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Livestream platform Mandolin adds custom artist pages and a fan data analytics hub
Mandolin, the digital fan engagement platform, launched two new products today with the aim of assisting artists with turning fans into superfans and maximizing revenue. Fan Navigator helps artists co
Stripe’s new and lower internal valuation, explained
As one of the most richly valued startups in history, is Stripe's internal valuation cut as bearish as the big numbers might lead some to believe?
Wordle, hurdles and Sally’s early retirement
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Daily Crunch: Stripe, stripped: Fintech leader slashes internal valuation by 28%
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Stripe is the latest fintech to falter, taking a 28% internal valuation cut
Stripe is the latest high-profile fintech company to experience a significant valuation cut as the market downturn begins to hit the sector especially hard. Last valued at $95 billion, the payments pr
Wave, a Stripe-backed African fintech valued at $1.7 billion, cut 15% of its staff in June
Wave, an African fintech that offers mobile money services in Senegal and Ivory Coast, laid off about 15% of its workforce last month. TechCrunch first got a whiff of the layoff news on LinkedIn, wher
Entrepreneur First raises $158M at a $560M valuation, adding Stripe’s Collison brothers to its list of backers
Entrepreneur First made a name for itself a decade ago in its home base of London, and then further afield, for the novel approach it takes to tech investing: Rather than seek out interesting, scaling
Fintech Kasheesh wants financially strained customers to say ‘bye’ to BNPL
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) products have become incredibly popular with users, and both startups and tech behemoths such as Apple have taken notice. But BNPL companies have attracted some controversy,
Apple enters the BNPL market as regulation, competition intensify
How will all of these BNPL-focused providers fare with Apple pounding its way into their market?
The guide to great metrics: Product-led principles
Metrics alone don’t help you build a business. They can help you set targets, but they do little to help you hit those targets.
The battle for BNPL buyers and other TC news
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TechCrunch podcasts this week: Layoffs, the crypto downturn, investor offense and Columbus, Ohio
TechCrunch is more than just a site with words. We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. To help y
Sheryl Sandberg, Substack and the art of still raising money for groceries
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This was another live week from the Equity crew, meaning that
As fintech valuations fall, even Stripe isn’t immune to a changing market
Why didn't these mega-unicorns with valuations north of $10 billion just go public when the markets were screaming for their stock?
Affirm teams up with Stripe as the BNPL wars intensify
Two fintech giants are partnering up. Affirm is making its buy now, pay later technology available to businesses that use Stripe’s payments tech. This means that a whole slew of companies that were
Finix goes head-to-head with Stripe
Welcome to The Interchange, a take on this week’s fintech news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. We’ve all been keeping up with the recent drama of Stripe vs. Plaid. Rather th
A ping-pong match between bulls and bears
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Stripe launches App Marketplace, scripts and tools incorporating third-party SaaS apps that work alongside Stripe
Stripe, the payments upstart now valued at $95 billion, has been launching a number of new products to expand beyond the API that helped make its name, to build out its position as a platform for fina
Stripe and Plaid suit up for battle
Plaid and Stripe are now standing face to face, if not already on each other’s toes.
Daily Crunch: Plaid product updates signal push to ‘own’ more of the account funding process
It’s Wednesday, May 18, 2022, and we are hanging out at our Mobility event, ogling cars that fly, drive themselves and have various identity crises. Wish you were here if you’re not, and hope to r