Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re taking a look at a brand new actual property startup that’s making massive waves with its providing, Klarna and Affirm’s financials, a neobank targeted on immigrants that’s rising quick, and extra!
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The massive story
Flat-fee actual property
There’s a complete lot of fintech in the true property world. And final week, I obtained the news on a brand new startup known as Landian that emerged from stealth to reap the benefits of current rule adjustments associated to actual property commissions. In truth, one in all its co-founders can also be one of many individuals who efficiently sued the National Association of Realtors (NAR) to assist facilitate these adjustments. Buyers have the choice to pay à la carte for Landian’s providing: $49 for every house tour and $199 for a suggestion prep session or they’ll decide to paying a flat charge of $1,799 for as much as 5 house excursions and two provide prep periods. Digital brokerage Redfin had some ideas in regards to the flat charge mannequin, which you’ll be able to examine right here.
Analysis of the week
BNPL on fireplace
Buy now, pay later gamers Klarna and Affirm shared their newest financials final week, and each had fairly spectacular outcomes. Affirm blew away analysts’ expectations of a loss per share of 51 cents by notching a lack of 14 cents per share. Its income was up 48% year-over-year to $659 million U.S., which was additionally above analysts’ estimates. Its inventory surged on the efficiency, closing August 30 at $44.01 a share, up considerably from the $31.58 it had closed simply two days prior. Meanwhile, Klarna informed TechCrunch its income elevated 27% within the first half of 2024 whereas adjusted working bills remained flat. In different Klarna information, Klarna’s board is mulling over the removing of Mikael Walther, “a confidant of founding accomplice Victor Jacobsson,” in keeping with the Financial Times.
Dollars and cents
Digital financial institution for immigrants raises massive
Comun, a digital financial institution targeted on serving immigrants within the United States, has raised $21.5 million in a Series A funding spherical lower than 9 months after saying a $4.5 million increase, TechCrunch was the primary to report. The firm is rising quick and says its valuation is up 50%. The startup launched its first product in October 2022 utilizing BaaS (banking-as-a-service) middleware. But the co-founders determined that it made extra sense to personal their very own infrastructure and determined to construct it out. By November 2023, Comun had launched a brand new program with Community Federal Savings Bank as a accomplice.
Read extra right here.
What else we’re seeing
Carta finds a sale
Stock-trading startup Public has acquired the brokerage accounts of Carta’s secondaries enterprise, TechCrunch confirmed. Carta, finest recognized for its cap desk administration software program, sits on a stockpile of knowledge. It tried to broaden into the effervescent sizzling secondary market brokerage enterprise, however in January, a startup buyer publicly accused Carta of utilizing the startup’s non-public cap desk knowledge to method its shareholders with a purpose to dealer a sale with out the startup’s information. That allegation went viral and scared a lot of Carta’s clients, who threatened to go away. Days later, Carta introduced that it was abandoning this enterprise. In an emailed assertion to TechCrunch, Public stated the purchasers of Carta Capital Markets who it acquired have a proper to decide out. Meanwhile, Carta says it isn’t out of the secondaries enterprise altogether. More right here.
The Bolt saga continues. One of Bolt’s proposed new backers, The London Fund, has been scrubbing its net web page. Head right here to be taught why.
And much more Bolt information right here.
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