Capchase Raises $200M, Pivots to Vendor BNPL Platform
Financing startup @Capchase has secured a new round of funding, consisting of $26M in equity and a $174M credit facility. @01Advisors led the round, which included participation from Caffeinated Capital, Thomvest Ventures, Scifi VC, Bling Capital, Invesco and others. Founded in 2020, New York-based Capchase initially made a name for itself by providing revenue-based financing for SaaS companies. However, by late 2022, the company began to evolve into its current iteration: a vendor-financing technology platform. It has entirely discontinued its revenue-based financing and now focuses on B2B buy-now, pay-later tools that help software and hardware vendors offer flexible payment terms while getting paid upfront. Read more details in the @crunchbasenews article link in the comments below
Plaid Launches AI Models, Guarantees Instant ACH Transfers
Financial infrastructure provider @Plaid introduced two in-house foundational artificial intelligence models on Thursday that aim to dramatically improve how the company classifies transaction data, capping off a week of back-to-back security and payment launches ahead of its annual Plaid...
Neurosurgeon Turns Credentialing Bottleneck Into AI Startup
For Dr. Marc Ayoub, a neurosurgeon born into a family of doctors, the path to entrepreneurship was a necessity born of frustration. As Ayoub describes it, while the medical profession was sold to him as a lucrative and stable career, the...
J.P. Morgan Secures AI Agent Identity for Future Payments
J.P. Morgan Payments has partnered with Mirakl to build infrastructure for agentic commerce in an effort to radically transform the traditional payment rail. But as autonomous agents move from browsing to buying, they introduce some risks: processing untrusted inputs, accessing sensitive...
Supabase Execs Invest After Dreambase Impresses Them
Exclusive: Supabase Execs Were So Impressed With Dreambase, They Became Investors In Its $3.7M Round https://t.co/77oCaZRoZe via @crunchbasenews
Kashable Secures $60M Series C to Boost Responsible Credit
@getkashable, a fintech that provides access to “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, has secured $60M in a Series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives’ Sustainable Investing. To date, the company has...
Early Founders Crave Real‑world Series A Playbook Insights
If you recently founded a startup, what would you most like to know in detail from other founders at a slightly later stage (like Series A)? Tech stack? How much does it cost to run operations? What else?
Ultra‑wealthy Families Reshape Risk Strategies Amid Climate Uncertainty
How are ultra-wealthy families rethinking risk in the age of climate uncertainty? To find out, I interviewed Donald Poster, the National Family Office Leader for Aon Private Risk Management, for @CrainCurrency. Article link in the comments https://t.co/kelse1ios9
AV Startup Funding Triples in 2026, One Deal Dominates
Funding to autonomous vehicle startups has seen a massive resurgence in 2026, more than tripling so far this year compared to all of 2025 globally, @crunchbase data show. One outsized deal made up 3/4 of the total. But it wasn't ...
YC Remains Top Fintech Investor Despite Deal Decline
YC Once Again Tops Ranks Of Most Active Fintech Investors In Q1 Even As Deal Count Drops https://t.co/zmmPsTQOdx via @crunchbasenews
Fintech Funding Rises While Deal Count Plummets
Venture funding to fintech companies is up year over year so far, but concentrated into significantly fewer companies, Crunchbase data shows. Global venture funding to financial technology startups totaled $12B across 751 deals in 2026 as of April 6, per @Crunchbase...
Mexican Startups Overtake Brazil in Q1 VC Funding
Mexican startups outperformed their Brazilian counterparts in the first quarter, raising a total of $404M compared to Brazil’s $240M. Historically, Brazil has been the powerhouse in Latin America for venture capital funding. But it’s not the first time in recent quarters...
Accountant Launches AI Tax Startup, Secures $12M Seed
In 2023, Dave Haase was a CPA who had been running his own firm in the San Francisco Bay Area for several years when he saw a live demo of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Upon seeing the AI agent successfully file a...