by Jeffrey Kranz | Feb 19, 2018 | Case study, Teardown
The fintech industry is growing fast. And Stash Invest is one of the fastest-growing players in this industry—reaching a million users, or “Stashers,” in their first three years. Like Wealthfront (which we tore down recently), Stash is a robo-advisor: an online...
by Jeffrey Kranz | Jan 18, 2018 | Article, Teardown
Wealthfront is a robo-advisor company that takes a software-only approach. No financial advisors. No chasing the market. Just software-driven passive investing. The startup was founded to democratize the finance industry, making it easy for anyone to invest wisely....
by Jeffrey Kranz | Oct 12, 2017 | Industry report, Teardown
Fintech startups are getting a lot of funding. (In fact, in Q2 of 2017, fintech companies raised a whopping $5.2 billion.) A good deal of that money goes into making apps that are changing the way we budget, bank, save, borrow, lend, and trade. Another portion goes...