Stephanie Choo is a partner at Portage Ventures, and has played a keystone role in the group’s fintech-focused funds since its founding. Choo primarily invests in consumer fintech, payments, infrastructure, and wealthtech.
Read MoreIn a piece for The Financial Revolutionist, Fluent Ventures’s Alex Lazarow looks at the misconceptions surrounding down-rounds—and fundraising writ large.
Read MoreFrom Alex Lazarow: This year’s Money20/20 just wrapped up. It had the feeling of waiting—waiting to see what the public markets might bring in terms of stock recovery or new IPOs, waiting to see whether any of the historically transformative technologies would actually pan out (think crypto), waiting to see whether mainstream venture capital would return.
Read MoreTo Jennifer Lee, Partner at Edison Partners, the firm’s investment in fintech is central to its efforts to modernize core parts of the economy.
Read MoreHighlighting the benefits of long-term financial strategies, and making finance accessible, are core components of the most successful initiatives.
Read MoreWith their sights set on regaining market share—and with banking operations under increasing scrutiny from regulators after bank failures in 2023—community banks are bound to undertake major operational overhauls in the coming years.
Read MoreAccording to Courtney Cardin, Aura’s Co-Founder, many US consumers can engage in high-awareness or high-acceptance practices, but often lack the ability to merge the two.
Read MoreWhile regulations have been slow to react to the meme stock craze, some key components to trading-platform ops have fundamentally changed over the past two years.
Read MoreIn the wake of the r/wallstreetbets fiasco, lawmakers rallied to make sense of the technology—as well as the laws—that made such volatile market behavior possible.
Read MoreWhile the ultimate victims were retail traders who saw their savings wiped out, trading platforms also suffered major damage—both financial and reputational.
Read MoreAccording to Sam Nofzinger, Public’s GM of Brokerage + Crypto, how user demographics change—and the extent to which these users mature—have hinged upon the kinds of trading platforms available to them.
Read MoreSarah Lamont is an Associate at F-Prime Capital, where she focuses on early-stage investments in fintech.
Read MoreIn an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Team8 Partner Liran Amrany describes Team 8’s mission, makes the case for VCs building—rather than just giving money to—promising startups, and outlines the operational steps that make this investment strategy a success.
Read MoreAccording to Jessica Zall, Chief Marketing Officer at Percent, the startup is unique from other private-credit and fundraising platforms by bringing all three market participants together—underwriters, borrowers, and investors—and not just a subset thereof.
Read MoreAccording to Rex Salisbury, Founder and General Partner at Cambrian, capital and labor conditions make it a particularly promising time to invest in early-stage fintech startups.
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