CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

If data makes the world go ’round, so, too, does it garner investor interest, as evidenced by venture capital and other investors’ funds coming into the coffers of corporates that scrape the web for information. USD in series A funding from a consortium of investors, including Green Visor Capital. An Acquisition in Africa.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Since 2014, Mastercard’s Start Path “has invited more than 230 later-stage startups worldwide to participate in its six-month virtual program, providing technical guidance, operational support and commercial engagements within the Mastercard ecosystem,” the company said. Startups in this growing network have gone on to raise $2.7

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

Other investors included Sapphire Ventures, Alkeon Capital, Recruit Co., million across four funding rounds since it was founded in 2014 by Dennis Steele and Eric Rea. ” Contactless payments started gaining traction in the mid-2000s, but there were rampant fears about security. IVP, Accel, Summit Partners and GV.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

The “Scottish Pacific SME Growth Index,” released twice a year, found the portion of small businesses that said they would use banks for funding declined from 38 percent in 2014 to 24 percent in 2018. At the same time, interest in alternative lenders increased. Nearly half (47.6 Nearly half (47.6

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

Three big Silicon Valley venture capital firms want to invest in Telegram ’s initial coin offering (ICO), The Financial Times reported. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark and Sequoia Capital have each told the messaging startup that they want to invest $20 million, according to three individuals familiar with the deal.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below).

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

Shipt , the online grocery ordering and delivery service, has announced that it has secured $20.1 million in Series A funding that the company plans to use to expand into new markets and further compete with well-heeled online food delivery giants, like Amazon, Google and Instacart.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Sylvia Garcia, Democrat of Texas, and Lance Gooden, Republican of Texas, introduced a bill that would put the would-be crypto under the oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Managed stablecoins, such as the proposed Libra, are clearly securities under existing law,” Garcia said in a statement last week.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

Whenever it happens, it’s safe to say that a $150 billion valuation would make Ant’s IPO one of the biggest ever, putting it ahead of Facebook ’s $104 billion IPO in 2012 and behind Alibaba’s $168 billion IPO in 2014. The deal was established in the lead-up to Alibaba’s 2014 IPO. Reasons To Invest.

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Bank Innovation

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2017

The biggest online lender for small businesses in the U.K., Funding Circle, announced that it secured $100 million in equity funding. 12), the company said California-based venture capital firm Accel Partners led the funding round, with participation from Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures, and Temasek Holdings.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

One emerging player in the Australian FinTech market has just secured another round of capital. PromisePay , a fully managed payments platform for online marketplaces, has raised $10 million in order to fuel its continued growth. Everything is moving online. There’s a fundamental shift in payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2016

According to the Fed, 80 percent of SMEs that sought funding in 2015 received it, a 15 percent increase from 2014 levels. Further, 45 percent of those that requested funding received the amount they asked for, compared with 38 percent in 2014.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in December 2014, the online lender took to the public markets, raising $200 million, and soon out of the gate the shares were fetching $23, before crashing, like other firms in the space, to busted IPO status. That may prove quite important in an era where bank deregulation may spur traditional lenders to make inroads online.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In 2014, 37% of all companies that achieved their first $1B+ valuation were based outside the US. Rounding out the top 3 are electronics company Xiaomi ($46B) and online lending platform Lu.com ($18.5B). Blum Capital Partners LP, Tiger Global Management, Sonae.com Ventures. HgCapital, Meridian Capital, JD.com.

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

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

The roundup of this week’s venture capital investments in B2B startups offers some insight into the geographical differences in how this space is developing. An online platform for the procurement of office supplies in India secured new funding from one of its peers. But the U.S. eProcurement. Capitalflow. LEAP India.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

51 million : That’s the amount of new funding that Druva, an India-based enterprise security company, has secured from Sequoia Capital India and a new backer, Economic Development Board Investments, based in Singapore. Luckily, the PYMNTS 11 is here to break it all down.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Retailers are banking on a new way to get consumers away from shopping online and back in stores by solving a major headache: charging a mobile device. What we’re really excited about is this is the first way to capture a response from the consumer while they’re still in the store.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

That is among the emerging lessons offered by Paidy , which in late 2014 launched Japan’s first instant post-pay credit service for eCommerce consumers. The latest round of fundraising, combined with a Series A and B round, gives the company a total amount of $80 million capital raised to date. The Product. So, how does Paidy work?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

In a sign that small business lending may be well on its way to moving beyond the traditional conduits of big banks and other larger financial players, online platform Lendio, which helps smaller companies find access to capital, reported heady growth for 2015. The company said Wednesday (Feb. million in funding.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2016

In 2014, ID Experts reported $22.8 The new owners of ID Experts are Peloton Equity and Trident Capital. The private equity funding, which, according to Oregon Live , will “cash out some of its current owners while injecting more capital into the business,” came at the same time as a new spinoff from ID Experts emerged called Radar.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2018

Consumers receive better choice, better access and often better pricing for unsecured loans than they would generally be able to secure easily through the traditional bank-based system. They bring their capital, and you can even learn from them,” Vallée says. Now decisions are increasingly based on hard information.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

Hacker Arrested in Capital One Breach Affecting 100M+. Thompson formerly worked for Amazon Web Services, which hosted the Capital One database that was breached. Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Currently, there are 0.7

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

We examine the findings from several market reports on small business access to capital, lending, growth and employment. 68% of B2B buyers made their purchases online in 2014 , found Accenture Interactive in a newly released research report. Security, as companies depend more on Big Data.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Plastic cards and the card rails are reliable and certain, at the physical store as well as online. Speaking of online, uncertainty over shopping online is what gave birth to PayPal in 1998. Then, buying and selling online was a sea of uncertainty. Consumers stick to what they know will deliver a predictable outcome.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The end result is that companies outside China will be able to, eventually, control Chinese securities and asset management firms, insurance companies (through joint venture majority stakes) and banks. trillion at 2014’s end. Within China, Guotai Junan Securities does investment banking business worth $1.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Those innovations did more than just leverage digital and connected devices to make it easier for consumers and businesses to interact and to effectively blend the online and offline worlds. But in 2014, Starbucks piloted something that would change the in-store payments experience altogether. stores in 2015.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2017

As it turns out, even if one did everything just right — following the instructions and creating a host of passwords full of letters, numbers, symbols and random capitalization — the result would likely be exactly the wrong kind of password. The document is also the source of the guidance encouraging consumers to change passwords regularly.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

million as of 2014. In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. Boleto provides those who don’t have credit cards with the ability to participate in eCommerce by printing a ticket with a barcode during online checkout that they can then take and pay at a local store.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Launched in Thailand in 2014, Pomelo has always had a bigger vision for its fast fashion eCommerce shop as a global brand bringing value to fashion forward consumers, wherever they may happen to be buying. The whole way people experience fashion has changed,” CEO David Jou noted in an interview. and European markets.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2016

54 percent of manufacturers aren’t going online to make sales , finds Four51’s most recent Manufacturing Commerce & Technology 2020 report. Everett, assistant professor of finance and director of the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project, in a statement. 25 percent more businesses chose invoice financing in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In 2014, according to a Time report, Macy’s planned to open at 6 p.m. Pier 1 has seen earnings dive by 45 percent between fiscal years 2013 and 2014, although there was a small increase in the retailer’s revenues. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods and Sierra Trading Post — and online. on Thanksgiving day. percent and down 8.4

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Just look at the near-immediate struggle faced by Lending Club and OnDeck after their IPOs in 2014, or more recently, the knock-on effect Lending Club’s less-than-noble lending practices have had on investor confidence in other marketplace lenders. Investors have cooled off to alternative lending in the U.S.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

The company came out of stealth mode with a splashy Fortune cover story in 2014, revealing to the public that it had raised more than $400M, at a valuation of over $9B. Select investors : Amazon, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Bowman Capital Management LLC. That July, it banned Holmes from owning or operating a lab for two years.

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