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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San Francisco CA Capital Operations 71

Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 26, 2012

capital appreciation and dividends. For comparison purposes, here are last year''s top five, as measured during September, 2011: #1 BofI Holdings, Inc. #2 So, as a branchless bank, BofI has leveraged its significantly lower operating expenses into profit. Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc. and Bank of the Ozarks, Inc.

Texas 79

Texas National FDIC Capital 79

PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Between 2011 and 2015, the government allocated $16 billion to help accelerate Singapore’s research, innovation and enterprise landscape. Earlier this year, PYMNTS reported that Singapore’s mobile payments landscape has become a prime target for players looking to capitalize on the mobile penetration and adoption throughout the country.

National 133

National Training Bitcoin Samsung 133

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

According to SpaceWorks Enterprises — a private company that monitors satellite demand — the number of annual nano- or microsatellite launches has grown at an average of 40% per year since 2011, with 10% growth projected annually through 2023. Select Investors: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, First Round Capital.

Capital 61

Capital Data Industry Company 61

CB Insights

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. These APIs handle everything from acceptance and processing to settlement and reconciliation, while ensuring compliance and security. Virtual card issuance.

Online 98

Online Company Retail Payments 98

Tech and Finance

JUNE 8, 2017

Engle has more than 30 years of experience at AT&T, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital, DTCC and Bank of America. She chairs the European Banking Federation Payments Regulatory Expert Group, the European Payments Council Payment Security Group and the Global Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs Committee of BAFT.

Virginia 46

Virginia Fintech Marketing Strategies America 46

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.

Fintech 60

Fintech Capital Cards Bitcoin 60

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have officially ended a two-year investigation of LendingClub, its subsidiary LC Advisors (LCA), its founder and former CEO Renaud Laplanche and its former CFO Carrie Dolan. On Friday (Sept. In 2010, LendingClub added to its war chest with a $24.5

Lending 135

Lending Fraud Management San Francisco 135

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Invisible will likely define the next decade of payments innovations, the start of which is just four months away – and will shape the strategies of every player operating within it. The company made history in 2011 when it launched what is still the country’s most successful in-store mobile wallet. But it’s only just begun.

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Innovation Payments Branding Cards 223

CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That same year, the company acquired TextPayMe , a peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile service that was relaunched as Amazon Webpay in 2011. Despite charging lower fees, the company failed to gain enough traction with merchants who feared giving Amazon detailed data on their overall business operations. That scale would make Amazon Go a $4.5B

Cards 101

Cards Lending Strategy US 101

Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Liquidity is becoming a problem for these banks, and with their stocks battered daily, they have no ready sources of capital. They also added that they will reinvest cash flows from their mortgage backed securities from their Quantitative Easing QE1 Program into more mortgage backed securities, rather than into Treasuries.

DC 66

DC Security Washington Risk Management 66

Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The Series A also featured the participation of APAGM Services, Jarnac Capital Management, and Rohatton. Developed by the Royal Canadian Mint and purchased by nanoPay in 2015, MintChip is a cloud-based currency that can be used to securely store and transfer digital value instantly, without third party intervention.

New York 12

New York Groups Compliance Security 12

PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the startup reported it plans to raise as much as $253.5 The nCino Bank operating system is a single, multi-tenant cloud platform that digitizes client onboarding, loan origination and deposit account opening across commercial, small business and retail lines of business.

North Carolina 197

North Carolina Software Compliance Security 197

PYMNTS

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. In 2011, the U.S.

US 100

US Payments Course System 100

Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 28, 2016

This installment brings the company’s total funding to $122 million since it was founded in 2011. Google Capital, a new investor to the Georgia-based company, led the Series C round. Pindrop is also in the midst of expanding to Latin America and plans to extend operations into Asia Pacific later this year.

Georgia 12

Georgia Fraud America Google 12

South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

Gentle Monster Background Founded in 2011 by Kim, Gentle Monster initially struggled to break through against large brands like Luxottica which controls an estimated 30% of the US market, and is behind almost every single designer eyeglass brand you can think of, including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Armani, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Prada and many more.

Innovation 195

Innovation social media Branding Marketing 195

Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. In 2011, at the height of its problems, when non-performing assets/assets was nine percent. The result: those investors that jumped onboard at the end of 2011 were well rewarded. million, than it has in operating expense, at $95.0 million today.

North Dakota 60

North Dakota Minnesota West Virginia Arizona 60

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The Get Outta Dodge (and Focus) Award – Goes to Capital One for exiting a significant mortgage business to focus on cards and direct banking. Biggest Branch ITM User Award : The Security Guard. These actions DO NOT represent the vast majority of Wells Fargo professionals, but they are symptomatic of an earnings culture gone wild.

Conference 101

Conference Industry Community Bank Community 101

CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Declared Bankruptcy: 2011. By December 2011, it was under $30/kg. By September 2011, Solyndra’s business model had fallen apart. By September 2011, Solyndra’s business model had fallen apart. Founded: 2011. Dart Music. Earth Class Mail. Founded: 2005. Total Funding: $1.2B. Declared Bankruptcy: 2018.

Apple 78

Apple Branding Google Company 78

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

food retail market with the adoption of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), introduced by legislators in 2009 and signed into law in 2011. The burden of regulatory compliance came to a head in the U.S. “It created an enormous regulatory burden up and down the supply chain for food,” he told PYMNTS in an interview.

Compliance 164

Compliance Retail blockchain Regulation 164

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 21, 2015

FundAmerica’s back-end compliance solutions include everything from AML and escrow services to payment processing and state dealer representation, in short all investment advisers, broker-dealers and others need to raise capital pursuant to 506(c), 506(b), Reg A+, and rule 4(a)(6) crowdfunding regulations. Founded in November 2011.

Las Vegas 12

Las Vegas Compliance Nevada Online 12

Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. billion of assets and operates twenty five branches in the western suburbs of Chicago. That got regulator's attention in the form of a May 2011 Consent Order (CO). In 2011, at the height of its problems, non-performing assets/assets was nine percent.

Minnesota 60

Minnesota West Virginia Virginia Iowa 60

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. Total funding : $161M.

Report 78

Report San Francisco Capital New York 78

CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. After a comprehensive investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Holmes was banned from the laboratory testing industry for two years and was ultimately charged with wire fraud by the Department of Justice in summer 2018. Bouxtie’s broken promises.

Fraud 78

Fraud Las Vegas Company Video 78

PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

That happens via an exchange — a now massive part of the bitcoin ecosystem that began to take root in 2011 and really flourished in about 2013. RaaS operations — Ransomware as a Service — now flourish and make it easy for the most amateur of cybercriminals to get into the game. It’s a game with a pretty big payoff.

Bitcoin 155

Bitcoin Regulation Innovation Fintech 155

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Brown, instead of managers getting stock options or guaranteed bonuses, every manager got paid $7,800 a year (the equivalent of about $14,500 today), plus “a designated percentage of the profits of the company after these are reduced by a charge for capital employed.”. The result of this type of plan was to make each manager at H.

Omaha 78

Omaha Company Capital Management 78

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Israel has a well-known reputation of being a global cybersecurity hub — increasing talent flow from military intelligence, exposure to severe security threats and a burgeoning startup scene all combine to make the country a cybersecurity power player.

National 101

National Security Fintech Industry 101

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 5, 2016

. “To stay one-step ahead of the market demand,” Dashlane’s Malaika Nicholas wrote on the company blog , “Google and Dashlane are helping create a seamless, universally-acceptable Android app authentication solution to increase your online security.” In May, Dashlane raised $22.5

Google 12

Google Security Online New York City 12

CB Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In 2011, three banks accounted for half of new mortgage loans, according to the Washington Post. In 2011, just two of the top 10 biggest lenders were non-bank lenders. Both companies also say they effectively secure the user data they collect. Driver 1: New lenders increase the competition.

Millennials 69

Millennials Lending United States Technology 69

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

After a brief launch in 2011, Glitch was returned to beta and by 2012, Butterfield declared the concept wasn’t viable. Within a few years, the company was raising millions in venture capital funding and went public in 2015. His company, Tiny Speck, began developing a game called Glitch. Source: Shopify Investor Deck 2016.

Video 76

Video social media Online Company 76

CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2017

As for Amazon’s ambitions in banking and card networks generally, note the rumors that Amazon was interested in buying Capital One in Q1’17.). As sellers follow customers over to Amazon, it will put PayPal in a more precarious place than Goldman’s projections play it. (As

Industry 47

Industry Payments Analysis Retail 47

PYMNTS

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. WeChat was launched in 2011 by Chinese internet giant Tencent.

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Apple Google 100

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

At the same time, startup activity related to the CPG food and beverage industry is on the rise, driven partially by traditional food giants leveraging startups as outsourced R&D as well as venture capital firms turning toward the space as exit opportunities increase (mostly in the form of food & beverage-focused M&A deals).

Trends 31

Trends Branding blockchain Capital 31

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

At the same time, startup activity related to the CPG food and beverage industry is on the rise, driven partially by traditional food giants leveraging startups as outsourced R&D as well as venture capital firms turning toward the space as exit opportunities increase (mostly in the form of food & beverage-focused M&A deals).

Trends 31

Trends Branding blockchain Capital 31

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

At the same time, startup activity related to the CPG food and beverage industry is on the rise, driven partially by traditional food giants leveraging startups as outsourced R&D as well as venture capital firms turning toward the space as exit opportunities increase (mostly in the form of food & beverage-focused M&A deals).

Trends 31

Trends Branding blockchain Capital 31

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

At the same time, startup activity related to the CPG food and beverage industry is on the rise, driven partially by traditional food giants leveraging startups as outsourced R&D as well as venture capital firms turning toward the space as exit opportunities increase (mostly in the form of food & beverage-focused M&A deals).

Trends 31

Trends Branding blockchain Capital 31

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In this review of failure, we’ve looked in our venture capital database to find the most well-funded startup companies that ultimately failed or had an undesirable exit, such as an asset sale or an acquisition for less than the total funding raised by the company. The 101 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time. Total Funding: Over $100M.

Capital 78

Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78