A profile of Checkout.com founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz, who owns 60% of the $40B London-based payments company and has begun investing in fintech startups (Ivan Levingston/Bloomberg)

October 3, 2022

Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg:
A profile of Checkout.com founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz, who owns 60% of the $40B London-based payments company and has begun investing in fintech startups — A college dropout from Switzerland has amassed a $14 billion fortune to become one of the country’s richest people by creating a rising star in electronic payments.

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A profile of Figma founder Dylan Field, who will become the wealthiest person from the Thiel Fellowship by far, as PitchBook estimates his stake is worth $2B+ (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
A profile of Figma founder Dylan Field, who will become the wealthiest person from the Thiel Fellowship by far, as PitchBook estimates his stake is worth $2B+ — Dylan Field dropped out of an Ivy League school in 2012 to take a grant from the billionaire Peter Thiel and start a software company called Figma.

September 17, 2022

Sources: Checkout.com, which offers payment processing tools, drops its internal valuation to ~$11B, after securing a $40B investor valuation in January 2022 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)

Ivan Levingston / Financial Times:
Sources: Checkout.com, which offers payment processing tools, drops its internal valuation to ~$11B, after securing a $40B investor valuation in January 2022 — Start-up sharply reduces price of staff stock options as private tech groups are hit by funding crunch

December 13, 2022

Six people, including Coinbase employees and prominent crypto developers, sue the US Treasury, Janet Yellen, and officials in Texas over Tornado Cash sanctions (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Six people, including Coinbase employees and prominent crypto developers, sue the US Treasury, Janet Yellen, and officials in Texas over Tornado Cash sanctions — Six users of Tornado Cash, a popular decentralized cryptocurrency service, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the U.S. Treasury Department …

September 8, 2022

Stripe debuts a customizable fiat-to-crypto payments widget for Web3 devs to directly embed into their apps; Stripe to handle KYC checks, fraud, and compliance (Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez/Fortune)

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune:
Stripe debuts a customizable fiat-to-crypto payments widget for Web3 devs to directly embed into their apps; Stripe to handle KYC checks, fraud, and compliance — DAVID PAUL MORRIS—BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES — Payments processing company Stripe on Thursday announced a so-called …

December 2, 2022

A look at the fintech startups serving small and large US-based cannabis retailers in an industry dominated by cash, as Visa, Mastercard, and others steer clear (Helen Li/Wired)

Helen Li / Wired:
A look at the fintech startups serving small and large US-based cannabis retailers in an industry dominated by cash, as Visa, Mastercard, and others steer clear — In dispensaries, cash is king—and it’s a nuisance for business owners and buyers. Fintech players are entering the fray.

November 3, 2022

How angel investing became a pastime and a way of socializing in Silicon Valley, with investors betting small amounts in friends’ startups (Ellen Huet/Bloomberg)

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
How angel investing became a pastime and a way of socializing in Silicon Valley, with investors betting small amounts in friends’ startups — Maia Bittner is an angel investor, and she has a lot of friends who’ve founded startups. Sometimes they ask her if she wants to put money into their companies.

September 30, 2022

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