Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2021

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). Full Fintech Unicorn List. In August, we added 17 new unicorns for a total of 238. Their total market value is now $2.21 trillion, up $100B from last month. Unicorn count: Beginning (Sep 1) = 224. + Total (Sep 30) = 238.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

When Renaud Laplanche founded LendingClub 12 years ago in 2006, the lending landscape was a very different place. Most consumer and business lending was done through traditional banks, and to say that peer-to-peer (P2P) or marketplace lending was nascent would be overly generous. More Data, More Products.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 20, 2021

At FintechLabs we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated constantly ( current list here ). Full Fintech Unicorn List. In November, we added 9 new unicorns, and lost 3, for a month-end total of 266. Their total market value is now $2.23 trillion, down $30B from last month (essentially flat). Total market value = $2.20

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At FintechLab s we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated constantly ( current list here ). Fintech Unicorn count: Beginning (Jan 1, 2022) = 271 Plus: 9 born this month (see Table 2, below) 1 previous unicorn added this month (Citadel Securities) _ Total (Jan 31) = 281. Full Fintech Unicorn List.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). It is the 7th fintech unicorn based in India, and the 4th most valuable. The first, Divvy, is a corporate credit card and expense management firm in the same category with Brex, Expensify, and others. trillion up from $1.25

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). It is the 7th fintech unicorn based in India, and the 4th most valuable. The first, Divvy, is a corporate credit card and expense management firm in the same category with Brex, Expensify, and others. trillion up from $1.25

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 8, 2021

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). 1 back on the list after previoulsy falling below $1B (Lending Club). _. US-based business charge cards. Full Fintech Unicorn List. In March, we added 17 new unicorns for a month-end total of 157. 80(t) Pipe : $2.0B

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 29, 2015

ICBA warns of risks of online marketplace lending models. Online marketplace lenders are a new form of nonbank specialty lending that uses technology platforms to allow Wall Street and individual investors to directly fund loans to consumers and small businesses. Lend exclusively over online peer-to-peer platforms.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 26, 2020

27 of the total were fintech companies, a fairly typical 14% of the YC batch. Though back when YC was just starting, only a handful were fintech. In the first 9 years of YC (2005 thru 2013), only 24 YC companies were in the fintech space though two of those early participants are now decacorns ($10B+). Year Fintech.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 3, 2021

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). US lending specialist. US fintech insfrastructure. Full Fintech Unicorn List. In May, we added 16 new unicorns for a total of 187. Their total market value is now $1.72 trillion, up $50B from last month. 2018 round.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 7, 2021

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). Trulioo , Canadian fintech security company. Full Fintech Unicorn List. In June, we added 12 new unicorns for a total of 199. Their total market value is now $1.91 trillion, up $190B fro m last month. Total (June 30) = 198.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2016

P2P lending giant Lending Club has been offering car buyers an alternative borrowing experience since it launched ten years ago. Lending Club’s new Auto Refinancing product offers a solution that gives qualified borrowers a more affordable monthly payment and interest rate. Instead, the company itself will buy the debt.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 10, 2021

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). Danish card company Pleo. Full Fintech Unicorn List. In July, we added 10 new unicorns for a total of 208. Their total market value is now $2.0 trillion, up $120B fro m last month. Unicorn count: Beginning (July 1) = 198. +

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They support most types of debt products from commercial loans to business credit cards. The company says it has facilitated more than $12B in loans over its life ($10B was PPP lending) to more than 300,000 businesses (213,000 were PPP loans) (source: company website 4 Nov 2021). Credit cards. Lendio maintains an impressive 4.7

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 12, 2014

Fintech (note 1) has been part of YC from the beginning. The first class (Summer 2005) included one fintech startup, TextPayMe, among the eight companies. But as YC grew from 2005 to 2009, the number of fintech companies stayed at roughly 1 per year. PayTango [link] PayTango links the cards in your wallet to your fingerprints.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Across the pond, estimates Innovate Finance and Pitchbook, the B2B FinTech market has gotten nearly half of all FinTech funding in the European Union through the past year. The European Union is also gearing up to promote new, continent-wide mandates that would promote FinTech growth and investments, especially post-Brexit.

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Lex Sokolin

OCTOBER 14, 2020

And this realization takes us to Lending Club. Peerless Lending Lending Club represents an era of Fintech credit. and by the way banking licenses are sort of hard to find in 2006?—?why A private equity firm here and there, to package up all those Lending Club notes and smooth out the risks.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 18, 2016

YC is less well known, but equally successful in the fintech vertical with Stripe and Zenefits , along with two Finovate alums, ZenPayroll and Coinbase , all in the $500+ million club (based on most recent funding). YC has hatched just 85 fintech companies (see list below), most in the past 30 months. Fintech Companies.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. Top 30 Alt-Lenders (Digital) Lending to Small-to-Medium Businesses (SMB) in the United States. Founded: 2011 (though it was originally founded in 2006 as FundingUtah). Top 17 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (Dec 2021).

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. Top 30 Alt-Lenders (Digital) Lending to Small-to-Medium Businesses (SMB) in the United States. Founded: 2011 (though it was originally founded in 2006 as FundingUtah). Related: Top 17 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (Dec 2021).

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. Top 30 Alt-Lenders (Digital) Lending to Small-to-Medium Businesses (SMB) in the United States. Founded: 2011 (though it was originally founded in 2006 as FundingUtah). It’s a work in progress, so expect changes in the formula. Rank (by FAB score).

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. WrkRiot’s short-lived house of cards falls down. Rishi Shah and Shradha Agarwal founded healthcare information startup Outcome Health in 2006 while the pair were still studying at Illinois’ Northwestern University. Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. Total Funding: $314M.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

These companies are making it easier to make a budget, invest, and buy stocks, as well as to get loans and credit cards. Many fintech companies out there are trying, very literally, to become the next Mint.com. debit & credit cards. A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. The secrets of user growth.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

BTCjam, a P2P marketplace launched in 2012 to borrow and lend using bitcoin, announced the company has made “the difficult decision” to close up shop, according to multiple news sources. Title: Fintech ‘Plastc’ Shuts Down After Cancelling All 80,000 Pre Orders. For the first year since opening in 2006, we will be posting a loss.

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