Visa announced it will acquire Plaid—a startup that connects payment apps like Venmo and Square Cash to users' bank accounts to transfer funds—for $5.3 billion. Here's why.

Fintech startup Plaid has hired former Expedia CFO Eric Hart to serve as its first chief financial officer.. When asked if the move meant that the company was planning to go public, a spokesperson ...

Plaid's CEO, Zach Perret, said the company scraped data from 12,000 banks. Cody Glenn/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images 2025-05-27T06:45:43Z ...

In the post Perret said more than one in two Americans have used Plaid to date. Launched in 2013 by Perret and William Hockey, the San Francisco-based private company now operates in seven countries.