How do companies get priced? What variables are involved in determining the true value of a firm, especially as it moves closer to leaving the private market and becoming a publicly traded entity?
We caught up with Isabelle Freidheim, founder of Athena Capital, to answer these and other questions about the current investment landscape, especially for fintech companies. In this extensive conversation Freidheim shares her insights into the challenge of helping profitable technology...
FinovateFall returns to New York September 9 through 11, bringing more than 100 industry experts to the Marriott Marquis Times Square to discuss the forces reshaping banking and fintech.
This year's keynote lineup reflects just how much is changing at once. Banks and fintechs are navigating an uncertain economic and geopolitical environment while determining where AI can create real value, how to defend against increasingly sophisticated financial crime, what stablecoins mean for...
- Stripe has acquired startup legal infrastructure provider Clerky, expanding beyond payments into startup formation and ongoing corporate operations.
- The deal could help Stripe bring companies into its ecosystem earlier, establishing relationships during incorporation, fundraising, and hiring before startups ever need payment processing.
- Clerky complements Stripe Atlas with deeper legal workflows and attorney relationships, strengthening Stripe’s push to become a broader operating...
- Trust infrastructure for global identity and risk intelligence, Socure, has secured a strategic growth investment of $156 million, boosting the firm's valuation to $5.2 billion.
- In addition to the funding announcement, Socure announced that it is acquiring Fravity, an agentic AI platform for risk and compliance.
- Socure has been a Finovate alum since 2013. Fravity made its Finovate debut last year at FinovateFall 2025 in New York.
Socure, which offers trust infrastructure for...
Now in its fifth year, the Finovate Sustainability & Inclusion Scholarship Program has helped bring dozens of innovative fintech startups to the attention of banks, credit unions, investors, and journalists. This year, for FinovateFall, the Finovate Scholarship Program is proud to support six fintechs that are innovating in fields such as lending, customer service, small business financial management, fraud prevention, and biometric-enabled commerce.
The Finovate Scholarship Program...
