We’re in the final stretch of Ticket Reboot Week with just 48 hours remaining! You can still save up to $600 on individual ticket types to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Don’t wait — this offer ends on September 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Don’t miss out on this last big sale before the countdown to Disrupt […]
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Mortgage fintech Mesa has emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $9.2 million in seed capital and a novel idea for homeowners. It’s offering cash back and rewards on all spending done on the home, including the mortgage itself. Mesa is offering mortgage loans, original or refinancing, that include a credit-card-style 1% cash back on the
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Neobank Jupiter is in talks to acquire a stake in SBM India, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, the latest example of an Indian fintech startup pursuing strategic partnerships with traditional banking institutions. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup — backed by Tiger Global and NuBank — is engaging to buy a 5% to 9.9% stake
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JPMorgan Chase is in talks to take over the Apple Card business from Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street Journal reports. Goldman has issued credit for the Apple Card since its launch in 2019, but the Wall Street and Silicon Valley giants have been trying to untie their partnership since last year. In 2023, Goldman decided
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Bolt says it has settled its long-standing lawsuit with its investor Activant Capital. One-click payments startup Bolt is settling the suit by buying out the investor’s stake “after which Activant will no longer hold any interest in Bolt,” the company said in a statement. Activant’s suit accused founder and then CEO Ryan Breslow of adding
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The rise of neobanks has been fascinating to witness, as a number of companies in recent years have grown from merely challenging traditional banks to being massive players in and of themselves. Dave and Varo Bank are just two examples of such neobanks. Hear Dave co-founder and CEO Jason Wilk and Varo Bank founder and
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Online sports apparel retailer Fanatics has agreed to settle and drop a lawsuit that it filed against troubled one-click payments provider Bolt in March, according to court documents obtained by TechCrunch. The settlement occurred as Bolt was in the thick of a new gambit to raise a large round of financing, including a “cramdown” threat
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Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! It’s finally cooling down here in my home base of Austin, Texas, and that makes me happy. In this week’s newsletter, we’re looking at a big raise in the embedded fintech software space, a flurry of M&A activity and SMB-focused fundraises and more. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and
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The Equity podcast crew is wrapping up another eventful week, with real estate, AI agents, gambling, and secondary markets — which are, of course, a form of legalized gambling. Mary Ann Azevedo, Becca Szkutak, and Devin Coldewey started off this Friday’s episode with the acknowledgment that the X/Twitter ban situation in Brazil is possibly too
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For over two decades, Jay Chandarana relied on commercial banks to meet the day-to-day, working capital needs of his family business, the sesame seed exporter Dhaval Agri. It was an arrangement that basically worked: the company grew to have a 13% share of the country’s total exports, making it the largest sesame seed exporter in
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