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