6/23/2025 1:16:24 PM Plaid CEO says its next five years will look a lot different than the last five By Sarah Wolter While Plaid has become widely known for its connectivity rails, Perret highlighted the shift toward leveraging the vast amounts of data...
6/10/2025 1:36:58 PM Plaid launches request for payment By Sarah Wolter Plaid now enables instant pay-ins as well as instant payouts via its flexible multi-rail payment platform, Plaid Transfer. The financial...
6/5/2025 11:35:46 AM Experian and Plaid partner on cash flow data for lenders By Sarah Wolter With the addition of cash flow insights to traditional credit data, lenders gain a broader view of consumers’ finances and can assess...
5/21/2025 3:52:59 PM From infrastructure to analytics: a fireside chat with Zach Perret, CEO of Plaid By Sarah Wolter Plaid started as an API for your bank account and helped launch a generation of fintech innovation. Today, it’s a data network powering...
4/3/2025 1:57:31 PM Fintech Plaid raises $575m at a $6.1b valuation By Sarah Wolter Franklin Templeton led the “oversubscribed” raise, which also included participation from new backers Fidelity Management and Research,...
3/6/2025 2:34:18 PM Plaid in talks for secondary share sale at $6b valuation By Sarah Wolter The round will be led by mutual fund Franklin Templeton, three people involved in the discussions said. The company ended last year with...
2/18/2025 3:52:17 PM Forbes Fintech 50: 2025 By Sarah Wolter Congratulations to portfolio company Plaid for being named to Forbes' 10th annual Fintech 50 list, which highlights businesses that...
2/4/2025 2:06:20 PM Plaid and Algebrik launch CU-focused loan origination platform By Sarah Wolter The collaboration, announced this week, will integrate Plaid’s consumer-permissioned data with Algebrik, allowing for easier identity...
1/14/2025 2:19:52 PM Plaid’s revenue, usage rates jump as CEO sees ‘Fintech Spring’ By Sarah Wolter Revenue at Plaid, which provides the pipes fintechs and banks use to talk to each other, jumped more than 25% last year, as at least half...
10/17/2024 1:45:19 PM Plaid unveils technology to ease transfers between brokerages By Sarah Wolter The firm, best known for connecting consumers’ bank accounts to financial-technology companies, is now easing the transfer of investments...
10/8/2024 4:03:42 PM Plaid and MoneyLion team to give lenders cash flow underwriting insights By Sarah Wolter Digital financial ecosystem MoneyLion adopted a new solution from Plaid that allows consumers to link their bank accounts and get...
7/16/2024 1:06:09 PM Goldman-led group backs Databricks, Plaid through NEA vehicle By Sarah Wolter Goldman Sachs' alternatives unit is leading a consortium investing in a $540m continuation vehicle created by venture capital firm NEA....
7/1/2024 8:51:26 PM Plaid, once aimed at mostly fintechs, is growing its enterprise business and now has over 1,000 customers signed on By Sarah Wolter The expansion from connecting consumer bank accounts to financial applications into being a multi-product company has led to Plaid...
6/4/2024 2:10:09 PM Plaid launches a new product to take cash flow underwriting mainstream By Sarah Wolter Cash flow underwriting has been “the next big thing” in lending for several years now. And while several lenders are using it as part of...
4/9/2024 3:08:07 PM Multifi partners with Plaid to support UK SMEs By FinTech Collective The collaboration between Plaid and multifi, a cashflow management platform, aims to address the challenge of lengthy finance...
2/8/2024 2:10:57 PM Plaid names first company president in another step toward IPO By Sarah Wolter Plaid named Cloudflare's Jen Taylor as its first president as the financial-technology company continues to diversify its products and...