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Mergers and acquisitions in fintech, covering payments, lending, and infrastructure firms, including deal terms, buyers, and strategic rationale.
Intuit is buying London-founded Sequence to add billing and revenue recognition to QuickBooks Online Advanced and Intuit Enterprise Suite. The Times put the price near $200 million, Tech.eu reported, about five times the roughly $40 million Sequence raised.
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Intuit signed an agreement to buy Sequence, a New York Series A revenue management startup, and did not disclose terms. Intuit says the product lets it price, bill and collect on usage, seat and milestone revenue.
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Spring Labs acquired Winnow and its attorney-maintained library of more than 100,000 state and federal requirements to build SpringGRC for banks and fintechs. The product is only useful if it ties each rule to the right control and test inside each bank.
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Stripe confirmed its OpenRouter deal on the same day Ramp launched a rival router with no fees through 2026. The layer you picked for being boring is now a strategic asset for someone else.
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The reported price is roughly 5.8 times OpenRouter's May valuation, and one banker says it does not rule out a PayPal bid. Stripe is buying the layer between developers and 400-plus models.
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Capital One closed its stock-and-cash acquisition of Brex on April 7 and kept Pedro Franceschi as chief executive, so the credit and product decisions behind Brex cards now sit with a deposit-funded lender.
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The $717 million headline nets to about $590 million of cash once cash acquired is counted, and it was raised at 8.500%, which sets the hurdle every loan in the acquired pipeline now has to help clear.
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