Series, founded by two seniors at Yale to build an AI-powered social network on iMessage, raised a $5.1M pre-seed from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and others
Series, a social networking app, announced that it raised a $5.1 million pre-seed round, with investors including Venmo co-founder …
Advertising company Outfront, whose clients include Mercury, Brex, Klarna, and Venmo, says fintech ad spend is up 45%+ YoY on average over the past three years
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PayPal launches PayPal Ads, meant to help US marketers tap into data about the billions of transactions across PayPal's platforms, including Venmo and Honey
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, PayPal is going to start selling ads across PayPal, Honey, and Venmo in the US. … Dr. Mark Grether : Many thanks to Lara O'Reilly of Business Insider for ...
Filings: X is still working on a Venmo-like payments feature, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY
PayPal says select Venmo users can now purchase its stablecoin PYUSD, with a rollout to more users in the coming weeks, in addition to BTC, ETH, BCH, and LTC
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Eco, an a16z-backed payments startup that has raised $95M, announces decentralized, non-custodial payments wallet Beam, aiming to function like a “global Venmo”
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Bitcoin payment service Strike expands to 65 countries, beyond the US, El Salvador, and Argentina, and says it is taking a regulation-first approach in the US
Since starting in 2019, the Bitcoin-powered payments app Strike has aimed to become a global crypto-powered equivalent to Venmo or Cash App.
A profile of Chipper Cash, an African cross-border payments services provider valued at $2.2B in November, which had $75M+ in revenue in 2021, up over 4x YoY
Jeff Kauflin / Forbes : Tweets: @prepaid_africa and @jeffkauflin Tweets: @prepaid_africa : Imagine, only an American magazine will headline overcoming racism and systemic inequalities as an achieveme...
PayPal reports Q3 revenue of $6.18B, up 13% YoY, vs $6.23B est., Venmo payment volume up 36% YoY to $60B, says Venmo users can make Amazon purchases next year
- PayPal reported a 13% increase in year-over-year revenue for the third quarter. — The company issued a fourth-quarter forecast …