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Public story · 2026-07-15 · high
New CEO Enrique Lores is cutting 4,760 jobs to save 1.5 billion dollars as PayPal exits venture investing.
Why now: Crunchbase News covered the PayPal wind-down and Fidelity International's shutdown together in its July 15 reporting.
PayPal is winding down its decade-old venture arm and hiring Jefferies to sell stakes in Plaid and Anchorage Digital, per Crunchbase News. The sale sits inside a larger retreat: new CEO Enrique Lores is cutting 4,760 jobs to hit 1.5 billion dollars in savings. At that scale, every non-core unit is on the table, venture investing included.
Fidelity International shut its own corporate VC unit in May, per the same report. Two major balance sheets exiting startup investing in the same year isn't a coincidence.
The capital that funded PayPal's and Fidelity's arms is moving toward fewer, larger investors at the top of the market. Smaller or newer corporate arms are the ones shutting down.
For founders, the exposure sits in the cap table. Startups that took money from PayPal's venture arm now have an investor looking to exit rather than write the next check. Crunchbase's report doesn't say what price Jefferies is targeting for the Plaid and Anchorage Digital stakes, or how those companies are responding.
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PayPal partners with Canva
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