Fintech Explainer
The Machine That Reads Your Bank Account: The Yodlee Story
A quiet piece of financial infrastructure decides whether an app can see your other bank accounts. Founded in 1999 to fix a fragile hack called screen scraping, bought by Envestnet for roughly 660 million dollars in 2015, sold off again in 2025.
Listen · ~5 min
Yodlee
The other side of account aggregation.
Yodlee is the quieter, older sibling to the companies covered in
The Aggregators — same category, longer
history, and a name that shows up behind the scenes at a huge share of the
industry. Nothing here is a recommendation to use or invest in Yodlee.