Backbase is an Amsterdam-based SaaS scaleup that provides legacy banks with the software they need to digitise. And almost two decades after founding, it's still bootstrapped. As the fintech funding climate gets rockier, founder and CEO Jouk Pleiter told us in our weekly Fintech newsletter why he thinks this tactic is the way to go right now.
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