Payabli builds the infrastructure that allows companies, specifically software companies, to embed and facilitate payments through APIs.
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‘Wallet-as-a-service’ startup Ansa raises $14 million with female investors leading the way
Ansa, a startup that helps merchants develop and offer branded virtual wallets, has raised a $14 million Series A round of funding, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively. Renegade Partners led Ansa’s latest financing, which included participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures, BoxGroup and Wischoff Ventures and new investor B37 Ventures. With this latest […]
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WeTransfer cuts out the middle man and now lets users sell files directly on the platform
The integrated payments on WeTransfer are powered by Stripe and are rolling out to all users globally.
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Stripe, doubling down on embedded finance, de-couples payments from the rest of its stack
Stripe continues to hold the title of being the biggest financial technology business still in private hands, with a current valuation of about $65 billion and a whopping $1 trillion in total processed payment volume last year alone. But fintech is fragmented and a fast-moving target, and with competitors chipping away at its place, Stripe is […]
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Flatpay rings up $47M to target smaller merchants with simple payment solutions
Flatpay plans to use the money to expand into new markets in Europe and to build out more products alongside the point-of-sale and card terminals that it sells today.
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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 to Grooms’ LinkedIn profile. Kuruvilla didn’t have much to say about the change but did confirm it both on LinkedIn and X, by posting, simply “One-Click Checkedout […]
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Nala set out to offer remittance services, it’s building a B2B payment platform too
Payments company Nala pivoted to offer remittance service in 2021, tapping the growing money transfer market in Africa, and demand for reliable and affordable services. Nala founder, Benjamin Fernandes, said they intended to build their products on this premise right from the outset. Over the last two years, the Tanzanian fintech, through its consumer fintech […]
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Stripe’s growth continues to impress as total payment volume tops $1T
The company says it was cash flow positive in 2023, and plans to be again in 2024. With $8.7 billion in venture capital it likely means it has little to no need to raise more before it goes public.
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PayPal suggests it will be ready to offer ‘offline’ payments when DMA goes into effect
PayPal is working on a new consumer app for its mobile customers, and suggested that it will be “ready” to take advantage of the new EU regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), when it goes into effect next month for tech “gatekeepers,” like Apple. For PayPal, one of the significant changes coming in the DMA […]
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Rainforest raises $8.5M to help software companies embed financial services, payments
In November 2019, Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Angela Strange famously declared that, “Every company will be a fintech company.” Specifically, Strange projected that — in the not-too-distant-future — “nearly every company” would derive a significant portion of its revenue from financial services. Over the years, that prediction has played out to a certain extent. More […]