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Fintech startup Ramp sees 32% bump in valuation, Mercury expands into consumer banking

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Ramp’s big raise and valuation jump, Mercury’s move into personal banking, Klarna’s new credit card, global funding roun

Fintech Mercury, whose B2B business is caught up in regulatory scrutiny, expands into consumer banking

Business banking startup Mercury, founded in 2017, is now launching a consumer banking product. Mercury today serves more than 100,000 businesses, many of which are startups, via its B2B practice. The

Braid shuts down, Stash marches toward an IPO and what happens when a fintech relationship fizzles out

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Amid breakup, Synapse, Evolve address allegations about how their relationship ended

Synapse and Evolve addressed allegations that claimed the companies were at odds with each other after Evolve decided to end the relationship.

Hey, stuck startups, reducing growth could make you less fundable

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.

SVB’s collapse drove 26K customers to Mercury in 4 months

When Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in March, a flurry of startups rushed to step in to help fill a gap in the startup and venture capital community. One of those startups, Mercury, in particular found

Mercury expands FDIC insurance up to $3M through new Vault product

Mercury, a startup that provides banking services for other startups, is offering customers expanded FDIC insurance of up to $3 million via a new product in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s col

WizeHire lands fresh cash to expand its SMB-focused hiring platform

WizeHire, a hiring service for small- and medium-sized (SMB) businesses, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global, with participation from Amplo and Mercury. The tranche

Starlight shoots for the moon, aiming to build the Brex of crypto

Companies are scrambling to participate in the crypto ecosystem, but many of the tools available for them to use are disjointed and not user-friendly, especially for those new to web3. New York-based

Startup banking service Mercury jumps into debt lending to take on Silicon Valley Bank

Mercury, a well-funded, three-year-old startup that offers a host of banking services to startups, is today rolling out a new offering for its customers: venture debt. The idea is to loan out $200 mil

Mercury restricted a number of accounts linked to African startups and didn’t exactly say why

Yesterday, Mercury, which describes itself as a bank for startups, restricted several accounts linked to African tech startups, TechCrunch has learned.  The number of companies involved with this res

Jeffrey Katzenberg backs the $10M seed round for HUBUC’s embedded finance API

I recently wrote about the so-called “Embedded finance” trend, citing the example of Intergiro’s recent fundraising in the space. There’s now yet another example of this trend in the shape of

Shortwave wants to bring back Google Inbox

Google’s Inbox experiment was a glorious thing while it lasted. Launched as an invitation-only service in 2014, it was the company’s next-gen email client. Because it was so good, it&#8217

Mercury banks $20M for its banking service aimed at startups

Online-only banks have become a viable option for many people who would have traditionally used a brick-and-mortar bank but are now looking for more flexible, potentially cheaper ways to handle their

Ford is changing the way it builds vehicles

Ford is a 115-year-old company and has changed much over the years. The car maker seems ready to change again. Today, Ford gathered several hundred journalists in a theater deep in its Dearborn, MI de

Safe Catch Tuna is a startup on a mission to eradicate the risk of mercury poisoning from your fish

Bay Area startup Safe Catch Tuna has developed a patented technology to detect mercury levels in a variety of fish and pledges that its own brand of tuna products have the lowest levels of any brand.

Watch BlackBerry unveil a brand new phone live right here

TCL, the company that now makes BlackBerry phones, is holding a press conference at MWC in Barcelona. The conference starts at 7 PM CET (6 PM GMT, 1 PM EST, 10 AM PST). We already got a sneak peek at

MAINGEAR Quantum Shift workstation eats Adobe CS5 for breakfast

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/shift_fermi_hero.jpg" />Maingear announced their latest today, the Quantum Shift workstation. Designed more for the content developer the

Sony takes the mercury out of alkaline batteries

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sony_mercury.jpg" /> Sony, so far not known to be a particularly "green" tech company, has <a href="http://www.sony.jp/CorporateCruise/P

Man dies trying to extract gold from his PC

Gold digger Credit crunch got you down? Looking for gold in all the wrong places, like, say, the innards of your computer? Don’t! Unless you want to die! A Tulsa man died last week (news travels