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JANUARY 24, 2020

While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk. Flutterwave.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Yesterday, the smaller-scale fulfillment company closed $40 million in Series C funding, led by Activant Capital, bringing its total capital raised to $70 million. In the age of Amazon, achieving success in this market takes dozens of fulfillment centers, advanced logistics and sophisticated enterprise technology.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Account takeovers are becoming bigger business for criminals — or, at least, the business of preventing account takeovers in the digital retail and payments realm is becoming an increasing focus of companies and security experts. The new capital will help fuel hiring and other growth, the company said.

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JUNE 29, 2020

“We are excited to partner with Shift and its world-class management team as it leverages its technology platform to disrupt the $840+ billion used car market,” said Daniel Cohen, chairman of the board of directors of Insurance Acquisition Corp. Arison said the move was about adding capital to scale the company.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

“We are currently selling over 600 cars per month — and with our strong tech backbone, we are making aggressive strides towards becoming the numero uno used car retailer platform in India,” Kalwani, chief executive of Truebil, said, according to VC Circle. With this latest round, Truebil has currently raised a total of $22.5

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Ozon was the recipient of a $50 million investment from San Francisco-based Princeville Capital in March. The company said it planned to spend over $300 million on logistics over the next three years, and the loan would go toward that goal as well as boosting its technology.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Traditional retail is getting an upgrade. Despite the rise of e-commerce and mobile, the physical channel still plays an important role in consumer experience — and retailers are increasingly leveraging technologies to stay afloat. Cashier-less technology is one of the latest trends to dominate conversation.

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JULY 22, 2019

Much of the excitement surrounding automated retail — aka cashierless retail — has been driven by Amazon Go, but the enthusiasm for “just-walk-out” technology has been tempered by the stores’ limited locations. The next wave of automated retail might be heralded by U.K.-based Unattended Retail Can Boost Sales.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Commerce Ventures, Flint Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Synchrony and Sorenson Capital also participated, according to reports.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

Despite the many obituaries that have been written about brick-and-mortar stores over the past several months, physical retail isn’t dead — nor is it permanently shuffling off the stage. Physical retail is going to go on, although not in the form that the world previously knew it, sticky.io Capitalizing On Direct To Consumer.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

This is a decisive time in the history of retail banking. Finally, transparency, technology and creativity will serve the consumer, and there will be no more room for unimaginative products, non-transparent terms of use or lack of genuine care of one’s customers. Other investors in the round include ?Commonwealth

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MAY 9, 2016

Last week, the retail space saw the arrival of Earny, a personal assistant bot that — as a press release explains — automatically tracks users’ purchase history and monitors price adjustments. million seed investment from Sweet Capital Ltd. On the same day (May 5) that Earny launched, the company also announced a $1.2

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

million in new venture capital (VC) funding. The company currently operates in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, with expansion plans to enter other new markets in the first quarter of 2018. The company has deployed innovative robotic technology in its operations as well, improving its operations and overall speed. “We

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MARCH 5, 2019

Just take the recent story of Three Babes Bakeshop in San Francisco. Indeed, the San Francisco-based company reportedly owes tens of thousands of dollars to its food suppliers, many of which are small businesses, and some of which told reporters they were never warned by Munchery of its plans to shut down. Tabs and Cash.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

Our technology is helping businesses optimize their schedule with real-time online availability, and in some cases, it has increased user revenue more than 30 percent.”. Because, both Zeqiri and Miller said, as formatted today, beauty as a business is grossly ineffcient, largely due to the technological lag prominently featured industry wide.

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JULY 13, 2018

This week’s B2B venture capital rundown includes some of the usual suspects, like blockchain and HR tech, and a few not-so-usual ones, like fleet and small business insurance. million for its freight management technologies. million in Series C funding this week led by MDI Ventures, the venture capital unit of Telkom Indonesia.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

Here’s the news: On-demand delivery provider Postmates raised that $100 million worth of fresh capital in a funding round led by BlackRock, Glynn Capital and Tiger Global. Partnerships and technology are becoming increasing important in the delivery space. Testing was set for early 2019 in the San Francisco area.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

million for its anti-fraud solutions designed for retailers. With artificial intelligence (AI), Fraugster has developed a software solution that prevents fraud for online retailers, analyzing data from multiple sources and cross-checking information to determine whether a transaction is fraudulent or not. SESAMi/Capital Match.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Gabi , a San Francisco-based digital broker for home and car insurance, raised a $27M Series B led by Mubadala Capital. Capital, AngelList, Burst Capital, Canvas Ventures, CMFG Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Project A Ventures, and Securian Financial Group also participated in the round. .

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Previously, he was head of engineering at Voxer and has also worked for Genentech, IBM and smaller technology consultancies including his own. DoorDash has raised almost $1 billion in venture capital funding, most recently at a $4 billion valuation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

The news that on-demand delivery startup Munchery has closed its doors — even after raising $125 million in venture capital funding — serves as reminder of how difficult it can be to gain a profitable foothold (much less a dominant position) in the on-demand food delivery space. Future Moves. So, what’s next in these delivery wars?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Retail performance mobile marketing expert Fidzup recently announced it raised $3.7 million in a new funding round with venture capitalists Cap Horn, Turenne Capital and existing investors. But when you speak to physical retailers, a click doesn’t generate any value. It doesn’t mean a visit for physical retailers.”

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JUNE 13, 2018

That would follow a reported $150 million funding round in May that was led by by Sequoia Capital. Those companies have repeatedly said they are not selling consumer data — and continued to do so in a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle that questioned those promises.

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JULY 19, 2017

In retail, we’ve seen this happen time and again. The latest aspect of retail to rear its head again is the direct-to-consumer (DTC) approach. For years, the mass production side of the retail industry dominated, but with the introduction of eCommerce, retailers suddenly had a new avenue to reach the consumer.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Our speakers will dive into the trends and technologies revolutionizing the wealth tech industry, ranging from fractional stock trading, robo-advising, social trading platforms, and more. CEO, Groww (backed by Ribbit Capital, Sequoia Capital India, and Y Combinator). See you in San Francisco ! valuation).

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MARCH 20, 2019

China Development Bank Capital, Coatue Management, Hillhouse Capital Management, IDG Capital, Temasek Holdings, Tencent Holdings, Tiger Global Management. Select Investors : Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, DST Global, GGV Capital, Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital, J.P. Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

For the third consecutive year, we worked with The New York Times to identify and rank the top 100 venture capital professionals from around the globe. We used CB Insights data gathered via our machine learning technology (dubbed The Cruncher ) and from thousands of submissions we received from VC partners and firms via The Editor.

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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. ‘PayFac’ technology simplifies underwriting and onboarding. ‘PayFac’ technology simplifies underwriting and onboarding merchants.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. This year in the US, JP Morgan launched mobile banking app Finn and Goldman Sachs’ retail banking arm Marcus crossed 1.5M savings accounts. Key takeaways.

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JULY 28, 2016

We seek to partner with capital-efficient businesses that are on rapid growth trajectories and look forward to working with Shipt and playing a role in the continued advancement of the company.”. The company now has an office in San Francisco, too, that gives it a presence in Silicon Valley.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. Café X Technologies.

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MARCH 25, 2019

At the same time, payments technology is advancing in the shared economy world, providing a counterforce of sorts. Those controversies have notably played out in San Francisco , though other cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, are going through them at their own pace. Sharing Backlashes.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But for all the potential value that could be captured, the trouble with being in the meal delivery box subscription business, according to Thistle CEO Ashwin Cheriyan, is that it isn’t actually one business, it is three: the food business, the logistics business and the technology business. We built [Thistle] the normal-ish way.

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JUNE 1, 2017

Stripe, a San Francisco-based payment service provider that specializes in online transactions, is expanding its arsenal of financial products to cater to the needs of data-hungry businesses. Stripe is a leading innovator in the financial technology space.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

With the increasing trade volume between the two countries, payments have become a major pain point for retailers that often rely on wire transfers, which can take up to three days to complete. A need for larger working capital and a slower supply chain for both exporters and importers. The result? Businesses kind of operate on that.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Coinsource, America’s largest bitcoin ATM provider, just announced proudly that the company now has 55 ATM kiosks, after adding six new ones in California — four in Los Angeles and two in San Francisco. This week, he launched a bitcoin gift card integration with certain top retailers through digital wallet iPayYou.io.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It's hard to believe that an entire month has gone by since Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco — but baseball fans will have noticed that things have been a bit hectic here in Chicago of late. Most banks, however, are not Capital One. Banks can roll their own code, spool up a VM, and off they go.

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