PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

For some entrepreneurs, innovative ideas can strike at literally any time – and for Monica + Andy founder Monica Royer , her business concept certainly hit her at an interesting time. I was so surprised when I had my daughter, and I realized there had been no innovation in what your baby wears in the hospital,” Monica Royer told Forbes. “I

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

And after two years of working to build relationships — and designing a supply chain that abandoned the “build it and then warehouse it forever” model — Interior Define was ready to launch in 2014. Today, Interior Define has opened several new guide shop locations in New York, LA, San Francisco, Austin and Boston. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

And after two years of working to build relationships – and designing a supply chain that abandoned the “build it and then warehouse it forever” model – Interior Define was ready to launch in 2014. Today, Interior Define has opened several new guide shop locations in New York, LA, San Francisco, Austin and Boston. “We

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Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2019

Financial criminals are working hard, using technology and innovation to their advantage, to stay one step ahead of FinCEN and financial institutions. FinCEN issued advisory FIN-2014-A008 with red flags that FIs should be on the lookout for to identify possible human trafficking. The 12 major U.S.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Mike Butler of Radius, although a lifelong banker, came from outside of the region and implemented a business model and cultural change at his bank with new management and a "fast fail" innovation culture. Did you know that "Culture" was Merriam-Webster's 2014 word of the year? Mike is from Cleveland. And surprisingly a Yankees fan.

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Tefkin

JUNE 3, 2014

On the “Beta” end of the scale, ETFs are steadily becoming one of the most successful innovation in recent decades. and previously acquired ByAllAccounts for $28M (all transactions in 2014!). Traditional asset management companies are increasingly facing competition on both sides of the performance scale.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Introduced in 2014 alongside a handful of other experimental services, Uber Eats operates worldwide in 29 countries. And Grubhub has been in expansion mode , gobbling up Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and Yelp’s Eat24 in 2017.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

The Goldfish team will work out of Target’s tech office in Sunnyvale, California, under West Stringfellow — one of three entrepreneurs in residence who joined up with Target last year to help drive the firm’s latter-day efforts at innovation and out-of-the-box retail thinking. ECommerce was big business for Target in 2015.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 10, 2015

Our last funding news for Kensho was in November 2014, when the company raised $15 million in a round led by Goldman Sachs. Pictured (left to right): Kensho Head of Strategy and Business Development, Adam Broun, and CEO Daniel Nadler demonstrating Warren at FinovateEurope 2014 in London.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. million, and $1 million more than the cost to air a commercial during the 2014 Super Bowl. We in Boston hope for it to be our sixth! We are mostly kidding about that. million for 30 seconds of airtime.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2016

Arjan Schutte, Founder and Managing Partner, Core Innovation Capital, Los Angeles, CA. Chi Chi Wu, Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, MA. Lisa Servon, Professor, The New School, New York University, New York, NY. Raul Vazquez, Chief Executive Officer, Oportun, Redwood City, CA. ”

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2016

A multiple Best of Show winner at Finovate conferences, partnering with companies like Accenture ( FF13 ), Efigence ( FE13 ), and i3D ( FE15 ), mBank had earned wide acclaim for its financial innovation. His long tenure in finance and technology includes stints at Alior Bank, Microsoft, eBay, and The Boston Consulting Group.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

She stayed with Bell and the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company for more than 30 years until her retirement. I’ve been writing about the impact of voice and commerce ever since Amazon hit the scene with Alexa in 2014. At the end of her three-decade-plus career, about 25 percent of the U.S. population had a phone in their homes.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The introduction of Alexa in 2014, and the creation of a voice-activated ecosystem with tens of thousands of skills, is a more recent proof point of that value creation. It can’t do that, certainly not as well, without collecting lots of data. Now, getting back to where we started with Amazon.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

With the launch of its new, end-to-end biometric authentication solution – VeridiumID – the security innovator that demoed its technology at FinovateFall 2014 as Hoyos Labs is now Veridium. Oxford and London), as well as in Boston, Massachusetts; and Timisoara, Romania. The company also has offices in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Restaurants — the epicenter of payments innovation, it seems — were on the receiving end of a couple of new opportunities this week that could drive even more feet into them and help them grow. 2014, and we just found out about it. Here ya go… SIZZLE. Restaurants. Perhaps the biggest Fizzle is that this all happened in Nov.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Given the still nascent state of consumer adoption of mobile payments technology, time and opportunities for growth and innovation in the mobile arena at the community bank level still exist, banking technology experts say. Typically the younger segments are more innovative and are looking for new ways to do things,” Brown offers.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Gupta later called Shah in 2014 to introduce him to the CARMERA concept. They’re also bullish on how Element AI’s cooperative platform and “non-predatory” approach to AI talent (in which academic researchers are paid like private employees) will accelerate AI innovation. ” –Greylock Partners.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Aeropostale had been owned by private equity firm Palladin Consumer Retail Partners since 2014. Summary: Boston-based sports apparel retailer City Sports filed for bankruptcy in October 2015, after facing competition from athletic apparel retailers. Vitamin World. Date: September 2017. Category/Product(s): Vitamins. city sports.

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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. There weren’t easy ways to innovate retail business models. Clover Food Labs was one food truck with a Square reader in Boston in 2008. Economists don’t think so.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

I argued that making buying seamless inside of environments that consumers used regularly for other reasons would drive innovation for those environments —and for the third parties that enabled those new commerce experiences. This capability is as disruptive as it is innovative. Third on that list was “contextual commerce.”.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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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!

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston. It then also became the first to test such technology on public streets in Boston, Massachusetts. Closer look: In April 2014, Chinese internet giant Baidu partnered with BMW to develop a semi-autonomous prototype.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

In the 1950s and 1960s, the biggest innovations in breakfast were Eggo Waffles and Pop-Tarts. Thanks to innovative new rental models, ownership is no longer essential. This trend presents a lot of opportunity for innovation. By this reading, cereal similarly doesn’t fit into the “on-the-go” millennial lifestyle.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

But the most effective strategy for getting credentials registered was the launch in 2014 of its digital P2P scheme: Red Envelopes. We take our weather very seriously in Boston. And WeChat does a bunch of things to get even more users to want to do that. Giving users lots of ways to use those credentials inside of WeChat is one way.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

That’s also like saying the average winter temperature in Boston is 37 degrees. Visa Checkout, which launched in 2014, has 11 million users now and will expand to 16 markets. And happily, for retailers, there are payments innovators with robust platforms that can help them maximize the opportunity for checkout conversion.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Where’s the innovation & money in renewables? Now, several innovative new methods for storing solar energy are gaining traction, from lithium-ion batteries to substances that have high heat-holding capacities, like molten salt. Free: What’s the latest in renewable energy? Lithium-ion batteries.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Currently, customers in New York City and San Francisco are able to leverage experienced TaskRabbit workers to assemble furniture; the service will be expanded to stores in Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Boston, and more this year. The rise of dollar Stores. Wealth distribution in the US is becoming increasingly unequal.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

via Beta Boston. Torris said Boo.com also spent too much on advertising and promotions and failed to keep pushing forward on technology innovations. In a Boston Globe interview in January, he had indicated that the company’s financial performance was a pressing concern. ” via Boston Globe. via Boston Magazine.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

2014 Second Update (9/24/2014). 2014 First Update (6/3/2014). Original 50 Startup Failure Post-Mortems (1/20/2014). Background: Pearl was founded in 2014 by three ex-Apple iPod engineers, and hired dozens of other ex-Apple employees. 2017 Third Update (10/31/17). 2017 Second Update (6/9/17).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In 2014, the Grand Bazaar was named the world’s No. A decade after the launch of the iPhone, and twenty-two years after the birth of Amazon, we have thousands of apps, hundreds of aggregators, millions of merchants, dozens of digital payments players and thousands of innovators working overtime to optimize for the mobile commerce experience.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In 2014, the Grand Bazaar was named the world’s No. A decade after the launch of the iPhone, and twenty-two years after the birth of Amazon, we have thousands of apps, hundreds of aggregators, millions of merchants, dozens of digital payments players and thousands of innovators working overtime to optimize for the mobile commerce experience.

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