Chilean fintech Xepelin secures $230M in debt and equity from Kaszek, high-profile angels
Xepelin is built on a SaaS model designed to give SMEs a way to organize their financial information in real time. …
Financial firms should leverage machine learning to make anomaly detection easier
Anomaly detection is one of the more difficult and underserved operational areas in the asset-servicing sector of financial institutions. …
iPhone sales fuel Apple’s Wall Street-beating Q3
Another excellent quarter for Apple, as the company posted $81.4 billion in revenue. That’s a 36% year-over-year jump for the company, besting Wall Street estimates of…
Solarisbank raises $224M at a $1.65B valuation to acquire Contis, expand API-based embedded banking tech in Europe
The round comes about a year after Solarisbank’s last round of $67.5 million, but as a sign of the times, what is perhaps more notable is…
Mint’s first PM raises millions for Monarch, an Accel-backed money management platform
Monarch, a subscription-based platform that aims to help consumers “plan and manage” their financial lives, has raised $4.8 million in seed funding. Accel led the round,…
Paystand banks $50M to make B2B payments cashless and with no fees
It’s pretty easy for individuals to send money back and forth, and there are lots of cash apps from which to choose. On the commercial side,…
Untitled Ventures joins the scramble for Russian & Eastern European startups with a $118M warchest
Sorry Mr. Putin, but there’s a race on for Russian and Eastern European founders. And right now, those awful capitalists in the corrupt West are starting…
Norway’s electric car subscription service imove closes $22.3M Series A led by AutoScout24
The “subscribe to your car” movement has been taking off in recent years, with the appearance of Fleks in the UK (Europe), Cazoo (after its acquisition…
What we learned from selling a blockchain service to African governments
Africa is a smaller addressable market. If you’re looking to pitch a product or service to governments, it’s helpful to keep in mind that your first…
With open banking on the horizon, the fintech-SME love story is just beginning
In order to understand the changes that are sweeping fintech and reconfiguring the way that the industry works with small businesses, it’s important to understand open…
Digital lending platform Blend valued at over $4B in its public debut
Mortgages may not be considered sexy, but they are a big business. If you’ve refinanced or purchased a home digitally lately, you may not have noticed…
Construct Capital’s Dayna Grayson will be a Startup Battlefield Judge at Disrupt 2021
Dayna Grayson has been in venture capital for more than a decade and was one of the first VCs to build a portfolio around the transformation…
Paytm files for $2.2 billion IPO
Paytm, one of India’s most valuable startups, plans to raise up to $2.2 billion in an initial public offering, it said in draft papers submitted to…
Revolut confirms a fresh $800M in funding at a $33B valuation to supercharge its financial services superapp
The fintech funding continues to roll in at a rapid pace, a result of the huge shift underway in how consumers spend and manage their money….