Fintech Founder Raised

How This Fintech Founder Raised $300 Million and Turned His Customers Into Investors

Capitolis founder and CEO Gil Mandelzis knows how to bide his time when it comes to raising capital.

Inc. - 16h

Top Five Mistakes Founders Are Still Making in 2025

Founders who fail quickly are the ones who don’t raise enough seed money, hold themselves accountable to revenue targets, and interact with their fans.

Inc. - 5d

Female founders in the U.S. VC ecosystem: the good and the bad | Pitchbook (updated)

Women founders and investors raised $38.8 billion in funding in the U.S. in 2024, up 27% from the year before, according to PitchBook.

VentureBeat - Mar. 6

A Young Prince of Luxembourg Dies of a Rare Genetic Disease

Prince Frederik, 22, was a founder and the creative director of a foundation that raised awareness of POLG disorder.

The New York Times - 4d

Fintech stocks plummet as Wall Street worries about consumer spending, credit

Fintech stocks were some of the biggest decliners on Monday as the Nasdaq suffered its steepest drop since 2022.

CNBC - 4d

Fintech Klarna files for IPO at a weak point for public debuts

The fintech company thinks it can offer investors more than just its buy-now-pay-later products.

MarketWatch - 11h

Toast, Shift4 lead drop in fintechs as investors exit stocks tied to consumer spending

Fintech stocks are under pressure as investors worry about companies heavily reliant on consumer spending.

CNBC - 1d

Founder of megachurch indicted on child sexual abuse charges

The Oklahoma attorney general charged Robert Morris with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child. Morris is the founder of Gateway, one of the largest megachurches in the country. It ...

NBC News - 1d

Reshma Saujani’s Advice for Female Founders? Build Your Own Door

The founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First joins ‘From The Ground Up’ this week.

Inc. - 4d

How Lead Bank CEO Jackie Reses rose from 'a pretty gritty childhood' to Goldman Sachs, Square and top of U.S. fintech

Lead Bank CEO Jacqueline Reses says her independent life started at age 14, and she's never looked back, from early days at Goldman Sachs to the top of fintech.

CNBC - 2d

Pioneer fintech firm Klarna sees revenue boost as it eyes US stock market listing

Swedish company’s valuation jumped 24% in 2024 as ‘buy now, pay later’ market is projected to top $160bn by 2032. The Swedish fintech firm Klarna disclosed on Friday that its revenue jumped 24% in ...

The Guardian - 12h

Best-in-Class Business Advice From Famed Female Founders

This year’s Female Founders board of advisers share their top hard-won tips, from failing up to following your north star.

Inc. - 3d

Welevel raises $5.7M to revolutionize procedural game development

Indie game development studio Welevel today announced that it raised $5.7 million in funding to transform procedural game development.

VentureBeat - Mar. 6

M10 raises $3M for Web3 competitive multiplayer games

M10, a Web3 game developer and publisher creating competitive multiplayer games, has raised $3 million in funding.

VentureBeat - 2d

Report: Panthers gave Adam Thielen a pay raise

Panthers wide receiver Adam Thielen is getting a pay raise as he heads into the final year of his contract.

Yahoo Sports - 1d

Ecuador enlists founder of Blackwater private army as ally in ‘war’ on crime

Daniel Noboa, who is seeking re-election as president, announces partnership with Trump supporter Erik Prince. Ecuador ’s president, Daniel Noboa , has announced a “strategic alliance” with ...

The Guardian - 2d

Banks and fintechs join ‘stablecoin gold rush’

Bank of America and Stripe target market for payments in cryptocurrencies

Financial Times - 5d

Liminal Experiences raises $5.8M for UGC and AI gaming

Liminal Experiences, a new user-generated content gaming startup dedicated to using AI to assist human creativity, raised $5.8 million.

VentureBeat - 3d

Texas megachurch founder Robert Morris indicted on charges of lewd acts with a child

The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned as senior pastor last year after he admitted "inappropriate sexual behavior" in the 1980s has been indicted on five criminal counts involving a child, ...

NBC News - 2d

Forget Influencer Trips. Why This Beauty Founder Took Her Employees on a Luxury Vacation

Tisha Thompson, founder and CEO of LYS Beauty, used the trip to both thank her team and film fun employee-generated content.

Inc. - Mar. 7

Grab co-founder Anthony Tan says ‘humans who don’t embrace AI will be replaced by AI’

Grab co-founder and CEO Anthony Tan discussed how workers can use AI to become more productive, at Converge Live in Singapore.

CNBC - 1d

Funeral held for Slimming World founder

Yahoo News - 4d

LinkedIn co-founder has known Elon Musk for years. Here’s what he says Americans don’t understand about the Tesla CEO.

Elon Musk takes a hammer-and-nail approach to everything, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman says.

MarketWatch - 3d

Pragma raises $12.75M for backend game engine for live services games

Pragma, a backend game engine empowering studios to build scalable, live-service games, said it has raised $12.75 million.

VentureBeat - 3d

Atlant 3D raises $15M to build materials and devices atom by atom

Atlant 3D has raised $15 million as demand grows for its manufacturing system that builds materials and devices atom by atom.

VentureBeat - 3d

Opus Major raises $10M to bring people together through music and games

Opus Major has raised $10 million in funding to build a global game studio dedicated to crafting games and entertainment.

VentureBeat - 2d

Human Computer raises $5.7M in seed funding to build indie portfolio

Indie studio Human Computer raises $5.7M in funding to build its games, which take place in a shared universe.

VentureBeat - 1d

Federal firefighters secure permanent pay raises in spending bill

Federal wildland firefighters secured a permanent pay raise Friday after years of waiting for Congress to answer their plea.

NBC News - 10h

Peer raises $10.5M for metaverse engine, launches 3D personal planets

Peer announced today it's raised new funding to build its AI-powered metaverse engine and launched its "personal planets" feature.

VentureBeat - Mar. 6

Tariffs on China could raise wedding dress prices for American brides

American brides are facing the impact of the trade war, as tariffs on imports from China threaten to raise the cost of wedding gowns. Janet Shamlian reports.

CBS News - 3d

Nunu.ai raises $6M for AI agents dubbed ‘unembodied minds’ for game testing

Nunu.ai has raised $6 million and unveiled Unembodied Minds, or AI agents designed for game testing and to control any given body as needed.

VentureBeat - 2d

Brazil eyes revisiting fintech reporting rules amid money laundering concerns

Yahoo News - 3d

Trump-backed plan to fund government raises GOP concerns on defense

Republicans are raising concerns about what the Trump-backed strategy to stave off next week’s government shutdown threat could mean for defense programs for the next six months. President Trump ...

The Hill - 6d

Federal judges raise alarm about security threats and impeachment calls

Two senior federal judges on Tuesday raised the alarm about the increase in violent threats against members of the judiciary and expressed concerns about calls to impeach judges over the rulings ...

NBC News - 3d

Meet Inc.’s 2025 Female Founders

The pandemic drove women out of the workforce—and then spurred an entrepreneurial explosion.

Inc. - 3d

Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf just challenged Anthropic CEO’s vision for AI’s future — and the $130 billion industry is taking notice

Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf challenges Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's "compressed 21st century" vision, arguing AI systems are building "yes-men on servers" rather than the revolutionary ...

VentureBeat - Mar. 6

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