Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at Robinhood’s new Gold Card, challenges in the BaaS space and how a tiny startup caught Stripe’s […]
Maju Kuruvilla is out as CEO of one-click checkout company Bolt
Maju Kuruvilla is no longer CEO of one-click checkout company Bolt. He is replaced by Justin Grooms, Bolt’s global head of sales, who is now interim CEO, according […]
VC Arjun Sethi talks a big game about selling his company-picking strategies to other investors; he says they’re buying it
Arjun Sethi speaks with the confidence of someone who knows more than other people, or else who knows that sounding highly confident can shape perception. Either way, when […]
2-year-old LatAm fintech Yuno reaches $150M valuation with backing from DST, Tiger, a16z
A couple of years ago, payments orchestration was a foreign term to many large companies Juan Pablo Ortega would speak to. Today, the Yuno co-founder and CEO doesn’t […]
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 […]
One-click checkout company Bolt confirms another round of layoffs
E-commerce and fintech company Bolt, which was at one time the subject of a federal probe, confirmed it laid off 29% of its staff, according to a company […]
IRL founders allege investors sabotaged company with fake users claims
The founders of IRL, Abraham Shafi and Genrikh Khachatryan, are suing their investors, claiming that they intentionally sabotaged the company. At its peak, IRL was poised to become […]
Bolt CEO discusses company moving on after SEC probe
One-click checkout software company Bolt Financial is putting a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission probe behind it and moving on, according to CEO Maju Kuruvilla. “It obviously […]