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challenger banks

Startups

Vivid Money, a financial super app, raises $114M at an $886M valuation to expand in Europe
Ingrid Lunden

Feb 7, 2022
Enterprise

Israeli fintech Personetics raises $85M for tools to help incumbents personalize banking services to compete with neobanks
Ingrid Lunden

Jan 19, 2022

Fintech

Thought Machine closes $200M for its cloud native banking SaaS and becomes a unicorn
Natasha Lomas

Nov 29, 2021
Media & Entertainment

Greece’s Viva Wallet raises $80M for its neobank targeting small business merchants
Ingrid Lunden

Apr 28, 2021
Startups

Teen banking service Step raises $100M Series C, announces Steph Curry’s investment
Sarah Perez

Apr 27, 2021
Startups

New challenger Ikigai combines digital banking and wealth management
Steve O'Hear

Mar 16, 2021

Startups

UK challenger bank Starling raises $376M, now valued at $1.9B
Ingrid Lunden

Mar 8, 2021
Startups

Monzo founder Tom Blomfield is departing the challenger bank and says he’s ‘struggled’ during the pandemic
Steve O'Hear

Jan 20, 2021
Startups

Mexican challenger bank albo raises $45 million to expand
Jonathan Shieber

Dec 8, 2020
Startups

Helping big banks out-Affirm Affirm and out-Chime Chime gives Amount a $681 million valuation
Jonathan Shieber

Dec 2, 2020

Startups

HMBradley raises $18.25 million planting a flag as LA’s entrant into the challenger bank business
Jonathan Shieber

Nov 24, 2020
Startups

Nigeria’s Kuda raises $10M to be the mobile-first challenger bank for Africa
Ingrid Lunden

Nov 10, 2020
Fintech

Leading a $15 million round, Prosus Ventures makes the challenger bank Klar its first bet in Mexico
Jonathan Shieber

Oct 20, 2020
Venture

Which neobanks will rise or fall?
Denis Barrier

Alex Lazarow

Oct 2, 2020

Fintech

Small business challenger bank Finom raises another $12 million to expand in Europe
Mike Butcher

Sep 24, 2020
Fintech

The tale of 2 challenger bank models
Tilman Ehrbeck

Anuradha Ramachandran

Ameya Updadhyay

Aug 6, 2020
Startups

Challenger bank Varo, soon to become a real bank, raises $241M Series D
Sarah Perez

Jun 3, 2020
Startups

Monzo to lay off up to 120 employees as the ‘economic situation’ remains challenging
Steve O'Hear

Jun 3, 2020

Startups

Existing backers put another £40M into UK challenger bank Starling
Steve O'Hear

May 28, 2020
Featured

This UX specialist opened 12 UK bank accounts and ‘logged everything’
Steve O'Hear

May 21, 2020
Startups

Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield moves from UK CEO role to president
Steve O'Hear

May 20, 2020
B2B challenger bank Finom raises $7M Seed from Target Global and General Catalyst
Mike Butcher

Apr 30, 2020

Enterprise

Thought Machine nabs $83M for a cloud-based platform that powers banking services
Ingrid Lunden

Mar 1, 2020
Fintech

Albo raises $19M Series A to scale Mexico’s largest neobank
Anna Escher

Dec 11, 2019
Startups

Penta, the German business banking challenger, partners with SumUp to target offline businesses
Steve O'Hear

Dec 2, 2019
Fintech

LA is fast becoming a fintech hub as HMBradley launches another West Coast challenger bank
Jonathan Shieber

Nov 6, 2019

Venture

Where top VCs are investing in fintech
Arman Tabatabai

Nov 5, 2019
Startups

Duffel raises $30M led by Index Ventures to disintermediate legacy travel platforms
Mike Butcher

Oct 28, 2019
Startups

Starling Bank raises additional £30M as it nears 1 millionth account holder
Steve O'Hear

Oct 23, 2019
Fintech

The battle to become the Mexican Nubank just started
Thiago Paiva

Oct 17, 2019