Monzo published its first annual transparency report in 2018, when it had fewer than one million customers. The report disclosed fraud rates,...
Mercury, the banking platform for startups, had 200 customers when it launched in 2019. It had no brand recognition outside a small...
In 2022, Klarna cut its workforce by 10% and saw its valuation drop from $45.6 billion to $6.7 billion. Most companies in...
Nubank spent $8 per customer on acquisition in 2023, while the average Brazilian bank spent $42. Nubank had 100 million customers. At...
Patrick Collison, Stripe’s co-founder, wrote a blog post in 2012 about the economic history of the printing press. It had nothing to...
Wise changed its name from TransferWise in February 2021 and went public four months later at a $11 billion valuation. The name...
In 2016, a payments company called Marqeta had 50 employees and no public brand recognition outside a small group of payments insiders....
Checkout.com was processing $2 billion in annual payment volume when it started publishing detailed analyses of payment acceptance rates across different European...
Square published a report in 2020 called “Getting to Know Bitcoin” that explained cryptocurrency to small business owners in language their accountants...
David Vélez, the founder of Nubank, gave 127 media interviews in 2022. That is roughly one interview every three days. Nubank had...
Wealthsimple, the Canadian investment platform, had a problem in 2020. It had a strong consumer brand among millennials but no credibility with...
Every January, a16z publishes its annual fintech “State of the Market” report. The 2024 edition ran to 80 pages, covered 14 market...
Column, the banking infrastructure company, had twelve employees when it received its national bank charter from the OCC in 2022. It was...
Robinhood published its first “Markets in Motion” report in Q2 2023, breaking down how its 23 million funded accounts were allocating across...
FTX spent $375 million on marketing in 2022. The company bought naming rights to the Miami Heat’s arena for $135 million. It...
Coinbase published its first transparency report in 2021, disclosing the number of government data requests it had received, how many it had...
When Patrick Collison published a blog post in 2016 comparing the speed of building permits in San Francisco to construction timelines in...
When Revolut applied for its United Kingdom banking license in 2019, regulators at the Prudential Regulation Authority did not simply evaluate the...
When Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff began publishing essays about investment methodology in 2012, his company managed less than 100 million dollars in...