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AUGUST 10, 2016

In general, venture capitalists are boosting their investments in Latin America, with funding reaching $594 million in 2015, a stark increase from $387 million in 2012, the Latin America Venture Capital Association confirmed.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

Media companies, in the meantime, shoveled tens of millions into Snap in the hopes of selling to a generation whose brand loyalty is about as fleeting as Zsa Zsa Gabor’s affection for each of her nine husbands. billion into Snap since it started in 2012, and its IPO in March of 2017 raised $3.4 Investors put $2.65 billion more.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

But there’s another reason why the neo-challengers are so front-of-mind: They’re industry leaders in cultivating technology innovation and optimising customer service and experience. They also deliver innovative, easy-to-use apps that help users with things like managing their daily budget or travelling abroad. Customer growth.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

The venture capital world lit up last week with reports that B2B tech startups are now seeing increased funding, raising money at a faster pace than B2C startups. In the biggest B2B venture capital story of the week, some of the brightest names in banking lent their support to B2B digital payments firm Transactis. B2B ePayments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Analysts at the time called this product “an historic opportunity” to bolster the merchant’s “corroding bottom lines,” and innovators rushed to build new applications to help them seize it. Just like 2012, with the launch of MCX and CurrentC merchant-branded, ACH-linked mobile payments products. And what was the product?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For those unfamiliar, mBank is a Polish direct bank brand established by BRE Bank in 2000 as one of the first of its kind in the country. Thanks to the mBank’s business achievements and potential of the brand as first and the biggest internet bank in Poland, BRE Bank Group decided in 2013 to change company name to mBank.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

Thriving or just surviving in the omnichannel age means offering comprehensive in-store and online features that both engage customers and connect them with brands. That’s how we built a lot of our services, and really our brand, online.”. We want to drive customers to come back to us and interact with our brand,” Song said.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

Urban Remedy has 30 branded refrigerated kiosks in Whole Foods stores across California. Venture Capital Investment. Previous funding rounds in 2014 and 2012 have brought the company $5 million and $1 million respectively, according to Crunchbase. Where might Urban Remedy put some of that venture capital cash? The Future.

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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 21, 2012. Date: 2012. Microsoft and Nokia.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2016

MCX is the merchant consortia formed in August 2012 with the intention of creating a mobile-only, merchant-owned payments scheme that ran over the ACH rails. Rumored calls for capital were rebuffed. Mooney said that they plan to lay off about 30 people but suggest that the MCX-owner members “remain committed” to its future.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

“Although it’s harnessing the latest innovations in tech, it offers a very simple way to access finance, as well as access to human financial advisors,” explained FSB London Chair Michael Lassman in a statement earlier this month. ” Such transformation won’t happen overnight, however, and the U.K.,

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

We don’t want to see them negatively impacted by a fraud risk,” said Dax Dasilva, CEO of Lightspeed , a company providing cloud-based systems that integrate in-store and online sales into one omnichannel solution while helping companies embrace EMV and other payment innovations. And it all started with Apple, he said. “I

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MAY 23, 2016

2012 with the intention of creating a mobile-only, merchant-owned payments scheme that ran over ACH rails. MCX coalition members hoped that the scheme would be attractive enough to consumers that many of them would shift away from what they were using in the store — branded plastic cards — to its mobile payments scheme.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 23, 2018

Today, JPMorgan (JPM) is using its capital and scale to build an entirely digital bank. Chase prioritizes hiring technical talent to lead innovation. Branded cards. Chase prioritizes hiring technical talent to lead innovation. Chase offers 5 branded cards, 3 no-fee cards, and 2 Chase Sapphire cards. First Name.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Using CB Insights data, we mapped out the key emerging Asian smartphone brands challenging established players. Below, we dive deeper into these various smartphone brands and the companies that own them. Oppo, Vivo, and OnePlus are smartphone brands run by the BBK Electronics Corporation , headquartered in Dongguan, China.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Brokerage and social trading platform ayondo has acquired the TradeHero brand. The TradeHero brand is extremely well established in Asia and was the missing piece in our product range.” ayondo began its expansion into Singapore in 2014 after securing $4 million in funding from Lumnior Capital.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 15, 2015

For its part, Insight underscored Fenergo’s brand and product strength, as well as the management team, in explaining the reasons behind his firm’s investment. The hope is that continued investment, innovation, and growth will help Fenergo’s technology become the industry standard in its field.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 24, 2016

The company will continue to provide basic “dollar for bitcoin/ether” conversions under the Coinbase brand. Recent headlines for Coinbase include earning a spot on Fast Company’s Most Innovative list back in February. The platform will be renamed “GDAX” (Global Digital Asset Exchange).

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

It shut down in 2012, 15 months after its official launch. 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. Fifteen months after its official launch, in September of 2012, Facebook Credits was shuttered.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 29, 2016

Our inaugural post leads with the Pokemon Go phenomenon which has fintech innovators rethinking their strategies around not just mobile, but the power of gamification, location-based marketing, and the diversity of data, as well. Berlin bids to replace London as post-Brexit fintech capital – Financial Times.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

After evaluating the vehicle, the EPA gave The Coda a fuel economy equivalence of 73 miles per gallon, the highest of any electric vehicle on the market in 2012. In December 2012, Coda was forced to lay off 15% of its total workforce. However, it performed poorly on frontal impact tests, receiving just 2 stars for driver safety.

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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.”. It had a great brand. to buy half of. Market volatility.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Few places are more receptive to new ideas and innovative business models than Silicon Valley. Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. But the model doesn’t always work perfectly. Total Funding: $490M.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Big food companies faced a variety of challenges in 2016, as smaller companies gained market share, consumers sought out healthy options, and direct-to-consumer distribution models — including Amazon’s new private-label food and beverage brands — moved onto the scene. Track food and beverage startups. Disclosed Investor(s).

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Big food companies faced a variety of challenges in 2016, as smaller companies gained market share, consumers sought out healthy options, and direct-to-consumer distribution models — including Amazon’s new private-label food and beverage brands — moved onto the scene. Track food and beverage startups. Disclosed Investor(s).

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Big food companies faced a variety of challenges in 2016, as smaller companies gained market share, consumers sought out healthy options, and direct-to-consumer distribution models — including Amazon’s new private-label food and beverage brands — moved onto the scene. Track food and beverage startups. Disclosed Investor(s).

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Big food companies faced a variety of challenges in 2016, as smaller companies gained market share, consumers sought out healthy options, and direct-to-consumer distribution models — including Amazon’s new private-label food and beverage brands — moved onto the scene. Track food and beverage startups. Disclosed Investor(s).

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2013: Decentralize decision-making to generate innovation. 2012: Surprise and delight your customers to build long-term trust. 2011: Self-service platforms unlock innovation. 2004: Free cash flow enables more innovation. 2013: Decentralize decision-making to generate innovation. Just execute. ” Takeaway.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve created a list of finance innovation labs from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as from newcomers looking to make a name through tech. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong.

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CB Insights

JULY 20, 2017

This post will dive into innovation across beauty and grooming, focusing on the following areas: Startup investment trends. Deals to beauty and grooming startups have grown steadily since 2012, and are racing toward an all-time high in 2017. Colorescience , a chemical-free skin care brand, ranked third with a $15M investment.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Discount and budget retailers are capitalizing on this, targeting their stores toward consumers that are looking for a bargain. We look into how stores are being transformed into showrooms, community gathering spots, and even event spaces as retailers leverage the physical store as tool for brand marketing.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

Bank Innovation named Jill one of the 10 most innovative CEOs in banking for 2015, and we doubt that Bank Innovation would know who Jill is if not for her presence on Twitter. Department Whose Brand Isn’t Improving Award. August 2012: Big merchants announce new consortium to combat interchange rates.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

State of Innovation Report. Bain, whose co-founders would go on to start Bain Capital, had a particular expertise in finance from the beginning. Mitt Romney, center, began his career at BCG but made his real fortune as vice president of Bain & Company and co-founder of Bain Capital — specialization-wise, a fitting career move.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Innovation in microprocessors — particularly Nvidia’s graphic processing units (GPUs) — have played a large role. Khosla Ventures also backed Cafe X Technologies in Q1’17, alongside The Thiel Foundation, Felicis Ventures, and Social Capital. How did we get here? The concept of artificial intelligence was introduced in the 1950s.

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