All posts tagged "fintech investment"
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119Fintech StartupsWhy Venture Capital Is Driving Fintech Innovation
In January 2021, Stripe raised $600 million at a $95 billion valuation, making it the most valuable private company in the United...
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How Fintech Startups Attract Investment
In 2013, David Vélez spent two weeks trying to open a bank account in São Paulo. The process required multiple branch visits,...
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The Growth of Global Fintech Venture Funding
On November 3, 2020, Chinese regulators suspended Ant Group’s dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong, two days before what would have...
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Why Investors Are Interested in Fintech Infrastructure
In January 2020, Visa announced it would acquire Plaid for $5.3 billion. Plaid, a company that most consumers had never heard of,...
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The Role of Venture Capital in Fintech Growth
In 2011, Sequoia Capital invested $2 million in Stripe’s seed round at a valuation of roughly $20 million. By 2024, that stake...
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Why Fintech Startups Are Attracting Global Investors
In 2021, Tiger Global Management made 328 investments across all sectors, roughly one deal every 26 hours. A significant portion went to...
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How Fintech Innovation Drives Investment Opportunities
On January 28, 2021, Robinhood restricted trading in GameStop stock after a Reddit-fuelled short squeeze drove the share price from $17 to...
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The Future of Fintech Venture Capital
In November 2024, Klarna filed for an initial public offering in the United States, seeking a valuation of roughly $20 billion. Two...
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How Fintech Founders Build Investor Confidence
When Max Levchin pitched Affirm to investors in 2012, he had a specific advantage that most fintech founders lack: he had already...
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Why Investors Are Focusing on Fintech Platforms
In 2023, Adyen processed 939 billion euros in payment volume through a single platform that serves McDonald’s, Spotify, Microsoft, and thousands of...
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The Rise of Fintech Unicorn Companies
On April 14, 2021, Coinbase went public through a direct listing on the Nasdaq. The cryptocurrency exchange opened at $381 per share,...
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Why Fintech Innovation Is Attracting Capital
In November 2022, FTX collapsed in spectacular fashion. The cryptocurrency exchange, valued at $32 billion just seven months earlier, filed for bankruptcy...
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The Role of Venture Funding in Financial Innovation
In 2010, Y Combinator, a startup accelerator known primarily for funding software companies, accepted a payments startup called /dev/payments into its Winter...
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Why Fintech Is a Leading Investment Sector
In March 2024, Sequoia Capital disclosed that its investments in Stripe had generated more than $3.5 billion in paper gains from an...
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The Growth of Fintech Venture Ecosystems
In March 2016, a small office above a coffee shop in Lagos became the birthplace of Flutterwave, a payments company that would...
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Why Fintech Innovation Attracts Strategic Investment
In April 2021, Stripe completed a 600 million dollar fundraise that valued the company at 95 billion dollars, making it the most...
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The Role of Media Exposure in Fintech Investment
In October 2019, a relatively unknown British fintech company called Checkout.com closed a 230 million dollar Series A round at a 2...
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Why Fintech Thought Leadership Attracts Investors
In 2012, a venture capitalist named Nigel Morris published a detailed essay arguing that data science would transform consumer lending more profoundly...
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Why Publishing Insights Supports Fintech Investor Relations
Fintech companies that maintain active publishing programmes receive 2.8 times more inbound investor inquiries than comparable companies without published content, according to...
