TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann Now hiring Hello, hello! It’s not fun covering layoffs, and unfortunately we’ve had too many of those.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

Despite the ongoing correction in the public markets, mass layoffs in the tech sector and high inflation, U.S. The right questions to ask investors when fundraising in a down market. Image Credits: MicroStockHub (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. The right questions to ask investors when fundraising in a down market.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The holiday shopping season is coming: How are growth marketers preparing? Image Credits: paolomartinezphotography (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Cargo ships are stacked up outside ports, and empty shipping containers are in short supply, as are the truck drivers who would take them to market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Wealthfront’s notes on its financial results, crossed with its freshly affirmed valuation and what we know from external sources about its assets under management, provide an interesting window into what fintech companies may be worth today — and which might be overvalued. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Once a key driver of global venture activity, fintech investment slows around the world. Image Credits: DBenitostock (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Compared to Q1 2022, fintech funding dropped 33% in the last quarter to $20.4 and global activity: What’s ahead for layoffs, marketing spending and consolidation?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

I’m not a market watcher or a financial expert, but here’s some advice: Panic is a luxury. Building a lean B2B startup growth stack Image Credits: Jose Bernat Bacete (opens in a new window) / Getty Images (Image has been modified) Selecting the right tool for the job is easy when you already know exactly how to proceed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Ryan Falvey is co-founder and managing partner at Financial Venture Studio , an early-stage fintech venture capital firm. Fintech’s $138 billion opportunity. We’ve increasingly wondered if the Series A market in fintech is really as hot as it seems. Ryan Falvey. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Theo Katsoulis.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

In an interview with reporter Anna Heim, Romania-based marketer Robert Katai discussed some of the methods he uses to help clients refine their content and branding strategies. Like our other growth marketing interviews, there’s no paywall. Corporate venture capital follows the same trend as other VC markets: Up.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Many tech workers have never experienced a job market like this one. Depending on where you worked and what you did, you may already have the experience investors are looking for when it comes to reaching product-market fit and solving engineering problems. Losing a job unexpectedly is more than a financial shock.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2023

We felt like with fintech, there are so many things that are unique about building that it makes sense to have something distinct.” See you on the other side – and hope you stay reading along, N A pivot, in this market‽ by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch It’s been fun.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Today’s banking-as-a-service startups are similarly placed — instead of digging for treasure in the crowded consumer financial services marketplace, BaaS companies offer fintech companies access to APIs, compliance tools and other software needed to move money around. Playing matchmaker between banks and fintechs. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

.” To help entrepreneurs take on the most fundamental challenge facing early-stage startups, our team is speaking to growth marketers to learn more about the advice they’re offering clients these days. Draft.dev CEO Karl Hughes on the importance of using experts in developer marketing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The public markets may have cooled on fintechs in recent months, but for entrepreneurs who are still considering starting up, “outlook good,” says the Magic 8 Ball. To find out, fintech reporter Mary Ann Azevedo contacted several active fintech investors to hear their thoughts on the state of the market in Q1 2022.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

In his latest TC+ column, growth marketer Jonathan Martinez describes the process he used to lead his last startup from zero to $1 million ARR in Year One. Unless, of course, someone can explain exactly how to do it. Guest columns fall into two categories: TechCrunch+: Strategies and tactics for building and scaling startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Before you hire a marketing consultant who doesn’t understand your products or commit to a CMO who has several years of experience — but none in your sector — consider influencer marketing. According to Uber growth marketing manager Jonathan Martinez: “ … You don’t need to find influencers with millions of followers.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

After another slow year in 2024 for new tech listings, there is an expectation that the IPO markets will pick up in 2025. I think there’s a lot of confidence in the market. Stock markets are trading at all-time highs, said Ran Ben-Tzur of legal advisory firm Fenwick & West. A year ago, the outlook was not bullish.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Image Credits: Andrii Yalanskyi (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: Fanatic Studio (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Fast growth pushes an unprofitable no-code startup into the public markets: Inside Monday.com’s IPO filing. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Earlier this week, The Exchange wrote about the early-stage venture capital market , with the goal of understanding how some startups are raising more seed capital before they work on their Series A, while other startups are seemingly raising their first lettered round while in the nascent stages of scaling.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Fintech startup Stripe has set a 12-month deadline for itself to go public, either through a direct listing, or pursuing a transaction on the private market, such as a fundraising event and a tender offer, according to sources familiar with the matter. Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

In light of information that Apple could cut into Affirm’s business, investors decided the former consumer fintech unicorn and present-day public BNPL company was worth less. Or more simply, public-market investors decided that the present value of its future cash flows had declined. Those are just two names.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

An offer they couldn’t refuse : It looks like Egyptian fintech Paymob snagged one of the largest funding deals in the region — a $50 million Series B, with PayPal Ventures and Kora Capital leading — based on its ability to turn cash-loving customers into digital users with its cards and wallets. Christine and Haje.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When you are the founder of a young startup, it is always very hard to gauge the right amount of effort to dedicate to marketing. Australian growth marketing agency Ammo , in contrast, wants to make sure that its clients aren’t overinvesting nor underinvesting. Image Credits: Aline Kuba (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

And the news adds up to a somewhat muddled picture of the current IPO market. The aggregate dataset should help you form your own perspective about where today’s IPO markets really are in terms of warmth for the often-unprofitable unicorns of the world. It was a surprise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

The stock market is already repricing tech stocks, in any case. Tencent’s fintech business is the size of an Ant. In other news about political turbulence and the tech world, Rita Liao inspects Tencent’s quietly huge fintech empire and concludes that it “will need to tread more carefully on regulatory issues.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

In our latest installment of the EC-1 series , Natasha Mascarenhas goes deep with the company to understand how it found product-market fit, then figured out how to grow like a consumer tech startup and monetize like a SaaS startup. Amid the IPO gold rush, how should we value fintech startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Image Credits: Juana Mari Moya (opens in a new window) /Getty Images (Image has been modified). Image Credits: Richard Drury (opens in a new window) /Getty Images. Edtech is no longer optional’: Investors’ deep dive into the future of the market. Image Credits: PM Images (opens in a new window) /Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

As a result, they don’t have much experience to draw from when it comes to basics like hiring, fundraising and growth marketing. This afternoon, we published a guest post by growth marketer Jessica Li with tips for “ how nontechnical talent can build relationships with deep tech companies.” What’s going on?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Already marked up by their IPO pricing, seeing so many unicorns achieve such rich public-market valuations made us wonder who was mispricing whom. On the milestone front, it was a huge week for leaving the private markets and joining the Big Kid Club.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

More recently, Alpaca has begun allowing other fintech companies to offer equities trading through its service to their consumer user bases, work that fits under the larger embedded finance trend. For Alpaca, working with more fintech companies opens up new revenue streams. Alpaca offers equities trading software via API.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Embed that finance : Pezesha, a Kenyan-based fintech startup, is flush with $11 million in new capital as it seeks to bridge the gap between access to financial products and what is a “$330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses,” Annie reports. Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. But first, let’s talk about fintech. Hello, hello. Soooo exciting!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The massive “oversubscribed” financing comes nearly seven months after the fintech startup raised $63 million in a round led by NBA star Russell Westbrook, who also joined the startup as an advisor focused on the direction of Varo Bank’s programs aimed at underserved communities, including communities of color. . .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

“With a hot stock market, mountains of cash and cheap debt floating around, the environment for acquisitions is extremely rich.” Apple is changing Mail Privacy Protection and email marketers must prepare. Image Credits: Carol Yepes (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We’ve broken up a large entity that required people to wait in line and put delivery people working on applications, business process improvement, and fintech innovation back in the hands of the business.” “Techniculture is where technology, business, and culture collide,” says Nester, explaining his remodeling plan for IT.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Early-stage startup marketers must walk a fine line: Everyone is free to chime in on their work, and campaign budgets for pre-revenue companies are notoriously thin. Here’s who we talked to: Cam Sinclair, director/marketeer, Ammo. Here’s who we talked to: Cam Sinclair, director/marketeer, Ammo. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

Hear how Poshmark went from Series A to the public markets with Manish Chandra and Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha. AI fintech products are operating at scale and investor interest is maturing. Image Credits: Cadalpe (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: Pgiam (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

I’ve worked at early-stage startups where we relied on our best guesses to shape product pipelines and develop marketing strategies. The benefits are many: PACs can help validate everything from marketing campaigns to future product planning. Why Microsoft’s $2T+ market cap makes its $68B Activision buy a cheap bet.

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