July 14, 2023
FinTech IPO Index Soars 11.9% as Upstart Gains 29% and...
This past week might be titled “The Great Platform Rally of 2023.” The FinTech IPO Index surged 11.9% through five sessions, led by double-digit gains in all manner of platform...
July 13, 2023
XRP Price Almost Doubles After Court Ruling
Cryptocurrency prices soared Thursday (July 13) after a court ruling that is seen as a major victory for the cryptocurrency market. The news caused a surge in the price of...
July 13, 2023
Small Businesses Ask Customers for Working Capital
For smaller businesses, the lending spigots are tightening — at least at traditional financial services providers, the big banks that now are cautious amid rocky macro trends. And that’s spurring...
July 13, 2023
Efficient Capital Labs Secures $7 Million in Funding Led by...
Efficient Capital Labs (ECL) has closed a $7 million funding round led by QED Investors. Founded in early 2022, the startup provides business-to-business (B2B) software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies access to upfront capital from...
July 13, 2023
Instacart Teams With Industrious on Same-Day Delivery at Coworking Spaces
Capitalizing on shifts in how consumers work, Instacart is going after the coworking spaces market with its latest partnership, seizing on businesses’ desire to draw consumers back into physical workplaces. The grocery...
July 13, 2023
It’s a ’90s Browser War Redux as Musk and Meta...
It’s a large language model (LLM) landscape, and we’re just living in it. There are more generative artificial intelligence (AI) platforms in the market now than months in the emergent...
July 13, 2023
Index Ventures’ Fiorentino Says FinTechs Need ‘Thrive but Survive’ Mindset...
Following a years-long venture capital (VC) bull market that saw FinTech startups raise billions of dollars in funding, the challenging macroeconomic market has led to a sharpened focus on belt-tightening,...
July 13, 2023
Visa’s Koenigsberg: Today’s Middle-Market Firms Give Rise to Tomorrow’s Enterprise...
Today’s middle-market companies are tomorrow’s investment-grade companies. But as Alan Koenigsberg, senior vice president and global head of large, middle market, treasury and working capital solutions at Visa, told Karen Webster, when...
July 12, 2023
DYPER Partners With EarlyBird on Credit Card and Rewards
Diaper company DYPER has announced the upcoming launch of a credit card and rewards program. The new DYPER Card will provide parents with convenience, financial well-being and free diapers, the company said in...