In March 2024, Sequoia Capital disclosed that its investments in Stripe had generated more than $3.5 billion in paper gains from an...
Estonia, a country of 1.3 million people on the Baltic Sea, has produced two fintech companies valued at over $1 billion: Wise...
In September 2023, Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, testified before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on cryptocurrency regulation. The testimony was...
In September 2014, Apple’s senior vice president of internet services Eddy Cue placed a phone call to Dan Schulman, who had just...
In March 2016, a small office above a coffee shop in Lagos became the birthplace of Flutterwave, a payments company that would...
In 2013, Ismail Ahmed sat in a cramped office in East London trying to solve a problem that spanned four continents. His...
In April 2021, Stripe completed a 600 million dollar fundraise that valued the company at 95 billion dollars, making it the most...
When Brex launched in 2018 with a corporate credit card for startups, the company entered a market dominated by American Express, which...
In 2017, Ripple Labs faced a credibility crisis that threatened to undermine years of technical development. The company had built a cross-border...
In 2024, the global fintech ecosystem added approximately 4,200 new companies, bringing the total to over 34,000 fintech firms operating worldwide. Of...
The global fintech Space has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past decade. While regions like the United States, Singapore, and the...
Founding SoftPak Financial Systems in 1994 was both an easy decision and a life-changing event, driven by my background in mathematics and...