3 Fintech News Stories #1: Bilt isn’t a Unicorn What happened? Bilt is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a $10 billion valuation. Lucinda Shen at Axios reports: Rent rewards startup Bilt is in talks to raise at a roughly $10 billion valuation, in a round likely to be led by […] The post Bilt isn’t a Unicorn appeared first on Fintech Takes.| Fintech Takes
3 Fintech News Stories #1: The Revenue-Based Financing Space Grows Up What happened? Capchase is acquiring a company called Vartana: Capchase acquired Vartana to accelerate the product roadmap and market expansion of its tech-powered vendor financing offerings. The acquisition brings together Vartana’s vendor financing platform and Capchase’s vendor financing for B2B software and hardware […]| Fintech Takes
3 Fintech News Stories #1: Plaid’s Fraud Prevention Endgame What happened? Plaid announced a new product: Today we’re launching Plaid Protect: a real-time fraud intelligence system that helps detect and prevent fraud from the moment a user first interacts with your app or service. By drawing on fraud signals across a billion devices in the […]| Fintech Takes
3 Fintech News Stories #1: $KLAR What happened? Exciting times for Klarna! The company has filed the paperwork to go public: Klarna, a provider of buy now, pay later loans filed its IPO prospectus on Friday, and plans to go public on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol KLAR. Klarna, headquartered in Sweden, […]| Fintech Takes