Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 16, 2016

Along with the usual payment and lending startups, two insurtech companies raised substantial rounds: Embroker ($12.2 EZBob landed a $25 million debt commitmen t to increase its SMB lending. Fintech deals by size from May 14 to 20, 2016: Clover Health. Consumer credit card management. HQ: New York City.

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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. Gift cards backed with public company equity. HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City. Fingerprint-authenticated payment card. HQ: Oklahoma City. Card rewards management.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The fintech sector attracted $266 million in new capital the second week of August. 5 million to CUneXus to expand its consumer lending platform. . $5 5 million to CUneXus to expand its consumer lending platform. Fintech deals by size from 6 Aug to 12 August 2016: Interactions. Consumer lending platform.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

For the 12th consecutive week, there were 20+ fintech fundings worldwide. The number of deals was inflated somewhat by the six new fintech companies launched at YC’s demo day that we had not previously covered. Here are the fintech deals by size from 19 March to 25 March 2016: Open Lending. HQ: New York City.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 4, 2016

Three Finovate or FinDEVr alums, two of which presented at FinDEVr NYC last week (Betterment, Stratumn), brought in new investments: Betterment landed a massive $100 million at a $700 million valuation for its robo-advising platform. Here are the fintech deals by size from 26 March to 1 April 2016: Ceridian. HQ: New York City.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 31, 2015

Another monster week in fintech. Depending on how much Stripe received in its round (at a $5 billion valuation), something north of $600 million flowed to 17 fintech companies worldwide. To put that in perspective, during all of 2014 our alums raised just over $1 billion (excludes IPOs (Yodlee, OnDeck, and Lending Club).

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 30, 2015

For just the fourth time this year, weekly fintech fundings fell below the $100-million mark with 15 companies raising a total of $51 million. With just one holiday-shortened week remaining in the year, the total invested in private fintech companies YTD now stands at $18.8 Mobile bank/card. HQ: New York City.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Large swaths of cash flowed into the global fintech sector last week. HQ: New York City. Prepaid card platform. Prepaid card services. Tags: Consumer, SMB, prepaid cards, debit cards. Source: Crunchbase. Financing online consumer purchases. HQ: Sydney, Australia. Source: Crunchbase.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It was a quieter week in fintech fundings. And we are not sure if the NCR inflow should even be considered “new money.” HQ: New York City. Lending marketplace targeting Hispanic-owned small businesses. HQ: New York City. HQ: Cambridge, England, UK. Source: Crunchbase.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In total, 23 fintech companies raised more than $121 million including Finovate alums Spreedly which brought in $2.5 HQ: New York City. Virtual card numbers on the fly. HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City. Tags: Payments, security, debit/credit cards, consumer.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Fintech circles were abuzz this week as four massive fundings pushing several companies higher up the billion-dollar valuation ladder (yep, I can avoid the U-word if I really try). student loans, the worldwide fintech total surpassed one billion ($1.254 billion to be precise) thanks to Paytm ($675 million), Avant ($325 million) and 17 others.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

Fintech deals by size from 23 April to 29 April 2016: Mosaic. Marketplace small business lending platform. HQ: Mexico City, Mexico. HQ: New Delhi, India. Tags: SMB, merchants, security, payments, POS, credit/debit cards, authorization. ——-. Marketplace lender for residential solor projects.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 13, 2016

HQ: New York City. Lendful Financial. HQ: New York City. Consumer lending software for financial institutions. Tags: Consumer, debit/credit cards, mobile, spending, PFM. Total raised: $319.7 million ($44.7 million Equity, $275 million Debt). Source: Crunchbase. Total raised: Unknown.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 7, 2016

The year ends with a total of about $19 billion invested into private fintech companies (includes debt and equity). If you add the $6 billion in new capital raised in the IPOs of Worldpay, Square and First Data, the 2015 total is a nice even $25 billion. HQ: New York City. Person-to-person lender . million Seed.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Buoyed by 7 Startupbootcamp Insurance entrants each grabbing $17,000, a record 30 fintech companies raised money this week for a total of just under $100 million ($95.8 million to further card-fraud methods. BankersLab received an undisclosed investment towards its commercial lending training & compliance tools.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 6, 2016

Fintech deals by size from May 7 to 13, 2016: Avant (AvantCredit UK). HQ: New York City. Tags: Consumer, banking, payments, deposits, loans, debit card. Notable raises included Finovate alum Tagit which brought in nearly $9 million to supercharge its mobile application development platform. ——-. Total raised: $1.92

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 22, 2016

It was another busy week for Finovate alums with six raising new funds: StreetShares raised $4.5 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. Qumram raised $2.5

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 5, 2016

Fintech deals by size from 2 July to 8 July, 2016: Qufenqi. Lending Works. P2P lending platform. HQ: New York City. Multi-merchant credit/debit card loyalty progam. HQ: New York City. Credit card & mobile payments fraud protection. Total dollars raised YTD is $17.9

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 18, 2016

Year-to-date fintech companies have raised $450 million in new equity, 67% more than the $270 million raised in the first half of January 2015. HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City. Tags: Enterprise, B2B2C, payments, mobile, SDK, API, developers, credit/debit cards. Mambu attracted $8.7

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2015

But if there’s one in the fintech sector, the dozens of investors in these 23 companies didn’t get the memo. In the last full non-holiday week of the year, $685 million poured into fintech companies worldwide. HQ: New York City. HQ: Foster City, California. FinTech Group. Dashu Finance.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 28, 2015

YTD, the fintech sector has raised $12 billion. Able Lending. HQ: New York City. The post Fintech Fundings: 15 Companies Raise $150 Million Week Ending August 31 appeared first on Finovate. Tags: Payments, ecommerce, prepaid, cards. million in venture debt. August fundings ended up totaling $2.3

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

It was a somewhat slower week in fundings with just under $100 million raised by 14 fintech companies. Last week, The New York Times published an article , sourced from CB Insights predicting the next 50 unicorns. HQ: Calverton, New York. HQ: New York City. HQ: Sydney, Australia. FattMerchant.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 11, 2015

Alt-lending platform to SMBs. HQ: Salt Lake City, Utah. HQ: New York City. Alt-lending for the elective surgery industry. The post Fintech Fundings: 18 Companies Raise $230 Million Week Ending June 11 appeared first on Finovate. Latest round: $129 million. Total raised: Unknown. Source: Crunchbase.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 8, 2016

Through mid-July, the blistering pace of deals continued with 32 new fundings during the week ending July 15. There has been an average of 28 fintech deals per week this year. Fintech deals by size from 9 July to 15 July, 2016: Blockchain Intelligence Group. HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 23, 2015

While not a pure fintech play, we included it here because its primary customers are the big insurers, including the U.S. HQ: Troy, New York. CircleBack Lending. Consumer lending P2P marketplace. Tags: Lending, loans, consumer, credit score, underwriting. million for its mobile P2P payment service.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

Behalf said in a press release that its “customer-facing functions will be housed” in New York City. Rosenblatt also currently serves as a member of the board of directors of PEX Card, a provider of prepaid cards for employees of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

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DECEMBER 11, 2015

While these statements sound like a Luddite’s mantra, they are the basis for LiftForward’s new platform. LiftForward launched in 2013 as a marketplace loan platform where investors lend small businesses up to $1 million. Headquartered in New York City. Metrics: 10 employees. Founded 2013.

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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. Credit card payoff loans. HQ: New York City. Fintech company builder. Tags: Consumer, lending, home buying, real estate purchase. Better Mortgage.

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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. HQ: New York City. Lending marketplace for small businesses. HQ: New York City. Total dollars raised YTD is $19.6 Total raised: $44.7

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APRIL 25, 2016

For the third time this year, we tied the single-week record of 39 fintech financing deals. This week, those 39 fintech startups raised a whopping $932 million, (or $680 million not counting the $253 million Bats Global IPO). Aire raised an undisclosed amount to further its new credit scoring system. P2P lending platform.

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JULY 21, 2016

It was a huge week in German fintech funding, coinciding with, but too soon to be caused by, Brexit. All told, 26 fintech companies worldwide raised $281 million during the third week of June including five Finovate alums: Plaid landed $44 million from Goldman Sachs. Fintech deals by size from 18 June to 24 June, 2016: Circle.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 1, 2016

Second quarter closed with a frenzy of fintech fundings with 49 deals announced the last week alone, 10 more than the previous weekly record. Fintech deals by size from 25 June to 1 July, 2016: Paycor. Alt-lending to small businesses. HQ: New York City. Credit card with consumer controls. million ($3.5

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 26, 2016

Fintech deals by size from 30 April to 6 May 2016: VTS. HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City. Prepaid debit card. Accelerator: VC Fintech Accelerator (Little Rock, Arkansas). Tags: Enterprise (B2B2C), payments, loyalty, debit/credit cards, rewards, blockchain, crypto-currency.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 14, 2016

Last week, 22 fintech companies raised a total of amount $159 million, of which at least $5 million was debt. It was the tenth week in a row with 20 or more fintech deals. million for its SMB alt-lending service. Here are the fintech deals by size from 5 March to 11 March 2016: AlphaSense. HQ: New York City.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 27, 2016

Fintech deals by size from May 21 to 27, 2016: Cotiviti. P2P lending platform. HQ: New York City. HQ: Mexico City. HQ: New Orleans, Louisiana. HQ: New York City. Tags: SMB, commercial lending, construction loans, security, underwriting. Total dollars raised YTD is now $15.7

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 22, 2016

Last week we set the record for most fintech deals in a single with with 28. All told, 23 fintech companies worldwide brought in $2.733 billion. Year-to-date, fintech companies have raised $3.5 Here are the fintech deals by size from 16 Jan to 22 Jan 2016: Lufax. HQ: New York City. Imagine this.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2015

As we head into the final four weeks of 2015, private investment into the fintech sector is just under $18 billion for the year (or $24 billion including the First Data, Worldpay and Square IPOs). ThetaRay : The Israeli company fintech security company raised $5 million from Alibaba. HQ: New York City. ExpenseBot.

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