FinTech of the Day
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
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
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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company got its start after founders Songe LaRon and Dave A. Salvant ran a barbershop themselves and felt the pain of outdated systems.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
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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,
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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
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When the promise of private equity met legal reality Ownership isn’t just a promise. Linqto, founded in 2010 to democratize access to private investments for retail investors, suddenly shuttered in March 2025. An internal review revealed that many clients never actually owned the shares they bought via SPVs, raising
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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
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A digital bank with credit union roots, gone too soon. Failure teaches more than success. motusbank launched in 2019 as the fully digital arm of Meridian Credit Union, Canada’s largest credit union. The promise: low fees, simple online banking, and the trusted Meridian brand. But even with solid backing,
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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.
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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