IT総合 Seed-stage firm Eniac Ventures raises $220M across two funds
Eniac has raised $60 million for Select 1, the firm’s vehicle for follow-on later-stage investments, and $160 million fo...
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IT総合 IT総合 ‘Send now, pay later’ startup Pomelo lands $35M Series A from secretive Vy Capital, Founders Fund
Pomelo, a startup that combines international money transfer with credit, has raised $35 million in a Series A round led...
IT総合 Fintech startup Ramp sees 32% bump in valuation, Mercury expands into consumer banking
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Ramp’s big raise and valuation jump, Mercury’s mo...
IT総合 Ramp raises another $150 million co-led by Khosla, Founders Fund at a $7.65B valuation
Spend management startup Ramp has raised another $150 million at a valuation of $7.65 billion, the company confirmed to ...
IT総合 Fintech startup Mercury, which is under regulatory scrutiny, expands into consumer banking
Business banking startup Mercury, founded in 2020, is now launching a consumer banking product. Mercury today serves mor...
IT総合 Investors and founders can meet their match with Cherub, the ‘Raya of angel investing’
Jaclyn Johnson and Angeline Vuong were on a hike deliberating how hard it can be for people to get started in angel inve...
IT総合 TechCrunch Fintech: Meet PayJoy, a fintech operating at the intersection of doing good and making money
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at how two fintech companies serving the underserved are faring,...
IT総合 How PayJoy built a $300M business by letting the underserved use their smartphones as collateral for loans
Lerato Motloung is a mother of two who works in a supermarket in Johannesburg, South Africa. After her phone was stolen,...
IT総合 Fintech representation in YC’s Demo Days is definitely shrinking
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at just how many fintech companies made it into Y Combinator’s W...
IT総合 Fintech funding slows to the lowest level since 2017
CB Insights released its Q1 2024 State of Venture Report, revealing that fintech funding slid by 16% during the three-mo...
IT総合 Robinhood’s new Gold Card, BaaS challenges and the tiny startup that caught Stripe’s eye
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at Robinhood’s new Gold Card, challen...
IT総合 Kids’ clothing and gear is more expensive than ever. Kidsy has a sustainable solution for discounts
All parents know that raising kids is expensive. Especially in those early years when they quickly outgrow clothes or to...
IT総合 Robinhood’s new credit card goes after Apple Card with ability to invest cash-back perks
Eight months after acquiring credit card startup X1 for $95 million, Robinhood announced today the launch of its new Gol...
IT総合 Synctera is the latest banking-as-a-service startup to lay off staff
Banking-as-a-service startup (BaaS) Synctera has conducted a restructuring that has resulted in a staff reduction, the c...
IT総合 Non-sexy industries can appeal to investors too
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at some hot fintech startups in Afric...
IT総合 VCs double down on fintech Coast, which aims to be the Brex for ‘real-world’ industries
The expense management arena is a crowded one, with well-funded players such as Brex, Ramp and Navan all clamoring for m...
IT総合 YC-backed digital bank Onyx Private tells customers it’s closing their accounts
Miami-based Onyx Private, a Y Combinator-backed digital bank that provided banking and investment services for high-earn...
IT総合 Why does every startup want to help you get paid?
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at the piping hot global payrol...
IT総合 Remofirst raises $25M to take on Deel and Rippling in the global HR tech space
Remofirst says that its annual recurring revenue (ARR) has grown 10x since it raised its $14.1 million seed round in Sep...
IT総合 Harness Wealth wants to bring sophisticated tax planning to the masses
Harness Wealth, which started in 2018 primarily offering financial advice to startup founders and employees, has expande...
IT総合 Miles Grimshaw leaves Benchmark to re-join Kushner’s Thrive Capital
In an unexpected move, Miles Grimshaw announced today that he is rejoining Thrive Capital after working as a general par...
IT総合 When startups fail, these startups clean up
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! Apologies for being out last week — a cold got the best of me,...
IT総合 Nubank CEO dishes on the neobank’s profit surge and how tourist VCs in LatAm have gone home
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of star...
IT総合 Fintech giant Stripe’s valuation spikes to $65B in employee stock-sale deal
Payments infrastructure giant Stripe said today it has inked deals with investors to provide liquidity to current and fo...
IT総合 Why VCs are investing in startups that help other startups shut down
In one of the VC world’s greatest ironies, investors have lately been clamoring to back startups that are helping ...
IT総合 Techstars CEO defends changes, says physical presence in a city is not necessary for investment
Earlier this week, accelerator group Techstars announced changes to its operations. But what was planned internally to b...
IT総合 Reddit files to go public — at last
Social media giant Reddit filed to go public today. Its long-awaited S-1 filing will see it approach the public markets ...
IT総合 This YC alum just raised $31M to build the ‘TurboTax for construction permitting’
Anyone who has ever tried to build or renovate a house knows the pain of obtaining construction permits. Challenges in r...
IT総合 PayPal Ventures’ first AI investment, a credit-based dating app and Robinhood’s good week
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at a new finance-based dating app, Ro...
IT総合 Rasa, an enterprise-focused dev platform for conversational GenAI, raises $30M
It’s no fun as a customer to have an interaction with a bot when it’s clearly a bot with which you’re engaging. Rasa is ...