Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 25, 2016

While many of you were busy catching Pikachu last week, you may have missed that Nasdaq, in collaboration with KBW, launched an index to track financial technology. Officially named KBW Nasdaq Financial Technology Index (KFTX) , the fund tracks 49 fintech companies, including 17 Finovate and FinDEVr alums.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

We published our first fintech unicorn list in April 2014 with a mere 11 companies. Time will tell whether these valuation bets are temporary insanity from private investors or the beginning of a long cycle of re-imagining financial services. Here is the breakdown by fintech sector: Sector. Dec 2014 round.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

This is the company’s eighth acquisition and is expected to help Blackhawk broaden the incentives and engagement business it launched in 2014 called Blackhawk Engagement Solutions (BES). While the company has commercial operations in 25+ countries, this acquisition will expand the Blackhawk’s geographical reach.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In a $460 million deal, Texas-based ATM operator Cardtronics has acquired Canada-based DirectCash Payments. Expect to see much, much more activity as financial institutions and fintech companies develop applications using Amazon’s Alexa and the new Google Assistant. Big handshakes. Cardtronics acquires DirectCash Payments.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Pictured: Kreditech CEO and co-founder Sebastian Diemer demonstrating Kredito24 at FinovateSpring 2014 in New York. “Most lenders, including those built on modern technology, may not crack these markets for years,” Felsman said. ” The company is “ramping up” operations in Brazil and Romania, as well.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 15, 2015

In one of the largest Series B rounds to date for a Singapore-based financial technology company, social payments specialist, Fastacash raised $15 million in new funding. ” Pictured (left to right): fastacash Chief Commercial Officer, Gilberto Arredondo, and Chairman & CEO, Vince Tallent at FinovateEurope 2014. .”

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 13, 2017

In what might be the freshest start to a new year for any fintech in 2017, banking software innovator CR2 has announced two major changes at the top. Paul Geraghty, previously CFO at Curam Software for IBM , joins CR2 as Chief Financial Officer.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The same group completed fewer than 25 investments in aggregate between 2012 and 2014. Operating since 2010, AmFam Ventures has made a number of investments primarily in two thematic areas: connected home and connected car technologies and alternative insurance distribution. Allianz Ventures. American Family Ventures.

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CB Insights

JULY 16, 2017

The same group completed 20 investments in aggregate between 2012 and 2014. And most recently, Allianz made a strategic investment in US online homeowners and renters insurance carrier Lemonade , which currently operates in New York, Illinois, and California. Number of investments: 7.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 10, 2015

Pictured: Digital Retail Apps founder and CEO Wendy MacKinnon Keith demonstrating SelfPay at FinovateSpring 2014 in San Jose. The platform is available as a white label app for individual merchants, a multi-merchant app for mall operators, as well as licensed and integrated into a current mobile shopping app.

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 25, 2020

There are, all of a sudden, a lot of deals being done across financial technology. I would guesstimate a range of around $100 to $150 million, much of which would go to the core operating team. You are forgiven for not remembering all my favorite Fintech minutiae. Wealthtech is one fire, they say now. Here’s a reminder.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 18, 2015

What rarely gets mentioned in the coverage is just how complicated platform payments can be, given myriad operational, regulatory, and risk prevention requirements. John Canfield demoing WePay’s Veda Risk API at FinovateSpring 2014. WePay debuted its Veda Risk API at FinovateSpring 2014 in San Jose.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In this week’s Tech Center tracker, Facebook gives the French tech ecosystem a big boost of support, Canada’s FinTechs reach record high investments and young entrepreneurs in Gaza catch the eye of Silicon Valley. FinTechs In Canada Aim High. Reuters reported investments in FinTech in the U.S. Facebook To Open Startup Garage.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2021, there were more than 120 fintech IPOs in the U.S., 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Acquisition of the Year: Bank Acquiring a Fintech. Acquisition of the Year: Fintech Acquiring a Bank. Provident Financial Services, Inc.

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CB Insights

JULY 1, 2018

The startups selected for inclusion in the table below all have at least $1M in funding, and have obtained equity funding since 2014. AR/VR : Augmented/Virtual reality companies include AdHawk Microsystems , which creates eye-tracking technology to solve problems faced by AR/VR manufacturers.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella referred to chat as the “third run-time” — an indispensable piece of operating a platform, second only to the operating system and the web browser. Mentions of chatbots in earnings calls and press releases skyrocketed, and for many, it seemed that chatbots might be the next big disruptive technology.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Their API is already integrated in a few core systems and other fintech necessitates. in 3 Rounds from 4 Investors, Most Recent Funding, M Series C on December 8, 2014. Charlotte, NC-based tech company founded eight years ago by a 14-year FinTech veteran from FIS. operation of Russian-based company. Partner with Geezeo.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

As fintech plays a larger role in the financial ecosystem, companies are looking for ways to use tech to solve problems and find new opportunities in the space. One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. Partnership Fund for New York City and Accenture — FinTech Innovation Lab. Get the entire 43-page PDF.

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