CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

And while partnerships, collaboration and internal product development have helped banks to improve their reputations for innovation among their corporate clients, a new report from Boston Consulting Group says it’s not enough. Baumgärtner also coauthored the report. ” Positive Developments, New Opportunities. ”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

They are the owners of Transact Pro , which operates as a payments processing firm in Latvia. The bank now gets a bit of fashioning, as the Latvian duo now join the board (Chapter 11 allows firms to operate as they restructure their debts). “Our The bank itself? And it is a relatively small bank, with just two branches in Colorado.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Breaking Banks Breaking Banks , billed as the #1 global fintech podcast and radio show, began in 2013 and is hosted by media firm Provoke.fm. Weekly episodes highlight innovators and industry players driving innovation in the financial services industry. keep me informed. Whitepaper.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

21), the latest commerce operator to be on the verge of extinction in this age of digital and mobile. According to CNBC , the retailer is “buckling under the weight of an onerous debt load and struggling to compete with better capitalized competition.” billion in 2013, representing a 2.10 The company owns 458 stores in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

“We are actively following the country’s Belt and Road Initiative to empower Chinese businesses through innovation in the cross-border ecosystem,” said Luo in a statement. Luxembourg had already passed a bill to legally issue “dematerialized securities” in April 2013 through an amendment to a 2001 securities law.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Analysts at the time called this product “an historic opportunity” to bolster the merchant’s “corroding bottom lines,” and innovators rushed to build new applications to help them seize it. The REDCard has seen its growth slow appreciably since 2013, the year of the infamous Target breach. And what was the product?

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CB Insights

AUGUST 1, 2017

This teardown features annotations & commentary by four Social Capital partners. Thanks to the Social Capital team for updating/confirming their portfolio data on the CB Insights Editor. Social Capital is a VC fund with a focus on healthcare and education. Get all the latest data on innovation, startups, & disruption.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

A report this week said that an online used-car platform in that country called BeliMobilGue has raised $10 million in fresh capital in a Series A funding to help expand its offerings. What’s not guesswork is that innovation has been steadily increasing in this space. million in a previous round. “If Inspection Stations.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

The innovation — and potential disruption — stems from a company called Helium , which describes itself as a peer-to-peer wireless network. The company was founded in 2013 to “build the world’s first decentralized wireless network,” according to the Helium website. But a few roadblocks have to navigated before that happens in full.

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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In 2013, according to a report by Accenture and CB Insights , total investment into Fintech was just less than $4 billion. Yet neither can institutions continue without any change to the operating model. Often the injection of new capital by the buyer can give a startup the resources needed to flourish. Fintech is booming.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2017

The on-demand revolution is well under way, fueled by innovators like Amazon and Uber as well as the move to online and mobile channels. To stay competitive, consumer-facing companies need to change the way they operate, said Lior Sion, cofounder and CTO of global enterprise logistics management solutions provider Bringg. Enter Bringg.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

approached him about a leadership position in 2013. Traditionally, community banks have supported CDFIs through making charitable contributions, providing loan capital to CDFI loan funds or, at the highest range, making an equity investment in a CDFI. Location: Arkadelphia, Ark. That’s where CDFIs can make a difference. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

It should be a call to action to the cybersecurity regulators that, when innovation — even intellectually and technologically sophisticated innovation — goes off the rails, it’s time to give a good hard look with an eye to reining it way, way in. That means bitcoin. despite many other countries already giving it a thumbs up.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Singapore is on a mission to build up a Smart Nation by utilizing innovation and technology to create opportunities and strengthen communities. Between 2011 and 2015, the government allocated $16 billion to help accelerate Singapore’s research, innovation and enterprise landscape. With an estimated population of just 5.47

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

In the case of Square — the payments innovator that launched hundreds of mPOS imitators — the small problem was $2,000 worth of handblown glass that artisan Jim McKelvey couldn’t close the deal and sell. Launched in 2014 as the firm’s lending arm, Square Capital has extended over $1 billion in working capital to over 100,000 small merchants.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

In his place, corporate venture capital leader Claudia Fan Munce assumed his seat on the board as of Monday, though Anderson will remain with the retailer until its yearly shareholder conference in June. “I

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

These days, however, Uber is spending its time, increasingly, in court and has even managed to allow things to break down completely in Austin such that it doesn’t operate there anymore. Said charter will mean that Circle will face tighter scrutiny but great ease operating on a national scale. Kennedy School of Government.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 29, 2014

It is annual report season, meaning publicly traded financial institutions are finalizing their 2013 numbers and submitting their 10k''s to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc. In preparation for meetings, I frequently read 10k''s.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

South Korea topped Bloomberg’s 2015 Innovation Index , gaining the highest overall score across six measurements: research and development, manufacturing, high-tech companies, education, research personnel and patents. The government has pledged nearly $2 billion per year since 2013 to support the local startup landscape.

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CB Insights

JULY 1, 2018

In honor of Canada Day this weekend, we used CB Insights’ database to compile 150 notable tech companies, most active venture capital and corporate investors, and top exits of Canada’s private company tech scene into a periodic table. The list includes VCs such as BDC Venture Capital and Real Ventures, among others.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In line with overall deal activity in the space , the number of corporate-backed deals directed towards travel tech startups soared, growing from just 18 deals totaling $154M in 2013 to over 65 deals worth $1.7B From new booking engines to events/activities to person-to-person platforms like Airbnb, there is innovation all over in travel.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Membership could be obtained by spending five dollars on a share of capital stock. It operated out of its first volunteer president’s home for its first five years before moving to a rented office in 1913, later relocating to its own building in 1930. Mary’s will continue to “do what we do” as it looks to stay operational, he added.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

Athens, Greece’s capital, has a population of just over 665,000. The European Investment Fund (EIF) via the JERMIE (Joint European Resources for Micro to Medium Enterprises) initiative allocated around €50 million to four programs between 2013 and 2015. Is there anything people may find surprising about operating a business there?

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Thanks to the mBank’s business achievements and potential of the brand as first and the biggest internet bank in Poland, BRE Bank Group decided in 2013 to change company name to mBank. In my opinion, this is itself significant – a universal bank operating in three countries adopting a direct bank’s brand for the enterprise?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Of these, the United States has taken the largest share of the world’s most valuable private companies, with 127 US-based startups reaching unicorn status since 2013. Since 2013, the share of new unicorns born each year in the United States has consistently dropped, from 75% of all unicorn births in 2013 to less than half (49%) by 2015.

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Insights on Business

APRIL 23, 2018

Starting in 1954 with the “ Electronic Brain ” project that “reduced the time required for a cost-benefit analysis from 1,000 man-hours to nine and a half minutes,” the relationship between these two American institutions continues producing innovative solutions in the finance and banking industries. Technology moves fast.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

Renaud Laplanche , Former CEO of Lending Club, in a 2013 interview. I want to create something new and innovative.” Even Jamie Dimon wrote in a 2014 letter to investors of the danger online lenders posed, a new class of innovator that was coming to “eat our lunch.”. Lending Club was the poster child of that alt lending movement.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

The point: to ensure laws and regulation would not negatively impact innovation. government officials and industry thought-leaders establish an appropriate balance between basic consumer protection regulation and an openness which not only permits, but fosters and promotes, innovation. Just like the Internet. Those Mt.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

That capital is earmarked toward helping the firm’s balance sheet ahead of new capital rules that go into effect within the next two years. The latest funding round was led by Thrive Capital. For the $1.4 The investment came as Credit China FinTech, which put up the money, formed a joint venture with a focus on the country.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Where’s the innovation & money in renewables? We define the solar industry to include startups installing and maintaining solar technology, operating marketplaces that connect users with local solar projects, creating and distributing solar-powered products, and innovating on solar power components like solar cells.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

ICBA’s National Community Bank Service Award winners for 2021 demonstrate that when their local areas need support, community banks are there with innovative, compassionate and thoughtful responses. Independent Banker named it one of the most innovative community banks because of its technology-forward attitude. Kennebec Savings Bank.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. I also filtered for anomalies such as recent merger announcements, turnaround situations (losses suffered from 2013 forward), mutual-to-stock conversions, stock dividends/splits without price adjustments, and penny stocks. First Capital, Inc.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

However, an innovative program run by the U.S. In 2013, Columbia State Bank in Oregon used a 50 percent loan guarantee from the state of Oregon’s Business Oregon program to support a loan to Boneyard Brewery for the company’s expansion to a new, 15,000-square-foot facility. million of their $5.1 million financing to the state.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

capital appreciation and dividends. For comparison purposes, here are last year''s top five , as measured as of December, 2013: #1. Open Bank (OTCQB: OPBK) Open Bank commenced operations in 2005 as First Standard Bank in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles. This, naturally, eliminated many of the smaller, illiquid FIs.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Using the CB Insights database, we surfaced 7 startups capitalizing on the potential for small-sats to transform space exploration and intelligence. (We Select Investors: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, First Round Capital. Select Investors: Space Alliance, RRE Ventures, Vulcan Capital.

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