“[IPOs] generate liquidity for the investors and the employees, who can then use that cash to invest in new companies or start new ones. It has this virtuous flywheel multiplier effect.” Kamran Ansari, who previously invested in companies with Greycroft and Headline VC, made the move this month to Infinity Ventures as venture partner, where […]
As real-world data dries up or becomes too messy to use, synthetic data steps in for fields ranging from agentic AI to chemistry labs When Google unveiled its latest world model, Genie 3, it felt like the dawn of a new way to train physical AI. Instead of putting together messy, hard-to-label real-world footage, the […]
On the heels of the passing of the GENIUS Act (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025), the next era of stablecoin usage is being driven by a growing cohort of fintechs and neobanks –integrating stablecoins into their product and service offerings, going where traditional systems have found it economically or operationally […]
Hi there and welcome to Funded, where we spotlight early-stage bets on the future of tech.This week’s spotlight is on international payouts, where Routefusion is building the infrastructure that helps platforms and financial institutions move money across borders without the backend chaos. Routefusion has raised $26.5 million in Series A funding led by PeakSpan Capital, […]
Lacking safeguards, at least for now, fraud is flourishing through stablecoins As stablecoins enter mainstream use, buoyed by regulatory normalization and a surge of institutional interest by bulge bracket banks, among other entities, this new kind of blockchain-based financial technology may encounter a forceful headwind in the form of fraud. With their one-two punch of […]
As banking leaders and fintech builders know all too well, the rise of generative AI is making it increasingly difficult in online and digital communications to know what is real and what’s not. Fraud is a challenge that is keeping bankers, business owners, and investors up at night. In Visa’s 2025 Global eCommerce Payments & […]
The venture firms betting on AI are now using it to rethink their own ops and due diligence. The AI gold rush is at its peak in 2025. Every day, a new AI startup raises funds with the promise to change the world, or a prominent AI lab raises a massive round at an eye-popping […]
Where are startup dollars going? A16z just released a new report tracking the top 50 AI-native apps by actual startup spend, based on data from 200,000+ customers of Mercury, a fintech providing banking services. The takeaway is that “not only is AI augmenting employees in specific roles (‘AI for patent lawyers’), it’s turning specific roles […]
“You have to understand the role that product plays in what [the customer] is trying to do — and it better be important — or it’s just not worth the kind of mind share and prioritization of that customer to onboard you.” Audrey Kim, a venture partner at Oak HC/FT, focuses on growth equity and […]
“We’re excited about the environment where interest rates are reducing, but at a very high level, our mission does not change: We try to be the lowest cost of capital for consumers as on the way up, and we try to be the lowest cost of capital on the way down,” Khan told Fintech Nexus. […]