Plug and Play has been an active incubator throughout the past year. In the Insurtech industry alone they've debuted 3 batches of startups totaling 67 pitches. The latest group of 16 are showcased in this post. Follow these links to previous 2020 batches: 28 insurtech...
The first pure-play online bank Security First Network Bank (SFNB) launched in 1995, just a year after Amazon.com. But unlike ecommerce, digital-only banking was slow to catch on. The legacy players held onto their market share by providing digital services that were...
Brave Credit Description: Credit building/repair Biz model: Sub-prime credit lead gen HQ: San Francisco Founded: Jan 2019 Traction: 500 Startups accelerator (Batch 27, Feb 2021) Founders: - Jorge Davy-Mendez, CEO - Jonathan Pizzolato, CTO Company links: Website |...
At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here). In January, we added 9 new unicorns for a month-end total of 134. The total value is now $1.42 trillion up from $1.25 trillion last month. Unicorn count: Beginning...
Fintech Startup Interviews: Vauban founder Remy Astie (22 minutes, 17 Nov 2020) My favorite conference is Finovate, the best TV show is Shark Tank, and my go-to podcast is The Pitch. So, I can't believe I missed this competition 2 months ago that is mashup of all...
Full recording of the CEE/SME Banking Club conference with 6 fintech startup pitches (9 hours; 25 Nov 2020) With the holidays, it's been harder to find new fintech startup pitches to showcase here. The most recent event was the CEE SME Banking Club Conference which...
3-min overview of Rho Banking from Kruze Consulting (accountants) In July, we put together a list of the top eight challenger banks in the U.S. SMB space, and Rho wasn't even on it. Fast forward 6 months and Rho has equaled the funding of its primary competitors (not...
Lucy 4-min pitch & promo video According to Exton Consulting (as of July 2020), there 256 challenger banks worldwide. Entrepreneurs everywhere are seizing the opportunity provided by low-fixed-cost banking-as-a-service tools and loosening of regulatory...
At FintechLIVE, we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here). In December, we added 6 new unicorns, and lost one, ending at 125. The total value is now $1.25 trillion up from $1.1 trillion last month. Unicorn count: Beginning =...
The Information just published its first ranking of hot startups called: TI50. The subscription-based publication has become one of the pre-eminent tech publications since its founding in 2013. I've been a customer since the beginning and can vouch for the...
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