IT総合 The shocking allegations against Daylight, an LGBTQ+ focused startup
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IT総合 Checkout.com’s new president is bullish on US expansion, says she ‘welcomes’ comparisons to Stripe
Stripe competitor Checkout.com announced last month that Céline Dufétel was appointed as its new president.
She had prev...
IT総合 Discover the Disrupt 2023 Fintech Stage
TechCrunch Disrupt, the premier event for startup investors and founders, is coming back September 19-21, 2023, with an ...
IT総合 Ramp reports 4x revenue growth, says it still has ‘vast majority’ of equity funding
2022 was a tumultuous year for many fintech startups. But for Ramp, it was a year of opportunity.
The company shared tod...
IT総合 StellarFi lands $15M to help people build credit by paying bills, rent on time
Building credit is hard when it’s difficult to even get credit.
And while it’s not impossible to get loans or credit car...
IT総合 The story of how Dave took the long road to become a neobank
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IT総合 Former Stripe engineer raises $4M for Beam, a fintech startup out to help contractors get paid faster
Beam, a five-month-old startup out to more easily help general contractors pay subcontractors and get paid themselves, h...
IT総合 Roofstock, valued at $1.9B last year, cuts 27% of staff in second round of layoffs
Proptech company Roofstock has laid off about 27% of its staff today, according to an email sent to employees viewed by ...
IT総合 Brex takes a swipe at Concur with an expansion into travel
In yet another example of how competitive the spend management space has become, Brex announced today that it has expand...
IT総合 eToro secures $250M at a $3.5B valuation after scrapping SPAC, seeing slower growth
After calling off its plans to go public via a SPAC at a $10.4 billion valuation in 2022, trading platform eToro has sec...
IT総合 Mercury expands FDIC insurance up to $3M through new Vault product
Mercury, a startup that provides banking services for other startups, is offering customers expanded FDIC insurance of u...
IT総合 We’re only beginning to see the impact of Silicon Valley Bank’s implosion
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IT総合 For fintechs in 2022, the bigger the exit, the larger the decline in value
While the public market correction has been widespread, tech and fintech stocks have seen the largest declines, accordin...
IT総合 Synctera raises $15M to help companies launch embedded banking products in Canada
Synctera, a banking-as-a-service startup, has raised an additional $15 million as it expands into Canada.
NAventures, th...
IT総合 Better.com’s SPAC gets a lifeline but remains on life support
Digital mortgage lender Better.com’s SPAC deal with Aurora Acquisition Corp. recently got a new lease on life, extending...
IT総合 7 investors reveal what’s hot in fintech in Q1 2023
The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a c...
IT総合 Amazon and Better.com’s unlikely pairing
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IT総合 8VC raises $880M in new fund that aims “to fix a broken world”
Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Jon Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth ...
IT総合 Varo, Stripe said to be raising new funds at much lower valuations
With the market turning so dramatically in 2022, it’s no surprise that many startups are now believed to be raising down...
IT総合 Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz invested more in fintech than any other sector in 2022
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IT総合 Trust & Will secures $15M after doubling revenue
Drafting a will and planning for what happens to your estate once you pass away is well, not exactly fun. Both tasks can...
IT総合 Klarna wins over the US
The U.S. is now Swedish payment giant Klarna’s biggest market by revenue, surpassing Germany, and that has CEO and co-fo...
IT総合 Nestment raises $3.5M to help friends and family buy homes together
For many segments of the population, home ownership is as elusive as ever. A recent report by the National Association o...
IT総合 Layoffs spell opportunity for some fintech startups
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IT総合 The entire fintech industry is not in distress – here’s who is hiring
With so many fintechs laying off staff, it can be easy to assume that the entire industry is in distress.
But that’...
IT総合 Neobank Vexi raises millions to offer young Mexicans lower interest rate credit cards
Getting a credit card is something most Americans take for granted.
In countries such as Mexico, it’s a much more diffic...
IT総合 a16z, GV back Thatch in its effort to simplify health benefits for startups and their employees
When you’re dealing with health issues, worrying about how you’re going to pay for care can be a major additional stress...
IT総合 How one Brazilian startup’s pivot to corporate cards has paid off
Portão 3 was founded as a corporate travel startup in 2020 and had released its product just as COVID hit Latin America ...
IT総合 Is this the end of the BNPL boom?
When the economy was booming, the buy now, pay later space thrived. But as inflation and interest rates climbed, consume...
IT総合 AI comes to expense reports
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