What fintech can learn from Southwest Airlines’ holiday nightmare — If you experienced flight delays and cancellations during the holiday season, you are not alone. As reported, more than 90% of US flight cancellations during the December holidays were Southwest flights — with over 15,200 total flights canceled in a week. What happened? Southwest relies on crew- assignment software called…

Haymaker Ventures is excited to announce its investment in the €6mm pre-series A round of hi.health, a payments provider that is building a digital solution to the claims reimbursement process in Europe. The problem Few industries stack up in terms of both complexity and regulation than healthcare and financial services…

Haymaker Ventures is excited to announce its investment in the €10mm seed round of Rosaly, an earned wage access platform that aims to be the leading provider of payroll-initiated banking services in Europe. The Problem: As the global workforce adapts to post-pandemic reality, employers continue to wrestle with burnout, increasingly…

Negative headlines have dominated the market this quarter as central bank tightening reduces excess demand — and the threat of recession looms. We expect decreasing revenue multiples and declining deal counts to continue through the remainder of the year and early next year as companies utilize existing capital or internal…

Haymaker Ventures is thrilled to lead the $15m Series A in Brightflow AI, a SaaS platform that provides financial insights to small and medium-sized businesses in the D2C omnichannel commerce space. The company has also secured $100m in debt financing for small business owners from i80 Group. The problem: Two years after…

Where are we in this cycle? — From June 2009 to February 2020, the US economy recorded its longest-ever business cycle expansion — 128 months, surpassing the previous record of 120 months from March 1991 to January 2001. …

The Weaponization of Finance Mounting geopolitical turmoil over the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a deterioration of China’s relationship with the West have focused the global Eye of Sauron on the importance and interconnectedness of the world’s financial systems. …

Are Web3/De-Fi/NFTs here to stay? In five years, from 2010 to 2015, the US went through the greatest ramp-up of technology adoption in history — from 20.2% of people being connected through smartphones in 2010 to 59.4% in 2015 (by 2020 it was 72.7%). This expansion is one fundamental reason why all startups that began…

“The rise of hyper-specialized fintech” About a month ago, the Financial Times explored an interesting trend — the recent hyper- specialization of consumer fintech. As more service providers have exploded on the scene, lowering the cost of card issuance, processing, clearing and settlement, banking, underwriting, etc., it has become easier and faster to start a…