PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Delivery Hero acquired a majority stake in Yogiyo in 2014. The (food) delivery market has been flooded with gigantic Japan-backed capital and influential online platforms, leading Woowa to factor in partnership as a survival strategy,” a spokesman at Woowa Brothers told Reuters. “The The market in South Korea is $5.9

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

When it comes to retail, general commerce and online payments, the increasingly powerful middle class in India will probably get major credit in future textbooks for shaping the global digital economy. billion worth of capital coming from the likes of SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Airbnb Inc.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2018

Shares of Square have risen almost 50 percent, adding about $8 billion in market value, since the company launched bitcoin trading last year for its Cash App customers. Square’s founder and chief executive, Jack Dorsey, helped to enable merchants to accept bitcoin as a payment method back in 2014. percent of total U.S.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

based digital bank looks to fuel additional expansion in its home market while eyeing an initial public offering (IPO) down the line. In October, Starling rolled out an online banking account for customers who want to manage their accounts on their laptops and desktops, in addition to their phones. “As I’d very much like to do that.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

Temasek led the funding round, with Bpifrance, Eurazeo, General Atlantic, Piton Capital and Kismet Holdings also participating in this latest funding cycle. The company has secured $344 million in total since 2014. The company increased its market value by half in 2019, obtaining a gross merchandise value of $666 million.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Alibaba initially launched Xianyu in 2011 under a different name, and it received its current moniker in 2014. The consumers conduct the entire transaction online and pay using Alipay , where the money is held in escrow until the buyer receives the item and is happy with it. Small Players May Make Gains.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Beyond BMW and Cadillac , the subscription market is growing as consumers and brands take note: Software vendors, too, are turning to subscriptions, according to the PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Tracker. We see a very big market niche for ready-made meals,” Griesel was quoted as saying to the Rheinische Post newspaper.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

On the face of it, China’s announcement that it would open its financial markets to increased ownership by foreign companies seems a sea change. Or to put it another way, with valuations stretched across bourses and asset classes outside China, wouldn’t it follow that there would be a rush into this new open market?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2020

Online food delivery platform Swiggy has raised $43 million as part of its ongoing Series I round to develop and expand its new businesses, according to multiple reports on Monday (April 6). New investors included Ark Impact, Korea Investment Partners, Samsung Ventures and Mirae Asset Capital Markets.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Cloud-native London FinTech startup Thought Machine has raised $83 million in a Series B funding round led by Draper Esprit, with participation from existing investors Lloyds Banking Group, IQ Capital, Backed and Playfair, Thought Machine announced on Monday (March 2).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

If data makes the world go ’round, so, too, does it garner investor interest, as evidenced by venture capital and other investors’ funds coming into the coffers of corporates that scrape the web for information. USD in series A funding from a consortium of investors, including Green Visor Capital. An Acquisition in Africa.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Mastercard Accelerate works with FinTechs “through all stages of growth and transformation — market entry, expansion, product development, diversification and innovation,” the firm said. billion in post-program capital and collaborate with Mastercard, major banks, merchants and other high-profile organizations,” Mastercard said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

Realizing the market has not yet come up with a good method to fix the problem, they decide to build their own solution and solve the problem for everyone. And Phillips, on the eve of founding his dessert delivery on-demand business SugarMoo in 2014, had two problems to solve. The products were solid.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

Other investors included Sapphire Ventures, Alkeon Capital, Recruit Co., million across four funding rounds since it was founded in 2014 by Dennis Steele and Eric Rea. “Podium is unique in the fact that its market comprises almost every local business that we as consumers interact with on a daily basis.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

Bompard also plans to downsize brick-and-mortar by selling or closing 273 underperforming stores the company acquired from Spanish retailer Dia in 2014. Grocery retailers like Carrefour could face massive changes following Amazon’s multibillion-dollar acquisition of Whole Food Market.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

Sources say Robinhood Markets is in talks with regulators about offering banking services to its more than 4 million users. billion in a new round of funding, with investors including Sequoia Capital , Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , Iconiq Capital and Alphabet Inc.’s The talks are not final and no deal has been made.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

BlueVine , the provider of working capital to small business (SMB) owners, announced news on Thursday (March 8) that it has inked a deal with Veem , the cross-border payments company. Veem has been tackling this problem since launching in 2014,” wrote Amadon in the blog post. There are no wire fees.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 22, 2015

Over the first half of 2014, these banks, with an approval rate of just under 60 percent, beat out large national banks (31 percent), large regional banks (45 percent) and online lenders (38 percent). In fact, its 2014 Survey of Credit Underwriting Practices noted that 2014 marked a third consecutive year of eased standards.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

A report this week said that an online used-car platform in that country called BeliMobilGue has raised $10 million in fresh capital in a Series A funding to help expand its offerings. Consumers who want to sell their cars via that platform reportedly seek an online price estimate. “If Take Online auto retailer Vroom.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

According to a report citing the company, the funding came from Casa Verde Capital, which is a $45 million venture firm that was founded by hip-hop star Snoop Dogg. Eaze, which is reportedly the largest startup in the space, raised $37 million and potentially more since launching back in 2014.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

Enova International plans to acquire online small-business lender OnDeck for some $90 million in cash and stock. The company said combining the two entities will offer meaningful scale and a wide selection of products in the small business and consumer markets that banks and credit unions have had challenges serving.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

With the completion of a $325 million “mega-round,” online real estate firm Opendoor is now valued at over $2 billion, a source close to the deal told Reuters. The firm’s twist on online real estate is that it sells houses that it owns. based venture capital firms — to follow suit. to court entrepreneurs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

For instance, online marketplace and auction site eBay has released eBay Motors, a new app that uses AI to list a car in under five minutes, according to a report by The Verge. The online marketplace company aims to eventually use AI technology on descriptions, so that a user could give basic details and the AI would flesh out the rest.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

There are 67 million adults in the United States who are part of the “underserved” market, and those individuals, who do not have bank accounts, paid as much as $141 billion in fees for various financial products last year. percent over 2014. The total financial activity logged by the group as a whole came to $1.6

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

ContentSquare, an experience optimization platform for online and mobile businesses, announced Tuesday (Oct. The capital investment by Highland Europe will support ContentSquare’s global expansion and attract new talent to advance the company’s vision. 18) the completion of $20 million in Series B funding.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

Shipt , the online grocery ordering and delivery service, has announced that it has secured $20.1 million in Series A funding that the company plans to use to expand into new markets and further compete with well-heeled online food delivery giants, like Amazon, Google and Instacart.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2016

Data provided to CNBC shows shoppers have been purchasing back-to-school supplies a month early, and retailers have to pick up their game in order to capitalize on the back-to-school shopping season. percent in 2015 compared to 2014. percent, while online-only stores saw a 14.5 percent, while online-only stores saw a 14.5

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

According to Wall Street Journal reports, the online lender is shedding 28 percent of its staff and rearranging its executive team. He wrote in an email regarding the coming changes: “With the recent tightening of the capital markets, we are refocusing on our core consumer loans business.”. All in, 171 jobs will be cut.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

Whenever it happens, it’s safe to say that a $150 billion valuation would make Ant’s IPO one of the biggest ever, putting it ahead of Facebook ’s $104 billion IPO in 2012 and behind Alibaba’s $168 billion IPO in 2014. The deal was established in the lead-up to Alibaba’s 2014 IPO. Reasons To Invest. It posted 9.18 billion yuan ($1.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2017

The biggest online lender for small businesses in the U.K., 12), the company said California-based venture capital firm Accel Partners led the funding round, with participation from Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures, and Temasek Holdings. Funding Circle, announced that it secured $100 million in equity funding.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

One emerging player in the Australian FinTech market has just secured another round of capital. PromisePay , a fully managed payments platform for online marketplaces, has raised $10 million in order to fuel its continued growth. Everything is moving online. There’s a fundamental shift in payments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The company has struggled in recent years with declining sales and has been working to boost revenue by recharging underperforming lines, creating online offerings and launching new styles at a faster pace in its stores. Kirwan had been in charge of the Gap brand since December 2014. Brent Hyder, Gap Inc.’s

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Perficient

MAY 27, 2022

There is good reason for this shift in view; according to Marc Bernegger, co-founder of crypto fund AltAlpha Digital, “after last year’s explosion of crypto hedge funds around the globe, there are now over 400 active funds, excluding those focused on venture capital.” dollars.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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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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