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Getaround Car Sharing Platform Raises $200M At $1.7B Valuation

PYMNTS

Founded in 2009, the San Francisco-based company has already received more than $400 million in total venture capital funding from investors including GV, Madrona Venture Group and actor Ashton Kutcher.

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Leveraging Payments To Unify The Transit Experience

PYMNTS

Consumers trekking from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Chicago to New York and beyond who do not have access to a car are met with very different transit systems whose complexity impedes geographical navigation. There is currently no universal payment layer that can enable access to all transit options within the U.S.,

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Even with Fair’s Job Cuts, Car-Sharing Keeps Racing Forward

PYMNTS

Founded in 2009, the San Francisco-based company has already received more than $400 million in total venture capital funding from investors including GV, Madrona Venture Group and actor Ashton Kutcher. In September, for instance, car sharing marketplace Getaround reportedly said it was looking to raise up to $201.5

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Even With Fair’s Job Cuts, Car-Sharing Keeps Racing Forward

PYMNTS

Founded in 2009, the San Francisco-based company has already received more than $400 million in total venture capital funding from investors including GV, Madrona Venture Group and actor Ashton Kutcher. In September, for instance, car-sharing marketplace Getaround reportedly said it was looking to raise up to $201.5

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AppsFlyer Unifies Mobile Marketing Attribution, Sees $56M Series C

PYMNTS

Looking at the regional breakdown, the U.S. Other regions notched only single-digit percentage rates. Additionally, the volume of SDKs required to effectively attribute mobile app marketing efforts occasionally caused slowdowns in user experiences. held sway with 83 percent of the investments for the week.

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Google’s Waze CEO On How Carpooling Will Benefit Societies

CB Insights

Conference in San Francisco. ” But even if Americans are slow to adopt this convenient, affordable, and personalized experience, other regions may do so out of necessity. Waze CEO Noam Bardin at CB Insights’ A-Ha! The underlying technology, he claims, is the easy part. ” .”

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THE 16TH ANNUAL GONZOBANKER AWARDS

Gonzobanker

Mergerama Region of the Year – The Midwest: Huntington-First Merit, Chemical-Talmer, Old National-Anchor … the list goes on. Or the need to take market share in a slowest growth region? Maybe a regulator was out sick or on maternity leave, but this is one crawling bureaucratic nightmare. Is it in the water? That kinda scares me.”.

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