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Even with Fair’s Job Cuts, Car-Sharing Keeps Racing Forward

PYMNTS

Kirk has a decade of experience running treasury and capital markets for large fleet companies, and is well known on the capital markets side. The funding round brings the company’s total amount raised to $450 million since the company’s inception in 2009, when it was called Relay Rides. That’s hardly all.

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Even With Fair’s Job Cuts, Car-Sharing Keeps Racing Forward

PYMNTS

Kirk has a decade of experience running treasury and capital markets for large fleet companies, and is well-known on the capital markets side. The funding round brings the company’s total amount raised to $450 million since its inception in 2009, when it was called Relay Rides. That’s hardly all.

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Whatever Happened To…Kabbage

PYMNTS

The year was 2009, and it was rough for some, but a fertile ground for others. “I Our focus has always been on user experience and for them to get capital in less than ten minutes. Petralia remembers back to 2009 when the team was looking for a bank partnership. million to date, after five rounds and 17 investors.

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Who Will Disintermediate The Intermediaries?

PYMNTS

Traditional acquirers are being marginalized by technology players that provide solutions — not just payments processing — to software platforms who want more control over the end-to-end payments experience for the merchants with which they do business. To name but a few. Yes, they do. We have complied a pretty compelling story.

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37 Corporate Innovation Labs In Finance

CB Insights

Capital One — Capital One Labs. Key people: James Patterson, Managing VP & Head of Capital One Labs at Capital One. Capital One Labs aims to streamline the product creation process, with a focus on consumer-first design. Notable projects: Capital One Cafes have been popping up in cities all over the country.

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The Only Thing to Hate About Personal Finance Management Is the Term ‘PFM’

Javelin Strategy & Research

I said that in first PFM report for Javelin in 2009, and I’ve repeated it in the seven reports since, most recently in “Managing Money in the ‘Mobile-First’ Era: A Blueprint for On-the-Go Personal Finance Management.”. In January, Capital One snatched up Level Money’s budget app. Americans care about their money – a lot.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

In venture capital, returns follow the power law — 80% of the wins come from 20% of the deals. Get the 65-page report on teardowns for Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and more. JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B

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