PayPal has paused its planned sale of its venture capital portfolio after offers came in at no higher than 60 cents on the dollar, Seeking Alpha reported Friday (Sept. 4), citing a paywalled article by Axios that was based on unnamed sources. The investments in PayPal’s portfolio include shopping...
Watch more: Need to Know With FGV Capital’s Marcos Fernandez The first institutional check used to finance much of the machinery required to turn an idea into a company. Founders needed engineers, product teams and other employees early, often before they had enough time with...
Venture capital firm Fiat Ventures is rebranding after closing its oversubscribed $35 million fund. The fund invests in early-state startups at the intersections of FinTech, financial access and artificial intelligence (AI), the company—now known as FGV Capital—said in a Tuesday (Aug. 25) news release. Led...
U.K. FinTech investments have reached a 10-year low amid an overall jump in funding. British financial technology firms took in around $2.5 billion during the first six months of 2026, a two-thirds decline from the previous year, according to the latest edition of KPMG’s Pulse...
November 10, 2025
Kamran Ansari has lived through nearly every major turn in FinTech, from the first digital wallets and mobile payments to the rise (and recalibration) of billion-dollar disruptors. With nearly 100 investments behind him, including early stakes in Venmo, Braintree, Facebook and Robinhood, he has seen what separates fleeting hype from lasting impact. Now, as a […]
June 02, 2025
For fledgling FinTechs chasing their first paying customer, the toughest stretch often begins after the seed check clears. Because building a company is a long journey. From concept to funding and finally...
April 07, 2025
So far, there have been 10 Mondays in the Trump administration, each possessing its own variety of manic behavior. “Manic Mondays,” we’ve been calling them. For example, there was the...
March 18, 2025
As Citi’s venture capital arm, Citi Ventures scours a broad swath of startups from around the world to zero in on those that are generally aligned with the banking giant’s...
September 04, 2026
PayPal has paused its planned sale of its venture capital portfolio after offers came in at no higher than 60 cents on the dollar, Seeking Alpha reported Friday (Sept. 4), citing a paywalled article by Axios that was based on unnamed sources. The investments in PayPal’s portfolio include shopping app Tabby and crypto platform Anchorage, and the company’s attempt to sell the […]
August 25, 2026
Venture capital firm Fiat Ventures is rebranding after closing its oversubscribed $35 million fund. The fund invests in early-state startups at the intersections of FinTech, financial access and artificial intelligence...
August 24, 2026
U.K. FinTech investments have reached a 10-year low amid an overall jump in funding. British financial technology firms took in around $2.5 billion during the first six months of 2026,...
August 20, 2026
California is reportedly seeing an historic wave of investment due to Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence (AI) boom. Companies there have taken in around $366 billion in venture capital this year,...
