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[The Fintech Fund @thefintechfund]

We're excited to announce our new $10M Fund II!

Looking to meet:

▶️ Early-stage companies
▶️ Building financial products (payments, software, data agg)
▶️ Pre-seed and seed rounds
▶️ Amazing founding teams with strong backgrounds

https://t.co/S2G1Mhn2qK @NikMilanovic

[Nik @NikMilanovic]

Thank you to the @BCG and @FTPartners teams for the invitation to host the AI discussion at the launch of the Global FinTech Report 2026.

The report is out now!

Find it at https://t.co/9EHhAIBoXC

[The Fintech Fund @thefintechfund]

Glad to be a believer since 2021!

[immad @immad]

https://t.co/59ZPavbYRz

[Nik @NikMilanovic]

Massive $200M Series D for @Mercury at a $5.2B valuation.

Up 50% from last year, driven by its approval to become a federally regulated bank, which would allow it to offer lending, join @Zelle and reduce reliance on partner banks.

Glad that @thefintechfund invested 4 yrs ago!

[This Week in Fintech @twifintech]

AI agents, stablecoins, and programmable payments dominated fintech this week:

@Fiserv launched an AI operating system for banks with @OpenAI and @awscloud.

@Visa, @PayZilch and @HelloThredd launched flexible payment credentials for UK consumers.

@SuiNetwork launched a stablecoin-powered credit card with DeFi credit lines.

@creditkarma opened its platform to millions of “credit invisible” Americans.

@FinBox_in launched AI-native lending infrastructure that cuts approvals to 24 hours.

The shift from fintech tools to autonomous financial infrastructure is accelerating fast.

Get the full rundown by @NikMilanovic on This Week in Fintech: https://t.co/m14iPuM85e

[Stabledash @stabledash]

.@stableseahq CEO Tanner Taddeo on why $5 trillion in small business capital is sitting idle in the US:

"The best companies in the world get access to capital markets and relatively cheap payments for their treasuries. If you're a steel manufacturer in Florence, Alabama, making $30 million at 30% margin, you pretty much have QuickBooks and hope."

"With web3 infrastructure, you can take capital markets products and payments products historically relegated to the top 1% of companies and provision them out to the real economy."

[Nik @NikMilanovic]

Just in time for @thestablecon next week, our second quarterly State of Stables report with @artemis is out.

This quarter’s edition dives into:

• Agentic finance and machine-native payments
• Stablecoin adoption across global markets
• Regulatory questions emerging around AI-driven payments and commerce

Check it out here: https://t.co/xCSKKQzu9M

[Nik @NikMilanovic]

We're looking for a founding Account Executive.

Someone who loves building partnerships and closing deals.

Is that you?

Join @twifintech and see why it's been called "the best place to work in fintech."

(by us)

Reach out to cfishman [at] plaid [dot] com

[Nik @NikMilanovic]

Big congrats to @ankurnagpal and the team at @carryhq_ on the sale to @AngelList.

Glad that we could support you from @thefintechfund 🙌

[conner @connerlb]

it’s just @bettermoney_co. ty guys!

[atikh 🇸🇴 @tikhbana]

great day to send an invoice and get paid on https://t.co/mAJuPrg2UY

[This Week in Fintech @twifintech]

AI isn’t killing fintech. It’s being built into it.

The Public Ledger: The Rise of the Bots looks at how payments and fintech companies are deploying AI across commerce and financial infrastructure.
Block, @Shopify, Toast and @Intuit are all rolling out AI assistants, but adoption is uneven.

This isn’t instant disruption. It’s a race to embed AI into core products.

The real question:
Who turns AI into actual usage and revenue first?

Read the full breakdown on This Week in Fintech.

[Adam Zuckerman @AdamZuck13]

https://t.co/ARUfno8EW0

[Nik @NikMilanovic]

And, right after announcing a payroll acquisition, @mercury is reportedly in talks to raise at a $5B valuation.

By the numbers:

- Last raised at $3.5B one year ago

- Mercury has been profitable for 3 years, with $650M of annualized revenue in 2025.

- Over 300,000 business customers.

- 50% YoY customer growth

- 73% of customers come from outside of tech

[jorn lyseggen @jorn_lyseggen]

Meet people passionate about authorization of agents and agent spend (@stripe MPP, @Shopify MCP, @coinbase X.402, @VISA TAP, @Mastercard Agent Pay, ++) at "Designing Trust for Agentic Economy" @SHACK15sf April 20, 5-8pm. Limited capacity: https://t.co/mTiBvsgUvj

[Nik @NikMilanovic]

Big congrats to the @Mercury team!

Payroll is an incredibly difficult product to build, and integrating it into a broader business suite of solutions makes perfect sense.

Great job @Immad and team (also - where do I sign up?)

More thoughts this weekend in @twifintech.

[VISION @hunterfc24]

@ValinorDigital @CastleIslandVC @PaulPPrager @NeoclassicCap @Maven11Capital @Paxos @thefintechfund @deptvc @57blocks @bsqcapital Congrats Valinor, the future of stable coins is becoming a reality.

[Cryip @Cryip_co]

Better Money Co. Raises $10M Seed led by a16z crypto!

Stablecoin clearinghouse unifies fragmented digital dollars across chains/issuers.

Investors: BoxGroup, The Fintech Fund

• Announced Mar 31; builds coordination layer for stablecoin interoperability.
• Issuers joining: Paxos, Bridge, MoonPay, Frax, MetaMask, Phantom.
• Builder partners: Ramp, Modern Treasury, Privy, LayerZero, BitGo.
• Enables single integration for global stablecoin acceptance at par value.

#Crypto #Stablecoin @bettermoney_co @a16zcrypto @BoxGroup @thefintechfund

[Nik @NikMilanovic]

Money should be better.

Even within stablecoins, where the #1 product advantage is interoperability, it's still difficult to move seamlessly fiat <> stables or even stable <> stable.

I'm glad that @SamBroner and @AdamZuck13 are working on this at @bettermoney_co.

[Sam Broner @SamBroner]

https://t.co/CaC7jt3dBs