PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us in today’s technology-driven society. This week, the company announced its last part of its $120 million venture capital (VC) funding round. Founded in 2012, the AI startup specializes in data analytics for enterprises looking to quickly find data, similar to an online search engine.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Payments startup Sourcery announced new venture capital to propel its focus in the food and hospitality industries, reports said on Tuesday (Sept. The funding will also be used to develop an accounts receivable solution for vendors receiving payment via the Sourcery platform.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

AI technology startup ViSenze creates digital image search solutions built on deep learning and computer vision capabilities. Founded in Singapore in 2012, the company’s solutions are used today by major digital retailers such as Rakuten and ASOS to simplify product searching for some 250 million daily active users.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

The Singapore-based payments startup opted to raise more capital to grow independently as a company instead. The company reportedly assists firms like Zara, Central Online Shopping and Thai Airways take various payment types online from clients in Southeast Asia. The news comes as Grab raised over $4.5

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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

JANUARY 18, 2018

The FinTech startup iKaaz, which was founded in 2012, has a cloud-based platform for online merchants, point-of-sale hardware for retailers and a mobile wallet for customers who want to make digital payments. Specific terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

million in a Series A funding round to further develop its in-store display technology. More resources will enable us to continue serving the growing needs of our current customer base, who want to expand their use of eyeQ technologies,” said CEO Michael Garel. Shopper intelligence platform eyeQ announced that it has secured $3.5

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

So, access to capital isn’t just essential for these companies to survive — it’s critical for the economy to thrive. On the upside, researchers found small businesses’ demand for loans is at its highest level since 2012. Yet, the small business lending gap remains. For banks, the reason often comes down to profits.

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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. While our research reveals consumer trust in banks is at its highest since 2012, consumers’ concerns over online fraud and cybersecurity have also grown.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

Yelp, the online review company, announced Tuesday (April 4) announced it has acquired Turnstyle Analytics, a Wi-Fi marketing company helping local businesses use free Wi-Fi to connect with their customers. Under the terms of the deal, Yelp is paying $20 million in cash for Turnstyle’s outstanding capital stock.

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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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Bank Innovation

JUNE 14, 2016

P2P payments were realtime within Chase since 2012, but now they are realtime among Read More. Bank, Bank of America, and as of yesterday, JPMorgan Chase. Bank and Bank of America joined the realtime network in March.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Private technology companies in Latin America have raised over $5.8B in funding since 2012. at the time.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

The “Facebook-Google duopoly” has crashed funding for advertising technology start-ups to five-year lows, according to reports emerging this morning. The slowdown also became more pronounced as the year went on; Q4 saw only 69 adtech deals, the lowest it has been since 2012. billion in 2013, and only $2.2

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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. Giving online shoppers a more personalized experience. We quickly realized that when it comes to an online store, it’s not just about having a catalog,” he explained. “We

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Private technology companies in Latin America have raised over $5.8B in funding since 2012. at the time.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

A” malls were successful before the crisis, and will eventually build on that success and the capital of their owners, like Simon Properties, to recover. In fact, pre-crisis, Simon had invested $1 billion per year since 2012 on recasting its top malls as destinations, building office space and hotels into the mix as anchor tenants.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Since its founding in 2012, the firm has specifically distinguished itself in a crowded field of tech-based underwriters, with its focus on the consumer group it calls the “underbanked middle class.”. Avant’s consumer-facing product is devised as a digital alternative to that market. This is the bank’s product backed up by our brand.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 23, 2017

Venture capital investment into mental health and wellness tech startups is on the rise, with 2017 on track to reach a record number of deals. Using CB Insights data, we examined VC-backed deals into mental health and wellness startups since 2012. Below is our timeline of VC-backed deals to mental health-focused startups since 2012.

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Karner noted that Signify has been into IoT and connected products since its early days: 2012, two years before Amazon Alexa’s release. Our job is then to position the innovations we have to deliver the technological backbone for that. Those innovations have illumination that there is value here beyond a great light,” said Karner.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee was founded in July of 2012 by Kyle Wong, Awad Sayeed, Miraj Mohsin and Jeff Chen, all entrepreneurs in their early 20s at the time. The company was initially founded out of Wong’s dorm room at Stanford University, and was then accepted to the StartX Business Incubator in 2012.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2017

The beauty of online grocery shopping is that you can add to your order throughout the week and at the very moment you remember that you need something,” said Cat de Merode, Peapod’s vice president of product. We love new technologies, particularly when they fit so naturally into household planning.”. In Other News….

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

million from Q Capital Partners, which will be slated for health care and other verticals served by the company. The only other deal that came in at the double-digit mark was for iGola, also in China, where the travel search engine firm landed a $19 million funding round from Rich Land Capital, a private equity firm.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Nevertheless, the traditional auto commerce sector is still making a strong showing: online car shopping platform CarGurus made a strong IPO to the tune of $1.23B earlier this month, and activity in the sector at large is on pace for a record year. online car rental services. dealership software companies. vehicle auction services.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In a round led by Flint Capital, digital identity verification technology specialist Socure has raised $13 million in funding. Featuring participation from ff Venture Capital, Santander InnoVentures, and Two Sigma Ventures, this week’s investment takes Socure’s total financing to more than $17 million.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2015

Firms started in the dorm room that have no employees, just an eager volunteer, no revenue, and no capital need not apply. So FinTech (six) firms need capital and revenues to grab a foothold in the financial services market. Two years after being lauded as Finovate's best of show, it sold itself to MasterCard in 2012.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Petco said the upgrades include a focus on curbside pickup, same-day delivery, online appointment booking for veterinary care and more. Rival online pet supply firm Chewy staged a successful IPO last year. We think there is a real chance for Roblox to become the ‘metaverse’” — a virtual universe among online users.

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CB Insights

JULY 15, 2017

Our periodic table consists of 3 components: a selection of companies that have come to define tech in the country, the investors (including venture capital, corporations, and corporate venture capital arms) that support them, and notable exits from recent years. Venture Capital. Click the image below to enlarge.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Company Description: Founded in 2012, this Berlin-based company runs an online used car exchange via a family of sites such as Auto1.com, Select Investors: DST Global, DN Capital, SoftBank Group. Company Description: Based in Sweden, Klarna provides online payment solutions. Select Investors: Rhone Capital.

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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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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The pandemic has also accelerated recent trends in banking, especially among the millennial demographic, which tends to favor digital banking and online brands over traditional banks. For example, Trumid is an online trading platform providing corporate bond market professionals with direct access to liquidity. Business banking.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

In this week’s edition of PYMNTS’ Weekly Tech Center Roundup , we set our sights on Brazil, where, despite the political and economic issues that tend to dominate the headlines, the country’s technology market is still going strong. Tech giants, such as Siemens, Cisco and Microsoft, are building technology centers in the city.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

As of 2012, Dubai was the 22nd most expensive city in the world and the most expensive city in the Middle East. Dubai is considered to be a hotbed for financial technology and innovation, not just in the Middle East but globally. Dubai has always been at the forefront of technology adoption on multiple levels.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The new funds, which will be used to develop Kreditech’s partnership business, take the company’s total capital to more than $160 million. Kreditech founder and CEO Alexander Grabner-Müller emphasized how the capital will help drive the company’s partnership business in a statement accompanying the announcement.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

Such was the opinion of Slate in September of 2012 — and while today it may seem a bit overzealous, as Karen Webster pointed out at the time, it was clear that Square’s ambition was to move well beyond dongle and card acceptance for teeny tiny merchants. will not increase its capital expenditures or impact its march forward to profitability.

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