North Carolina’s Queen City Fintech, the only financial technology-focused startup accelerator in the Southeast, has recruited ten companies for its 2018 spring cohort. The accelerator’s eighth program drew 150 applications from post-revenue startups in 18 countries and 20 states. Half of the cohort is international companies — two from Canada, one from Denmark, and one […]
North Carolina already performs well as a good place to land for entrepreneurs of color — Durham is ranked a top city for black-owned businesses and plays host to the Black Wall Street Homecoming entrepreneurship conference as well as Google for Entrepreneurs Exchange for Black Founders. Now, a young organization is catalyzing the Charlotte tech and […]
Mobile transportation payments provider Passport announced a Series C funding round of $43 million from Bain Capital Ventures, a growth equity firm that has also invested in quickly-scaling startups such as Jet.com, DocuSign, AvidXchange, LinkedIn, and SurveyMonkey. The round, announced last month, followed a 300 percent revenue growth over three years for the Charlotte, NC-based company. “Having […]
Queen City Fintech Class 8 is set to run March 19 to June 6, 2018… LET’S GO! Charlotte, NC is the second largest financial center in the U.S. With a low cost of living and access to some of the world’s biggest banks, Queen City Fintech thinks that there is no better city in the country to grow a fintech […]
In effort to expand reach and scale the platform, charitable giving fintech startup uBack has partnered with Bank of America, giving them access to more than 24 million customers. Once those users are on the platform, they have the option to easily give back to more than 800,000 non-profits. “This partnership is game-changing for us on so […]