French B2B neobank Qonto reaches 600,000 customers, files for banking license
Qonto, which targets European freelancers and SMBs, currently operates with a payment institution license it obtained in 2018.
Fintech Bolt progresses its turnaround by landing Klarna as a partner
Adding two big names as partners, Klarna and Palantir, is the kind of step that could help clean up Bolt’s reputation as it seeks to raise again.
Tiny AI ERP startup Campfire is winning so many startups from NetSuite, Accel led a $35M Series A
Campfire was launched in 2023 to upend 1990s-era enterprise resource planning accounting software (ERP) like Netsuite with an LLM-powered alternative.
Japanese shipping firm NYK acquires Kadmos, a salary payment platform for seafarers
Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha is acquiring German salary payment platform for seafaring workers, Kadmos.
SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up
Finom, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank for SMBs that claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million).
X app code points to a physical card coming to X Money
X’s plans for a payments service may extend beyond the digital realm, new data suggests. According to findings from mobile app intelligence firm App Sensa, the X app has been updated over the past few…
Multiplier, founded by ex-Stripe exec, nabs $27.5M to fuel AI-powered accounting roll-ups
Multiplier raised Series A and seed funding from Lightspeed and Ribbit Capital.
Grifin secures $11M to make investing less intimidating for its female user base
Investment app Grifin secured a $11 million Series A funding round.
In just 3 months, Ramp’s valuation jumped to $16B from $13B
Spend management startup Ramp announced on Tuesday that it raised a $200 million Series E led by its largest investor, Founders Fund.
Alexa von Tobel has high hopes for ‘fintech 3.0’
It’s been 10 years since Alexa von Tobel sold her financial planning startup Learnvest to Northwestern Mutual for $250 million. Since then, von Tobel became Northwestern Mutual’s first chief digital officer, then chief innovation officer,…