered/enabl...
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Ramp expands into procurement, lands Shopify as a customer

Ramp continues to ramp up its business. The fintech startup announced today that it is entering the procurement space as...
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Shopify expands into credit cards as it pushes further into the fintech space

Shopify has entered the credit card game. The commerce giant announced today that it is offering Shopify Credit, a busin...
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Jeeves hits over $40M in annualized revenue as it expands beyond corporate credit cards

In September of 2021, Jeeves began offering corporate credit cards as its primary product — with a primary focus on Lati...
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QED leads $7M round into startup that offers financing to SaaS businesses across US-South Asia corridor

There are a number of companies in the U.S. that offer revenue-based financing to SaaS companies including Capchase, Pip...
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Pipe co-founder raises $6M for CapStack, a bank-to-bank marketplace aimed at ‘de-riskifying portfolios’

CapStack, a startup formed by Pipe co-founder Michal Cieplinski, has raised $6 million toward its effort to build an int...
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Flexport’s Ryan Petersen joins venture firm Founders Fund as a partner

Flexport founder Ryan Petersen has joined venture capital firm Founders Fund as a partner, as reported by Forbes earlier...
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SVB’s collapse drove 26K customers to Mercury in 4 months

When Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in March, a flurry of startups rushed to step in to help fill a gap in the startup an...
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Deel under fire for alleged questionable hiring practices, advice to other companies

A California Senator is urging the state’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency to conduct an investigation into the b...
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Visa acquires Brazilian fintech startup Pismo in $1B blockbuster deal

Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here. Credit card giant Visa is acquiring Brazilian payments infrastructur...
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Brex refocuses on startups with hire of SVB veteran, ex-a16z partner

Just over one year ago, spend management decacorn Brex declared that it was “less suited to meet the needs of smaller cu...
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No SSN, no problem, says Maza, a fintech startup aimed at undocumented immigrants

Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here. While there are a multitude of fintech companies offering digital ba...
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Khosla Ventures just doubled down on this handyman-on-demand service for homeowners

If you own a home, you know that there is always something that needs to be repaired, installed or generally addressed. ...
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As the generative AI craze rages on, Ramp acquires customer support startup Cohere.io

Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here. Finance automation company Ramp has acquired Cohere.io, a startup th...
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Plaid unveils new collaboration network aimed giving fintechs a way to share fraud intelligence

Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here. Fintech startup Plaid got its start as a company that connects consu...
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Navan takes a swipe at expense management startups with new Mastercard and Visa partnerships

Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here. In recent years, a number of startups have made a business out of pr...
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Amazon Pay taps Affirm to be its first buy now, pay later player

Affirm has become the first buy now, pay later player to be added to Amazon Pay, the two companies announced today. As p...
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Fintech giant Stripe is getting into the credit game

Stripe wants to make it easier for businesses to access credit. The private financial infrastructure giant announced a n...
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Revolut alums raise millions for Vault, a startup offering banking services to Canadian SMBs

Vault, an online banking platform serving small-to-medium sized business (SMBs) in Canada, is launching to the public to...
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Okay, which analyzes engineers’ productivity, sells to Stripe

Fintech giant Stripe has acquired Okay, a startup that developed a low-code analytics software to help engineering leade...
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