The scavenging growth strategy
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Coupled with the accelerated nature of venture-backed economics, it’s easy for a privately funded fintech to sink and go defunct without making much of a splash.
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Fintech News Stories
The evolving fintech VC landscape with Portage
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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 MoreIt's not wrong to down-round
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In a piece for The Financial Revolutionist, Fluent Ventures’s Alex Lazarow looks at the misconceptions surrounding down-rounds—and fundraising writ large.
Read MoreWaiting for fintech: The moment at Money20/20
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From 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 MoreInvesting in fintech operations with Edison Partners
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To 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 MoreMarketing retirement solutions to young consumers
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Highlighting the benefits of long-term financial strategies, and making finance accessible, are core components of the most successful initiatives.
Read MoreSolving for community-bank ops
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With 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 MoreSolving for financial mindfulness
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According 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 MoreHow the meme stock craze changed trading-platform operations
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While 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 MoreThree takeaways from the House Financial Committee report on meme stocks
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In 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 MoreHow trading platforms have grown since the meme stock craze
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While the ultimate victims were retail traders who saw their savings wiped out, trading platforms also suffered major damage—both financial and reputational.
Read MoreHow trading platforms are maturing along with their investors
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According 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 MoreFintech’s Great Reappraisal
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Sarah Lamont is an Associate at F-Prime Capital, where she focuses on early-stage investments in fintech.
Read MoreBuilding startups as a VC with Team8
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In 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 MoreMarketing three times with Percent
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According 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.
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