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PayPal Ventures’ first AI investment, a credit-based dating app and Robinhood’s good week
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at a new finance-based dating app, Robinhood’s earnings results and the startup in which PayPal Ventures made […]
Inside Brex’s efforts to burn less cash
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! In this edition, I’m going to look at Brex’s latest round of layoffs, the state of fintech investing in 2023 and […]
VCs are not done betting on fintech
Fintech has been in the dumps for a while now, and with companies like Brex once again cutting staff as they try to rein in costs, you’d be […]
Klarna introduces $7.99 ‘Klarna Plus’ subscription plan as it approaches an IPO
Swedish fintech company Klarna announced today its first subscription plan, “Klarna Plus,” for $7.99 per month, featuring benefits like no added service fees when using Klarna’s One Time […]
Secondaries investors say some valuations are still too high
Startup valuations — especially at the later stages — have come down drastically over the last year and a half of the ongoing market correction. Companies that once boasted […]
Fintech’s wild ride in 2023
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your […]
SumUp taps €285M more in growth funding to weather the fintech storm
SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe, the Americas and Australia — has picked up some growth […]
Here are the newly minted fintech unicorns
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your […]
Klarna freezes hiring because AI can do the job instead
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says the buy now, pay later company will freeze hiring and use AI to take on tasks previously done by employees.