Payments made a huge shift to digital platforms during the Covid-19 pandemic — purchasing moved online for many consumers and businesses; and a large proportion of those continuing to buy and sell in-person went cash-free. Today a startup that has been focusing on one specific aspect of payments — recurring billing — is announcing a […]
Nuula raises $120M to build out a financial services ‘superapp’ aimed at SMBs
A Canadian startup called Nuula that is aiming to build a superapp to provide a range of financial services to small and medium businesses has closed $120 million of funding, money that it will use to fuel the launch of its app and first product, a line of credit for its users. The money is […]
Sequoia’s Pat Grady says it isn’t clear startups “should be accelerating” right now — here’s why
Earlier today, we joined friend and former colleague Jon Fortt of CNBC in interviewing partner Pat Grady of Sequoia Capital, and it proved a wide-ranging conversation. You can check out the video below, but we thought there were some highlights worth pulling out for some of you, including as it pertains to the current market, […]
LIFFアプリにStripe Checkoutを使ってサブスクリプション(定期課金)機能を追加してみる
みなさんこんにちは、CX事業本部 LINE事業部 PdMのたいがーです🐯 近頃世間に増えてきているサブスクリプションサービスを自分で作ってみたいと思う方も多いかと思います。Stripe Checkoutを使うことで、1回 […]…
LINEを通じたサブスクリプション体験 ~LIFF meets Stripe~ というタイトルで #JP_Stripes vol.03 Online Meetup Vol.3 – Customer Portal、使ってますか？に登壇しました
どうも皆さん、LINE事業部のPdM&部の採用周りを担当しているたいがーです。 先日、JP_Stripes Online Meetup vol.03 – Customer Portal、使ってますか？に登壇させて […]
Balance raises $25M in a Ribbit Capital-led Series A to grow its ‘consumer-like B2B checkout platform’
Balance, a payments platform aimed at B2B merchants and marketplaces, has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Ribbit Capital. Avid Ventures participated in the financing, in addition to existing backers Lightspeed Ventures, Stripe, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, SciFi VC and UpWest. Other individual investors that put money in the round […]
Ramp and Brex draw diverging market plans with M&A strategies
From a high level, all of the recent deal-making in corporate cards and spend management shows that it’s not enough to just help companies track what employees are expensing these days.
API platform Postman valued at $5.6 billion in $225 million fundraise
San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 billion, up from $2 billion a year ago. The startup’s new financing round — a Series D […]