Fintech companies are innovating across broad categories—in banking, lending, insurance, real estate, and investing—both on the customer-facing side and in core infrastructure. We believe the combination of mobile, digital money, AI and machine learning, and new data sources offers startups a unique opportunity to leapfrog outdated infrastructure and compete with incumbent financial institutions to reimagine the way money moves.
a16z’s Alex Immerman chats with Mercury cofounder and CEO Immad Akhund and BILL CEO René Lacerte about fintech's future.
In this month’s newsletter, we gauge where AI solutions are emerging in financial services, Reuters’ AI war chest, and the big real estate settlement.
3 financial service giants cornered the market on data at the dawn of the digital age. What can founders learn from them?
Jamil Khan explains how H&R Block is using AI, as well as what advice he would give founders looking to build in this space.
In this newsletter, we launch some new features: a monthly Q&A with a fintech leader and a "chart of the month" on a market trend.
As students of financial markets, we’re keenly interested in moments of inflection which alter market structure, spawn dominant new institutions, and catalyze the growth of new asset classes. Historically, these shifts...
As 2024 kicks firmly into gear, we’re keeping our eyes on some interesting stats and observations that may yield bigger developments down the line. Here are 4 things that stood out to us this month.
What is the future of finance? Our team of investors knows first-hand how innovations in banking and lending can pave the way for the entrepreneurs of tomorrow harnessing the power of digital money and AI. We’re here to navigate them to the top.
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