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[Unit] Introducing the simplest way to embed lending into your product

Originally posted on Unit.co By David Sinsky, Vice President, Lending Today, we’re excited to launch Lending, the fastest and easiest way for companies to extend capital to their customers through their product. For many businesses, getting capital to grow and manage their cash flow is crucial. But many companies struggle to...

[Flourish Conversations] Infrastructure Leaders Driving Real Economic Value and Impact

Fintech infrastructure is heating up and several trajectories are emerging at this time. Where is it most primed for disruption? What is the positive ROI for the customer? Managing Partner Emmalyn Shaw sits down with leading fintech founders from Alloy, Clerkie, Skipify and Unit to discuss: Why the core and...

[Forbes] The Fintech 50

The past year has been brutal for some fintech startups, as valuations crashed, cash dwindled, layoffs mounted and fire sales and failures loomed. With stock prices for publicly traded fintechs off an average of 60% from their peak, private funding has plummeted too–in 2022, venture capitalists invested $75 billion globally...

[GGV Capital] Embedded Fintech 50

GGV Capital is excited to unveil the inaugural Embedded Fintech 50, a list highlighting the rising stars in fintech innovation. Congratulations to the companies that earned a spot!

[PYMNTS.com] Thread Bank, Unit Collaborate to Expand Banking-as-a-Service

Originally posted on PYMNTS.com Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform Unit has teamed up with digital-first bank Thread Bank to allow companies to embed banking services into their products. According to a Wednesday (Aug. 10) news release, those services include accounts, cards, payments and lending, all of which can be added in...

Itai Damti from Unit and Emmalyn Shaw from Flourish Ventures

[TechCrunch Live] Unit CEO Itai Damti and Flourish’s Emmalyn Shaw to explain fundraising strategies

Originally posted on TechCrunch By Matt Burns Itai Damti co-founded Unit in 2019 to help businesses integrate banking services into their consumer products. In 2020, Emmalyn Shaw, as Flourish’s managing partner, invested in Unit’s Series A round, and later, in the company’s B round. We’re excited to host both of...

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[Flourish Conversations] Embedded Finance Plumbing

With the pandemic and economic lockdowns, people around the world adopted new habits - work from home, online shopping and online banking. The trend of introducing traditional financial services—such as online payments and online credit—into apps that consumers use daily took off. We think about this technology trend as “Embedded...

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[PYMNTS] Unit Raises $51 Million To Expand FinServ Products, Integrations

Originally posted on Pymnts Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform Unit has raised $51 million in a Series B funding round, the company said in a Thursday (June 17) announcement. The financial services platform builder said the new funding will help it expand financial products and integrations — Unit has recently begun working...

[TechCrunch] Unit raises $18.6M to offer banking features as a service

Companies like Stripe and Twilio have changed the game for online businesses by making it easier to integrate payments and communications services into their customer interfaces without having to build those features from the ground up, or make costly investments to integrate them from elsewhere. Today, another startup is launching and announcing some...

December 08, 2020

Why We Invested in Unit: Modern Infrastructure Fintech Unit Launches Easy to Deploy Banking Services

From Uber and Apple to Shopify and Mindbody, a prominent mix of technology platforms have rolled out financial services including payments and banking features in…