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Empire Startups is the largest community of FinTech entrepreneurs, investors, and bank innovators in the world. Every 2 weeks we'll deliver interviews with top thought-leaders, venture funding news, curated podcasts, events, and more.
HIGHLIGHTING FINTECH LEADERS
OUR INTERVIEW WITH OMRI MOR
At last count, a staggering 42% of business payments are still made via check - a statistic we often cite as evidence that FinTech is still in the early innings, and one of the many reasons I was super excited to sit down with my good friend and B2B payments legend, Omri Mor, Co-founder & CEO of Routable. Routable helps companies speed up their business payments using a secure invoice and bill payment platform.
Omri, Routable & Co are hot off their 30M series B announcement last week, which included an all-star group of VCs and angels from the Valley, including Instacart co-founder Max Mullen, Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie, Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff, and others.
It turns out that offering a delightful user experience to the often overlooked controller and CFO of small and medium sized companies represents a massive market!
FINTECH NEWS
Financial Times
Goldman Sachs was the baptism of fire I needed as a junior banker
I was warned of this in career discussions, and shared that same warning with others. But then the pandemic hit and junior investment bankers
BBC News
Learning to code ‘will seriously change your life’
Hannah attended an all-girls' school that didn't offer the computing and programming course she wished to take, despite the joint all-boys' school offering the course
New York Times
The Start-Up Enemies of Wall Street Are Booming
Times are flush for young tech companies like Stripe and Coinbase, which are having a moment as they upend the financial establishment
Finextra
ABN Amro selects ten startups for future of finance acceleratior
Cuantix, Valyuu, RaiseGreen: you've probably never heard of these companies. But that’s all about to change. Today, these three and seven other start-ups are kick-starting...
FINTECH VENTURE FUNDING
Level raises $27M from Khosla, Lightspeed ‘to rebuild insurance from the ground up’
FINTECH PODCASTS
What's one of the easiest ways to stay up on FinTech trends? Here's a short list of a few of close friends of Empire who just happen to have 🔥 podcasts.
Join The Future Farm's Vladi and Nektarios, in a “naked” conversation with the people who have been through it all. We’ll talk to business founders, investors, life partners and other ecosystem players about the personal challenges that business builders face when pursuing their dreams and passions.
LATEST EPISODE
For Fintech’s Sake is a broad look at the world of fintech. Host, Zach Anderson Pettet, explores the stories at the intersection of finance and technology from the perspectives of Founders, Investors, and Incumbents.
Fintech Insider is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. Hosted by a rotation of experts and joined weekly by fantastic guests, they discuss the latest news within the industry.