PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

Ant Group, the online payment service affiliate of China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, is looking to go public as early as this year, Reuters reported. . The Chinese financial services company was valued at $150 billion in a 2018 fundraising round. At the time, Credit Suisse and China International Capital Corp.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

From gaming to healthcare to pizza delivery, US-based startups which reached unicorn status in 2018 represent a diverse range of industries. Silicon Valley produced plenty of $1B+ companies in 2018, but other parts of the country also had a strong showing. Check out our real-time Unicorn Tracker for a full list of $1B+ companies).

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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

JULY 10, 2018

Coming up on the half mark in 2018, total fundraising on the continent has hit $168.6 The two biggest players in the FinTech startup have been Cellulant — a digital payments operation currently up and online in 11 African countries — and the online micro-lending startup Branch. So why the boom? Cellulant raised $47.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The way it works, since the company began testing it in the city of Kahramanmaras in 2018, is that users can send a text message and refill their cards via mobile phone. The method is soon to be rolled out in Ankara, Turkey's capital, and other cities as well, FT reported.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Kraft Heinz, one of the world’s prominent global food and beverage companies, operates Evolv through a team effort, involving food, startup and venture capital professionals. He said Fabric’s goal was to “change the game” in how businesses operate. Fabric launched an automatic fulfillment center in October of 2018.

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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 firm evolved into an online shopping website with a warehouse and delivery network in 2017. Shoppers, for their part, can make orders on the WeChat mini-program, Facebook, or the Weee app.

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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. FinTech funding reached its highest level in five years in 2018, according to CB Insights data published last month, hitting $11.89 Further, GLI Finance revealed a $25.93

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

Not a tremendous sum — but enough seed money (pardon the pun) to get the business up and running as a bootstrapped operation. Flash forward to 2018, and the brand had successfully made that more consumer-centric push as more millennials discovered the joys of plant ownership. And the goal, with the now $7.8

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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. in 2018 got the cold shoulder primarily for this reason. billion fundraise once anticipated.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

The startup has said that business banking on the continent needs to be repaired, and that it can provide a much better experience with its mobile and online-first offerings. . Qonto is operational in Spain, France, Italy and Germany, and handled €10 billion ($11.08 It also plans to hire more employees with the capital.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

The increased regulatory and capital requirements for China’s P2P lenders should continue to put pressure on the sustainability of business models across the sector in 2020, leading to further industry contraction,” said Katie Chen, director for non bank financial institutions at Fitch Ratings, told the South China Morning Post Tuessday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

Its last announcement for fundraising was in 2018 from the venture capital arm of Line. million items from over 1,500 online shopping partners. The round also came with participation from Daiwa PI Partners as well as returning investors Asia Growth Fund, Mirae Asset-Naver, and Line Ventures, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Fitzmaurice added that “the new [pandemic] era of operating a non-optimized back office will affect a business’ ability to make fast decisions, which, as we have seen over the course of the pandemic, is vital, given the difficulties with traditional forecasting techniques. Enterprises have been onto this for a while.

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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. Reports in Tech In Asia on Tuesday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

The probe is centered on whether Google’s monopoly of the online search world – and the ensuing advertising revenue it commands – represent an illegal form of market control. Google is one of those critical, important leaders in multiple areas,” Michael Lippert, manager of Baron Capital Opportunity Fund, told The Wall Street Journal.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The funding round was led by Techstars Toronto, Open Circle Capital from Lithuania, Practica Capital, and angel investors from North America and Europe. . Eddy Travels was launched in 2018, and the company said it has more than 100,000 users around the world.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

The online retailer has already been looking to raise capital at a valuation of about $2 billion, and the acquisition of ShopClues could help its funding efforts. The company receives about 40,000 orders per day — a deal with Snapdeal could bolster its operations to fulfill those orders. percent.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Zalando, Europe’s largest online fashion retailer, is making an ambitious foray into the €38bn luxury clothing market. The retailer is aiming to capitalize on the growing trend of shoppers making high-value purchases on the internet. He added that premium items have been the company’s quickest growing category recently.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

Tencent also operates WeChat, the wildly popular messaging app. At the time Naspers said proceeds would go toward growth opportunities in global classified, online food delivery and FinTech. For example, in December it led the $1 billion fundraising round for Swiggy, the Indian online food company. That reduced its stake to 31.2

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

With abundant choices in many aspects of their lives, consumers expect a range of options when it comes to online shopping, ranging from picking out clothes to making travel plans. million buyers who operate in industries such as website development, logo design and blog writing. By 2021, close to 90 million – or 86.5 billion in 2017.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Business confidence remains relatively high, but the latest analysis from CB Insights found that venture capital (VC) investment took a turn for the worse in Q1. Reports earlier this week in the Financial Times revealed that global venture capital funding dropped 13 percent to $6.3 Webware.io. Canada’s Webware.io

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

In the inaugural Digitizing B2B Payments Tracker® , a PYMNTS and Deluxe collaboration, the balance between paper and pixels is explored, revealing some unique and surprising strengths of hybrid accounts receivable (AR) operations. For those operators, the hybrid approach holds appeal. Paper Wait.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

and RBC Capital Markets. million loss in the first half of 2018, while revenue increased 61 percent to $142.1 Eventbrite’s biggest shareholder is Tiger Global, which owns 21 percent, while Sequoia Capital owns 20 percent and the Hartzes own a combined 17 percent. In 2017, losses totaled $38.6 Canada, Australia and the U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

That wasn’t perhaps the most surprising news, given how Amazon keeps taking control of more logistical and delivery operations — an effort that many observers expect will eventually include the eCommerce operator competing head-to-head with UPS and FedEx. billion in capital. That’s one take on the news Thursday (Dec. households.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

RH, which operates several online brands such as RH Teen and RH Ski House, and whose retail presence is also known as Restoration Hardware, is one of the most successful curators of luxury furnishings and décor. percent over 2018 to $2.647 billion, adjusted operating margins reached 14.3 Will luxury move online?

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

Bigbasket, the Indian online grocery store operator, raised $150 million in a fresh round of venture funding, valuing the company at more than $1 billion. Alibaba is currently Bigbasket’s largest shareholder, leading a $300 million round of funding in 2018. CDC, the U.K.’s billion when it was complete.

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Perficient

MAY 27, 2022

There is good reason for this shift in view; according to Marc Bernegger, co-founder of crypto fund AltAlpha Digital, “after last year’s explosion of crypto hedge funds around the globe, there are now over 400 active funds, excluding those focused on venture capital.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Online platform eBay announced it has tapped Peter Thompson, former vice president of Amazon’s Alexa Voice Services, as its new senior vice president and chief product officer. Before his work at Amazon, he was chief operating officer of TiVo and held executive roles at Microsoft, T-Mobile, Ericsson and Sonos.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Or it may be a last gasp amid heightened valuations and investor enthusiasm, with a focus on a business model that has soared – and may, depending on how you look at it, face fresh challenges that crimp the drive to realizing black ink on the operating line. The pandemic has helped, no doubt, as it has brought us all toward ordering online.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Players like Amazon and Walmart are working to cut themselves a larger chunk of that pie, and they are doing so by introducing “hybrid payment systems” that accommodate cash-based transactions for online purchases. 39 | Number of global payments and commerce industry leaders who added their responses to the question “What’s next for 2018?”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The purchase builds on a strategic partnership and investment made in 2018, where Visa invested in the firm back then. Bain Capital Ventures: 2020 Is B2B Payments’ Breakout Year. Bain Capital Ventures’ partner Matt Harris told PYMNTS that 2020 marked the tipping point for commercial payments. “I

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Eventbrite, the company that operates a platform to create, manage and sell tickets to events, filed an amended registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in which it said it is aiming to raise a $200 million initial public offering (IPO). At the midpoint, Eventbrite would have a market capitalization of $1.55

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

With the completion of a $325 million “mega-round,” online real estate firm Opendoor is now valued at over $2 billion, a source close to the deal told Reuters. The firm’s twist on online real estate is that it sells houses that it owns. based venture capital firms — to follow suit. to court entrepreneurs. “The

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

For instance, online marketplace and auction site eBay has released eBay Motors, a new app that uses AI to list a car in under five minutes, according to a report by The Verge. The online marketplace company aims to eventually use AI technology on descriptions, so that a user could give basic details and the AI would flesh out the rest.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

That’s particularly true in the B2B eCommerce space, as the online shopping habits of consumers spill into their professional lives when making purchases for a company, and as B2B eCommerce solution providers vow to offer an “Amazon-like” experience fit for the corporate world. Reports in Bloomberg , citing a U.K.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 4, 2020

All the capital flowing into the digital fintech space is helping to solve banking industry challenges. As the industry’s appetite for digital technology grows, the capital that’s been flowing into mostly digital-focused fintech is solving real industry challenges right now. operations with a soft landing of customers to Varo.

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