PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

Todd Smith, president and CMO at Sonic, told MarketWatch that this campaign comes from the company’s long experience with the millennial demographic. “The millennial target isn’t a new target for us, nor is it a customer that’s foreign to us,” Smith said. “We We want to make them even bigger superfans of the brand.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

In the case of Square — the payments innovator that launched hundreds of mPOS imitators — the small problem was $2,000 worth of handblown glass that artisan Jim McKelvey couldn’t close the deal and sell. Launched in 2014 as the firm’s lending arm, Square Capital has extended over $1 billion in working capital to over 100,000 small merchants.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

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JUNE 3, 2014

On the “Beta” end of the scale, ETFs are steadily becoming one of the most successful innovation in recent decades. By lifting the ban on general solicitation and making crowdfunding easier, the JOBS act is opening access (for accredited investors for now) to the Venture Capital and Hedge Funds asset classes.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

As the travel industry shifts into higher digital gear, and increasingly responds to the needs and desires of new consumer groups — millennials and Gen Z among them — some players are getting left behind and making their way into the history books. Back in 2014, Hipmunk said it had raised $20 million in Series C funding.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 2, 2016

That the company reached this milestone 20 months after launching and with less than a fifth of the outside capital raised by its competitors is all the more impressive. Pictured (left to right): Co-founders Chris Costello and Randy AufDerHeide demonstrating the blooom platform at FinovateFall 2014 in New York.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 22, 2015

As part of their participation in the program, each company had free access to Yodlee Interactive’s API interfaces for a year, as well as six months worth of mentoring, support, and guidance in areas like capital-raising and product development. Roostify demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2014.

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CB Insights

JULY 20, 2017

This post will dive into innovation across beauty and grooming, focusing on the following areas: Startup investment trends. Despite deal growth, funding totals have been slipping since 2014; however, this is due to momentum among newer, smaller startups. Corporates acquired 50 companies in 2016, up from 32 in 2015 and just 13 in 2014.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Innovation in microprocessors — particularly Nvidia’s graphic processing units (GPUs) — have played a large role. Khosla Ventures also backed Cafe X Technologies in Q1’17, alongside The Thiel Foundation, Felicis Ventures, and Social Capital. How did we get here? The concept of artificial intelligence was introduced in the 1950s.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. Bankrate found 83% of millennials don’t think they’ll ever retire: they simply “don’t think they’ll have the money” to do so.).

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

The instant availability of financial transaction and account data unlocks fintech innovation and improves security. Personal Capital will show the inner workings of a truly data-driven retirement planner based on user’s aggregated data, enhanced by machine learning. Building your own PCI compliant vault is a huge undertaking.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. Eldercare has long been a target for technological innovation, with advocates highlighting the practical and infrastructural challenges presented by 73M baby boomers aging into their retirement years.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness. But there wasn’t a person on the planet, save us here at PYMNTS, who back in 2014 didn’t say Apple Pay was going to crush everyone, marginalize the card networks and kill PayPal.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

The goal: to start a conversation by taking a fresh look at how the ecosystem is changing, innovating and disrupting — all at the same time. Millennials Are In For Some Hard Times. The data is grim — 2017 and beyond don’t bode well for the financial future of the millennial generation. population.”.

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CB Insights

MARCH 2, 2018

The e-commerce giants are capitalizing on three important trends: Global financial systems are going digital and mobile. Millennials account for one-third of India’s population. In 2014, Alibaba purchased UCWeb, a provider of mobile internet software technology and application services. Global wealth is growing.

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