Brex was eighteen months old when its co-founder Henrique Dubugras published an op-ed in TechCrunch explaining why traditional corporate credit cards were...
Square published a report in 2020 called “Getting to Know Bitcoin” that explained cryptocurrency to small business owners in language their accountants...
When Finextra published an analysis of real-time payment adoption rates across 38 countries in January 2024, the article received 47,000 views in...
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...
Robinhood published its first “Markets in Motion” report in Q2 2023, breaking down how its 23 million funded accounts were allocating across...
Galileo Financial Technologies, the API platform behind SoFi, Chime, and dozens of other neobanks, had a partnership problem in 2019. Banks that...
Modern Treasury, a payment operations platform founded in 2018, made a bet in its first year that most fintech startups would consider...
When Lemonade, the insurance technology company, filed its S-1 for its 2020 IPO, the filing contained something unusual: a section titled “Lemonade’s...
In 2019, Transferwise (now Wise) bought a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times. Instead of a brand message, the ad contained a...
When Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff began publishing essays about investment methodology in 2012, his company managed less than 100 million dollars in...
In 2007, a small publication called American Banker ran a feature story about a San Francisco startup called Lending Club that was...
In March 2019, Adyen’s co-founder Pieter van der Does made an unusual decision for a company that had just posted record revenue...
In April 2014, Patrick McKenzie published a 4,000-word essay on Stripe’s company blog explaining why American businesses found it so difficult to...
In October 2020, Cathie Wood published a 15-page research paper through ARK Invest titled “Big Ideas 2021” that included a section predicting...
In early 2017, Kabbage co-founder Rob Frohwein faced a growth challenge that his company’s marketing team could not solve through conventional channels....
In 2014, a compliance technology company called Comply Advantage published its first annual report on global financial crime trends. The report was...
In 2016, a Dublin-based regulatory technology startup called Fenergo had a problem that many enterprise fintech companies share: despite serving some of...
A 2024 Content Marketing Institute report found that 72% of fintech startups now allocate budget to content marketing as a primary credibility-building...