CB Insights

MARCH 11, 2019

On March 7th, Airbnb acquired HotelTonight , a last-minute hotel booking startup backed by Accel, Battery Ventures, Coatue Management, and First Round Capital, among others. HotelTonight started offering last-minute hotel bookings via its mobile app in 2011 and has raised over $117M. Become a CB Insights customer.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2018

According to Venture Beat , this latest round of funding was led by Manhattan-based VC firm Stripes Group, with participation from existing investors that include Union Square Ventures, Insight Venture Partners and Spark Capital.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2017

Online food delivery platform startup Delivery Hero is going public , following in the footsteps of GrubHub, Just Eat and Takeaway.com. Delivery Hero was founded in Berlin in 2011. Close to 19 million of the shares to be offered will come from a capital increase, according to Delivery Hero. With shares priced at €22.00 ($24.53

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

Wealthfront, an automated online financial adviser, or “robo-adviser,” is reportedly breaking into the lending space. The company has teamed up with RBC Capital Markets. Founded in 2011, Wealthfront is one of the fastest growing automated investment services. Interest rates for the new service run between 3.25 percent and 4.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Social Finance, or SoFi for short, is nearing an agreement to raise as much as $500 million in a new venture capital funding round, Bloomberg reported. That tally is likely to be led by Silver Lake Partners, the newswire said, and will be geared toward boosting the online lending and personal finance offerings now under SoFi’s umbrella.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Online platform eBay announced it has tapped Peter Thompson, former vice president of Amazon’s Alexa Voice Services, as its new senior vice president and chief product officer. The firm outlined a strategy that focuses on technology, payments intermediation and capital allocation.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 1, 2017

This teardown features annotations & commentary by four Social Capital partners. Thanks to the Social Capital team for updating/confirming their portfolio data on the CB Insights Editor. Social Capital is a VC fund with a focus on healthcare and education. CB Insights Note. Investment syndicates. BEST OF DISRUPTION REPORT.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Even with the mall under pressure due to the rise of online shopping, the American Dream’s first phase will come to life on Friday (Oct. the original developer, dropped out as did Colony Capital, its successor. Triple Five Group then agreed to take over the project in 2011. . Mills Corp.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

But that is exactly where husband-and-wife entrepreneurial team Shaudi Lynn (aka DJ Shoddy Lynn) and Bobby Farahi started when creating Dolls Kill in 2011. These are the types of things one can expect to find on the Dolls Kill online shopping portal – as well as off the rack in their San Francisco and Los Angeles physical locations.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

into the so-called online-to-offline rental ecosystem, with a market size upwards of Rs 20,000 crore ($2,889,400,000). “We intend to use our capital and expertise to expand FastFox’s offering beyond Gurugram to other markets in India ,” he added.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Niccol, who came to Taco Bell in 2011, became CEO in 2015 after holding the position of president. During Niccol’s tenure, Taco Bell announced online delivery through GrubHub. He brought mobile ordering and payments to Taco Bell’s 7,000 U.S. restaurants, and could offer expertise in digital initiatives at Chipotle.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon Lending traces its roots back to 2011, and the company had $863 million in SMB loans, according to recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The ripple effect is there — if that capital weren’t locked up it could be deployed in growing businesses. The Challenge.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. And each January, we ranked all previous recipients into a master list.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

At Suzuki Motor Corp’s showroom in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, for example, most of the customers are drivers for Uber , which partnered with the carmaker and South Africa’s Stanbic Bank at the beginning of the year to give its drivers loans and discounts on vehicles. The company revealed that Wanyoike’s rating is 4.7, near the 5.0

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2017

The CFPB said it started collecting complaints about credit cards in July of 2011, and as of March 1 of 2017, the CFPB has handled around 116,200 credit card complaints , with a major issue with consumers being fraudulent charges. “Consumers deserve clear guidance and need to be able to resolve problems that arise with their cards.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

One of the latest signs of that comes this month from Germany, where Hamburg-based Deposit Solutions , a company that launched in 2011 and sells open banking technology, recently announced it had raised $100 million in capital in a round led by Vitruvian Partners, a Munich private equity firm. Equifax Move.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Americans love online purchases and the convenience of having anything from new clothes to home goods delivered directly to their door. What’s more, digital sales have been growing steadily, increasing every year since 2011, according to the census. According to the most recent report from the U.S. Census, consumers in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

According to MarketInvoice , since launching in 2011, the FinTech has funded invoices and business loans to U.K. companies that are worth more than £2 billion, making it one of Europe’s largest online invoice finance platforms. It said it has supported thousands of companies in the U.K. by funding over 170,000 invoices.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Alibaba initially launched Xianyu in 2011 under a different name, and it received its current moniker in 2014. The consumers conduct the entire transaction online and pay using Alipay , where the money is held in escrow until the buyer receives the item and is happy with it. Xianyu Versus Zhuan Zhuan: What’s The Difference?

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

Website as of: January 2011. In a 2009 interview , Airbnb co-founder and chief product officer Joe Gebbia said “The story that we tell has a very human element to it — people connecting online, meeting in person, being resourceful.” Website as of: March 2011. Website as of: November 2011. ” Flipkart.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 12, 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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

First Billing was founded in 2011, operating until the December 2018 transaction with Paya as the billing services affiliate of The Connor Group , a real estate investment firm. It initially focused on software developed for the apartment vertical.

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Accenture

MAY 22, 2019

It found that from 2011 to 2017, net interest income for digital leaders shifted away from fee income, down 7 percent, to interest net income, up 7 percent, while the rest saw the exact opposite effect with fee income increasing and net income decreasing. 2 Accenture Research on S&P Capital IQ data. percent between 2014 and 2016.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Those innovations did more than just leverage digital and connected devices to make it easier for consumers and businesses to interact and to effectively blend the online and offline worlds. The company made history in 2011 when it launched what is still the country’s most successful in-store mobile wallet. Then there’s Starbucks.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

In an effort to capture more of that growth, Personal Capital is lowering its minimum investment from $100,000 to $25,000. The San Francisco-based company expects the lower threshold will help tap into its 850,000 users tracking investments with its free online platform. Personal Capital. Investment Req’d. 260,000. $1.

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PYMNTS

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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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Online small business lending by direct credit providers has especially taken off. The total dollar value of small business loans outstanding dipped slightly in 2011 and 2012, reflecting slightly smaller loan amounts, a result of tighter lending standards. And direct lenders are happy to work with everyone else—-a win-win for all.

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CB Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

private market valuation is greater than the public market capitalizations of Marriott, Starwood, Expedia, Wyndham, and HomeAway. First Round Capital shared this seed deck used by AppNexus, then a platform that would let companies run applications in the cloud. Today, its $29.3B AirBnB Pitch Deck from PitchDeckCoach. seed round.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Reuters , citing comments that Co-founder Thomas Griesel made to a German newspaper, reported that the company wants to capitalize on a growing demand for ready-made meals. “We He said HelloFresh would offer the ready-made meals online instead of competing directly with TV dinners that are found in the frozen section of supermarkets.

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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.

Atlanta 15

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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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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. Below are the detailed profiles of the Top 20 Venture Capital Partners. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. Current Firm: First Round Capital (Founding Partner).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

They can also supply banks and other FIs with a better sense of borrowers’ financial histories, such as how pending transactions affect account holders’ available capital by “aggregating the [data] aggregators.” . DecisionLogic recently announced that it has surpassed 40 million customers since launching in 2011.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 12, 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.

Atlanta 15

Atlanta Utah DC Detroit 15

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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Atlanta Utah Miami DC 15

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The regions wealthiest families and individuals are competing for deals alongside venture capital firms, Chinese tech investors, and others. Sinar Mas Group has also invested in Ardent Capital. Ardent Capital, a Thai venture capital firm that seeks to develop startups addressing market gaps. Series A in Q2’15.

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Independent Banker

JULY 28, 2016

She explained why lawmakers should exempt community banks from Basel III capital rule. As part of ICBA’s grassroots efforts, the association wrote letters to FASB, roughly 5,000 bankers signed a 2011 petition, and ICBA representatives attended several meetings at the board’s. is ICBA’s vice president of accounting and capital policy.

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