FinTech of the Day
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
FinTech of the Day
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
FinTech of the Day
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company got its start after founders Songe LaRon and Dave A. Salvant ran a barbershop themselves and felt the pain of outdated systems.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
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Parafin offers marketplaces and vertical SaaS companies a ready-to-launch suite of capital and spend management products so their merchants can get financing with a single integration. It handles underwriting, disbursement, servicing, and compliance while platforms earn a share of funding fees and retain sellers longer. Parafin’s clients include Amazon,
FinTech of the Week
A repeat mention, but hard to ignore. $95M: Rillet is rewriting accounting. Founded by Nicolas Kopp and Stelios Modes, Rillet is building an AI-native ERP that connects to hundreds of banks, HR tools, and payment systems, automatically classifying and reconciling transactions so finance teams can finally escape spreadsheets. The startup
FinTech of the Day
Build payments without limits. Highnote is an embedded finance platform that combines card issuing, payment acceptance, and credit into a single API so businesses can embed payments end-to-end. Customers can issue virtual or physical cards, accept card payments, run a credit program, and manage ledgers from one stack instead of
FinTech of the Day
Rent can finally reward you. Bilt built the first loyalty program for renters, so paying rent earns points, status, and even a path to homeownership. It partners with landlords and banks to let members pay rent through its app or the Bilt Card, earning transferable points and unlocking local perks.
FinTech of the Day
Family banking with high interest. Crew offers checking and savings accounts for families that pay around 3.7% APY with no fees or minimum deposits. Parents can add kids as authorized users, issue customized debit cards, and split allowances into savings and spending pockets. Children get their login to see
FinTech of the Day
A private budgeting app that avoids bank links. Skwad is a privacy-first budgeting tool that lets users understand their spending without connecting their bank accounts. You forward transaction emails to a dedicated address, and the app automatically categorizes spending and displays cash flow. Features include multiple budgets, customizable categories, splitting
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A bank that speaks your language. Comun is a digital bank designed for Latino immigrants in the United States, letting users open an account in three minutes with a country ID and no Social Security number. There are no opening fees, monthly charges or minimum balances, and customers get a
FinTech of the Day
Pay by raising your hand? Handwave is building a palm‑based identity and payment system that lets customers pay, verify age, collect loyalty points, and check in with a single gesture. It scans surface patterns and subdermal vein structures to create an encrypted identifier that can’t be spoofed and
FinTech of the Day
Finance teams deserve a smarter ERP. Rillet is an AI‑native enterprise resource platform built for CFOs and accounting teams; it plugs into hundreds of tools to automate accruals, reconciliations, revenue recognition and investor reporting. The software combines human expertise with autonomous agents to create a collaborative finance hub. It