2012 Branding Innovation Lending 
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 21, 2019
As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. When most people asked “what’s next?” and run on the Discover rails.
Fintech Labs Insights
APRIL 12, 2024
The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).
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PYMNTS
JANUARY 25, 2018
Most recently, the FSB announced plans to join the alternative finance world and establish the FSB Funding Platform , a marketplace lending portal through which small businesses can access funding from more than 100 lenders. Stallon said that the FSB brand is likely to help, as is the FSB’s focus on simplicity for the end user.
PYMNTS
APRIL 22, 2016
Case in point: Soundtrack Your Brand, which raised $11 million last week to provide retail stores with a music soundtrack service — not exactly the showcase for investor support of business FinTech. Since its launch in 2012, the firm said it has facilitated $178 million worth of invoice financing to local SMEs.
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.
PYMNTS
MAY 31, 2016
The ventures didn’t have to start in 2012, they just had to be “hot” that year, as judged by those that BI reached out to. More than 62 percent of the cool kids of the Class of 2012 derailed – and some within the year following their appearance on the list.
PYMNTS
APRIL 11, 2016
It’s not as if a person making the request for a tissue, pain reliever or bandage was specifically asking for a Kleenex, Bayer Aspirin or Band-Aid brand item. But, over many decades, these three brand names achieved such dominance in their categories that they became the most natural way for people to refer to all products in that category.
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