CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Date: March 20, 2003. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Bank of Montreal online mortgage app circa Jan 1998 (via Internet archive). It’s telling that Apply by Phone/Fax were more prominent than Apply Online. files over the weekend, I ran across an Online Banking Report article I wrote in 1997 about Bank of Montreal’s pioneering online mortgage application. CAN Capital.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 15, 2016

Last night in Amsterdam the 2016 European Fintech Awards celebrated innovators shaping the future of finance. Category: Innovative Banking Software. Founded: 2003. Companies awarded on this list were selected by a combination of online public votes (weighted 25%) and a panel of judges (weighted 75%). Scalable Capital.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The online bookseller didn’t turn a profit for six years — today, it’s the second publicly traded company ever to hit a $1T market cap. 2013: Decentralize decision-making to generate innovation. 2011: Self-service platforms unlock innovation. 2004: Free cash flow enables more innovation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Museums are putting their exhibitions online for people who want to visit but are unable to currently. Educators are putting coursework online so that children quarantined at home don’t have to miss out on key aspects of their education while school is closed or students can’t get there.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. Innovation Summit: (N+1) Trends. PillPack allows users to buy medications online in pre-made doses. ” Innovation Summit: (N+1) Trends. The iPhone and iPod. We have ‘I’.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In venture capital, returns follow the power law — 80% of the wins come from 20% of the deals. Get the 65-page report on teardowns for Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and more. JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

E-commerce sales growth is pulling ahead of total retail sales ( 17% vs. 6% for year-over-year in Q4’17), and Amazon is controlling upwards of 40% of online sales in the US, according to the US Department of Commerce and Slice Intelligence, respectively. ” — Alistair Davidson, CFO, Ikea. Its membership fee revenue grew 12.6%

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

A year and $2 million in seed capital later, Hastings and a partner founded Netflix. By June 2003, DVD rentals overtook VHS rentals. Returning “Apollo 13” required Hastings, or someone in his family, to get in the car and drive it back to the video rental store while the store was open.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

In 2003, iTunes for Windows arrived in October 2003, allowing non-Mac users, the vast majority of the computing world, to buy music from Apple and sync it to an iPod for the first time. Social Finance, the online lender better known as SoFi, is losing three top executives this week. SoFi and Uber Reshuffle Their Upper Levels.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

State of Innovation Report. When BeverageCo sought to take advantage of digital, they had many isolated initiatives (such as online advertising and a corporate Facebook page) underway, but lacked traction in any of them. Bain, whose co-founders would go on to start Bain Capital, had a particular expertise in finance from the beginning.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Catastrophe breeds innovation — at least in terms of new business concepts. But capital brings those concepts to life. It stands to reason then that displaced workers are using funds to start their own micro-firms, and innovators see opportunity to monetize the great digital shift.

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