PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Payment platform Payoneer is launching its Capital Advance service, the company announced on Monday (Feb. Designed as a solution to support cash flow management for online commerce companies, Capital Advance provides access to working capital financing for businesses selling online.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Bloomberg , citing four people with direct knowledge of the matter, reported that Morgan Stanley purchased $14 million in local subordinated bonds from online consumer lender Geru Tecnologia e Servicos. Morgan Stanley’s move comes at a time when the Brazil FinTech market is exploding. percent each year, noted the report.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Co-Founder and CEO Eran Shust told PYMNTS in an interview that the aim is to bring more options to the table and enable travelers to “choose something not out of the specific package[s] that most of the OTAs [online travel agencies] are offering.”. The Hotel Market. For payments, the site accepts credit cards and PayPal.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Prior investors include Riverwood Capital, Stamos Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Highland Capital and Oak Capital Management. markets and will be offered in 11 U.K. When he first rolled out Enjoy in 2015, the goal was to figure out how to provide personal service to those who want to buy online.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

Sky.Garden isn’t looking to replace those methods, said Isaac Hunja, the company’s marketing director. What the Sky.Garden platform does differently is allow sellers to manage online inventory just as they would in a brick-and-mortar setting. Sky.Garden attempts to answer all of these issues. The Sky.Garden Story.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Lightspeed Ventures, iFly.vc, Silicon Valley Bank and Goodwater Capital were participants in the investment, Deal Street Asia reported. The new funding will assist the startup in speeding up team building, supply chain optimizations and market growth. Bigbasket competes against Amazon and Flipkart in the Indian eCommerce market.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The consumers conduct the entire transaction online and pay using Alipay , where the money is held in escrow until the buyer receives the item and is happy with it. com launched in 2015. Despite the fact that these two players carry 90 percent of the market, that may not last forever. Small Players May Make Gains.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

Tokyo, Japan’s digital banking startup Kyash has closed a $45 million Series C funding deal co-led by Greenspring Associates and Goodwater Capital, Kyash said in a statement on Sunday (March 30). Goodwater Capital also invested in Kyash’s Series B Round. growth equity investment firm Greyhound Capital; U.S.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The 2019 Canadian fintech market map. The startups selected for inclusion in the market map below are all Canada-headquartered, VC-backed fintech companies that have at least US $1M in equity funding, and have obtained equity funding since the start of 2015. Navigating the Canadian fintech market map. Capital markets.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

million shares of its common stock, and private equity backer Parthenon Capital Partners is selling 5.59 We chose to enter the market at a time when few were willing to take the chance, and even fewer were succeeding. The company is offering 9.41 million of its shares, for a combined 15 million shares.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Albertsons’ IPO is the culmination of a saga that began in 2006 when private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management took a major position, with plans to grow the chain into one of North America’s gargantuan power grocers. That vision appeared to be coming to fruition with Albertsons’ 2015 purchase of rival chain Safeway for $9.2

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Well, what do we say about 2015? And, give or take a stumble or two, we snuck through it and did a reasonable job on 2015 objectives, in our humble opinion. So, it seems we’re good with only one outstanding item—digest the 2015 GonzoBanker Awards! 2015 Executive Call-out. Community bank marketing resources.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

IDG, Breyer Capital and General Catalyst Partners were also participants. Circle has been online since late 2015 in the United States, carried into the market by a $50 million funding round care of Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital, General Catalyst and Accel Partners, among others.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Digital rival Chewy has seen its shares go up in excess of 150 percent this year, with a market value of $30.3 In 2015, the company mulled going public again but instead was acquired by CVC Capital Partners and Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board for $4.6 The company filed an IPO last year. billion in the 10 months ended Oct.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

In 2015, news outlets ran articles about the “ gold mine ” of venture capital investments in the alternative finance sector. Yet at a time when analysts say VCs are focusing more on late-stage investment , alternative lenders are having a tougher time securing funding, particularly market newcomers in a crowded market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We continue to evaluate capital options and are excited about our industry position,” CEO Anthony Hsieh told Bloomberg. In 2015, LoanDepot announced on its blog that it intended to become a public company and filed Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “The

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

This IPO marks Petco’s third foray into the public markets following filings in 1994 and 2000. Petco is controlled by CVC Capital Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which acquired the company in 2015 for $4.6 Founded in 1965, the company has stores across the U.S., He added that the pandemic added 3.3

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Beyond BMW and Cadillac , the subscription market is growing as consumers and brands take note: Software vendors, too, are turning to subscriptions, according to the PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Tracker. We see a very big market niche for ready-made meals,” Griesel was quoted as saying to the Rheinische Post newspaper.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

Online grocery delivery service Milkbasket has landed $5.5 million in venture capital in a round led by Inflection Point Ventures. Milkbasket , launched in 2015, calls itself a micro-delivery service. This will help them become profitable very soon — and first among the various competitive players in the market,” he said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

housing market. housing market should continue to support growth in our business.”. billion net earnings) in the same period of 2015. percent from fiscal 2015. Home Depot reported that its online business grew over 19 percent last year, said Fortune. Online sales now represent 5.9 Same-store sales rose 5.8

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Online personal shopping service Lookiero revealed it has closed a $19 million funding round led by London-based MMC Ventures, as reported on Friday (Sept. The funding will be used to expand in Lookiero’s main markets of Spain, France and the U.K. The customer then decides which items to keep or return.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Joining a small portion of internet upstarts trading on mainland China’s public markets, SMZDM ’s shares skyrocketed almost 44 percent on its first Shenzhen trading day. SMZDM, which stands for “what’s worth buying” in Chinese, is an online shopping guide that many people outside of China are not aware of, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

According to the study — which looks at ride-hailing, eCommerce, online media and online travel in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines — the internet economy will end this year with a market value of about $72 billion, which is 37 percent higher than a year earlier on a gross merchandise value basis.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

According to Wall Street Journal reports, the online lender is shedding 28 percent of its staff and rearranging its executive team. He wrote in an email regarding the coming changes: “With the recent tightening of the capital markets, we are refocusing on our core consumer loans business.”. billion to $6.1 billion to $6.1

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Indian digital payments platform Cashfree has just landed tens of millions in new capital to help fuel its expansion, the Bengaluru-based company announced on Tuesday (Nov. The coronavirus pandemic has also helped boost Cashfree’s growth as Indian businesses and consumers ramp up their online sales and purchasing activity.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

The capital is an increase of an existing €55 million debt facility it has with Varengold, and it’s from a supporting debt investor that hasn’t been named. The company currently works out of Austria and Germany, and it plans to add more markets this year. The company was started in 2015.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

To help develop its technology to drive online clothes purchases through recommendations, a startup that uses machine learning to help pair consumers with clothes that fit their size and style raised $55 million in a Series C funding round, TechCrunch reported. was acquired by Japan’s largest online retailer, Rakuten , in 2015.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2017

Swiss-based food giant Nestle — headed by Jeff Hamilton, president of Nestle Foods Division — led the Series C funding round with support from existing investors Highland Capital Partners, Insight Venture Partners and White Star Capital, among others. All told, Freshly has raised $107 million since its launch in 2015.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. Take a look at this chart, which lays out grocery chain market share. Walmart has the largest market share at 14.2 In 2015, the tech media was gaga over Snap and its ability to corral the so-called most valuable eyeballs in media: the millennial.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2018

As Alibaba looks beyond eCommerce to expand its empire, some investors are getting nervous: Since January, the eCommerce retailer has lost approximately $60 billion in market value, The New York Times reported. The first Hema stores debuted in 2015, offering grocery delivery to customers within three kilometers of each of its 13 locations.

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MAY 14, 2019

The company was founded in 2015 by former employees of Tradeshift, Jeppe Rindom and Niccolo Perra. The company also offers a Pleo Mastercard that can be refilled and handed out either physically or online. The company plans to use the capital to expand from 120 employees to about 400 by the end of 2020.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

trillion in 2015. But Facebook got the jump on the news cycle this week with the big news that it was opening up Facebook Canvas for retailers and other marketers on the site, as opposed to just advertis e rs. Online to offline coming to Walmart near you, and we mean that sincerely. Online lending . That compares to €2.1

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Abrigo

JANUARY 27, 2017

Small businesses are an important market for growth-oriented banks and credit unions. The good news for financial institutions that see SMB lending as a crucial part of their loan portfolio growth strategy is that small businesses are in need of capital. Access to Capital 2. According to a 2015 study from Barlow Research, 82.1

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

The Canadian yogawear apparel maker’s shares fell more than 23 percent to $51, its lowest level since December 2015. The company’s executives said its available apparel for the current quarter had failed to entice shoppers, resulting in weaker sales both online and in stores.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Financial Venture Studio, Ribbit Capital and Enterprise Community Partners also chipped in. Point’s total capital is now in the neighborhood of $265 million. . The company was founded by CEO Eddie Lim in 2015, with Eoin Matthews and Andreessen Horowitz partner Alex Rampell. “We

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