Asya Bradley, a seasoned fintech expert, has joined payments giant Stripe as its new head of Startup & Venture Capital Partnerships. Bradley announced the news on February 2 in a post on LinkedIn, although her bio shows that she joined Stripe back in November.<\/p>\n
Neither Stripe nor Bradley were immediately available for comment. Bradley spent three years as the chief revenue office of Synapse, a fintech company that went under in 2024, leaving thousands of its customers surprised and stranded. She also served as the VP of revenue at a startup called Sila for five months, became a venture partner with igniteXL Ventures for one year, and co-founded Kinly, a financial services startup that catered to Black Americans. Kinly was sold in 2023 to Greenwood, a digital banking platform for Black and Latino individuals and businesses.<\/p>\n
Bradley is also a limited partner in venture funds, including Cowboy Ventures and Ganas Ventures, and sits on the investment committee of the Cap Table Coalition, a group trying to pull in investors that have been historically left out of the investing process. Richie Serna, whose day job is CEO at payments startup Finix, helped build CTC.<\/p>\n
Stripe operates a startup partner program in which it works with venture capital firms and startup accelerators to bring exclusive Stripe benefits to portfolio companies. In recent years, it has acquired a number of startups. Most recently, it announced it was in talks to acquire stablecoin platform Bridge for a whopping $1 billion. Last July, Stripe made its third acquisition in a 14-month period and at least the 15th total over its lifetime when it picked up 13-person Lemon Squeezy, a merchant of record that calculated and paid global sales tax for digital products.<\/p>\n
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