Tagged: minorities

Capchase Deploys $100M+ in Funding for Women, Minority Founded Startups

Capchase, the provider of financing solutions for Software-as-a-Service companies, announced a milestone for its 2021 initiative to provide non-dilutive capital to women- and minority-led startups. Over the last two years, the company has “deployed more than $100 million in funding to these underserved groups using… Read More

Fintech Firm Paysend Enters Partnership to Bring Money Transfers to 60M Hispanic Americans

Paysend, the global card-to-card payments platform, has announced a new multi-year partnership with the Spanish-language content and media company, TelevisaUnivision. As part of the partnership, TelevisaUnivision will “become a shareholder in Paysend and will help the brand scale its presence with U.S. Hispanics and Latinos… Read More

Neobank Comun Secures $4.5M to Promote Financial Inclusion with Latino-First Approach to Banking

Comun, a Latino-founded neobank that provides modern banking solutions for Latino families, announced it closed a $4.5M seed round led by Costanoa Ventures with participation from South Park Commons and FJ Labs. The company plans “to use the funds to build a financial hub with… Read More

Commonwealth, JPMorgan Chase to Examine Effect of Emerging Tech on Financially Vulnerable Americans

Commonwealth and JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) announced the next phase of their collaboration to address “the challenges and opportunities that emerging technologies present for advancing the financial lives of US workers earning low and moderate incomes, who are disproportionately Black, Latinx, and women-led households.” This project… Read More

ASEAN Survey: Digitalization Advances Financial Inclusion for Women, Micro Business Owners

The World Economic Forum has launched the ASEAN Digital Generation Report 2022, the sixth edition of the report since 2017. This year’s report “examines digital financial services, gaps in access and where businesses, governments, and civil society organizations need to improve financial inclusion.” The report… Read More

Women and Minorities in Crowdfunding: Report Highlights How Reg CF Delivers Higher than Average Funding Success

  One of the key elements of online capital formation is the fact that geography is not as important. While traditional venture hubs, like the Bay area and New York City, continue to garner much of the activity in securities crowdfunding, expanding access to capital… Read More

Digital Investment Platform Stackwell Introduces Robo-Investing App

Stackwell, the digital investment platform created to eliminate the racial wealth gap,  announced the release of its first product, a robo-investing app, which is currently “available for download in the App Store.” Designed for the Black community, the app focuses on “promoting accessibility, education, and… Read More

Digital Investment Platform Stackwell Finalizes $3.5M Round

Stackwell, the digital investment platform created to address the racial wealth gap, recently announced the closing of a $3.5 million seed funding round that will “accelerate the company’s launch plan, allowing it to rapidly reach key product development and go-to-market milestones, as well as support… Read More

Mortgage Fintech Maxwell Introduces Spanish Loan Application

As U.S. demographics change, so does the pool of Americans “pursuing homeownership.” According to Freddie Mac, the Hispanic American homebuyer segment “has increased by 25% in the last decade.” By 2030, this growing sector “will represent an estimated 56% of all new homeowners.” Still, Spanish-speaking… Read More

MarketFinance Reveals Why they Partnered with Women in Business and Finance, and Upreach

Sanjay from the People and Talent Team at MarketFinance notes that his primary role is Talent Acquisition Lead where he helps find the best people to build their vision of “frictionless finance” for small businesses. Equally important to him is his position as Chair of… Read More

CNote Expands Access to Capital for Community Financial Institutions With $25M from Apple

CNote, an Oakland-based fintech, announced that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will use the CNote platform “to deploy $25 million into underserved communities across the country.” Apple‘s $25 million commitment is part of its broader Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, an effort “to address systemic racism in America… Read More

Nova Credit Introduces Cash Flow Underwriting Solution, Allowing Companies to Lend Responsibly

Nova Credit, the Fintech unlocking opportunities for “mainstream” and credit excluded consumers and the companies looking to serve them, has launched its latest product, Cash Atlas – “a first-party cash flow underwriting solution that transforms bank transaction data into a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) consumer… Read More

Welcome Tech Secures $30M in New Funding, Expands Board of Directors, Exec Team

Welcome Tech, a digital platform offering immigrant families with the tools and services required to thrive in the US, recently  announced $30 million in new capital, “following an oversubscribed $35 million Series B in April 2021.” This capital was raised “exclusively” from existing institutional investors… Read More

Fintech Stax Raises $245M to Enhance its Comprehensive Payments Platform

Stax, a comprehensive payments platform, announced its new funding raise of $245 million. Led by sibling co-founders Suneera Madhani, CEO, and Sal Rehmetullah, president, Stax celebrates this milestone at a time when “less than three percent of venture capital goes to minorities and less than… Read More

Financial Inclusion: Robinhood Teams Up with Amplify Latinx via Strategic Investment

Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) recently teamed up with Amplify Latinx via an investment that celebrates their fifth anniversary and supports their ongoing work to uplift the Latinx community. The Massachusetts-headquartered nonprofit Amplify Latinx aims to support Latinx communities by enhancing their economic power. This is done by… Read More

$100M Investment Fund Established by Financial Infrastructure Fintech Stronghold

Stronghold, a payments and financial infrastructure firm, has introduced Stronghold Capital in order to invest $100 million in high-potential firms and funds across key areas: “overlooked” and “underrepresented” founders as well as fund managers, the payments and fintech ecosystem, and the Web3 / blockchain sector…. Read More

InComm Payments Teams Up with Fintech Firm Cuentas to Make Transit Cards Available at NYC Retail Outlets

InComm Payments, a payments tech firm, announced that it has teamed up with Cuentas, Inc. (Nasdaq: CUEN & CUENW), a Fintech provider of mobile banking and payment solutions focused on Hispanic and Latino communities, in order to issue transit cards (tap and go) at participating… Read More

Adrienne A. Harris Appointed as Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services

On January 25, 2022, the New York State Senate reportedly voted to confirm Adrienne A. Harris as the Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS). Adrienne A. Harris stated: “I thank Governor Hochul for my nomination. I thank the New York… Read More

Visa Explains How a Small Loan to SMBs can Make A Meaningful Impact on Supporting Key Business Operations

Payments giant Visa (NYSE: V) notes that Sara’s Tamales in Portland, Oregon, is a small business built on a “big dream” — one that seemed quite “far-fetched” before owner Sara Rodriguez introduced her very first tamale cart. “When you don’t have the opportunities, the money… Read More

Amir Hemmat: CEO at Welcome Tech Explains How His Firm Assists Hispanic Population with Accessing Financial Services

Immigrants have been neglected by traditional banking and financial institutions. Our financial systems and related practices have been developed for a consumer who has been raised in the US or has a considerable amount of financial knowledge. Our systems tend to make many assumptions as… Read More