A Greater Cincinnati startup financial technology payments company has raised $1.5 million from investors.
About a year after it launched its first paid beta, Cincinnati-based AKRU closed a $2.2 million seed round in the fall of 2021. CEO and founder Mohsin Masud says that funding will fuel across-the-board growth for the tech startup.
Fast-growing Cincinnati fintech Akru has named a well-known local politician and Ohio governor candidate to its board of directors.
The partnership will allow users of SkySlope to tap into secure payment technology to pay earnest money deposits immediately upon a contract’s signing for deposit ‘within seconds’
Pay Theory is the creator of a SaaS-based electronic payment solution that focuses on helping families and public schools manage tech-based financial payments.
What does it mean for financial services and financial technology to be truly “inclusive?” Have recent evolutions truly benefitted all customers or are some being left out in our increasingly digital financial world?
A less-than-three-year-old Greater Cincinnati payments company is seeing sales soar after it has expanded its product to a broad variety of uses.
Acquisition puts Western & Southern’s industry-leading capital strength behind fully digital, consumer-friendly platform.
It’s been another crazy year here at Cincy Inno. And not just because of a seemingly-never-ending global pandemic. The year 2021 has been a blockbuster for local startups as pent-up demand brought in more than $600 million in venture capital this year alone, shattering previous records. Several upstarts announced plans to go public, including Griid and Blue Water Vaccines, and entrepreneurs aplenty are jumping in to start their second acts – a harbinger of a healthy startup ecosystem.
During his nearly 15-year career at Northwestern Mutual that culminated in his role as chief information officer and head of digital innovation, Karl Gouverneur routinely encountered early-stage startups that intrigued him.
A Texas-based startup claimed the top prize in Fintech Frontier’s latest pitch competition.
A 2-year-old Cincinnati fintech quietly working in the commercial construction space has landed key financing backing from one of the city’s largest developers as it readies for its go-to-market launch.
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