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| 27.03.2026 | Fintech Redefines Growth: Investment Shifts, Payments Lead IPOs, Content Drives Brands | Fintech navigated a transformative boom-bust cycle, now embracing sustainable, profitable growth models. Global investment, exceeding $210 billion from 2020-2024, now targets resilient sectors: B2B payments infrastructure, critical regtech ... |
| 24.03.2026 | Why Fintech Investment Surpassed $210 Billion in Recent Years and What Comes Next | Share
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Global fintech investment surpassed $210 billion in cumulative funding between 2020 and 2024#8217;s Pulse of Fintech reports. That figure includes venture capital, private equity, and M&A activity across ev... |
| 24.03.2026 | How 70% of Financial Institutions Are Investing in Fintech Partnerships | Share
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Roughly 70% of financial institutions worldwide are now investing in fintech partnerships#8217;s Global Fintech Report. That figure has risen steadily over the past five years. In 2018, the same survey found th... |
| 24.03.2026 | Fintech Unicorns: How Over 300 Companies Achieved Billion-Dollar Valuations | Share
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More than 300 fintech companies worldwide have reached valuations of $1 billion or more’ Global Unicorn Tracker. In 2015, there were fewer than 20 fintech unicorns. The number tripled between 2019 and 2021 alon... |
| 09.03.2026 | Nscale: $2 Billion Series C At $14.6 Billion Valuation Raised For AI Infrastructure Hyperscaler | U.K.-based AI infrastructure hyperscaler Nscale announced that it has raised $2 billion in a Series C funding round, valuing the company at $14.6 billion as it accelerates the global expansion of its artificial intelligence infrastructure p... |
| 01.03.2026 | Profound: $96 Million Series C Raised At $1 Billion Valuation For AI-Native Marketing Platform | Profound announced it has raised a $96 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Existing investors Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Saga VC, South Park Commons, and Evantic also participated in the ro... |
| 27.02.2026 | Profound Secures $96M: AI Discovery Platform Hits $1B Valuation | Profound, an AI discovery monitoring platform, has secured $96 million in Series C funding. This raises its valuation to $1 billion. The capital fuels significant platform expansion. It accelerates development of AI-driven workflows and ana... |
| 26.02.2026 | Fintech Chime sees 2026 revenue above estimates on strong demand; shares surge | Feb 25 : Financial technology firm Chime forecast 2026 revenue above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, helped by strong demand for its digital banking products and resilient consumer spending.
The entry of new-age fintechs offering digita... |
| 25.02.2026 | Profound Raises $96M in Series C Funding | Profound, a NYC-based provider of a marketing platform, raised $96M in Series C funding.
The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Existing investors Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Saga VC, South Park Commons, and Evantic also pa... |
| 24.02.2026 | Profound raises $96M at $1B valuation for AI discovery monitoring platform
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Cookies | Artificial intelligence discovery monitoring platform company Profound today announced that it had raised $96 million in new funding on a $1 billion valuation to expand its AI visibility monitoring and automation platform to support greater... |
| 02.02.2026 | Decagon AI Secures $250M, Valuation Soars to $4.5 Billion on AI Concierge Dominance | Decagon AI raised $250 million in Series D funding. This elevates its valuation to $4.5 billion. The investment targets accelerated development and operational expansion. Decagon delivers advanced conversational AI agents. These agents crea... |
| 28.01.2026 | Decagon AI raises $250M at $4.5B valuation to scale AI concierge platform
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Cookies | Artificial intelligence concierge for every customer company Decagon AI Inc., which offers an artificial intelligence “concierge” for customers, today revealed that it has raised $250 million in new late-stage funding on a $4.5 billion valu... |
| 13.08.2021 | Chime Raises $750 Million At $25 Billion Valuation: Is The Challenger Bank Really Worth That Much? | Chime Founder & CEO Chris Britt (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch) Getty Images for TechCrunch |
| 25.09.2020 | Chime CEO Chris Britt Discusses Recent Funding Success & Future Plans With CNBC | Following the recent announcement that app-only banking service Chime raised $485 million through a Series F round, CEO of the company, Chris Britt, sat down to discuss the funding round, as well as Chime’s future plans.
As previously repor... |
| 25.02.2020 | For investors, late-stage fintech startups are a lucrative bet | Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.
Over the past three months, a number of financial events have occurred in the fintech and finservices world that have cau... |
| 12.02.2020 | The best no-fee checking accounts right now | Advertisement
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| 27.01.2020 | N26 reaches 5 million customers, including 250,000 in the US | Challenger bank N26 has reached 5 million customers. In 2019 alone, N26 managed to add more than 2.5 million customers. And the company’s growth rate seems to be accelerating, as N26 reached 3.5 million customers in June 2019.
That represen... |
| 04.01.2020 | 2020 will be a challenging year for challenger banks | Over the past year, startup banks have proven that they have a shot at disrupting retail banking. These challengers have amassed a war chest of funding, announced some ambitious international expansion plans and attracted millions of custom... |
| 31.12.2019 | How FinTech Application Development Transforms the Finance Industry | FinTech or Financial technology has become a popular industry for helping to innovate financial transaction services and online security. It is a broad term that works around the business transformation to innovate the traditional financial... |
| 09.12.2019 | Chime raises $500 million | Chime, the digital banking startup which back in March raised $200 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, has now raised $500 million in a Series E round at a $5.8 billion valuation. The round was led by DST Global with participation from Gen... |
| 06.12.2019 | Chime Reportedly Secures $500 Million Through Series E Investment Round; Now Valued At $5.8 Billion | Chime, a U.S.-based app-only bank, has reportedly secured $500 million through its Series E funding round, bringing Chime’s valuation to $5.8 billion. The investment comes less than a year after Chime raised $200 million through its previou... |
| 05.12.2019 | Digital Bank Chime Now Has A Valuation Of $5.8 Billion | Chime Banking AppChime |
| 04.12.2019 | What Went Wrong at Chime? How Rapid Growth Became Its Own Challenge At One ‘Challenger’ Bank | On a Thursday morning in mid-October, Spencer Kremin stopped at a Walgreens in New Haven, Connecticut, to pick up a couple items. But as he was using his Chime card at the counter to get cash back for his $1.75 bus fare to get to his job as... |
| 17.10.2019 | Chime suffers new disruption to mobile app, debit card payments | (Update 10:56 a.m. EST Friday Oct. 18th to reflect certain services restored)
Chime, a San Francisco-based challenger bank, said Friday morning that it restored debit card, direct deposit, ATM withdrawals and phone services after it was hit... |
| 26.09.2019 | Terminal raises $17 million to help startups build remote engineering teams | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Many companies prefer to have all their employees working under the same roof, but there has been a growing push toward the distributed... |
| 26.09.2019 | Terminal raises $17 million to help startups build remote engineering teams | Many companies prefer to have all their employees working under the same roof, but there has been a growing push toward the distributed workforce model. A key benefit of this approach is that companies can access a much wider talent pool, i... |
| 04.09.2019 | Chime now has 5 million customers and introduces overdraft alternative | Challenger bank Chime has reached 5 million customers in the U.S. The San Francisco-based startup is creating an FDIC-insured mobile bank without any physical branch. The company also promises fewer fees.
Back in March, Chime said it had 3 ... |
| 20.08.2019 | Fintech mega-deals lead to record-breaking $120 billion transaction value in 1H2019, reveals Hampleton Partners' research report | Fintech M&A deal volume reaches three-year high with 198 deals in 1H 2019, up from 164 in 2H2018
Global venture capital investment in fintech achieves record-level in Q2 2019 with $10.9 billion raised[1]
London, UK – 20 August 2019 - Th... |
| 12.08.2019 | Announcing the Disrupt SF 2019 agenda | Disrupt SF 2019 is set to be the biggest and best Disrupt yet. We’ve got a little something for everyone, including space chats with Lockheed Martin’s Marillyn Hewson and Blue Origin’s Bob Smith, a word from Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, a firesid... |
| 16.07.2019 | Learn how to change banking one dollar at a time at Disrupt SF | Fintech startups are the hot new thing. Everybody wants to reinvent the way you manage money, invest and pay for things. That’s why we’re inviting three fintech experts to TechCrunch Disrupt SF to help you learn everything about the space.
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| 11.07.2019 | N26 launches its challenger bank in the US | European fintech startup N26 is now accepting customers in the U.S. The company is launching a bank account with a debit card that should provide a better experience compared to traditional retail banks.
If you’re familiar with N26, the pro... |
| 23.05.2019 | Online bank Simple makes things harder by removing bill pay | With a growing number of challenger banks taking on the U.S. market, one of the original startup banks, Simple — now owned by BBVA — has taken the unusual step of removing a core banking feature: bill pay. The company claimed the feature wa... |
| 06.03.2019 | Bank Account Service Chime Secures $200 Million At A $1.5 Billion Valuation | San Francisco-based Chime, one of the fastest growing bank account services in the U.S. with more than 1 million bank accounts, has raised $200 million in venture funding at a $1.5 billion valuation. This round of funding was led by DST Glo... |
| 05.03.2019 | Daily funding roundup - March 5th, 2019 | Zabo raised $1.15M; Tagomi raised $12M; RackTop raised $15M; Mocana raised $15M
Zabo: Zabo combines your bank with your cryptocurrency. Zabo has raised $1.15 million in funding from Blockchange Ventures. Read more
Tagomi: Tagomi combines in... |
| 05.03.2019 | US mobile bank Chime raises $200 million, valuing its business at $1.5 billion | San Francisco-based mobile banking startup Chime announced this morning it has raised an additional $200 million in Series D financing led by DST Global, valuing its business at $1.5 billion. The oversubscribed round also included participa... |
| 05.03.2019 | Online Bank Chime Now Valued At $1.5 Billion After New Funding Round | - |
| 05.03.2019 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, March 5 | CHAPTER 11
Embattled food delivery startup Munchery has officially filed for bankruptcy, and it owes a whole lot of people a whole lot of money.
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| 05.03.2019 | Mobile-only bank Chime is now valued at $1.5 billion after raising $200 million Series D led by DST Global | We wrote about US app-based bank Chime in June 2018 when the mobile-only bank startup raised $70 million in a Series C investment round in May 2018 led by Menlo Ventures after attracting one million customers. The company has experienced an... |
| 05.03.2019 | Challenger bank Chime triples its valuation to $1.5 billion with $200 million in funding | Chime
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Challenger bank Chime now has a $1.5 billion valuation following a $200 million funding round.
The new round was led by DST Global, which has backed Twitter, Facebook, and... |
| 05.03.2019 | Bank Startup Chime Secures $200M | 46 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Chime has raised $200 million in a new round led by DST Global, bringing the digital-only banking company’s total funding to $300 million. The San Francisco company’s total valuation is at $1.5 bill... |
| 05.03.2019 | Top startup news for today, Tuesday, March 5, 2019 | Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Tuesday, March 5.
Popular independent review platform site Trustpilot raises $55 million to accelerate growth, refuted report about IPO. The Europe-based rev... |
| 09.01.2019 | European mobile banking startup N26 raises $300 million for belated U.S. launch | Mobile banking startup N26 has raised a whopping $300 million in a series D round of funding led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC and a handful of existing investors.
This raise offi... |
| 09.01.2019 | European mobile banking startup N26 raises $300 million for belated U.S. launch | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile banking startup N26 has raised a whopping $300 million in a series D round of funding led by Insight Venture Partners, with part... |
| 18.12.2018 | Chime Banking: What It Is and How It Works | Nowadays, many people use prepaid debit cards or credit cards to get their financial business done.
These are convenient alternatives to paying cash regardless of where you are or what you’re purchasing. The problem with these types of card... |
| 14.09.2018 | Mobile bank Chime picks up credit score improvement service Pinch in all-stock deal | Chime, the no-fees mobile bank valued at $500 million as of its last round, has put some of its funds to use with its first acquisition. The deal is for Pinch, a startup that was focused on helping millennials and other young adults build b... |
| 03.08.2018 | 3 Free Banking Apps for Entrepreneurs | Financial institutions and entrepreneurs have a historically complicated relationship. Entrepreneurs need ways to fund their companies and keep business moving, meaning they lean on banks for everything from business loans to checking accou... |
| 05.06.2018 | Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Tuesday, June 5 | Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Tuesday, June 5.
Goldman Sachs is investing in card issuing, processing startup Marqeta. Goldman Sachs Group Inc has joined a $45 million investment round in Marqe... |
| 05.06.2018 | Double-Digit Funding Rounds for Fintech Startups BlueVine, Chime, Marqeta | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 6/11/18, 11:13 am. See below.] A trio of Bay Area fintech companies announced fundraising rounds in the double-digit millions over the past week to help build out the... |
| 01.06.2018 | Term Sheet — Friday, June 1 | NO NEW FUND
Happy Friday, Term Sheet readers.
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The Conways will continue to use the SV Angel brand going forward, but they will be cutting much smaller checks — to the tune of $2... |
| 01.06.2018 | Retail Banking Company Chime Raises $70M in Series C Funding | Chime, a San Francisco, CA-based retail banking company, raised $70m in Series C funding.
The round, which has valued the company at about $500m, was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Forerunner Ventures, Aspect Ventures, Catha... |
| 31.05.2018 | No-fees mobile bank Chime raises $70M Series C, valuing its business at $500M | Chime, the San Francisco-based challenger bank known for its consumer-friendly features and lack of fees, has raised $70 million in Series C financing, led by Menlo Ventures. The round, which also included existing investors Forerunner Vent... |
| 31.05.2018 | No-Fees Mobile Bank Chime Raises $70M Series C, Valuing Its Business At $500M | - |
| 26.03.2018 | 5 Ways to Save Money for Your Side Hustle | Most people start side hustles because they want to be business owners and make some extra money — maybe even enough to eventually stop working their day job. But if they’re not careful, their side hustle could actually end up costing them ... |
| 28.09.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, September 28 | DIAL UP THE DRAMA
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| 27.09.2017 | Chime Raises $18M in Series B Funding | Chime, a San Francisco, CA-based mobile banking startup, raised $18m in Series B financing.
The round, which brought total funding to $36M, was led by global venture fund Cathay Innovation with participation from Northwestern Mutual Future ... |
| 27.09.2017 | Chime raises $18 million for mobile banking without the fees | It’s a bank account and debit card built for the digital age.
Chime is raising $18 million in Series B financing for its mobile-first approach to banking. Cathay Innovation led the round with participation from Northwestern Mutual Future Ve... |
| 26.09.2017 | Chime Announces $18 Million Series B to Accelerate Growth; Surpasses 500,000 Bank Accounts | Cathay Innovation, Omidyar Network, Northwestern Mutual and returning investors lead funding for the mobile banking company
Chime, the leader in mobile banking that helps members avoid fees and automate their finances, today announces $18 m... |
| 19.05.2016 | Fintech, Mobile Banking App Chime Raises $9M in Funding | Chime, a San Francisco, CA-based fintech startup that provides a bank account for people to automate savings, closed an additional $9m of funding.
We wrote about the company in a recent post highlighting the mobile banking startups to watch... |
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