At a time when many startups are struggling to raise funding or are raising but at lower valuations, it’s notable when companies raise at flat …
Digital Onboarding grabs $58M to help banks with profitable customer engagement
Financial institutions spend hundreds of dollars in marketing and awareness to get a customer to open an account that often doesn’t get used. Digital Onboarding …
Pomelo stacks $40M to scale its payments infra business in LatAm
Argentinian payments infrastructure startup Pomelo has raised $40 million in a Series B round of funding. The Buenos Aires-based company started in 2021 with the goal …
Tandem gives ‘modern couples’ app to manage finances together and separately
The fintech app addresses the first financial milestones for couples and grows with the relationship through planning, saving and spending features. © 2023 TechCrunch. All …
N26 launches stock and ETF trading to complement its banking offering
Berlin-based banking startup N26 is rolling out a new stock and ETF trading feature starting with Austria as the first market. This product launch marks …
Carta’s missteps and real estate fintech’s up-and-down week
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! In this edition, I’m going to look at some hits and misses in the real estate fintech space, …
When it comes to startups’ flight to quality, have we swung too far in the other direction?
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and …
Pier banks $2.4M to launch ‘Stripe for credit’
Developers add Pier’s APIs with a few lines of codes, and the company then manages the credit lifecycle from end-to-end, including origination, underwriting, compliance and …
Treasure Financial lays off staff just months after reporting ‘explosive growth’
Treasure Financial has laid off 14 employees, the fintech startup confirmed to TechCrunch today. The layoffs took place in December. The move affected some 60% …
Early-stage fintech startups just got more funding sources
We started the year with news of a couple of new venture funds that will be writing checks into fintech startups. © 2023 TechCrunch. All …