Mercedes Bent

  • Congratulations Stori on your Series C

    Congratulations to Stori on your $125M Series C equity raise led by GGV and GIC! We led the Series B earlier this year and I’ve been thrilled to see Stori perform incredibly well since we invested. The company has more than 10x’d active credit cards and seen over 2M people apply for a card. They also introduced…

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  • Meet Flink: México’s Leading Neobroker

    By Mercedes Bent and Will Kohler We’re thrilled to announce that Lightspeed is leading the $57M Series B of Flink, the leading neobroker in México. Flink surpassed 1M brokerage accounts earlier this year after launching their brokerage product in the summer of 2020. We first met the Flink team the day before Mercedes’ birthday. It was a Friday…

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  • Meet Stori: Mexico’s Credit Card for the Masses

    Mexico is the fastest growing e-commerce market in the world. Mexico earned the #1 spot ahead of India, China, Philippines, and Malaysia. This increase in online purchases means that Mexicans are increasingly looking for more ways to digitally pay. In China, home grown digital payments companies like Alipay and WeChat Pay have the dominant share of e-commerce.…

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