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Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction. Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

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<ul><li>Finch was founded in 2020 by Jeremy Zhang and Ansel Parikh in San Francisco to address the fragmentation problem in employment systems.</li><li>Finch&#39;s rapid growth is evident in its metrics: over 10,000 employers and 1 million employees connected, processing 5 million daily API calls.</li><li>Finch&#39;s competitive advantage lies in its extensive integration network and its ability to provide a single, standardized interface for a highly fragmented market.</li></ul>

Finch was founded in 2020 by Jeremy Zhang and Ansel Parikh in San Francisco to address the fragmentation problem in employment systems.Finch&#39;s rapid growth is evident in its metrics: over 10,000 employers and 1 million employees connected, processing 5 million daily API calls.Finch&#39;s competitive advantage lies in its extensive integration network and its ability to provide a single, standardized interface for a highly fragmented market.

<ul><li>Pinwheel is solving a problem that is core to all consumers in the financial services world.</li><li>Our ICP fits two buckets.</li><li>We help them enable that for everything—from a seamless account opening, for a one-click direct deposit switch, to underwriting them for a mortgage—all at the same time with a frictionless passing of the information.</li></ul>

Pinwheel is solving a problem that is core to all consumers in the financial services world.Our ICP fits two buckets.We help them enable that for everything—from a seamless account opening, for a one-click direct deposit switch, to underwriting them for a mortgage—all at the same time with a frictionless passing of the information.

<ul><li>Plaid (2021 valuation: $13.4B) grew 47% in 2021 to reach $250M in revenue and crossed 500M+ connected bank accounts acting as a middleware for fintechs like Block (NYSE: SQ) and Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) to connect to their customers’ bank accounts for moving money to their app or fast-tracking customer onboarding.</li><li>Plaid became a consumer brand—going beyond serving as a white-label account linking service—by putting its logo on the bank linking experience inside fintech apps, sitting in the middle of a 3-sided, Visa-like network of 500M customers, 11,000 banks, and 2,600 fintechs.</li><li>In recent years, data aggregation has stagnated and become commoditized—the major players Plaid, Yodlee, Finicity (acquired by Mastercard for $825M) and MX (2020 valuation: $1.9B) build proprietary connections with only the top ~500 banks while outsourcing development to offshore software companies in India or reselling connections from other data aggregators for the long tail of 11,000+ banks.</li></ul>

Plaid (2021 valuation: $13.4B) grew 47% in 2021 to reach $250M in revenue and crossed 500M+ connected bank accounts acting as a middleware for fintechs like Block (NYSE: SQ) and Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) to connect to their customers’ bank accounts for moving money to their app or fast-tracking customer onboarding.Plaid became a consumer brand—going beyond serving as a white-label account linking service—by putting its logo on the bank linking experience inside fintech apps, sitting in the middle of a 3-sided, Visa-like network of 500M customers, 11,000 banks, and 2,600 fintechs.In recent years, data aggregation has stagnated and become commoditized—the major players Plaid, Yodlee, Finicity (acquired by Mastercard for $825M) and MX (2020 valuation: $1.9B) build proprietary connections with only the top ~500 banks while outsourcing development to offshore software companies in India or reselling connections from other data aggregators for the long tail of 11,000+ banks.

The Future Of Plaid's $250M Screen Scraping Business

<ul><li>We talked to Tony to learn more about the competition in the financial data aggregation space, emerging trends in financial data aggregation, and the need for a Segment-like layer in banking data stack.</li><li>Think of it as mint plus superhuman for the people who really need a higher tier experience to support more capabilities in their financial management.</li><li>We think we&#39;re building this obviously in the open, publicly, by the very nature of open source.</li></ul>

We talked to Tony to learn more about the competition in the financial data aggregation space, emerging trends in financial data aggregation, and the need for a Segment-like layer in banking data stack.Think of it as mint plus superhuman for the people who really need a higher tier experience to support more capabilities in their financial management.We think we&#39;re building this obviously in the open, publicly, by the very nature of open source.

Tony Xiao, Founder And CEO Of Venice, On The Opportunities In Financial Data Aggregation

<ul><li>Today, one programmer can do what it took a large team of programmers to do 20 years ago.</li><li>We were able to reduce development overhead by 30%, but probably stress by somewhere around 80%.</li><li>In the next five years, what you're going to see is Nylas will be the immediate tool that developers reach for.</li></ul>

Today, one programmer can do what it took a large team of programmers to do 20 years ago.We were able to reduce development overhead by 30%, but probably stress by somewhere around 80%.In the next five years, what you're going to see is Nylas will be the immediate tool that developers reach for.

Isaac Nassimi, SVP Of Product At Nylas, On The Market For Developer Middleware

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Open source framework for multiplexing financial data aggregators like Plaid and Yodlee

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Primer: Finch - 02 Sep 2024

API for accessing and writing data across fragmented HR and payroll systems

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The Future Of Plaid's $250M Screen Scraping Business

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Tony Xiao, Founder And CEO Of Venice, On The Opportunities In Financial Data Aggregation

Sacra interview with Tony Xiao, founder and CEO of Venice.

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Isaac Nassimi, SVP Of Product At Nylas, On The Market For Developer Middleware

Sacra interview with Isaac Nassimi, SVP of Product at Nylas

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