CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Stripe went on to raise a seed round from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, and PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk in 2011.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Canadian VC-backed companies saw funding drop 13% in H1 2019 compared to H1 2018. Qualifying top five venture capital investors (e.g. venture capital, growth equity, and super angel) and corporates (e.g. Capital markets. GET THE ENTIRE 41-PAGE CANADA VC REPORT H1 2019. Blockchain and crypto. digital collectibles”).

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CB Insights

MAY 21, 2018

Artificial Intelligence Trends To Watch In 2018. While some worry that artificial intelligence (AI) will someday lead to robots rampaging their way to world domination, AI-related startups have not stopped attracting intense interest from talent and capital. Do we have the resources to catalog the specific skills employees possess?

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BankUnderground

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a new working paper , we show that cap-and-trade schemes lead to lower volatility in GDP and financial variables, and result in reduced welfare costs of the business cycle , when compared to the more widely known carbon taxes. At the heart of the model are intermediate polluting firms in a capital-intensive sector.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Here’s hoping a final remodel of the stage coach occurs in 2018. The Get Outta Dodge (and Focus) Award – Goes to Capital One for exiting a significant mortgage business to focus on cards and direct banking. Hard to imagine a lot of deal signings headed into 2018 – except the IRS, of course. Knowledge is being able to predict.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

A 2018 survey by Bank of America shows that millennials’ top financial priorities were saving for emergency funds (64%), saving for retirement (49%), and saving to buy a house (33%) — not much different from the concerns their baby boomer parents had 30 years ago. Digit has raised $36M in venture capital to build out its service.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 29, 2020

Technology has been a key resource for both ag borrowers and ag lenders seeking efficiency, growth, and profitability. The passing of the 2018 Farm Bill , for example, legalized the regulated production of hemp, and it is becoming a hot topic amongst producers and lenders. On January 28, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Sears declared bankruptcy in October 2018. Eager to get in on the action and capitalize on the growing number of Latin American internet users, the Spanish telecom company Terra Networks purchased Lycos in a $12.5B In 2007, Daimler sold off 80% of Chrysler to Cerberus Capital Management for $7B. Don’t fail.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. After a comprehensive investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Holmes was banned from the laboratory testing industry for two years and was ultimately charged with wire fraud by the Department of Justice in summer 2018. Bouxtie’s broken promises.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Brown, instead of managers getting stock options or guaranteed bonuses, every manager got paid $7,800 a year (the equivalent of about $14,500 today), plus “a designated percentage of the profits of the company after these are reduced by a charge for capital employed.”. The result of this type of plan was to make each manager at H.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target. Declared Bankruptcy: 2018. Declared Bankruptcy: 2018. Founded: 2011.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

He compared the modern bitcoin boom to the California Gold Rush of yore — but a far less useful version, because bitcoin uses a lot of resources to produce something that’s not really all that useful at the end of the day and has no value at all except for the value an international pool of speculators have assigned to it.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

Funding to construction tech companies has increased dramatically in 2018, primarily driven by a $865M Series D round to Katerra (more on Katerra below). The Washington-based company has raised $6M to date from Vulcan Capital, among others. worth of bookings, and as of April 2018, it employs over 1,400 people.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Nothing seems to put a bounce in a banker’s step more than a tax break and regulatory relief, and this bountiful energy was radiating at Bank Director’s annual “mecca” for bank M&A in Phoenix last week – Acquire or be Acquired. For those in the know – simply AOBA. The chatter at AOBA centered on three important topics: #1: The Breaks.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

To that end, the number of banking firms that actively provide services for marijuana firms has grown by 20 percent since the dawn of 2018. It’s about small business loans, mortgages for facilities, and funding for capital improvements. That’s according to data published at the end of last month, per data from the U.S.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 7, 2019

After the initial high of the “Trump Bump” in late 2016 and the euphoria-promoting “Tax Bump” of late 2017, bankers saw their fortunes turn against them in the second half of 2018. Rule 3 – Demand benchmarks and profitability analysis in every resource discussion. The growth cycle is over in banking … period.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Third, the explosion in regulations over the past eight years has served to hinder businesses, especially new small business formation, and has drained valuable resources as compliance costs soared. Corporate and personal tax cuts were promised, with the corporate rate dropping from 35% to 15%. and 2018 at 1.8% since 2009.

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