Category: Technology
2-year-old LatAm fintech Yuno reaches $150M valuation with backing from DST, Tiger, a16z
The company launched its payments orchestration product in 2022 and provides over 300 payment methods with fraud detection capabilities, one-click checkout and advanced smart routing [more…]
Deel acquires Africa’s PaySpace, says it’s crossed $500M in ARR
HR startup Deel said it is acquiring Africa’s PaySpace in a deal that marks its largest acquisition to date. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. [more…]
Indonesia fintech Wagely makes bank while helping the unbanked
Wagely, a fintech out of Indonesia, made a name for itself with earned wage access: a way for workers in Southeast Asian countries to get [more…]
When startups fail, these startups clean up
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! Apologies for being out last week — a cold got the best of me, but I’m back and [more…]
Nubank CEO dishes on the neobank’s profit surge and how tourist VCs in LatAm have gone home
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and [more…]
Bfree, a Nigerian startup enabling lenders recover debt ethically, gets $3M backing
Bfree, a tech-enabled debt collection startup based in Nigeria, was founded to automate and introduce ethical debt recovery processes after its founders witnessed the use [more…]
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman stepping down — and Wall St hates it
Apparently Frank Slootman, the veteran tech executive, was popular with investors, at least judging from their reaction that he will be stepping down as CEO [more…]
Fintech giant Stripe’s valuation spikes to $65B in employee stock-sale deal
Payments infrastructure giant Stripe said today it has inked deals with investors to provide liquidity to current and former employees through a tender offer at [more…]
MWC: Ethiopian fintech eQub digitizes peer-to-peer credit
Ethiopian startup eQub won the fintech pitching battle at 4YFN 2024, the startup event of Mobile World Congress. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For [more…]
Spain’s Embat, which has raised $16M, plans to compete with Trovata in real-time accounting
For obvious reasons, financial teams can spend a great deal of time on corporate treasury management, accounting and bank reconciliation, so anything that speeds up [more…]
