Immigrant fintech builder in Cascais. Founder of FinBox Solutions and FinTech of the Day. 2x exited, building toward the third. Daily startup picks, plus builder notes and honest lessons from the journey.
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Insurance for homes on the edge. Kin Insurance is a direct‑to-consumer home insurance provider using data to price policies in states where legacy insurers pull back. On September 8, it raised an oversubscribed $50M Series E at a $2B pre‑money valuation and secured a $200M debt facility. With
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AI that knows the tax code. Accordance is a platform for tax, audit, and accounting teams. It launched publicly with $13M funding: a $10M seed led by Khosla Ventures and a $3M pre‑seed led by General Catalyst, with Anthropic, NEA, Bain Capital Ventures, and Sequoia Capital participating. Founded by
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Benefits as flexible as your team. Coverflex offers a Compensation OS that helps companies design personalised benefits packages: insurance, meal allowances, childcare, and more through one platform. In 2023, Coverflex raised a €15M Series A led by SCOR Ventures, with participation from BREEGA, MS&AD Ventures company, Armilar, Stableton,
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Your CFO is now a Slack channel. Central is the first autonomous back‑office platform built for startups: payroll, benefits, state registrations, HR, accounting, and taxes are all run by AI agents inside Slack. Instead of forcing founders to click through outdated dashboards, Central’s software handles compliance tasks and
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Banking without borders. Munify (YC S25) is building a neobank for expatriates from Egypt and the broader Middle East. Users can open USD accounts instantly, get a virtual card, and send money home at competitive FX rates. Beyond consumers, Munify provides an API for companies to handle international payroll and
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Excel hell ends here. (Well… 90% of it. 😉) Two former CFOs, Julio Martínez and Jorge Lluch, grew tired of version chaos and built the platform they wished they had. One place for plans, data, and collaboration without late-night copy-paste marathons. Why it matters 1. Used by hundreds of mid-market companies
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Making old banks dance. TransBnk - Transaction Banking Platform builds API‑led infrastructure that lets banks and corporates create escrow accounts (money is held safely and released only when conditions are met), automate cash flows, and reconcile transactions without manual spreadsheets. It’s integrated with over 40 banks and serves
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Stablecoins to the rescue. Rain is rebuilding the payments rail using stablecoins, not legacy wires. The Visa‑backed platform issues corporate cards and expense tools that let DAOs and multinationals pay vendors and staff instantly in USDC across 150‑plus countries. Revenue comes from interchange and SaaS fees the moat
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SMEs can now earn while they spend. That’s why Aspire Yield became our best Fintech of the Day last week and my personal pick for Fintech of the Week. 👇 • Earn 2.04% on SGD and 3.88% on USD, no minimums, no lock-ups, full liquidity. • In beta, 55% of
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Founders hated banks. Slow onboarding, clunky UX, zero idea what a startup needs. Immad Akhund, Maximilian Tagher, and Jason Zhang built Mercury: accounts, cards, treasury. All online. All simple. Result? 200,000+ startups. Billions moved every month. $150M+ raised. Trusted by Silicon Valley’s top founders. Clear story: banking built
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You work at Google. Your stock is worth millions… but it’s all in one basket. If Google drops, your fortune drops with it. You can’t sell. You can’t diversify. You’re stuck. Cache, founded by Srikanth Narayan, fixes this. It lets employees turn their company shares into
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SQUIRE (not to be confused with Square) built an all-in-one platform that handles booking, scheduling, payments, marketing, and inventory for barbershops. The company got its start after founders Songe LaRon and Dave A. Salvant ran a barbershop themselves and felt the pain of outdated systems. Squire has raised over 167