Mary Ann Azevedo

inKind co-founder Raj Moonesinghe was killed outside his home in what his family describes as an accident that could have been avoided.

Earlier this month, Reuters reported that hedge fund Muddy Waters had accused Uruguayan payments company dLocal of using client funds to pay a special dividend to its shareholders from before its June 2021 IPO. The problem of cash flow reconciliation is an increasingly large one, especially in ligh…

Setpoint claims it has built an operating system for originators that “makes loan transactions instant, automated and error-free.”

Plaid cited customers’ ‘slower-than-expected growth’ as a factor behind its decision to lay off 260 employees.

In an exclusive interview, co-founder and former co-CEO Harry Hurst told TechCrunch that the trio were “0-1 builders, not at-scale operators.” For starters, Pipe -- which has raised more than $300 million from investors since it was founded in 2019 -- has just one outside board member in Peter Acke…

Atmos, a startup which has built an online marketplace that teams up homebuyers with builders and land developers to design and build custom homes, has emerged from stealth today with $12.5 million raised in Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures. Founded in 2018, San Francisco-based Atmos t…

SoftBank reveals it invested $100 million into crypto exchange FTX after the startup declared bankruptcy amid a flurry of negative headlines.

3 VCs talk about which fintech-focused startups have the best shot at survival and the advice they are giving startups in their portfolios.

There was a lot of fintech activity at TechCrunch Disrupt this year, with news about Brex and Rippling, among others.

Serena Williams says she’s “quite the opposite” as a venture capitalist as she was on the court as a professional tennis player.

Fintech startup Brex cited a challenging macro environment in its decision to lay off 136 employees after shifting its focus to enterprise.

Mark Goldberg has been a partner at Index Ventures since 2015, investing in — and sitting on the boards of — financial services companies such as Plaid, Persona, Lithic, Cocoon and Pilot. As reported by Paul Sawers: “New York-based insurance giant Lemonade is officially launching in the U.K., its f…

Index Ventures fintech lead Mark Goldberg believes that the funding frenzy we saw in 2021 has fizzled, and now we’re just trying to recover.

Fintech startup Jiko has raised a $40 million Series B round of funding to offer companies low-cost access to T-bills.

Cross-border VC firm Atman Capital raises $9M in the first close of a new fund that offers its founder LPs carry into the startups it backs.

Startups, in particular, struggle with compensation as they are often competing with other startups for talent.

TripActions is said to have filed confidentially to go public in the second quarter of next year at a $12 billion valuation. Citing an unnamed source, Business Insider broke the news on Wednesday that the company had filed confidential paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for…

The fintech startup lends against whole life insurance policies, with the goal of digitizing “many of the traditional time-intensive operations” involved in the process.

Startups Boundless Rider and CoverTree raise venture money to grow their specialized insurance products.

At the end of last week, venture-backed robo-adviser Wealthfront snuck in an announcement that the deal in which it was to be acquired by Swiss banking giant UBS for $1.4 billion was scrapped. Instead, as TC+ editor Alex Wilhelm reported, UBS “invested $69.7 million in the company at a valuation th…