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Latest Issues

Analysis: How an AI Insurer reached a $2.6B Valuation on $40MM of Premium

San Francisco based insurance carrier Corgi raised at a $1.3B valuation on 6 May and a $2.6B valuation on 28 May, from largely the same investors. How does this make sense?

Hi Fintech Futurists —

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Analysis: The Missing Half of Agentic Payments

Gm Fintech Architects —

Today, we have a guest post from Don Gossen, CEO of Nevermined, an agentic payments company in the Generative Ventures portfolio.

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Agentic finance has gotten very hot, so I asked him to dig into what the re...

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Podcast: How Marqeta Built the $400B Modern Card Issuing Platform, with CEO Mike Milotich

Hi Fintech Architects,

In this episode, Lex chats with Mike Milotich — Chief Executive Officer of Marqeta, the modern card issuing platform that processed nearly $400 billion in payments volume in 2025, and is certified to operate in 40+ c...

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Analysis: A Psalm to the Machine Gods

Gm Fintech Architects —

Today is a bit different, grounding all the finance math in an overwhelming feeling:

  • Summary: A poetic, deliberately overwhelming tour through the manic acceleration of early 2026 — trillion-dollar valuations,...
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DeFi: Circle takes shot at Stripe with stablecoin chain and AI payments

GM Fintech Futurists,

Today, we highlight the below items.

Also notable are the drastic moves both in the US and UK to allow the trading of tokenized securities, to be covered in a later issue.

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  • Lex Sokolin

    Partner at Generative Ventures, investing in machine economy of Web3 + AI + Fintech. Ex Chief Economist & CMO at Consensys, Founder of Fintech Blueprint, AdvisorEngine, and NestEgg Wealth.

  • Laurence Smith

    All things #fintech and a little bit of football #WHUFC

  • Michiel Milanovic
  • Matt Low

    Co-Editor of The Fintech Blueprint

  • Luke Spill

    Building the future of artist finance. Oxford MBA. Ex-UMG. Writing about agentic AI, stablecoins & the systems reshaping money.

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