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. 15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. 15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. Below are the detailed profiles of the Top 20 Venture Capital Partners.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground. million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. E-Bay acquired online ticket exchange, StubHub, in 2007.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand. Check out our latest lists: SMB online lenders (33) | SMB challenger banks (12) | SMB insurers (15). Lola (acquired by Capital One, 2021) FAB Score = 11. – Founded: 2007. Founded: 2007.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand. Check out our latest lists: SMB online lenders (33) | SMB challenger banks (12) | SMB insurers (15). Lola (acquired by Capital One, 2021) FAB Score = 11. – Founded: 2007. Founded: 2007.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Combined, these 31 European startups have raised more than $21B in total funding, and operate across industries including fintech, e-commerce, healthcare, and more. Company Description: This UK-based company operates data centers in Europe and Asia. Auto1 Group now has operations in more than 30 countries. Global Switch.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

As we scale, it’s becoming increasingly important that we have direct relationships with regulators,” said Jacqueline Reses, who leads Square Capital and will be the chairman of the bank. Square already has an SMB lending arm – Square Capital – which it operates through a deal with Utah-based Celtic Bank.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In 2007, Netflix introduced streaming services to further scratch that consumer itch. Eager to break their quarantine routines, consumers are filling restaurants to whatever capacity they can accommodate, according to the requirements of the states in which they operate. At their peak in 2005 , DVDs were a $16.3

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 29, 2015

The bank is undertaking this steady transformation, a blend of operational and cultural change, to capitalize on its comprehensive financial product lines. In 2007, Countybank started the process of turning its branches into fully integrated financial centers. Countybank in Greenwood and Greenville, S.C.,

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2015

If a bank deems a vendor critical to its operation, it must analyze the vendor's financial statements to be confident in its viability. Firms started in the dorm room that have no employees, just an eager volunteer, no revenue, and no capital need not apply. It received $70 million in capital a year ago. And I suspect elsewhere.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 – and the birth of the apps ecosystem a year later in 2008 –inspired an entirely new class of innovators, stating the 2010s with a brand-new toolkit. That’s not just because consumers can shop and buy online without leaving the house. What a difference a decade makes.

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JANUARY 1, 2020

The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 – and the birth of the apps ecosystem a year later in 2008 –inspired an entirely new class of innovators, starting the 2010s with a brand-new toolkit. That’s not just because consumers can shop and buy online without leaving the house. What a difference a decade makes.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Digital laggards – Many big-box retailers either failed or were too late to establish an online presence. In 2017 to date, we have seen 21 bankruptcies. Date: June 2017.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Today, Amazon Pay has evolved to include a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants. Below is a timeline of some of the major Amazon Pay milestones: Amazon’s first known payments product, Pay with Amazon, launched in 2007. That scale would make Amazon Go a $4.5B business.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, Date: May 18, 2007. in May of 2007 to Google’s $3.1B In mid-2007, Deutsche Bank was the world’s biggest bank, with nearly $2T in assets.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 28, 2015

Founder and CEO of LendKey Vince Passione pointed to the way his company served as the bridge between traditional lenders and the opportunities in online ending. In addition to more capital, LendKey announced new talent additions, as well. Anne Sharkey, SVP Loan Operations. Mike Stallmeyer, SVP Finance. Jason Hills, SVP Sales.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. While the rules against prop trading have more recently been loosened, the restriction has still changed how investment banks operate. Table of contents. STAYING PRIVATE.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

to eBay, advising the eCommerce giant that the time has come to shed both StubHub and its classified ads business in favor of a deeper focus on its core online retail marketplace. eBay bought StubHub for $310 million in 2007, and has tried to expand the franchise overseas with the purchase of Spain’s Ticketbis in 2016.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Using advanced lending technology and analytics, OnDeck assesses small business creditworthiness based on actual operating performance and not solely on personal credit. Small businesses can apply for a line of credit or term loan online in minutes, get a decision immediately and receive funds in as fast as the same day.

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MARCH 28, 2016

doesn’t have to be paved with a 500+ person task force analyzing what the world would look like if we were starting from a clean sheet of paper, competing propositions for who’s going to build and operate a new set of rails, or even what sort of spiffy software can make existing rails faster. The path to faster payments in the U.S.

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JULY 18, 2016

The big daddy of the video rental industry at the time was Blockbuster , and it operated more than 4,500 such outlets. A year and $2 million in seed capital later, Hastings and a partner founded Netflix. In 2007, with 7.5 So, too, are the cable operators. But we all know how that movie ended, don’t we?

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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. PillPack allows users to buy medications online in pre-made doses. “A lot of people who don’t ever operate in [the car manufacturing industry] don’t understand and have a tendency to underestimate.”.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

After soaring to a multi-billion-dollar valuation behind an iconic founder, a team of prominent backers, and a promise to revolutionize blood testing, Theranos officially ceased operations in 2018. That July, it banned Holmes from owning or operating a lab for two years. The rise and fall of Theranos. The rise and fall of Pets.com.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

Select Investors: Tencent Holdings, Disney Accelerator, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vulcan Capital, ICONIQ Capital. Select Investors: Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Wellcome Trust, GIC, SoftBank Group, DST Global. Valuation: $12B.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

On the other, you have companies like Earth Class Mail, which despite its large user base went bankrupt during the 2007-08 financial crisis, only to reinvent itself and flourish under new ownership more than a decade later. In January 2019, Munchery abruptly ceased all operations, as it informed customers via email.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Technology enthusiasts draw pictures on whiteboards showing bots as the new king of the stack, out-stacking the last great stack — apps, which sit on top of the next-to-last great stack — mobile operating systems, which sit on top of the next-to-next-to-last great stack — the web. So, what gives?

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Banks have receded from mortgage lending for a host of reasons, principally because the cost of complying with strict regulation from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on loan qualification and capital requirements has made the business more expensive. This is down from 44% in 2004.

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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. 2007: Missionaries build better products. In fact, in 2017, all of Amazon’s operating income came from AWS, a once-risky bet on a “dreamy” business idea. Just execute.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

It may have started in 2007 when the U.K. On the retail payments side, online and mobile banking have transformed how accountholders access and action their money while keeping that access and those actions secure — and that accountholder relationship sticky. This payments debate — old rails/new rails — is not new. s footsteps.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 9, 2016

” Sanborn’s remarks come as the online lending marketplace announces both its Q1 results as well as the resignation of Renaud Laplanche as Chairman and CEO. Laplanche is stepping down in the wake of an internal review by the company’s board of directors regarding a $22 million sale of near-prime loans to a single investor.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2017

To put these numbers into perspective, estimates are that over a few years the Great Recession of 2007 – 2010 destroyed 8.7 Early-stage food-preparation startups using robotics and AI are proliferating, and operating in both B2B and B2C models. Robot-run warehouses are already in operation. million jobs in the US. in funding.

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APRIL 25, 2016

Google makes one of the leading mobile operating systems in the world — Android — and licenses it for free to companies like, say, Samsung that make it the software foundation of smartphones they sell for hundreds of dollars. Otherwise they’ll find something else to do with their capital. Interest free! Here in the U.S.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

Ant Financial was initially launched to support online payments. Learn how Ant Financial grew from an online payments service to a fintech giant across payments, investing, lending, and insurance. In 2004, Alibaba Group launched Alipay to support online payment transactions on Alibaba.com and Taobao.com. Table of contents.

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MAY 15, 2019

DBS leaders expect to see more than 5,000 people actively innovating DBS’ services and operations at DAX each year. Capital One — Capital One Labs. Key people: James Patterson, Managing VP & Head of Capital One Labs at Capital One. Startups in the portfolio include Betterment, Square, and UJET. Founded: 2012.

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MARCH 19, 2018

Fail — along with just about every other commerce initiative Facebook has tried to ignite using its platform, starting with Beacon in 2007. There’s been no shortage of capital to start new businesses. A Google search directed me to an online merchant that sent them to me (from Italy) four days later.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. For three of the tools we looked at — Mint, Level Money, and Check — we studied how their product evolved all the way up to their acquisition (by Intuit, Capital One, and Intuit, respectively). In aggregate, they command $1.3 trillion in annual spending.

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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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DECEMBER 14, 2017

How Glossier’s skin tone matcher drives online conversions. Today, the world’s dominant retailers are all online. Now the company is on track in 2017 to do more than $50M in revenue, according to Campfire Capital. Founded in 2007, Bonobos is the oldest company on our list of direct-to-consumer success stories.

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