Fintech Kasheesh wants financially strained customers to say ‘bye’ to BNPL
Kasheesh just raised $5.5 million in funding for its multi-card payment solution from investors including NFL's Odell Beckham Jr
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The rise of API-first companies, in fintech and beyond
It's not just in fintech that API solutions are on the rise – and helping solve a great range of problems.
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A ping-pong match between bulls and bears
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Happily we...
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Stripe and Plaid suit up for battle
Plaid and Stripe are now standing face to face, if not already on each other’s toes.
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Daily Crunch: Plaid product updates signal push to ‘own’ more of the account funding process
It’s Wednesday, May 18, 2022, and we are hanging out at our Mobility event, ogling cars that fly, drive themselves and have various identity...
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Plaid officially expands into identity and income verification, fraud prevention and account funding
Fintech decacorn Plaid expands from its core business of account linking into identity and income verification, fraud prevention and account funding.
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Gradient Ventures backs Mentum’s goal to democratize investment services in LatAm
The company offers technology in the form of APIs and widgets that businesses can use to create investment products for their customers.
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The Interchange: Stripe takes a swing at Plaid
Hi all, it was a roller coaster of a week in the world of fintech as I published two separate articles on startup layoffs and a nine-figure funding...
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Stripe is playing checkers with Plaid
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. The crew...
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From partners to competitors: What Stripe’s latest move means for Plaid
Fintech giants Stripe and Plaid appear to be going head to head.
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Baseten nabs $20M to make it easier to build machine learning-based applications
As the tech world inches a closer to the idea of artificial general intelligence, we’re seeing another interesting theme emerging in the...
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Skyflow and Plaid partner in effort to bolster fintech data security
Skyflow, which sells data privacy tools for corporate customers, this morning announced a partnership with Plaid, a unicorn that helps pass fintech...
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Plaid cofounder’s next venture is a bank to power fintech apps
Plaid cofounder William Hockey has revealed his next startup: A nationally chartered bank called Column that is geared toward fintech developers.
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Sika lets patients ‘hack’ their health savings accounts to buy wellness products tax-free
Sika's healthcare fintech can help customers buy skincare products or a Peloton using pre-tax HSA or FSA dollars.
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Starlight shoots for the moon, aiming to build the Brex of crypto
New York-based Starlight is building an expense management tool like Ramp, Brex, or Mercury, but for crypto
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How Plaid’s CTO grew his engineering team 17.5x in 4 years
How did a growing company like Plaid scale the engineering team 17.5x in four years and keep everything in working order? We talked to CTO Jean-Denis...
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a16z backs Rutter’s goal of being ‘Plaid for commerce’
Rutter is building a universal e-commerce API for reading and writing data for integration with commerce platforms and access to financial data...
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Still managing engineers remotely? Okay has a performance dashboard for that
In the past year, the company saw both its revenue and customer base grow around 10 times.
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Wordle’s Blizzard of transparency
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our...
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Plaid buys Cognito as it moves beyond merely connecting accounts
Plaid, a fintech unicorn known for its APIs that connect consumer bank accounts to financial applications, announced today that it is buying Cognito....
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2021’s top 10 enterprise M&A deals reached $121B
There was a lot of action in 2021 in enterprise M&A — once totaled, my top 10 deals came in at just under $121 billion.
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Norwest unveils a $3 billion fund, which is nearly one-fourth the capital it has ever raised
Norwest Venture Partners, the now 60-year-old venture and growth equity firm backed entirely by the banking giant Wells Fargo, today rolled out its...
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Nigeria’s OnePipe raises $3.5M to double down on its embedded finance offering
Last year, fintech API infrastructure players came into the African tech scene, ushering in Plaid-like services to businesses and developers. And the...
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Lessons we learned from the last week of fintech earnings
Let’s examine a series of winning fintech results from BNPL, consumer finance, proptech and corporate finance before turning to fintech's...
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Stitch gets a $2M seed extension, hires Benjamin Dada to lead Nigerian expansion
Two months into 2021, South African fintech Stitch came out of stealth and raised $4 million in seed funding, allowing it to begin to make inroads...
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Potential winners and losers line up as Plaid pushes deeper into payments
So now Plaid says it’s a payments company. It was only a matter of time, really.
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Plaid overhauls Plaid Link SDK with simplicity in mind
Since 2015, Plaid has helped developers connect users to banking information using an SDK (software development kit) called Plaid Link. As Plaid...
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Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network
When Visa announced plans to purchase Plaid for $5.3 billion in January 2020, the deal represented one of the largest acquisitions of a fintech...
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