With Brex's arrival on the scene in 2018 followed by a meteoric rise to multi-unicorn status, there has been considerable attention to, and investment in business credit/charge cards (see definition below). The most recent example: Divvy's $2.5B exit to Bill.com less...
Launched in a midtown (NYC) basement venue in 2007, Finovate* now organizes 4+ shows annually where fintech startups (as well as a few bigger companies) show their technology in no-Powerpoint 7-min live(ish) demos. In total, 2,613 demos in almost 14 years, all...
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...
At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here). In May, we added 16 new unicorns for a total of 187. Their total market value is now $1.72 trillion, up $50B from last month. Unicorn count: Beginning (May 1) = 171 +...
I've been expecting digital banking disrupters in the SMB space since the beginning of the online banking era (late-1990s). But the tech and financial recessions of 2000 and 2008 held up the newcomers until the last 4 or 5 years. But now we have some impressive...
Startupbootcamp continues to crank out dozens of fintech startups each year with accelerators in Cairo, Dubai, Mexico City, Melbourne, Mumbai, London, Singapore, NYC and this one in Amsterdam (not that physical proximity means much for these virtual demo days in...
Bank of Montreal online mortgage app circa Jan 1998 (via Internet archive). It's telling that Apply by Phone/Fax were more prominent than Apply Online. Cleaning out some (paper!) files over the weekend, I ran across an Online Banking Report article I wrote in 1997...
At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here). In April, we added 11 new unicorns for a month-end total of 171. Their total market value is now $1.67 trillion, up $50B from last month. Unicorn count: Beginning...
Startupbookcamp continues to accelerate fintech startups around the globe. A few months ago (Dec 2020), they graduated a new cohort of 7 startups operating in (or planning to enter) the Australian market. See previous Startupbookcamp demo day: Amsterdam (Feb 2021)...
YCombinator has been accelerating and investing in pre-seed startups for 15 years. Early on, fintech startups were a small part of its class, although Stripe (S09) and Coinbase (S12) were notable (and extremely profitable) exceptions. When I looked at YCvalums in...
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