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JANUARY 6, 2020

small businesses (SMBs) — 57 percent — reported revenue growth in 2018, although profits remained the same as in 2017, according to Forbes , citing the Small Business Credit Survey (SBCS). It is intended to provide updated data on small business financing needs, decisions and outcomes. . More than half of U.S.

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JULY 15, 2020

The company had initially aimed to raise 700,000 pounds ($881,000) at a valuation of 12 million pounds ($15.1 million) in funding in 2018. Small- to medium-sized business (SMB) finance app Coconut has notched approximately 2.5 million pounds ($3.15 million) through a Crowdcube fundraising. million), Crowdfund Insider reported.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday (Aug. 12), setting into motion plans for an IPO in the next two months, the Nikkei Asian Review reports. The move comes as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warns that Chinese firms that want to be listed on U.S. stock exchanges will have to conform to U.S.

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APRIL 1, 2019

The company raised $2.34 When the stock began trading Friday (March 29), shares skyrocketed 23 percent at one point. The company priced its shares at $72 each, raising the $2.3 For 2018, the company said in its IPO filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it earned $2.16 billion by listing 32.5

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JULY 31, 2018

BlueVine, the FinTech startup that recently announced a $60 million round of financing, has added $12 million to its Series E round of funding from M12, Microsoft’s venture capital fund. According to a report in VentureBeat , the $12 million brings BlueVine’s total Series E round of funding to $72 million.

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JULY 30, 2019

Identity Verification firm Truework announced it has raised $12 million in Series A financing led by Sequoia Capital. Launched in April 2018, Truework’s platform integrates with HR and payroll systems to process employment and income requests, allowing employees to approve or deny each request in real time.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

London FinTech startup Portify has raised £7 million in a Series A funding round led by Redalpine , with participation from existing investors Kindred and Entrepreneur First, TechCrunch reported on Thursday (Dec. The Series A funding round follows a 2018 seed investment of £1.3

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NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The two tech giants raised capital spending by $1.9 Economists and analysts say it’s timing; the tariffs coincided with the start of the pullback in the third quarter of 2018. The Atlanta Federal Reserve surveyed businesses earlier this month about the effect the trade war had on spending. Capital spending went up by 0.8

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JANUARY 30, 2019

According to the report, Pinterest may be able to raise roughly $1.5 As of Pinterest’s last fundraising in 2017, Reuters reported it has a valuation of $12 billion and is just one of the many high profile technology-driven startups that are expected to launch IPOs in 2019.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

One of the new realities of augmented reality is this: the technology is attracting more investment from China than from sources in North America. billion over the last 12 months, surging ahead of North American investment. billion in the fourth quarter of 2017 to less than $120 million in the third quarter of 2018.

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JANUARY 12, 2020

Two co-founders of Google Pay in India have raised $13.2 million in a Seed funding round for its neo-bank epiFi, led by Sequoia India and Ribbit Capital, TechCrunch reported on Sunday (Jan. In 2018, international investors invested a record $9.6 billion citizens outside the financial system. . billion into startup lenders.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

million bike and electric scooter rides in the 14 months it has been in service, while Bird , which is focused on e-scooters, provided more than 10 million rides in its first 12 months of operations. Meanwhile, Lime told the paper it is gearing up to launch in an additional 50 cities around the globe before the close out of 2018.

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MARCH 29, 2019

According to CNBC , the company is expected to start trading on the Nasdaq exchange on Friday (March 29) under the ticker “LYFT.”. Earlier this week, it was revealed that Lyft sold all of its planned IPO shares, which led analysts to raise their target price for the ridesharing company. “We that went public.

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APRIL 12, 2019

By Friday (April 12) at 10 a.m. That doesn’t mean investors have totally soured on Lyft, not if you go by the view reportedly offered by Wedbush Securities in the wake of the release of Uber’s prospectus. The firm gave Lyft’s stock a neutral rating and a 12-month price target of $80, according to CNBC.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Fashion online marketplace Zilingo has announced a $226 million funding round, one of the largest for an eCommerce startup in Southeast Asia and a major show of support among investors for the company’s increasing attention on the B2B side of the market. Reports in Tech In Asia on Tuesday (Feb.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2019

China’s Alibaba rang up over $12 billion in sales in less than 90 minutes during its Singles Day shopping bonanza, Reuters reported on Sunday (Nov. 11 (1111), with the four ones referencing being single. . The shopping event comes on the heels of the company’s plan to raise $15 billion via a share sale in Hong Kong this month.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

According to new data out from AlixPartners cited by RetailDive , only 31 percent of consumers are planning to spend the same or more than they did in 2018. That figure is compounded by data that indicated fewer consumers are reporting stronger financial health than 12 months ago and fewer believing the economy is still improving.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Seeking Alpha , citing an S-1/A registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), reported the company is aiming to raise $5 million in gross proceeds from the IPO. percent between 2018 and 2023. On Sunday, June 10, 173 trips and deliveries started simultaneously at 10:12 p.m.

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APRIL 18, 2018

According to Venture Beat , the acquisition closed on April 12, 2018 at a total price of roughly $22 million — that includes $6.7 million based on the average of the previous two months’ trading prices. Carvana went public on the New York Stock Exchange last year after raising $300 million in investments.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Want the 12-page report for free? Private technology companies in Latin America have raised over $5.8B

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Agari said the payroll diversion scams are on the rise, and are gaining traction as a result of social engineering. In the meantime, as has been previously reported, the FBI estimated that the global loss from BEC — spanning October 2013 to May 2018 — has hit 150 countries and caused firms to lose as much as $12 billion.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Business Insider At least 7 out of 10 small businesses (SMB) lack basic business insurance coverage in one or more critical areas. And lack of transparency, along with just plain bad customer experience, are big contributors to this insurance gap. views (470 subscribers) Instagram : 2,400 followers TrustPilot : 4.6 (513

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JUNE 13, 2018

University researchers have noticed an interesting trend when it came to atmospheric jump in the price of bitcoin last year: They found that about half of bitcoin price increases last year happened after another cryptocurrency, Tether, flowed from one crypto exchange — Bitfinex — to other exchanges. Even so, Bitfinex’s Chief Executive J.L.

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APRIL 3, 2019

It’s one of the rising ideals in this digital world of commerce and payments, a consumer expectation that doesn’t seem in danger of fading anytime soon: buy online and pickup — or otherwise fulfill that transaction — inside a brick-and-mortar store. Website revenues represented 12 percent of total C2C revenue in the fourth quarter of 2018.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

With Brex’s arrival on the scene in 2018 followed by a meteoric rise to multi-unicorn status, there has been considerable attention to, and investment in business credit/charge cards ( see definition below ). Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

With Brex’s arrival on the scene in 2018 followed by a meteoric rise to multi-unicorn status, there has been considerable attention to, and investment in business credit/charge cards ( see definition below ). Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Another Norovirus outbreak couldn’t dent Chipotle’s confidence in itself as the QSR chain looks to raise prices to keep up with rising costs. While Chipotle has yet to revise its price restructuring plans, analysts are saying the company won’t be able to raise prices this year due to the negative press. “We

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

Charles Dickens’ famous starter to A Tale of Two Cities , as it turns out, is a pretty good way to sum up the year 2018 from the view of the alternative financial services segment. However, as 2018 wore on, headwinds started to blow back on the segment, most especially in the form of rising interest rates.

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Want the 12-page report for free? Private technology companies in Latin America have raised over $5.8B

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In 2018, startups in the space raised more than $45B, a record amount, while Q3’19 fintech funding recently clocked in with a quarterly record of nearly $9B. Using CB Insights’ market intelligence platform , we visualized these exits together in one timeline. Data is as of 12/19/2019. Please click to enlarge. .

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Fitness is always ripe for disruption in this digital age, and recent events serve to illustrate how the race to win the hearts — and sweat and increased muscle mass and cardio capabilities — of consumes is a fierce one that will command attention in the coming decade. Whelan will stay on to advise the company throughout the transition.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

Target turning in a sluggish performance during the final quarter of 2019, on the other hand, came as a surprise, as the company had been one of physical retail’s standout turnaround stories of 2019. The investment, however, doesn’t seem to have paid off – Target’s toy sales were about flat with 2018 in 2019.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

Target turning in a sluggish performance during the final quarter of 2019, on the other hand, came as a surprise, as the company had been one of physical retail’s standout turnaround stories of 2019. The investment, however, doesn’t seem to have paid off – Target’s toy sales were about flat with 2018 in 2019.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

This year, SoftBank has also backed wealth management app M1 Finance , banking-as-a-service provider Zeta , and money transfer app Afriex , which received one of the few seed investments SoftBank has made this year. One focus area is drug discovery. Our Business Social Graph below includes all equity investments since 2018.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The financial services industry is one of the fastest adopters of this technology. In The Forrester New Wave : Conversational Computing Platforms, Q2 2018 , IBM’s solution was rated the top solution. . The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is one great example of how chatbots can improve customer service in the banking industry.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This was a primary motivator behind SAP’s $8B acquisition of Qualtrics , one of its many enterprise software acquisitions in recent years. 2018 Tech IPO Pipeline. Download this report to go deep on 355 of tech’s highest-value private companies. acquisition of GitHub in October 2018. 3/23/2018.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He has also served on ICBA’s executive committee for many years, including a term as treasurer from 2016 to 2018. He was raised by a mother who stayed home with her four kids and a father who built houses. “He He graduated into a recession, one of two that would have a profound influence on his career.

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