Chime’s Big Move + Women-Led Fintech Wins 🎉

Hey Fintech Forward fam,

The fintech landscape is evolving fast—from embedded finance in the workplace to game-changing payment startups and power couples proving that business and love can mix. This week, we’re diving into three major themes:

✅ Chime’s big move into employee financial wellness
✅ How Sophia Goldberg built a payments company backed by 95% women investors
✅ The ups and downs of building a fintech empire with your life partner

Let’s get into it. 🚀

🏢 Chime Expands Into Employee Financial Wellness

Chime just made a major move into the employee benefits space with Chime Workplace, a financial wellness platform designed for employers and employees alike.

💡 Why it matters: Financial stress is a business problem. Studies show:

• 80% of employees would stay longer at a company with financial wellness benefits.

• Financial stress increases absenteeism and reduces productivity.

• Supporting financial health = boosting retention and engagement.

Chime isn’t alone. Betterment at Work, Earnin, and other fintechs are embedding financial tools into the workplace. The trend is clear: the workplace is the next big frontier for fintech.

🔎 What’s next? Expect more fintechs to enter the B2B space, offering embedded financial services that make financial health an employer priority.

💰 How Sophia Goldberg is Disrupting Payments (and Changing the Funding Game)

In this week’s Fintech Mavericks, I sit down with Sophia Goldberg, Co-Founder & CEO of Ansa—a startup making branded virtual wallets the next big thing.

🎯 Why you should care:

• Ansa is tackling high card fees on small transactions.

• Sophia literally wrote the book on global payments.

• Ansa’s Series A was 95.6% funded by female investors.

💡 Key takeaways from the episode:
✅ The playbook for launching in a competitive fintech space
✅ Why B2B fintech storytelling needs a glow-up
✅ How to build a cap table that aligns with your mission

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❤️ Building a Fintech Empire—with Your Life Partner

Ever wonder what it’s like to build a startup with your significant other? This week’s Humans of Fintech episode takes you inside that experience, featuring:

👫 Me & Anton Briones (Co-Founders, Fintech Is Femme)
💼 Dan & Sarah Roselli (Co-Founders, RevTech Labs)

💜 What we’re talking about:

• How personal stories fuel investor trust

• The myth of work/life balance—and what actually works

• Why RevTech Labs is betting on global fintech (hello, NY Fintech Week!)

If you’re an entrepreneur navigating business and relationships, this one’s for you.

🚀 Final Thoughts

Fintech is evolving in real time. This week showed us:
🔹 Financial wellness is now a workplace necessity
🔹 Female-led funding can rewrite the fintech playbook
🔹 Founders who build together, stay together—when done right

What do you think? Which trend are you watching? Hit reply and let me know.