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
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
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!
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
.@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."
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.