Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 22, 2024

Back in the summer of 2007 we had a simple vision for the first Finovate event. Trust & Will: Raised $48M for its online estate planning service, showing robust growth and high customer satisfaction rates. SESAMm: Raised $55M, analyzes sentiment from online data for finance, growth driven by strong demand in fintech analytics.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. Between 1980 and 1995, more than 2,900 banks and thrifts with collective assets of more than $2.2 trillion failed. What caused it?

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 12, 2014

Table: YC Fintech Companies by Year Class Total Companies # Fintech Companies % Fintech 2014 (half year) 56 5 9% 2013 83 9 9% 2012 117 8 7% 2011 89 7 8% 2010 61 6 10% 2009 39 1 3% 2008 43 1 2% 2007 32 2 6% 2006 17 0 0% 2005 8 1 13% Total 545 40 7.4% Indinero [link] Accounting, taxes & payroll. One solution.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 20, 2017

This week marks two big wins for online accounting system provider FreeAgent. The company’s platform – already used by 50,000 businesses – helps small businesses, entrepreneurs, and freelancers manage invoices, expenses, taxes, projects, and more. Founded in 2007 and based in Edinburgh, U.K.,

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 21, 2011

Since the Great Recession began in December, 2007, until May, 2011, we are still down a net of 6.5 They are apparently moving from DOS attacks to stealing data to disclosing data online. This has to be one of corporate America’s biggest fears and potentially one of our economy’s biggest expenditures in protecting online networks.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 8, 2017

Someday, we will all simply shop online at Amazon and Walmart. million at the end of December, 2007, before the crisis hit in 2008. We will not even have to drive anywhere, since everything will be delivered to our front door. The Fed has raised rates by 25 basis points twice so far in 2017 and has promised one more increase.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2018

billion per year on their pets; as of 2007, pet owners spent $41.2 And because a day at the salon can be taxing – particularly for a dog that got an elaborate manicure – there are also spas to help pets unwind. And the figure has been climbing sharply – by at least $2 billion each year – since the mid-1990s. That’s a lot of dog treats.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2015

.” For all the innovative methods for risk profiling – from Big Data to Social Media – the information available from credit reference agencies like Equifax remains as critical for online lenders as it is for offline lenders. A few metrics from Zopa: Over £1 billion lent to U.K. More than 50,000 active lenders. Staff of 150.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As millennials head deeper into adulthood and make more money, the personal finance space is adapting to their unique money management attitudes in a few key ways: From in-person to online. In 2016, Goldman Sachs introduced its own online bank offering, Marcus, with an aesthetic and brand promise very similar to challenger banks.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

On the other, you have companies like Earth Class Mail, which despite its large user base went bankrupt during the 2007-08 financial crisis, only to reinvent itself and flourish under new ownership more than a decade later. Julep: M&A doesn’t guarantee ‘synergies’ Founded: 2007. Download the full 25-page report.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 25, 2022

When I started reporting on the space in the mid-90s, I thought banks would end up delivering the bulk of basic accounting functions through their online banking programs. Challenger Accounting/Bookkeeping Online Providers in the United States. Went public June 2007. TaxBit (Crypto tax specialists) FAB Score = 181. –

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Both firms were among the 23 banks underwriting Snowflake’s IPO, which was the biggest software IPO in history — more than triple the size of VMware’s offering in 2007 — as well as the IPOs of real estate investment firm Broadstone Net Lease, telehealth company Amwell, and investment group StepStone.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, Date: May 18, 2007. in May of 2007 to Google’s $3.1B In mid-2007, Deutsche Bank was the world’s biggest bank, with nearly $2T in assets.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

168t ($1.3B): USA crypto tax software provider TaxBit. . #108t ($2.5B): Personal finance app Uala based in Argentina. 126t ($2B): American RE investing specialist Divvy Homes. 126t ($2B): Nigerian payment company Opay. 180t ($1.1B): Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX. 180t ($1.1B): USA crypto startup MobileCoin. Plaid Technologies. United States.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 21, 2022

Jan ’22 round. Tinkoff Bank. Mar ’21 SPAC (proposed). Dec ’19 round. Wise ( TransferWise ). Aug ’21 round. Toss (Viva Republica). June ’21 round. South Korea. Credit Karma. Nov ’21 round. Dec ’21 round. Nov ’21 round. Cardlytics. Mercado Bitcoin. June ’21 round. May ’21 round. Divvy Homes. Aug ’21 round. Investing/proptech. Aug ’21 round.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

One97 (PayTM). 22 Nov 2021. 8 Nov 2021. Mar 2021 SPAC (proposed). Tinkoff Bank. Dec 2019 round. 5 Nov 2021. Nov 2021 round. Credit Karma. Sep 2021 round. June 2021 round. Netherlands. Aug 2021 round. Papaya Global. Mar 2021 round. Payroll/SMB. Hypoport SE. Sep 2021 round. Cybersecurity. May 2019 round. Exit Sep 2021 (PayPal). 5 Nov 2021. 5 Nov 2021.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Oct 2021 round. Tinkoff Bank. Mar 2021 SPAC (proposed). Dec 2019 round. Aug 2021 round. Toss (Viva Republica). June 2021 round. South Korea. Credit Karma. Nov 2021 round. Sep 2021 round. Duck Creek Software. Papaya Global. Mar 2021 round. Payroll/SMB. Hypoport SE. Accounting. Varo Money. Sep 2021 round. Circle Internet Financial. April 2021 round.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

And speaking of free, they surely have a great “free” thing going themselves — they get paid really good salaries and other perks that are – let’s sing this together now – “tax FREE!”. The report says that, “borrowers face steep, hidden costs to their online loans in the form of unanticipated bank penalty fees.”.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Built a workflow for the bank so the bank can approve payment and see all compliance and tax information. Founded: May 2007. Showing a customer going online via their PC browser to make a payment by buying currency and I assume sending to someone else in a different currency. Their application is middleware.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

and the Tax Reform Act of 1976 gave many tax incentives to homeowners who decided to restore their homes. Online Directories. Bed and breakfasts were able to better compete with hotels by posting listings on online directories. In 2007, roommates Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky were struggling to pay rent.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are. Fail — along with just about every other commerce initiative Facebook has tried to ignite using its platform, starting with Beacon in 2007. They examined anonymized tax data starting in the 1940s until 2015.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Groupon’s IPO in 2011 was the biggest IPO by a US web company since Google had gone public in 2007. In 2007, Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell seeded The Point with $1M. UCWeb’s earliest VC investors were Morningside Ventures and Ceyuan Ventures, who collectively put $10M into the company in its Series A back in 2007.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Cocaine, Redux Beverages (2007). Pulled from shelves in 2007 for marketing itself as an alternative to illegal street drugs, this over-the-top energy drink has 2.5 Windows Vista, Microsoft (2007). Joost, Joost (2007). Trump Steaks, Donald Trump (2007). times the caffeine of Red Bull. P’zone, Pizza Hut (2003).

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The San Francisco-based company launched a new (and free) tax return preparation offering this week to complement its flagship, free credit score monitoring, as well as its loan and credit card comparison technology. New and existing users will have access to free tax filing in January 2017, just in time for tax season.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 18, 2016

PayStack : Online card processer in Nigeria. Captain 401k : Tax-advantaged investments. Razorpay : Online payments for India. ClearTax ; The easiest way to e-File income tax returns in India. Zen99 : 1099 tax help for rideshare drivers, delivery drivers, housekeepers, and more. . % Fintech. 2016 (1st half).

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Under GOP caucus rules limiting their party’s members from chairing a committee for more than six years, Shelby will be chairman of the Senate Banking Committee for only two years, since he previously served in that position from 2003 to 2007. Read a more in-depth summary online at www.icba.org/PFP2015.

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