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. The plan from our perspective was to create a user experience online first that would enable shoppers to easily customize a piece,” said Royer.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

Monica + Andy, which launched in 2014, started out with their “Cuddle Box” product: a hand-wrapped gift box that includes an organic blanket (in cotton or muslin) and a range of organic newborn essentials. A Boston location is set to open soon. “We as a team hand gift-wrapped every item, putting personal notes in.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Check out our latest lists: SMB online lenders (33) | SMB challenger banks (12) | SMB insurers (15). HQ: Boston. Related: Top 15 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (August 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.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Check out our latest lists: SMB online lenders (33) | SMB challenger banks (12) | SMB insurers (15). HQ: Boston. Related: Top 15 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (August 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.

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. Take PayPal, for example. And therein lies the rub. 25-31, 2020.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 17, 2021

HQ: Boston. Divvy (Bill.com). Tribal Credit. Bento for Business. FunnelDash. Website visits (May 2021): 5,200 (SEMRush). Employees: 32 ( Pitchbook ). Citations: 18 (Crunchbase). Twitter : 710 followers. Trustpilot: No reviews. FAB Score = 18. – Founded: 2018. Raised $81.7M ($0 in past 12 months) ( Crunchbase ). Employees: 67 ( Pitchbook ).

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 17, 2021

HQ: Boston. Divvy (Bill.com). Tribal Credit. Bento for Business. FunnelDash. Website visits (May 2021): 5,200 (SEMRush). Employees: 32 ( Pitchbook ). Citations: 18 (Crunchbase). Twitter : 710 followers. Trustpilot: No reviews. FAB Score = 18. – Founded: 2018. Raised $81.7M ($0 in past 12 months) ( Crunchbase ). Employees: 67 ( Pitchbook ).

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

When Raphael Reznek, CIO of Mascoma Bank, spoke about the biggest challenge to launch online account opening: "our internal culture". Did you know that "Culture" was Merriam-Webster's 2014 word of the year? I attended Bank Director's Acquire or Be Acquired conference two weeks ago. The buzzword of the show: Culture.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

It’s not only for consumers, though: Alternative lending firm Kabbage recently found that mobile lending is on the rise among small businesses, with a more than 360 percent increase in the number of SMB loans accessed via mobile device between April 2014 and February 2018.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

The Boston-based furniture and home goods retailers saw it stock price shoot up 20 percent to an all time high as earnings reports clocked in stronger than expected. The online home goods retailer also beat out earnings per share estimates by $0.10, posting a loss of $0.48 Wayfair, went public in late 2014 and has 5,700 employees.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2016

Spring is about renewal, the holiday season is about family and friends, and later winter (in Boston, anyway) is filled with the gnawing anxiety that it might never ever get above 40 degrees Fahrenheit again. Every season has a certain defining characteristic. For those keeping score at home, that is 39.6 billion calories.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Notable projects: The Mayo Clinic OB Nest explores ways for women with low-risk pregnancies to reduce the number of their in-person doctor visits through a combination of dedicated nurses, a special online community, and in-home monitoring. Founded: 2014. Founded: 2014. Cardinal Health — Fuse. Founded: 2015.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Uber rode the tailwinds of smartphone adoption, app stores, well-developed technologies like GPS and (at launch) well-established mapping software provided by Google to blend the online and offline worlds around a consumer experience that before lacked certainty and reliability. One of those is Uber Eats , which launched in 2014.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

For those charged with managing the consumer’s trust and safety when transacting online, and in the midst of increasingly clever cybercrooks, being comfortable going against the status quo flow has become much more important than ever before, he said. It can’t do that, certainly not as well, without collecting lots of data.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 25, 2017

July 2017 saw the two largest-ever restaurant tech deals: a $151M private equity investment by Vista Equity Partners to Providence-based Upserve , and a $101M Series C (with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Generation Investment Management, and Lead Edge Capital) to Boston-based Toast.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2016

His long tenure in finance and technology includes stints at Alior Bank, Microsoft, eBay, and The Boston Consulting Group. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Kreditech demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2014.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Boston-based venture Flywire was started seven years ago to enable these high value, low transaction volume payments via any payment method to be sent by these families anywhere in the world. Online Lending. Online lender OnDeck also reported a mixed bag of earnings on Monday. 2014, and we just found out about it.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Consumer studies the Boston firm has conducted indicate increasing mobile-banking adoption and awareness and use of mobile remote-deposit capture applications. But, overwhelmingly, consumers who pay for goods and services online, including over mobile channels, do so with a credit card.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Digital laggards – Many big-box retailers either failed or were too late to establish an online presence. In 2018, the company has agreed to close at least 26 UK-based warehouse-size stores and focus on higher-performing stores and online commerce. Date: September 2017. Category/Product(s): Footwear. Vitamin World.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

But does that same retail service trend, driven by the near ubiquity of online and mobile technology, really apply to the relationship-driven model of community banks? Source: ICBA NewsWatch Today, December 2014. Several retail service experts say it will apply to your community bank, if it doesn’t already. 1% Don’t know.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

1 source of online fraud. I never did get the answer to what I thought was a simple question on Saturday afternoon: “What’s the weather going to be on Monday, April 18, for the Boston Marathon?” In 2014, Facebook began to do something about it. Remember ZeuS ? CONVERSATION, CONTEXT AND CONTROL. Consumers also love apps.

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Tefkin

JUNE 3, 2014

and previously acquired ByAllAccounts for $28M (all transactions in 2014!). It is limiting to define these businesses as just online, their capacity to craft a digital experience in line with the expectations of the younger generations is unmatched by traditional financial services players. as the Blooomberg article explains: . “We

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Merlos called out CVS’s 2014 $2.1 It also remains to be seen how and when CVS will expand its CarePass program, currently being piloted in Boston. billion acquisition of Coram, a retail pharmacy chain that specializes in infusion services in home-based and outpatient settings.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 18, 2016

The year continues its blistering pace with 28 companies worldwide raising new funds this week, the biggest number since we began tracking in July 2014. Online marketplace for real estate investing. Online consumer lending. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Total raised: $136.7 HQ: San Francisco, California. Source: Finovate.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

Sites like eBay, Etsy, Alibaba and lesser-known online marketplaces would see an influx of Amazon “refugees,” and consumers would likely crown a new eCommerce King before long. Therefore, said Isak Ladegaard, a Boston College sociologist focused on dark web markets, this move by Hansa, while noble, is unlikely to reduce traffic of the drug.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

According to new PYMNTS research — the Amazon Paycheck Index — Amazon’s total gross sales in health and personal care products has increased since 2014 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43 percent. Amazon Healthcare Growth. The eCommerce operator will account for an estimated 2.2 percent in 2017 and 1.3 percent in 2016. New Services?

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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. While it was easy to chalk things up then to the financial crisis and the consumer spending hangover that resulted, we dug deeper and discovered the enormous shifts in buying online from physical stores that had been underway.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I, Shopper, take thee, Online Retailer, to be my faithful partner in commerce. THE MOVE FROM PHYSICAL TO ONLINE TO MOBILE. Consumers are increasingly moving their shopping and buying not only online, but online via the mobile devices. Something that most online retailers don’t have – or even come close to having.

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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

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

MARCH 26, 2019

One popular explanation for this is that millennials are simply shopping less in physical locations in general, preferring to do their shopping online. Gucci has also had some success with millennials — the company’s sales rose by 86% in 2017 following a targeted online “geek chic” campaign. Millennials are 6.4%

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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

APRIL 24, 2018

E-commerce sales growth is pulling ahead of total retail sales ( 17% vs. 6% for year-over-year in Q4’17), and Amazon is controlling upwards of 40% of online sales in the US, according to the US Department of Commerce and Slice Intelligence, respectively. ” — Alistair Davidson, CFO, Ikea. Its membership fee revenue grew 12.6%

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the middle market (deals worth between $10M to $1B in value), private, online networks and SaaS tools are giving smaller company executives and brokers the ability to conduct M&A transactions on their own more quickly and far more affordably.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Founded: 2014. Founded: 2014. Telecommunications. AT&T.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

via Beta Boston. via MDDI Online. 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. Select VC Investors: Kleiner Perkins, Atlas Venture, Intel Capital. Total disclosed funding: $150.4M.

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