After years of working for startups, including Limeade and Zephyr Health, Martin Zych came to realize that companies were lacking an automated, cloud-based way to …
Collective, a financial management platform for freelancers, raises $50M
Collective, a platform and advisory team that provides bookkeeping, payroll and tax advice to freelancers, today announced it raised $50 million in a funding round …
Clair raises, Deel defends allegations and Mercury shares post-SVB growth figures
It was a short week and that was reflected in the amount of news we covered in fintech land last week. But there was still …
China wraps up fintech crackdown with big fines on Tencent, Alibaba
The regulatory crackdown that has shaken up China’s fintech industry since late 2020 appears to be coming to a close with the imposition of hefty …
Hey, stuck startups, reducing growth could make you less fundable
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We’re switching …
Fintech M&A gets a big boost with Visa-Pismo deal
It was a very busy week in the world of fintech, which certainly kept us on our toes. We covered a couple of notable M&A …
Pitch Deck Teardown: Super.com’s $60M Series C deck
It’s rare to find a pitch deck that forces me to dig deep to unearth something to criticize. The last time was with Orange’s seed …
Social trading app Shares receives EU stock trading license
Fintech startup Shares has raised $90 million for its stock trading app. And yet, the service is only available to people who live in the …
Visa acquires Brazilian fintech startup Pismo in $1B blockbuster deal
Credit card giant Visa is acquiring Brazilian payments infrastructure startup Pismo for $1 billion in cash in what is likely one of the largest fintech …
Brex refocuses on startups with hire of SVB veteran, ex-a16z operating partner
Just over one year ago, spend management decacorn Brex declared that it was “less suited to meet the needs of smaller customers” in an announcement …