CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

” Here, a team of over 60 professionals in healthcare, design, IT, and project management work around a business strategy called design thinking. Founded: 2014. This simplifies the prescription filling process for patients and improves pharmacy inventory management. Founded: 2014. Start small. Founded: 1979.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

Hey brand, want a better way to engage with your customer? And Messenger and Marcus’ big bet is that its chatbots will provide a mechanism for brands to strike up those conversations with their community faster, cheaper and as well – if not better – than a live person can do now. In 2014, Facebook began to do something about it.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2016

Then, there was the announcement of Square Capital’s partnership with Upserve , a restaurant management system (the same one that also acquired Breadcrumb from Groupon in May) to extend working capital to restaurants. Its pitch to the family is to use their local Mastercard branded credit or debit card to make those payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Creating and then keeping that balance today is no different than what scientists in their labs learned long ago: managing the delicate interdependencies of the four characteristics that all ecosystems share — and doing that in near perfect harmony. Some spend much more in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand. Expensify is more known for expense management, but introduced a corporate charge card in Oct 2019. HQ: Boston. NEW : Looking for digital banks, lenders or insurance companies serving small businesses?

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand. Expensify is more known for expense management, but introduced a corporate charge card in Oct 2019. HQ: Boston. NEW : Looking for digital banks, lenders or insurance companies serving small businesses?

Cards 15

Cards Online Utah Austin 15

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. Epperson, a managing director at the global business advisory firm AlixPartners LLP. Is Mobile Fully Catching On?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the world of asset management, the biggest players are now dedicated firms like Vanguard. Total assets under management (AUM) at the top asset managers now dwarfs total AUM at the top banks. The disruption of asset management. Task management platform Asana went public via DPO in September 2020.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The move, according to CVS CEO Larry Merlo, will change the face of the CVS brand going forward, as it moves to take a more active and avid approach to influencing better health outcomes while at the same time reducing healthcare costs across the board. Merlos called out CVS’s 2014 $2.1

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Management: In a companion blog post on AVC , USV founder Fred Wilson says his wife “Gotham Gal” Joanne Wilson (an existing investor in Flip) introduced Flip founders Susannah Vila and Roger Graham to his USV partner Andy Weissman. Gupta later called Shah in 2014 to introduce him to the CARMERA concept. ” –DCVC.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

Managing money that doesn’t go as far — when it’s not tied up in debt payments — hugely affects how millennials budget and spend. “Cereal used to be the only breakfast option, [but] there’s a lot more to choose from than there ever used to be,” says Andrew Shripka, Kellogg’s associate director of brand marketing.

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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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The media has declared chatbots the digital version of the little black dress: a technology staple that every brand must now have and every payment type must now commerce-enable. But the most effective strategy for getting credentials registered was the launch in 2014 of its digital P2P scheme: Red Envelopes.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

What we will say is that fun times with family, the dazzling display of fireworks and the perfunctory cookouts and beach time, truly and totally make this upcoming weekend one very big sizzle wrapped around what appears to be in Boston, at least, abundant doses of sunshine. Seriously a Sizzle! Our Fizzle/Sizzle picks for the week.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

After a high of 614,024 SMB openings in 2014, the Census reported that only 452,835 firms were started in the U.S. Today, subscription commerce platforms make “box of the month” businesses a manageable reality. Clover Food Labs was one food truck with a Square reader in Boston in 2008. Economists don’t think so.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

As a result, an entire ecosystem comprised of hundreds of tech startups has emerged to help brick-and-mortar retailers adapt, working across categories from inventory management to shelf monitoring. Like Ikea, Best Buy aims to deepen its relationship with customers — a smart move in an age when brand loyalty matters more and more.

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Retail Trends Technology Branding 59