{"id":32687,"date":"2025-02-03T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/fintech-startup-cushion-shuts-down-after-8-years-and-over-20-million-in-funding\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:00:30","slug":"fintech-startup-cushion-shuts-down-after-8-years-and-over-20-million-in-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/fintech-startup-cushion-shuts-down-after-8-years-and-over-20-million-in-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Fintech startup Cushion shuts down after 8 years and over $20 million in funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cushion, a fintech startup that described itself as the \u201cPlaid for buy now, pay later (BNPL),\u201d has shut down. On Thursday, founder and CEO Paul Kesserwani posted on LinkedIn about the decision to wind down the company at the end of 2024. In the post, Kesserwani said that \u201cdespite bringing multiple new fintech products to [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cushion, a fintech startup that described itself as the \u201cPlaid for buy now, pay later (BNPL),\u201d has shut down. On Thursday, founder and CEO Paul Kesserwani posted on LinkedIn about the decision to wind down the company at the end of 2024. In the post, Kesserwani said that \u201cdespite bringing multiple new fintech products to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fintech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}