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Cash Flow Is King.
This Dallas Fintech Tackles Challenges for Businesses, 1099 Workers in the Ever-Changing Gig Economy
by David Seeley | Jul 20, 2022
Gig Wage has found new ways to help business owners manage cash flow and payment speed. But even more so, it aims to help create "a social safety net for 1099 workers" by offering non-predatory Faster Pay solutions and other features, with a debit card and mobile app offering also in the works.
by Kevin Cummings |
Jul 14, 2022
According to Dallas-based CBRE’s most recent annual Scoring Tech Talent report, Dallas-Fort Worth now stands in the No. 9 spot, jumping up four places from last year’s report—one of the biggest gains seen by any metro area. The region also ranks No. 5 for women in the tech workforce.
Over the past five years, DFW’s talent pool has grown by nearly 15%, with close to 188,000 residents employed in the industry.
Over the past five years, DFW’s talent pool has grown by nearly 15%, with close to 188,000 residents employed in the industry.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Jul 11, 2022
Quiltt, a low-code financial tech platform that "lowers technical barriers for innovators," announced its beta launch for other startups and small businesses. The company closed a $4 million seed funding round earlier this year.
“Quiltt's vision is to make fintech development more accessible so that more growing businesses and startups can create seamless experiences for their customers,” says Ruben Izmailyan, Quiltt co-founder and CEO.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Jun 22, 2022
AlgoPear, a subscription-based algorithmic stock trading platform, has onboarded more than 4,000 users and grown its monthly recurring revenue with a team of 15, according to co-founder and CEO Ronnie Green.
Green says the startup is seeing the "hypergrowth that any founder or any investor would love to see right now."
Green says the startup is seeing the "hypergrowth that any founder or any investor would love to see right now."
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Dallas Fintech Gig Wage Helps Freelance and Contract Workers Find Financial Stability
by Kevin Cummings | Apr 4, 2022
“Our mission is economic empowerment, period.” says Craig Lewis, Gig Wage founder and CEO. The Dallas 1099 payroll solutions company collaborated with Green Dot and nonprofit Commonwealth on a study of what types of 'financial interventions' help provide financial security to a fast-growing non-traditional workforce in the gig economy. Empowerment starts with understanding, Lewis says. "We want to get involved to start to set the tone on what that understanding should be, so that we can replicate it at scale.”
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by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 30, 2022
Clear Street, a fintech that says it’s building a better infrastructure for capital markets with a cloud-based trading platform, has expanded operations into Dallas with three new director-level hires.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 10, 2022
Arlington-based First Rate, which provides technology and services to wealth management companies, launched its corporate venture arm First Rate Ventures in December. Now it's made its second investment—in New York-based RegAlytics, a regulatory data analytics company.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Feb 23, 2022
Emerging from stealth this quarter, Deposits.com, a platform that Co-Founder and CEO Joseph Akintolayo describes as the “Shopify of banking," is looking to add financial literacy and wellness tools to its technology. It plans to do that in a partnership with Utah-based MX, a financial data platform valued at $1.9 billion.
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Gig Wage's Kristen Blum
Gig Wage Hires LTK Founding Member to Lead the Launch of Its First Consumer Product
by Alex Edwards | Dec 20, 2021
It's been dubbed the creator economy, freelancer economy, gig economy, independent economy—but to Gig Wage, it's just becoming the economy. In 2022 the Dallas-based fintech will be hyperfocused on its next phase of growth in a booming industry in need of its seamless, reliable banking platform. Kristen Blum, the new senior director of strategic brand initiatives, will be at the center of that.
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by Alex Edwards |
Dec 8, 2021
First Rate Ventures says it's the first fintech-focused venture capital firm in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that will focus on investments in early-stage startups in wealth, investment, regulatory, and mortgage technologies.
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by Alex Edwards |
Dec 7, 2021
Zirtue's Alternative Payment Solution—operating in stealth mode to Fortune 500 corporate partners since early 2021—is now open to all businesses for consumers to pay their bills. It's a "new level of convenience," CEO and Co-Founder Dennis Cail says: The product gives those who are struggling a way to lean on friends, family, and loved ones to make payments, while providing accountability and trust to the lender.
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by Alex Edwards |
Nov 2, 2021
The coalition—dedicated to hiring, promoting, and retaining more Black professionals in fintech—has doubled its number of partners and participating firms and served more than 250 students from four cities just a year after forming. Executive Director Michelle Williams leads the coalition from Dallas.
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Joe Beard and Joel Radtke, co-founders of CollateralEdge [Photo: CollateralEdge]
‘The Next Fintech Unicorn’: Dallas-Based CollateralEdge Emerges From Stealth With $3.5M and a Stellar Investor Group
by Quincy Preston and Alex Edwards | Sep 14, 2021
VC-turned-entrepreneur Joe Beard and financier Joel Radtke co-founded the new fintech to solve a "massive problem" in middle-market lending. CollateralEdge aims to help community and regional banks overcome collateral shortfalls, improve credit risk management, and drive profitable, long-term customer relationships. Capital partners include VC firm Perot Jain, Capital Factory CEO Josh Baer, and Kneeland Youngblood, the founding partner of Pharos Capital Group.
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by Alex Edwards |
Sep 13, 2021
The Plano-based fintech plans to expand its total addressable market and gain new cross-selling opportunities via the strategic acquisition.
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by Alex Edwards |
May 26, 2021
Like the fast-growing digital life insurance company says, "we do things a little differently around here."
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by Alex Edwards |
Apr 27, 2021
The VC arm of Northwestern Mutual, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, invests in financial technology startups that are focused on historically underbanked and underfunded populations. That's Zirtue's bread and butter: The growing startup touts the first and only relationship-based lending app that drives financial inclusion and freedom.
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