CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

As brick-and-mortar retailers continue to struggle to bring in consumers, a few are taking a page out of Amazon’s book and working instead to meet consumers where they live. However, of late, its expansion has been rapid, and it is now in 17 major metro markets. Baltimore markets. And quickly. All could use a boost.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

s two resident retail superpowers’ race for the consumer’s whole paycheck this week. The world’s largest physical retailer, Walmart, spent much of its earnings call with analysts discussing its digital commerce victories and expansion. Big Play of the Week: The Power of Prime Day to Move Markets .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6 Founded in 2002, the goal of Spreadshirt’s platform is to eliminate headaches and hurdles when bringing great ideas to market. million items last year.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

What’s in store for mobile in 2015? So what can community banks expect for mobile banking and mobile deposit capture in 2015? Mobile deposit will save Americans 282 million hours in 2015. According to technology research firm Celent in Boston, the mobile user base will increase from 33 million in 2014 to 47 million in 2015.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2018

She took the helm in 2015 after the death of her brother and then-CEO Fred DeLuca. We want to be sure that we have the best location,” Greco told The Boston Globe in April. “We We’re focused now on strengthening market share.’’. Greco began working for Subway back in 1973. locations dropping to 25,908. ‘‘We percent last year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Eat Your Coffee CEO and Co-founder Johnny Fayad was in college in Boston when he helped come up with the idea to make energy bars. They officially launched their business in 2015. Although students still enjoy the bars, the target market has evolved to include young professionals and fitness enthusiasts. The Differentiators.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. The two brands first started working together in 2015. According to data from the National Retail Federation (NRF), stores will bring in around $14.8 We are mostly kidding about that. Snack Time. per person.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Almost half, 45 percent, have shifted digital to shop for retail products, and one in five to shop for groceries and order food from restaurants.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

What followed over the next four decades was the evolution of a once familiar retail fixture – the carhop – who first walked, and then later roller skated their way into creating a convenient way of serving the customer. Retailers are having to find new ways of fulfilling shoppers’ orders.”. Pulling Up To Convenience .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We then distribute their products to markets where sharing makes sense. In May 2015, James and I met, and Oomf was born. Although he had prior experience in sales and marketing, he needed both engineering expertise and investment to get his idea off the ground. The same model applies in other markets. GG: In Feb.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

In fact, in its founding days back in 2002, Wayfair fit comfortably in the spare bedroom of Conine’s Boston-area home. billion in annual revenue, has a stock market valuation of $10 billion and an employee headcount that is expected to surpass 10,000 by the end of 2018. As of today, Wayfair brings in $6.6

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Being too successful at flying under the radar, at best, confuses the target market or audience and, at worst, just misses them entirely. The new, super-secret but definitely revolutionary project is the latest expansion of Target’s very aggressive and rapid push into the digital retail reinvention space in the last 12–18 months. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

In last year’s announcement of the country’s switch to cashless, Modi vowed to short circuit the vagaries of a cash-based economy that were — and still are, in some cases — rife with black market activities like counterfeiting.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 20, 2017

After a slow beginning of the year, New York has joined the IPO party and saw three of its VC-backed startups reaching $900M+ valuation on the public market. valuation reached in 2015 after MongoDB raised its Series G. & Boston, here. 2017 Tech IPO Pipeline. Excludes exits from New Jersey and Connecticut. .

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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. Net revenue from direct retail sales through Wayfair’s websites up 32.1 in August 2015. Wayfair’s net revenue hit $960.8 million, up 28.6

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

So, how did a “team of geeks” with “zero experience” in the fashion or retail industries go on to become the second fastest-growing retail company in the U.S. Since its founding, Adore Me has grown into a business that saw $43 million in sales in 2015 alone, 6.5 million in funding.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

All the Reuters materials cover the period from 2009 to 2015.). Also working in favor of car companies is the relative murkiness of the market for spare parts, which Reuters addressed in its June 3 report. No further details were immediately available about the case, or how Accenture is now pitching the pricing software and service.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While this makes the category more difficult to judge, it offers immense insight into what’s happening in the market. AI and bot technology : Bursting out of the gate in 2015/16, Banks have begun a mad dash towards AI and other bot technologies. Customer experience initiatives are typically the most numerous.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

In a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston survey of mobile banking and payment services released in August, roughly three-fourths of about 600 community banks and credit unions in five Federal Reserve districts that were polled were offering some kind of mobile service. Financial Institutions,” August 2015. Check ordering.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston survey of mobile banking and payment services released in August, roughly three-fourths of about 600 community banks and credit unions in five Federal Reserve districts that were polled were offering some kind of mobile service. Financial Institutions,” August 2015. Check ordering.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The 2015 holiday sales season was weaker than expected across retail, followed by a plunging and then bumpy stock market in late winter and early spring spurred by uncertainty about the Chinese economy. One Brexit later, international markets were thrown into turmoil. Why It’s Not Happening In September.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The Top 10 List retired with David Letterman in May of 2015. Mexico and the Philippines — two of the world’s top remittance corridors — are the first two markets out of the gate. The company won’t receive any proceeds from the IPO, which implies a market capitalization of 7.1 Grubhub Buys LevelUp. million users, up from 9.2

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

It’s a tall order for a Boston-based furniture company – but Wayfair has always thought big, even when it was very, very small. So small, in fact, that when it first started in 2002, the entire operation fit easily into the spare bedroom of Co-founder Steve Conine’s Boston home. As of today, that one-room idea has grown to $6.6

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Then, in December 2015, Amex pretty much shut down what was left of the “Revolution” and sent the stragglers packing. They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together. million vehicles globally in 2015. million phones Apple sold in 2015.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Portfolio outlooks, recommendation.Provide retail and advisory users the insight they need with Polly Portfolio. If you have a large retail investor base, and no resources to interact with them, then perhaps there some value? ^SR. Svyatoslav Ostrovsky (Head of Retail Digital Business). Retail for a piece.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 30, 2015

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Tags: Investing, trading, Route 66 Ventures (investor), FinovateSpring presenter (May 12/13, 2015). There were two jumbo rounds: $50 million to cryptocurrency startup Circle and $30 million to multiple Finovate Best of Show winner MX (formerly Money Desktop). Digital currency provider. Total raised: $29.2

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Celent Banking

MAY 31, 2016

While my colleagues were spread out across the US covering conferences in Boston, New Orleans, and other locations, I spent four days in beautiful Barcelona covering the Temenos TCF 2016 Conference , followed by another three days in sunny Orlando covering the FIS Connect 2016 Conference.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

The foremost of these was Hansa Market, which hosts more than 24,000 black market drug listings. According to one Hansa listing that survived the initial purge of fentanyl listings, a single gram of “China White Synthetic Heroin Fentanyl” retailed for $122.35. If anything, each crisis only makes the market grow back stronger.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Its declaration that apps are “so 2015” cites as evidence that it took only six months for 34,000 bot developers to emerge, compared to the 12 months it took 12,500 app developers to do the same. This year, 8 billion Red Envelopes were sent within the WeChat ecosystem over an eight-day period — eight times as many as were sent in 2015.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The “premium” pet food market as of 2001 accounted for about $5.7 That was about 44 percent of the revenue in the market. As of 2015, premium foods accounted for $14.5 And the amount Americans are spending on pets seems to be growing — particularly when it comes to when pets are eating. billion in annual revenue out of $12.9

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending. Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers. The sophisticated food hall: North 3rd Street Market.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

. “Cereal used to be the only breakfast option, [but] there’s a lot more to choose from than there ever used to be,” says Andrew Shripka, Kellogg’s associate director of brand marketing. Savvy marketers at struggling cereal brands may be able to reverse their fortunes with the millennial set.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

Six years and an expanding inventory of cars and price points later, Uber’s platform has a market cap of $70 billion, more than 1 million drivers across 400 cities worldwide who’ve delivered a 1 billion rides – and the first instance of what we now call “invisible” payments in the offline world. And monetize.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

And though Publix has closely guarded its turf – particularly in its home state of Florida – in 2015, Safeway took over three Albertsons stores and poured $30 million in bringing the West Coast brand to Publix country. It didn’t work out so well, noted Jeff Green, a partner at retail real estate firm Hoffman Strategy Group.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. 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. Innovation Lab Name: One Market Center.

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