Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

What happens when you give fintech nerds a healthy dose of wine and cocktails over the course of 4 hours? You get honest opinions about what is new and next in fintech. At the fintech cocktail club, we played a scientific game of Hot or Not (if you’re younger than 30, think of it as Fintech Tinder ). P2P lending.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

Fintech deals by size from 23 April to 29 April 2016: Mosaic. Japanese Bitcoin exchange. Marketplace small business lending platform. Mexican Bitcoin exchange. Income tax service. Tags: Consumer, lending, credit, underwriting, discovery, quotes, lead gen. ——-. Total raised: $224.9 million Seed.

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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. Pay with with Dwolla or Bitcoin, and manage all your orders in one place.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It was a quieter week in fintech fundings. Bitcoin exchange. Lending marketplace targeting Hispanic-owned small businesses. The post Fintech Fundings: 13 Companies Raise $900 Million Week Ending Nov 12 appeared first on Finovate. Tags: SMB, savings accounts, tax, Lincoln Savings Bank (partner). HQ: New York City.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 22, 2016

million for its P2P lending platform for small businesses. Here are the fintech deals by size from 12 March to 18 March 2016: Future Finance. Alt-lender focused on lending against existing automobile titles. P2P real estate lending marketplace. Peer-to-peer lending marketplace. SmartAsset raised $3.8 Connecture.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

We love the robot as much as the next Fintech commentator. Like taxes. Second, Fintechs (e.g., This is why the OCC has spent so many calories on defining special purpose fintech charters , and why the local community bodies hate it. Bitcoin remains scarce, as does Ether. Don’t get us wrong. This is the way.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

We love the robot as much as the next Fintech commentator. Like taxes. Second, Fintechs (e.g., This is why the OCC has spent so many calories on defining special purpose fintech charters , and why the local community bodies hate it. Bitcoin remains scarce, as does Ether. Don’t get us wrong. This is the way.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2015

It was a blockbuster week in fintech with more than $6 billion in new funds flowing to the sector. Bitcoin compliance solutions. Tags: Consumer, blockchain, crypto-currency, bitcoin. The vast majority, $5.9 billion, was raised in the IPOs of two mega payment processors, recent FinDEVr alum Worldpay ($3.3 Source: TechCrunch.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

It was one of the biggest weeks for B2B FinTech investment in months. Alternative lending, eProcurement and cross-border payments innovators all saw impressive activity (though several funding values remained private), and one single startup raised $165 million — more than the rest of the eight other funding rounds this week combined.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Download the free report to find out how fintech is shaping the future of wealth management and investing. This openness to banking alternatives presents opportunities for fintech startups looking to innovate in financial services from the outside. Borrowing: Credit-shy millennials embrace PoS lending.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 21, 2022

At FintechLab s we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated constantly ( current list here ). Full Fintech Unicorn List. In December, we added 7 new unicorns for a month-end total of 273. Their total market value is now $2.1 trillion, down $110B from last month. Unicorn count: Beginning (Dec 1) = 266. trillion. .

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

At FintechLabs we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated constantly ( current list here ). Full Fintech Unicorn List. In October, we added 22 new unicorns for a total of 260. Their total market value is now $2.23 trillion, just $20B more than last month (essentially flat). Unicorn count: Beginning (Oct 1) = 238. +

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

At FintechLabs we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated constantly ( current list here ). Full Fintech Unicorn List. In October, we added 22 new unicorns for a total of 260. Their total market value is now $2.23 trillion, just $20B more than last month (essentially flat). Unicorn count: Beginning (Oct 1) = 238. +

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

In payments and FinTech, it’s often the startup’s job to disrupt an industry with many legacy businesses, outdated technologies and processes. A digital currency (not bitcoin, she said) may also be on the horizon to enable the same kind of efficiency in B2B payments that’s already been achieved in B2C transactions. “I FinCompare.

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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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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The fintech sector attracted $332 million in new capital the first week of August. Fintech deals by size from 30 July to 5 August, 2016: Mosaic. Lending marketplace for small businesses. Bitcoin point-of-sale solutions. Tags: Institutions, lenders, mortgage, lending, customer service, mobile, account opening.

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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

JULY 20, 2016

This week, 35 fintech companies worldwide raised $469 million the second week of June. Fintech deals by size from 11 June to 17 June, 2016: Fenqile. Fintech company builder. Income tax prep. Tags: Consumer, payments, mobile, ecommerce, barter, virtual currency, bitcoin, P2P, person to person. Consumer microlender.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 27, 2016

Fintech deals by size from May 21 to 27, 2016: Cotiviti. P2P lending platform. Online tax preparation. Tags: Consumer, credit, auto loans, lending, underwriting. Total dollars raised YTD is now $15.7 billion, more than twice the $7.2 billion raised during the same period a year ago. ——-. Healthcare payments analytics.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). 82t ($3.2B): Canadian bitcoin and blockchain provider Blockstream. 168t ($1.3B): USA crypto tax software provider TaxBit. 200t ($1B): American lender Octane Lending. 200t ($1B): American lender Octane Lending.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 14, 2015

Since June 1 we’ve seen 189 fintech deals globally raising a total of $3.1 It was another stellar week for Finovate alums with 6 fundings totaling $123 million: money transfer service Payoneer ($50 mil), AI innovator Kensho ($33 million), tax specialist VATBox ($24 million), , cash-back specialist Mogl ($7.9 Bitcoin exchange.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Users May Withdraw Stored Bitcoin until July. 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: Wyre Pivoted Away from Consumer Bitcoin Payments. Product: BTCJam. Product: Plastc.

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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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