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APRIL 7, 2019

According to CNBC , Livongo , which provides services and tools to help people manage chronic medical conditions, has reportedly chosen bankers for its IPO. Healthcare data company Health Catalyst has done the same, while Change Healthcare , which provides technology to lower health care costs, filed its prospectus in March. “To

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Florida’s ShipMonk, started in 2014, offers eCommerce fulfillment services and technology solutions. Summit Partners Managing Director Christopher Dean and Vice President Chelsea Jurman will join ShipMonk’s board. The B2B company said the $290 million investment “represents a minority stake.”

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NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

For example, when directors of Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital were looking for someone to fill the role, they were more worried about hiring someone who had experience with raising debt and equity, and they didn’t care if the person was a former accountant. “It But that freed us up to get a capital-markets-focused CFO.”.

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APRIL 12, 2022

Dublin, 1 April 2022: Leading Irish private equity firm, Melior Equity Partners, has agreed an investment in Salmon Software, a fast-growing financial software business that provides customers with a world-class treasury management software system.

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JUNE 7, 2017

BAM Worldwide, a provider of cash management and working capital, e payment solutions to the transportation industry , announced Tuesday (June 6) that it has completed a $10-million investment led by Millstone Capital Partners. BAM provides technology, payments processing and working capital loans to the U.S.

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

Naspers, a large South African-based technology investor, is leading a $1 billion funding round for food delivery outfit Swiggy, according to a report. Those include Wellington Management Company and Hillhouse Capital. Swiggy was started in 2014. Chinese investor and tech giant Tencent also joined in the round.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Japan-based business card management service Sansan has announced news of fresh venture capital in support of its solution which helps professionals with business information management and networking. An announcement Monday (Aug. Earlier this year, Salesforce announced a $100 million fund to invest in early-stage businesses.

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JANUARY 12, 2020

million in a Seed funding round for its neo-bank epiFi, led by Sequoia India and Ribbit Capital, TechCrunch reported on Sunday (Jan. Also participating in the funding rounds were David Velez, Kunal Shah and VC fund Hillhouse Capital. Two co-founders of Google Pay in India have raised $13.2

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MARCH 9, 2018

BlueVine , the provider of working capital to small business (SMB) owners, announced news on Thursday (March 8) that it has inked a deal with Veem , the cross-border payments company. Veem changes all that, making it easy for small business owners to send and manage cross-border payments using blockchain technology.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

It was a mixed bag of funding, with a few startups working in more traditional B2B technology, including expense management and SaaS. Expense Management. Axiom Capital, AME Cloud Ventures and other investors also participated in the funding, which brings Happay’s total valuation to as high as $55 million.

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APRIL 2, 2018

The bank offers corporate banking, retail banking, treasury management, capital markets, credit cards and wealth management services in a range of consumer and corporate offerings. That’s a significant drop from 2014, when businesses raised a combined $93 billion, though 2017 stats are an improvement from 2016 levels.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In 2014, 37% of all companies that achieved their first $1B+ valuation were based outside the US. Blum Capital Partners LP, Tiger Global Management, Sonae.com Ventures. Millennium Technology Value Partners, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures. Sequoia Capital China, China Media Capital, DCM Ventures.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Three sources told The Information that Uber was in “recent talks” to buy Mighty AI, which could help bolster the rideshare giant’s self-driving technology. The company — originally called Spare5 — was launched in 2014 out of Seattle-based VC Madrona Venture’s labs, a rival of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Swedish peer-to-peer (P2P) lending upstart Lendify has reportedly secured $115 million of funding, while international trade platform Contour has teamed with information technology (IT) solutions firm Mphasis. The Hong Kong sale is being managed by Citigroup, China International Capital Corp.,

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JULY 2, 2020

The first onshore bond default came about in 2014, and since then, there have been 395 delinquencies. Then came President Xi Jinping’s 2016 deleveraging campaign, which saw a crackdown on shadow banking and a tighter rule set for asset management. Of those, 31.9 Of those, 31.9 Location-wise, Beijing led the pack with 75.3

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Its units include Distribution Finance Capital, Satago and Oxygen Finance, while it also owns a minority stake in peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Zopa. The companies were grouped together between 2014 and 2017 after investments and acquisitions by Arrowgrass Master Fund Ltd., reports noted.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2018

” Buffett has long been wary of bitcoin: He called the cryptocurrency a “mirage” back in 2014. In investment news, a technology fund has raised $500 million for a new cryptocurrency that will provide a new way for investors to invest in Silicon Valley, Reuters reported. That is not investing.”

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JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. In some cases, the technological changes inspired by Covid-19 will come in the form of an acceleration of existing trends — for example, industrial automation and contactless payments. Teletherapy.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Dan Schulman still vividly remembers the first question he was asked on his first day on the job as PayPal’s CEO in 2014. And, he said, he knew in the answer he was supposed to reassure employees about his allegiance to PayPal’s technology firm roots. In 2014, when Shulman took the helm at PayPal, there were 100 million active users.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

Moka was founded in 2014 and was one of the first FinTechs in Indonesia. It’s raised about $40 million from investors like Sequoia Capital. Moka Chief Technology Officer Grady Laksmono recently said the company has about 18,000 merchants in 200 cities in Indonesia, and that it has expanded beyond simply being a POS company.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

We want to make sure that everybody has an ability to participate in the modern economy and that everybody has an ability to leverage the technology that's available, the services that are available and have a better life,” Jess Turner , executive vice president for North America Products and Innovation, told PYMNTS in an interview Thursday (Oct.

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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. CB Insights Note. Investment syndicates. BEST OF DISRUPTION REPORT.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

This week, Zylo announced it secured new venture capital to the tune of $9.3 The Series A funding was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, while Salesforce Ventures, the Slack Fund, High Alpha Capital, GGV, SV Angel and Hyde Park Venture Partners also participated. There are a lot of hands that touch these tools too.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

The funds will be used to expand the company’s lending base, build technology and boost analytics capabilities. Launched in 2014 by Harshvardhan Lunia and Mukul Sachan, Lendingkart offers loans to micro, small and medium-sized businesses, issuing more than 60,000 loans to more than 55,000 SMBs in 1,300 cities across India so far.

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JUNE 22, 2018

Alternative finance apparently won’t stop catching the attention of investors — at least, not any time soon, if this week’s B2B venture capital roundup is any sign. Drip Capital. TradeIX integrates blockchain technology and a decentralized API platform to integrate into existing trade platforms.

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JUNE 23, 2016

Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

technology investor Coatue Management, Afterpay announced in a press release on Wednesday (Nov. Afterpay was founded in 2014 by Nick Molnar and in June 2017 merged with Touchcorp to become Afterpay Touch. million in new capital via a share placement that involved Hancock and both co-founders selling a total of 4.5

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MAY 8, 2018

And, although Google searches for “bitcoin” and “blockchain” have slid, companies are still flush with cash from 2017’s ICO boom, cryptocurrency price run-up, and venture capital investment — and are spending it. See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology.

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MAY 29, 2020

Founded in 2014, Zoox has been working to develop electric-powered robot taxis in a difficult multipronged effort, simultaneously creating driverless technology, a ride-hailing network and a bespoke autonomous vehicle at scale. However, Amazon already has a team devoted to driverless vehicle technology.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

JPMorgan is setting up a financial inclusion lab in India through a partnership with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad’s (IIMA) Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE). According to FinTech Futures , the $9.5

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AUGUST 23, 2016

22) it closed a round of venture capital funding. The Series A round of funding, which netted the startup $29 million, was led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) and also included New Enterprise Associates, Soros Fund Management, Haystack Partners, Quadrant Capital Advisors and Blue Delta Capital.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Launched in 2012 by Payal Kadakia under the name Classtivity, ClassPass closed $2 million in seed funding in March 2014 after rebranding. ClassPass members can reserve fitness classes using the company’s proprietary booking technology. The company had a $470 million valuation in 2017. 1 driver of new customer reservations.”.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

million investment round secured from NewAlpha Asset Management, reports said on Friday (Sept. “Welcoming a major investor such as NewAlpha to our capital is an acknowledgement of our commercial and technological success and a proof of the strength of our credit analysis model,” said Unilend CEO and Founder Nicolas Lesur.

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MAY 18, 2016

What does the world need with another robo-advisor, the founders of Scalable Capital , a Munich-based automated investment platform, asked from the Finovate stage in London earlier this year? Give average investors the same level of risk management as wealthier investors and watch the investment returns for individual investors improve.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

20) said Utrip raised $4 million from backers at Plug & Play, Tiempo Capital and Acorn Ventures, among others. 2014, as well as a $750,000 round before that. The corporate travel startup space is competitive, though many players focus in on expense management and basic travel booking, like air and hotel. Reports Monday (Feb.

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MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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