Home·Jul. 17, 2026Funded: Rime raises $24M to make enterprise voice AI sound more humanHi there and welcome to Funded, where we spotlight the early-stage bets on the future of tech. This week, we’re... Read Full Story
Home·Jul. 16, 2026Inside Adyen’s Blueprint for Getting Merchants Ready for Agentic Commerce When Adyen talked with more than 200 companies about the coming wave of AI shopping agents, one fear came up... Read Full Story
Home·Jul. 9, 2026The ID Document Is Dead. The Industry Just Hasn’t Buried It Yet.Open a bank account online today, and you will almost certainly be asked to do the same thing you were... Read Full Story
Popular·Jul. 2, 2026Banking on Trust in a Tightening EconomyLast week, we dug into the impact of the changing labor market on fintechs’ strategy. This week bears a fresh... Read Full Story
Home·Jul. 2, 2026Mercury’s Ryan Wiggins on Building Customer Trust: Lessons from a Decade at Facebook and WhatsAppMercury’s VP of Product spent a decade at Facebook and WhatsApp learning what makes people trust software. Now he’s applying... Read Full Story
Home·Jun. 26, 2026Funded: Attention raises $30M as AI sales software shifts from note-taking to actionHi there and welcome to Funded, where we spotlight the early-stage bets on the future of tech. This week, we’re... Read Full Story
Home·Jun. 25, 2026TabaPay CEO on the Moat AI Can’t ReplaceTo last in fintech, it pays to have a moat that makes it hard for newcomers to replicate your success.... Read Full Story
Home·Jun. 18, 2026OPINION: Finance Found Its AI Moment. Mortgage Slept Through It.Every other corner of financial services now has an AI-native champion. But the single largest loan most Americans will ever... Read Full Story
Home·May. 29, 2026Funded: Fonoa raises $110M to build the operating system for autonomous taxHi there and welcome to Funded, where we spotlight the early-stage bets on the future of tech. This week, we’re... Read Full Story
Home·May. 21, 2026Merge CEO on building the pipes behind AI, and starting with zero codeShould we buy or build? It’s a question the technology industry has been stuck on for decades. Some argue that... Read Full Story