CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

Select investors : Amazon, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Bowman Capital Management LLC. Launched in February 1999, Pets.com sought to capitalize on widespread internet access and a $23B pet supplies market by selling products directly to consumers. Select Investors : IAC, Highland Capital Partners, FirstMark Capital.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

Founded by YouTube’s resident cosmetics expert Michelle Phan in 2011, ipsy promotes itself through a network of YouTube beauty and wellness celebrity vloggers, and encourage users to create and upload content. As of last September, ipsy had managed to bag $150 million in new venture capital funding. The Changing Review Trouble .

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

while Kroger gets a stake in the company worth about 5 percent of existing share capital, valued at $247.5 Launched in 2011, the company raised around $15 million. That ties in with Facebook, of course, and just what was done with the data of 87 million users of that social media behemoth. sites that Kroger will locate.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2017

To measure “power”, Planet Compliance used an algorithm that measured a company’s activity in the media, as well as online and in social media including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Wikipedia. Market capitalization of $5.63 Founded in 2011. Founded in 2011. Founded in 2011.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The round featured participation from American Express Ventures, along with existing investors BDC Capital, Blumberg Capital, and Tenfore Holdings. Trulioo’s total capital now stands at more than $23 million. Identity verification specialist Trulioo picked up $15 million in new funding to help fuel growth.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Social media is also helping campers discover new places to visit, then share their experiences with others: 30% of millennials said that they picked a camping spot after seeing someone else go there. As with many industries in today’s information economy, millennial travel trends are strongly influenced by social media.

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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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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

I would say around 2010, 2011, 2012, with Apple having mobile payments acceptance in stores, checking out on mobile devices, that’s where we saw transactions become much more personal,” Dasilva said of in-store retail experiences. And it all started with Apple, he said. “I So, it’s a high bar for specialty retail.”.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

The core premise at its founding was to recreate the dynamics of the sharing and social media revolutions. So you soldier on and bring in hard-nosed hedge fund capital. So you decide to aggregate your own capital through deposits and buy Radius bank. And this realization takes us to Lending Club. You’re a bank now anyway.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Date: October 2011. With Apotheker fired in 2011 for a slew of missteps that had contributed to the company’s massive losses, nothing ever came of the acquisition. Date: August 15, 2011. And in the short-term, that would have looked like a good deal, as the social media site hit its peak in 2007 at a value of about $12B.

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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. — Ben Kaufman, founder, Quirky. Founded: 2011. Dart Music. Earth Class Mail. Solyndra: A fragile business model leaves you vulnerable to competition. Founded: 2005. Total Funding: $1.2B.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 5, 2018

Select investors: General Catalyst, Collaborative Fund, Forerunner Ventures, Mickey Drexler, Gwenyth Paltrow, Burch Creative Capital. Everlane raised seed funding in 2011, but has been revenue-funded since. Select investors: Comcast Ventures, True Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, First Round Capital. Outdoor Voices.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

First stop on Facebook’s capital raising tour: The big guns with successful payments rails, loads of money and a demonstrable appetite to invest in innovation. But it was the same concept: ditching fiat currency for Facebook-branded virtual currency to make in-app purchases on the social media platform. Social gaming.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Barington Capital pressured Avon CEO to step down. Activist investor Barington Capital drove out Avon CEO Sheri McCoy in 2017, and in Mar’2018 Avon agreed to add Barington Capital’s CEO to its board of directors. Chobani became the top-selling yogurt in the US in 2011 , only four years after its launch.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 30, 2015

Finaeos automates the back-office and capital raise compliance. Founded: 2011. Founded: 2011. Whodini helps merchants engage customers using social media marketing, reaching loyal customers with targeted offers. And now let us introduce you to the final fourteen companies of FinovateSpring 2015. Founded: 2015.

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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. These actions DO NOT represent the vast majority of Wells Fargo professionals, but they are symptomatic of an earnings culture gone wild. Here’s hoping a final remodel of the stage coach occurs in 2018.

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CB Insights

APRIL 26, 2018

However, Baidu’s 2011 acquisition of Japanese input method editor company Simeji gave Baidu access to Japanese users’ conversations and syntax over the years. City Brain crunches data from cameras, sensors, social media feeds, and government data, among other things. Tencent’s biggest strength is that it owns WeChat.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

As of this writing in mid-November 2017, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies hovers around $220B (with a single bitcoin trading for upwards of $8,000). If you had invested $100 in bitcoin in 2011 that bitcoin would be worth over $2.5M Blockchain. Cryptocurrencies. Initial coin offerings. Is bitcoin a bubble?

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