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If the banking-as-a-service fintech Unit does its job right, it will be ubiquitous among businesses and simultaneously have a name unknown to the end user. The company gives companies a…

Unit’s banking-as-a-service platform is getting into the charge card game

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Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. The whole team was back together this week, which was pretty darn good as there was a lot to get through. Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas and Mary Ann Azevedo were on the mic, with Grace handling…

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Unit, a banking-as-a-service startup, has closed on a $100 million Series C round of funding led by Insight Partners. Existing backers Accel, Better Tomorrow Ventures and Flourish Ventures also participated…

Banking-as-a-service startup Unit closes on $100M at a $1.2B valuation

Unit CEO and co-founder Itai Damti broke down the company’s pitch deck with investor Emmalyn Shaw.

Unit’s Itai Damti explains how the company fundraises using culture and value

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,…

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

Who needs a BaaS partner, anyway?

Banking as a service will change not just the way financial services apps are built and embedded into new platforms, but also the way in which consumers and businesses alike…

Who needs a BaaS partner, anyway?

We’ve all heard the phrase, “Every company is a fintech.”  But these days, that’s becoming more and more true as an increasing number of companies that are not even in…

Unit raises $51M in Accel-led Series B to grow its banking-as-a-service platform
Startups

Amazon is now open to getting sued

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Despite it being a short week, as always,…

Amazon is now open to getting sued

Work looks wildly different today than it did a year ago. In tech, every bit of the workplace has been tweaked to fit our new remote world. From scaling accountability…

Unit tests an easier way for workers to organize