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We love that Financial Technology Partners / FT Partners published a new report on Women in FinTech: A New Era of Innovation. It features a collection of 25+ exclusive interviews with female leaders (including portfolio company Kin Insurance's Chief Insurance Officer Angel Conlin) that are ushering in a new era of FinTech innovation through their work surrounding hashtag AI, crypto, blockchain and more. View or download the report below or here: https://lnkd.in/epXAbGNh

Our partner Matthew Nichols will be speaking at Shoptalk Spring 2025 in Las Vegas! This event will bring together 10,000+ attendees from across the retail ecosystem for networking and innovation like never before. You can join him here: https://lnkd.in/gixUfhEJ #speakingatshoptalk2025 #shoptalkspeaker?#seeyouatshoptalkspring #retailinnovation #retailtech #retailevents

Thanks again to everyone that was involved in this year's pitch competition at Fintech Meetup! Congratulations to Kaaj and their Co-Founder Utsav Shah and 1Konto and their Co-Founder/CEO Edwin Handschuh! We can't wait to start working with you and supporting you on your journeys to build better financial products! We also have to shout out the village to takes to put this on: -Over 100 applications from incredible early stage startups, especially the 12 who made the trip to present in the finals -Our internal team (Rishabh Pudhota, Dylan Fitzpatrick, Erika Hull, Vivek Krishnamurthy, Ysbrant Marcelis, Dan Rosen) sorting through those applications to narrow it down -Our friends at Fintech Meetup (Gary Dempsey, Charlie Pace, and Sanjib Kalita) making sure everything runs smoothly both leading up to the event and during -Our fellow judges (Frank Medrano of J.P. Morgan, Cosku Cobanoglu?of Mastercard, Mitzi Chang and Arman Carretta?of Goodwin) making some tough decisions between the strong pitches We couldn't have done it without you!

Huge thanks to everyone that applied and those that were selected to present in Vegas yesterday! The amount of innovation happening is nothing short of amazing. Stay tuned to hear the winner this afternoon! Congrats to all the founders who took the stage: - Esty Scheiner, CISSP, OSCP, CEO, Shiboleth.ai (YC W24) - Rhim Shah, CEO and Co-Founder, Arva AI - Gopal Swamy, CEO, Conductiv - Ron Benegbi CEO & Founder, Uplinq Financial Technologies - Ben Malena, Founder, AlgoPear - Utsav Shah, CEO, Kaaj - Omri Yacubovich, CEO & Co-Founder, Lama AI - Edwin Handschuh, CEO, 1Konto - Jamie Twiss Chief Executive Officer, Carrington Labs - Saujin Yi, Founder/CEO, LiquidTrust - Rocky Motwani, CEO, Cyphlens - Zehra Cataltepe, CEO/Co-Founder, TAZI AI Systems

Check out this new article on one of our most recent investments, WeatherPromise!

Congrats to Kin Insurance and Candex on making the Forbes Fintech 50! https://lnkd.in/eG2Q8NHH

Remember when we said we were taking an in-depth look at stablecoins? Here's a bit of a deeper dive into where we think they'll provide the most value! Subscribe to Dan Rosen's new monthly newsletter to hear more on all things fintech.

Check out our partner Matthew Nichols' new newsletter on Linkedin! He'll be covering a wide range of topics in the commerce ecosystem, and the first edition is a deep dive into "Headless OTAs" and the future of travel. Let us know what you think!

As the CB Insights data shows, we were quite active in Q4 and we’ve been keeping that pace into 2025. Where in particular have we been focused? ?? Commercial Lending:?Modernizing commercial lending promises to transform how businesses access capital from banks and private credit funds. By streamlining processes and enabling advanced syndication, lenders can make faster, more intelligent decisions, while collaborating with new networks of lending partners and monitoring portfolios thereafter more effectively in real-time. ?? CFO Tech:?We believe in the potential of CFO tech to revolutionize financial and administrative operations within large enterprises. We have seen the power of applying AI and embedded FinTech to categories like Accounts Receivable (A/R) and Accounts Payable (A/P), but we believe the whole organization will benefit from modernizing systems of work and record. ?? Cross-Border Payments:?B2B payments remains an enormous market that is early in its path towards modernization, and nowhere is this more true than in cross-border payment flows. We are impressed by the rapid growth of payments innovators who are enabling these B2B cross-border payments using stablecoins for critical portions of the settlement flows and F/X conversion. Anyone we should be talking to? Tag them in the comments!

We're Hiring! ???Role:?Strategy Associate ???Location:?San Francisco, CA ???Compensation:?Competitive within the VC industry ???Start Date:?Immediate Ready to make your mark? Apply now! https://lnkd.in/gFgdNYvb