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.
FinTech of the Day
Meet Lais, your AI realtor sidekick. Brazilian proptech Lastro raised $16 million Series A led by Prosus Ventures with FJ Labs, Endeavor Catalyst, Canary, QED, 1Sharpe Ventures, and others on the cap table. Lastro's AI assistant Lais chats with buyers via WhatsApp, cutting response times from six hours
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Logins without the headache. Drop-in login for your app: Face/Touch ID (passkeys), one-tap email links, codes by SMS/email, and Sign in with Google, as plug-ins you add, not a system you rebuild. Used by 1,000+ organizations with hundreds of millions of identities managed, a sign it works
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Banking built for landlords. Baseline raised $34.4 million to accelerate its vision of a vertical banking and bookkeeping platform for real‑estate investors. Over 50,000 landlords already use Baselane, driving 900% year‑over‑year growth. Its new AI product, Baselane Smart, auto‑tags transactions, matches receipts, and executes
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For millions of Brazilian micro‑entrepreneurs, access to credit is still broken. Zippi fixes that by offering flexible working‑capital loans and weekly repayment plans through a mobile app. The company recently secured an 85 million BRL ($15.9M) Credit Rights Investment Fund (FIDC) led by Banco Itaú and Verde
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AI meets hacker to harden your stack. SafeHill (formerly Tacticly) blends automated asset discovery and risk scoring with human penetration testers to deliver continuous threat exposure management. Its subscription model ships validated vulnerabilities instead of false positives. Early customers report faster remediation and fewer incidents. The Chicago-based team emerged from
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Your insurance wallet, finally in your pocket. Rehuman aggregates all of your insurance policies from Gmail or Outlook into a single secure wallet, then uses a proprietary generative model trained on policy documents to summarise coverage and alert you to renewals. It sells its customer experience infrastructure to brokers and
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A cleaner BNPL motion: no new card, no new line, just split your existing credit card limit over up to 24 months. Merchants get paid upfront. Float handles collections. Reported results: 2,000+ stores live, thousands of monthly transactions, average order value R10,000 ($576), and 130% uplift in ticket
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No-code identity for the AI era. Cut fraud and launch onboarding faster, without building auth. Descope lets teams add login, passwordless, multi-factor checks, and user management straight into their apps: no custom sign-up flows, no months of security plumbing. Already used by 1,000+ organizations and millions of end users,
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Back‑office rails for Brazil's private credit boom. Kanastra is building the operating system for private credit funds and securitisations, automating fund administration, custody, and debt issuance so asset managers can ditch spreadsheets. The fintech charges fees for its software and back‑office services, acting as a technology
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Remittances are embedded in every platform. Remitee builds API‑based infrastructure that lets banks, retailers, and fintechs embed international transfers, mobile top‑ups, bill payments, and prepaid cards directly into their apps. The platform generates revenue from transaction fees and offers a hybrid treasury system that settles payments instantly in
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Fixing the cash flow for MENA's SMEs. UPFRONT builds a financial operating system that syncs with accounting software to give SMB owners real‑time cash‑flow analytics and automated receivables and payments. Its subscription‑plus‑transaction model helps small businesses reduce Days Sales Outstanding and unlock working capital.
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The CFO in your dashboard. Highbeam builds an AI-powered financial command centre for e-commerce brands. Merchants get bank accounts, free wire transfers, spend analytics, and a revenue-based line of credit via one platform. The software tracks expenses, categorises transactions, and offers forecasting, giving founders a clear view of cash flow.