PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2020

million in a Seed funding round for its neo-bank epiFi, led by Sequoia India and Ribbit Capital, TechCrunch reported on Sunday (Jan. Also participating in the funding rounds were David Velez, Kunal Shah and VC fund Hillhouse Capital. Two co-founders of Google Pay in India have raised $13.2

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

Launched in 2014, Robinhood is a minimalist app that lets users set up an an online brokerage account, transfer funds from accounts at major banks (including Chase, Citi and Band of America) and check the prices of their stocks. Jack Randall, a spokesman for Robinhood, declined to comment. In May, the company received a valuation of $5.6

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 5, 2022

They are/were the business owners, demanders of capital and loans, and significant depositors. Then came this bubble generation they named millennials. Ever call your millennial child only to get a text back asking "what?" There is a fintech firm, SoFi, that was born in 2011, that focuses on millennials financial needs.

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CB Insights

MARCH 14, 2018

Millennials stand to inherit approximately $30T from their parents, the baby boomers, in the coming decades, and both upstarts and advisors are vying for a piece of the pie. Millennials are now the largest generation in the workforce and 2x more likely than the average investor to make a sustainable investment. What’s at stake?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The capital city is Mexico City, which alone is home to almost 9 million. Nearly $120 million has been invested in approximately 300 startups based in Guadalajara since 2014. Mexico’s longstanding business culture resulted in the government investing $658 million to an estimated 620,000 entrepreneurs back in 2014.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2017

A number of major retail studies have shown that millennial consumers value the sustainability of brands and products when making purchases. million dollar Series A venture funding led by FirstMark Capital with additional participation from Contour Ventures, Humanity United and Serious Change LP, among others.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2017

For all but the most well-capitalized early in life, the ability to borrow funds is critical — at least if one wants to get a college degree, own a car or a buy house. In this year’s report, 24 percent of respondents said they had no debt at all, up from 22 percent last year and 14 percent in 2014. More good news. On The Bright Side.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

And now it seems credit cards are coming to the party — Capital One, Synchrony and Discover Financial have all increased their loan-loss provisions and reported increasing delinquencies. Capital One’s first-quarter earnings are a good case in point, as they notched a much higher rate of loss than its management or investors were expecting.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

And Phillips, on the eve of founding his dessert delivery on-demand business SugarMoo in 2014, had two problems to solve. But we thought it was growing, and we saw a hole so, we sought to capitalize on that market by delivering freshly baked desserts,” Phillips said. The first was cupcakes, which were everywhere five years ago.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

The announcement comes as, since 2014, more than 163 million women have launched businesses across the globe, at a rate that outpaces that of businesses launched by men. To that end, Visa said on Tuesday (Jan. Kereere said that to date there has been “not enough conversation” around the issues that are being explored through the new program.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

A growing group of consumers — particularly millennials and other young shoppers — are embracing connected grocery offerings. Since its launch in 2014, Instacart has attracted more than $1.6 billion in capital. Currently, Instacart operates in an estimated 4,000 cites and works with some 300 retailers. households.

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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 11, 2016

Depending on your persuasion, millennials’ generational lack of interest in buying real estate can be chalked up to their inherent indolence, their preference for communal and urban living arrangements or their lagging finances. through residents’ smartphones. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

billion worth of capital coming from the likes of SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Airbnb Inc. The startups are targeting millennials around the world, offering services such as amusement park tickets, cooking classes, walking tours and more, focusing mainly on the growing Asian travel market.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2017

A number of major retail studies have shown that millennial consumers value the sustainability, health value and organic nature of brands and products when making purchases. In the study, Acosta found that nearly 73 percent of millennials surveyed reported spending time on product researching before spending a dime.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

They also deliver more seamless experiences that consumers — and millennials in particular — have come to expect. trillion in 2018, an increase of 80 percent from 2014. . Faster healthcare transactions can also help patients more effectively manage their working capital. A Prescription For More Efficient Payouts.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2014, Starbucks stopped accepting Square’s mobile wallet, and shortly thereafter, Square pulled the plug entirely on that mobile wallet experiment. 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. He said launching in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

While Walmart may have four times the revenues of Amazon, the market seems to be betting that it’s the younger, more nimble challenger who’s best prepared to capitalize on the digital waves that are transforming retail and commerce more broadly.”. “ Millennials Are In For Some Hard Times. Apple Pay, I think, illustrates this best.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

Heck, even dollar stores have been making a comeback of late, fueled in large part by those cost-conscious millennials. More than half of them are 45 or above, according to the study, while millennials only make up 16 percent of this demographic. So, what’s going on here? Have consumers just suddenly become very cheap?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

The deal is one that seeks to bring mobile banking to underbanked consumers and also, in terms of demographics, to millennials. million Series A round of venture funding led by FirstMark Capital with participation from Contour Ventures, Humanity United and Serious Change LP, among others. HowGood Rates Product Sustainability, Sees $4.2M

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CB Insights

JULY 15, 2017

As a result the investment total for 2016 was $3.4B, lower than both 2015 and 2014. Venture Capital. Our table features both India-based and foreign venture capital funds. This accounts for corporations and corporate venture capital arms that have made notable investments in India. Asia Tech Investment Report.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

There are issues of transaction security, criminal elements, tax evasion, free flow of capital, access to goods and services and the ability to fully participate in the global economy. That would be millennials, ages 18–29, with 64 percent saying they prefer to use cards even for transactions under $5.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 7, 2017

Personal finance app Qapital pulled in some capital of its own today– $12 million worth , to be exact. The company’s founders George Friedman and Erik Akterin plan to “rewrite the rules of retail banking” by helping millennials “translate money into happiness.”

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Both have access to significant financial capital to scale far beyond what’s available to even well-funded startup challengers. This includes targeting the underbanked/unbanked, millennials, students, kids, freelancers, and early adopters of blockchain. Millennials. savings accounts. Underbanked/Unbanked.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

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. There’s been no shortage of capital to start new businesses. percent of today’s millennials will never make more than their parents.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

million , True Link Financial has more than doubled its total capital, which now stands at more than $7 million in combined equity and debt financing. The company’s latest investment comes courtesy of a quartet of investors: Kapor Capital, Initialized Capital, Symmetrical Ventures, and the Ziegler Link-Age Longevity Fund.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 22, 2015

.” Pictured (left to right): Miranda Lanzillotti, Marketing Communications Manager, and Pamela Rice, Senior Vice President of Technology, for OnDeck, discussing lending APIs at FinDEVr 2014. Fortune magazine listed OnDeck as one of the 100 Best Places to Work for Millennials.

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Tech and Finance

MARCH 7, 2016

in mid 2014 to 41.8, Contrary to popular reports that millennials are mostly taking public transportation or using Uber so they can keep texting without interruption, S&P found they aren’t much different from previous generations, although somewhat fewer are getting drivers licenses, causing concern among auto manufacturers.

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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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Tech and Finance

JULY 13, 2016

Regional and mid-tier banks face an uphill battle on the digital front, but have advantages they can capitalize on with some focus and determination. The big banks ranked better across multiple segments, including the coveted millennials, emerging affluents, and minorities. Or at least they should be.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. However, the model doesn’t currently allow companies to issue new shares, meaning that DPOs do not raise any capital for the company. STAYING PRIVATE.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Select Investors : StartLab Galway, Enterprise Ireland, Notion Capital. With a class-based and mobile first philosophy, Glofox is another company capitalizing on increased consumer interest in boutique fitness by combining a cloud-based business management platform with a white label mobile app. Peerfit recently closed a $2.3M

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CB Insights

JULY 20, 2017

Despite deal growth, funding totals have been slipping since 2014; however, this is due to momentum among newer, smaller startups. Cosmetics went public, after having been acquired by private equity firm TPG Growth in 2014. Corporates acquired 50 companies in 2016, up from 32 in 2015 and just 13 in 2014. FreshTracks Capital.

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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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Tefkin

JUNE 3, 2014

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. and previously acquired ByAllAccounts for $28M (all transactions in 2014!). MorningStar recently acquired HelloWallet for $52.5M

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Khosla Ventures also backed Cafe X Technologies in Q1’17, alongside The Thiel Foundation, Felicis Ventures, and Social Capital. The company went public in 2005 after raising $37M from investors including FA Technology Ventures, Fenway Partners, iD TechVentures, iD Ventures America, and Trident Capital.

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