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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Stripe went on to raise a seed round from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, and PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk in 2011.

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Fintech Fundings: 114 Companies Raised $7.3 Billion in April

Fintech Labs Insights

Digital banking company. HQ: Seattle, Washington. Income tax service. AI for capital markets news. Tags: Consumer, SMB, accounting, bookkeeping,, tax returns, tax prep. HQ: Oakland, California. Source: Crunchbase. Latest round: $56 million Debt (from Goldman Sachs). Total raised: $154.3 million ($98.3

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

Best Bank Purchase of the Year – Goes to Heritage Financial for its strategic purchase of commercial niche player Puget Sound Bank. Bravo to CEO Brian Vance, President Jeff Deuel and team for a watershed expansion into the hot Seattle market with a bank whose commercial skills can complement those of its acquirer.