Fintech startup Parker recordsdata for chapter

Parker, a well-funded startup providing company bank cards and banking providers for e-commerce companies, has filed for chapter and is extensively reported to have shut down.

The startup was a part of Y Combinator’s winter 2019 cohort, and its Collection A was led by Valar Ventures. 

Parker got here out of stealth in 2023, touting a company credit score that it mentioned was designed to be used by e-commerce corporations. On the time, co-founder and CEO Yacine Sibous mentioned the startup’s “secret sauce” was an underwriting course of that might correctly assess e-commerce money flows. 

“We imagined constructing higher monetary merchandise for e-commerce founders with the mission of accelerating the variety of financially unbiased folks,” Sibous informed TechCrunch.

Parker’s web site remains to be up and doesn’t point out any shutdown. As a substitute, a banner on the prime boasts that the corporate has raised more than $200 million in complete funding, together with a $125 million lending association.

Nonetheless, a number of social media posts state that Parker’s bank card companion Patriot Financial institution despatched a message to prospects this week confirming the shutdown. Parker’s rivals appeared to leap on the information with their own posts in search of to lure over the startup’s former prospects.

And Parker’s troubles appear to be confirmed in its Might 7 submitting for Chapter 7 chapter safety. The submitting states that the corporate has between $50 million and $100 million in property, with liabilities in the identical vary. It additionally states that Parker has between 100 and 199 collectors.

Fintech advisor Jason Mikula not too long ago claimed that Parker had been in negotiations for a possible acquisition, with the failure of these talks finally resulting in the startup’s abrupt shutdown. Mirkula added that this “has left small enterprise prospects in a troublesome spot” and in addition raised “questions on [banking partner] Piermont’s and Patriot’s oversight of this system.”

Parker didn’t instantly reply to an e-mail from TechCrunch. 

The corporate’s CEO Sibous has not explicitly acknowledged the shutdown or chapter on LinkedIn, and in a recent post, he repeated the $200 million funding determine, including that the corporate had reached $65 million in income. However he additionally mentioned that if he began over, he’d do some issues in another way, reminiscent of: “Keep away from over-hiring, reactive selections, and doomsayers.”