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WATCH NOW Introducing the New Plaid Brand

Founded: 2013 Headquarters: San Francisco, USA CEO: Zach Perret

Plaid is fintech’ s unsung hero – the invisible plumbing connecting your banking apps to actual banks. When you link your account to Venmo, Robinhood or Chime, Plaid makes it happen. Processing eight billion API calls monthly, it’ s become essential infrastructure for American fintech, much like AWS powers the internet. Perret’ s team solved the nightmare of bank data connectivity, transforming what was once a monthslong integration process into a few lines of code. This behind-the-scenes dominance makes Plaid indispensable, explaining why Visa once tried to acquire it for US $ 5.3bn Zach Perret, CEO, Plaid fintechmagazine. com 25