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Chase to Launch Consumer Travel Portal; Claims Top 5 U.S. Travel Provider With $8 Billion in Sales
Chase is planning to launch ChaseTravel.com later this year as a consumer portal for its cardholders and its bank customers, a total of 66 million ... (2022)
Investing in Flowcarbon - web3 on-chain carbon credit tokenization platform | Andreessen Horowitz
Flowcarbon is building an on-chain carbon credit tokenization platform through an open protocol that allows all market participants equal access. A... (2022)
Teen-focused fintech app Copper raises $29M, grows to over 800,000 users in less than a year – TechCrunch
Copper, a digital banking service aimed at teens, has raised $29 million in Series A funding in a “preemptive” round led by Fiat Ventures. (2022)
Brazilian fintech Creditas lands $4.8B valuation and Fidelity as an investor
Brazilian lender Creditas announced today that it has raised $260 million in a Series F funding that values the company at $4.8 billion. That’s up ... (2022)
Investing in Carry1st | Andreessen Horowitz
Carry1st is Africa's leading mobile games publisher, serving over 1 million users today. Most notably, Carry1st has aggregated Africa's disparate p... (2022)
The hidden costs of cutting Russia off from SWIFT | The Economist
America’s foes would rush to alternatives, hastening its financial decline | Finance & economics (2022)
Africa’s fintech firms vie for domination | The Economist
As investment pours in, they are expanding across the continent and into new services | Finance & economics (2021)
Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12b
Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU), the global technology platform that makes TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, and Credit Karma, today announced that it has agreed t... (2021)
SoftBank-backed Atom Finance raises $28M, will open Miami office - Refresh Miami
Investment platform Atom Finance is opening a Miami office on the heels of raising $28 million in a Series B funding round led by the Miami-based S... (2021)
Tiger Global in talks to back BharatPe at $2.5 billion valuation – TechCrunch
Indian fintech startup BharatPe is in advanced stages of talks to raise about $250 million in a new financing round led by Tiger Global, two source... (2021)
Fintech giant Klarna raises $639M at a $45.6B valuation amid ‘massive momentum’ in the US – TechCrunch
Just over three months after its last funding round, European fintech giant Klarna is announcing today that it has raised another $639 million at a... (2021)
Amount raises $99M at a $1B+ valuation to help banks better compete with fintechs – TechCrunch
Amount, a company that provides technology to banks and financial institutions, has raised $99 million in a Series D funding round at a valuation o... (2021)
Govcoins - The digital currencies that matter
Get ready for Fedcoin and the e-euro | Leaders The rise of e-money… (2021)
Pomelo raises $9M to build a payments infrastructure for LatAm fintechs – TechCrunch
Pomelo, a startup building a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America, has raised $9 million in a seed round of funding. The Buenos Aires-ba... (2021)
Investing in Greenlight - Andreessen Horowitz
a vast majority of parents still give their children spending money in cash because there hasn’t been a safe, purpose-built financial service for f... (2021)
Fintech comes to America at last | The Economist
The digital payments boom | Leaders (2021)
How a Google Street View image of your house predicts your risk of a car accident | MIT Technology Review
Google Street View has become a surprisingly useful way to learn about the world without stepping into it. People use it to plan journeys, to explo... (2021)
Latin America’s Fintech Boom - a16z Andreessen Horowitz
The key market dynamics in the region, the headwinds and tailwinds, and five core areas of opportunity for the next billion-dollar fintech companie... (2021)
Mortgage is suddenly sexy as SoftBank pumps $500M in Better.com at a $6B valuation – TechCrunch
Digital mortgage lender Better.com has raised a $500 million round from Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank that values the company at $6 bil... (2021)
Pipe, which aims to be the ‘Nasdaq for revenue,’ raises more money at a $2B valuation – TechCrunch
Fast-growing fintech Pipe has raised another round of funding at a $2 billion valuation, just weeks after raising $50 million in growth funding, ac... (2021)
PayPal will let US users pay with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin starting today - The Verge
After announcing that it would support the feature late last year, PayPal announced that US customers can now use cryptocurrencies on their PayPal ... (2021)
Investing in Wrapbook - Andreessen Horowitz
Project-based workers are an exploding population: 59 million Americans performed freelance work in 2020, representing 22% year-over-year growth an... (2021)
NFTs make the internet ownable — Mirror
Before tech, I was an artist manager in music. When I started the firm, I believed one thing about the music industry very firmly: ownership endows... (2021)
Stock trading service Public raises $220M at unicorn valuation – TechCrunch
The day before Robinhood goes under the the Congressional hammer, domestic rival Public.com announced this morning that it has closed a $220 millio... (2021)
Tesla Invests $1.5B in Bitcoin, Plans to Accept Crypto Payments - CoinDesk
The announcement that the crypto world has largely been waiting for is here: Tesla has invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin. (2021)
Google salvaged Robinhood’s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviews - The Verge
Google is actively removing negative reviews of the Robinhood app from the Google Play Store, the company confirmed to The Verge. After some disgru... (2021)
Milo, a Miami fintech startup, raises $6M seed round - and it's hiring - Refresh Miami
Milo, a Miami-based digital banking and home mortgage startup serving international consumers, announced Wednesday it has raised a $6 million seed ... (2021)
Fintech’s Final Frontier: Central Banks and Disintermediation - a16z
The government should turn every social security number into a unique and secure bank account, enabling it to deposit money directly to consumers. ... (2021)
Why a16z Opposes Secretary Mnuchin’s FinCEN Midnight Crypto Rulemaking
A Treasury Department proposal bypasses established rulemaking procedures, fails to solve the real issues, and threatens to harm U.S. innovation. (2021)
Cleo, the AI-powered ‘financial assistant’, raises $44M Series B led by EQT Ventures
Cleo, the London-founded “financial assistant” that takes the form of an app and chatbot and now counts the U.S. as its largest market, has raised ... (2020)
How Robinhood Makes Money (Jan 2019)
Robinhood, an investing app valued at over $5 billion, says it's trying to "democratize America's financial system" by making investing accessible ... (2020)
How Robinhood Really Makes Money (Dec 2018)
Want to join our free STOCKHUB discord chat? Here is the link https://discord.gg/MkquuN7 After yesterdays video on the Robinhood app 3% savings acc... (2020)
TED talk: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg
Published on Dec 8, 2016 Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the co... (2018)
What gives a dollar bill its value? - Doug Levinson | TED-Ed
TED-Ed Published on Jun 23, 2014 The value of money is determined by how much (or how little) of it is in circulation. But who makes that dec... (2018)
The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services | a16z
a16z Published on Jan 21, 2018 Traditional banking services have fallen flat for an enormous segment of the population -- whether because they’... (2018)
The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech | a16z
a16z, Published on Oct 25, 2017, Financial services startup, or fintech, are innovating across broad categories — in core banking, new financial s... (2017)
How Credit Card Processing Works - Transaction Cycle & 2 Pricing Models
How Credit Card Processing Works : http://www.bancardsales.com How Does Credit Card Processing Work This video explains how credit card payments ar... (2017)
A Brief History of Credit Cards (or What Happens When You Swipe) | a16z
a16z General Partner Alex Rampell helps solve the great mystery of what actually happens when you swipe your credit card?! He takes us from the beg... (2017)
TED talk: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg
Published on Dec 8, 2016 Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the co... (2017)
Visa Launches AI Agents for Shopping
Visa announced that it is allowing customers to use AI platforms to make purchases and is collaborating with Anthropic, Microsoft Corp, OpenAI and ... (2025)
The Open Source Movement in Fintech
Imagine that financial services could be built like Lego blocks — that developers could easily combine different pieces to discover hundreds of new... (2023)
Offshore Finance - What the ‘Pandora Papers’ Mean for Bitcoin - CoinDesk Podcast
Listen to this episode from CoinDesk Podcast Network on Spotify. A new 2.94 terabyte data leak doxes tens of thousands of offshore accounts of prom... (2021)
The Federal Reserve is thinking about a digital dollar - Marketplace
Plus, what shoe sales are telling us about the economic recovery, President Joe Biden is asking federal agencies to gauge the financial risk of cli... (2021)
20VC Podcast: SPACs. What Are They? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape?
Listen to this episode from The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch on Spotify. Kevin Hartz is Co-Founder & Partner @ ... (2020)
16 Minutes on the News #7: Apple Card, BEC Scams Federal Indictment – Andreessen Horowitz
This is episode #7 of our news show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why ... (2019)
a16z Podcast: Fintech for Startups and Incumbents – Andreessen Horowitz
In this episode — which originally aired as a video on YouTube — a16z general partner Alex Rampell (and former fintech entrepreneur as the CEO and ... (2019)
a16z Podcast: All about Stablecoins – Andreessen Horowitz
The history, evolution, and use of money revolves around the important concept of debt: It's what allows us to "time travel" and build toward the f... (2018)
How Stripe's COO approaches company building
In this episode of Resources for Humans, Jack sits down with Stripe’s Chief Operating Officer, Claire Hughes Johnson, who spent over a decade at Go... (2018)
a16z Podcast: Market Shifts – Andreessen Horowitz
NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman runs one of the world’s largest financial services companies, including the NASDAQ stock exchange that’s home to more tha... (2017)
Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time | Geoff Charles (VP of Product)
Listen now (77 min) — Geoff Charles is VP of Product at Ramp—the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time. In today’s podcast, we will discuss:... (2023)
Frontier - An advance market commitment (AMC) to accelerate carbon removal
Frontier is an advance market commitment to buy an initial $925M of permanent carbon removal between 2022 and 2030. It’s funded by Stripe, Alpha... (2022)
Pilot.com - Bookkeeping and tax for startups and small businesses
Focus on your business, knowing that our expert bookkeepers, aided by software superpowers, are taking care of your books. (2021)
Crypto Trading 101 - full set of guides - CoinDesk
CoinDesk unpacks and explains Fibonacci retracements, a tool used to predict potential price support and resistance, for crypto traders. (2018)
Ramp - Corporate Cards for Startups & New Businesses
Ramp's finance automation platform is a game-changer for startups with a corporate card solution. We provide more than your average business credit... (2023)
Pilot.co - Hire Anywhere | Global payroll, benefits & compliance - pay contractors and employees worldwide
Easily onboard and pay contractors and employees worldwide, in one platform. Pilot is your all-in-one payroll and HR solution for your global team.... (2023)
Splitwise - sharing expenses with anyone
Splitwise is a free tool for friends and roommates to track bills and other shared expenses, so that everyone gets paid back. On the web, iPhone, a... (2022)
Wren | Offset your carbon footprint
Wren helps you calculate and offset your personal carbon emissions through a monthly subscription. (2022)