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OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted. The list goes on.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Signifyd has received $19 million in funding from American Express Ventures, Menlo Ventures and TriplePoint Capital. At the end of 2015, the company announced it had a run rate of $5.6 They are pioneers in financial innovation, enhancing core capabilities and accelerating digital commerce.

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MARCH 1, 2016

The tallies are in: Innovate Finance has calculated the state of investment in FinTech for 2015, and we have the numbers. Innovate Finance released The 2015 FinTech Investment Landscape this month, a report that offers a snapshot at how investors are placing their money among financial innovators. reigned supreme.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

LoanDepot will be seeking as much as $315 million in its initial public offering (IPO), according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. million shares of its common stock, and private equity backer Parthenon Capital Partners is selling 5.59 The company is offering 9.41

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

Mobvoi, a China-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, has almost secured funding to value the company at upwards of $1 billion before an initial public offering, according to a report by Bloomberg. Mobvoi was previously valued at $300 million in a financing round that Google led in 2015.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

million raised for its solution, which KiWi said will be used to focus on growth in Mexico, where it has been operating since 2015. Finch Capital recently invested an undisclosed sum into Indonesia’s Jojonomic, a company that provides expense management and business management technology. The company recently announced $3.2

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday (Dec. In 2015, the company mulled going public again but instead was acquired by CVC Capital Partners and Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board for $4.6 The Silicon Valley-headquartered company filed an S-1 with the U.S. Founded in 1965, Petco was last publicly traded in 2006.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Account takeovers are becoming bigger business for criminals — or, at least, the business of preventing account takeovers in the digital retail and payments realm is becoming an increasing focus of companies and security experts. Castle, founded in 2015, said it has raised $9.2 Castle, founded in 2015, said it has raised $9.2

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. In general, venture capitalists are boosting their investments in Latin America, with funding reaching $594 million in 2015, a stark increase from $387 million in 2012, the Latin America Venture Capital Association confirmed.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

According to “Digital Disruption — Revisited: What FinTech VC Investments Tells Us About A Changing Industry,” Citi expects an influx in venture capital across the FinTech startup scape. The nation’s current market climate is ideal to fostering FinTech growth and innovation, and investors will fuel that growth through 2017.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Venture capital has hit a plateau, according to some analysts. “After $100M+ checks flowed freely to VC-backed companies through much of 2015, the mega-round trend has settled into a lower range through 2016,” concluded KPMG and CB Insights in their Q3 2016 venture capital report.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

The capital is going to be utilized by continuing the work of TokenOS , which is one of the leading open banking platforms in the world. The company wants to continue to innovate payments solutions using ID and digital money technology. Older investors like EQT Ventures and Octopus Ventures also took part in the investment.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2018

Business intelligence is a common theme in this week’s B2B venture capital (VC) roundup, with many startups deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and sophisticated data analytics technologies for their business customers. million raised in 2015, which was led by Ardent Capital. Investors placed more than $136.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

Alternative lending options, including debtor finance and P2P lending, offer SMEs the chance to fund growth without using property as security,” explained Scottish Pacific CEO Peter Langham in a statement. Last December, Tyro, a bank-FinTech hybrid, launched in Australia after it landed a banking license in 2015. Nearly half (47.6

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2017

In an effort to expand its digital offerings, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance has reportedly created a $50 million corporate venture capital fund designed to back startups in the FinTech market. We are looking for innovative companies that are going to address clients’ need in a new way.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Plaid Technologies, a startup that helps FinTechs like Venmo and Lending Club access their customers’ bank accounts, has raised $44 million in a Series B round of venture capital funding. According to a report , the venture units of Citi and Amex took part in the latest round of fundraising.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Singapore is on a mission to build up a Smart Nation by utilizing innovation and technology to create opportunities and strengthen communities. Singapore’s GDP was roughly $407 billion in 2015. Between 2011 and 2015, the government allocated $16 billion to help accelerate Singapore’s research, innovation and enterprise landscape.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

The 2020s will experience a dramatic and rapid shift from the app economy the smartphone ignited in the decade we just left behind to one that connects people and businesses with commerce wherever they happen to be, and via any device they happen to be using, in real time – safely, securely and privately. The Connected Economy’s Potential.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Innovation and ease of business aren’t necessarily the first concepts that come to mind when thinking about the tech environment in the Russian market. The 2015 Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking listed Moscow as the 13th best city in the world to launch a startup. Changing The Approach To Innovation. With the U.K.’s

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I was pleased to be invited to speak to CSI’s clients about innovation in banking (more about that later.). Surely Capital One is no nimble start-up — with more than 70 million cards and $80 billion in card balances, Capital One is a top-four credit card issuer. What’s The Hurry? .

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Last May, KPMG International and CB Insights concluded that 2016 will set a record for FinTech investment, surpassing 2015’s investment totals by 36 percent. Sapphire Ventures is one venture capital firm with a heavy hand in this space. 14), the company revealed a new $1 billion venture capital fund. On Wednesday (Sept.

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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. Get all the latest data on innovation, startups, & disruption.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2019

PYMNTS readers might recall that late last year, FreightRover secured $500 million in financing to fuel its factoring operations, with the capital coming from Crayhill Capital Management. a trucking firm also based in Indianapolis (capital of a state whose motto is “The Crossroads of America”). Fraud Allegations.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2017

Moglix, which launched in 2015, has begun to add new services to its lineup as its home market of India introduces tax reform; the company recently launched a new solution to help manufacturers remain compliant with new rules, and its software will also look to help digitize more aspects of manufacturing in the country. In a statement.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

To provide consumers with less expensive and more flexible booking options, eCommerce innovators are taking new approaches to hotel reservations. But he likes to think of his company as one that provides “the experience that hotels have” — features such as comfort, luxury and security. The company recently notched a $6.75

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2016

Last week, OnDeck, Kabbage and CAN Capital banned together to form the Innovative Lending Platform Association (ILPA), an advocacy group to champion increased transparency for small business borrowers in the alternative and marketplace lending sphere. It isn’t the first initiative with this goal.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Innovate Finance broadcast the finals of its Pitch360 competition over Zoom in July. 200k 2015 $3M 2017 $12M 2020. Builds business applications using cryptography for superior data security and data privacy. Capital Markets & WealthTech. Digital Assets. Category winner AND overall winner: Wirex. HQ: London.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

San Francisco-based Plaid was founded in 2012 with the vision of making the world a better place for FinTech firms by providing easy infrastructure to connect FinTech innovators with their clients’ bank accounts. We are excited to partner with Plaid and support the business as it continues to enable financial innovation.”.

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MAY 24, 2018

Asia Pacific’s alternative finance market has more than doubled between 2015 and 2016, now worth $245.2 Moving forward, blockchain will be an instrumental innovation to continue FinTech’s disruption of the trade finance market, the DMCC said. billion, researchers found.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Analysts found that, in the first nine months of 2016, China held the top spot for FinTech investment, with funding raised for that period doubling compared to the same period in 2015. It’s not everyday that the B2B payments space sees innovation in corporate cards, but Spendesk, based in France, is giving the industry a little boost.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 24, 2016

This is about average for a YC incubator class, with the 26% from Summer 2015 being an Read More. Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Days just wrapped up, with 159 startups taking the stage and making their play for funding. Just under 10% of the companies — 15 to be exact — were fintech-related.

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Bankelele

JUNE 24, 2015

Burbidge Capital also found that Kenya’s merger & acquisition deals slowed down in 2015 – with 11 M&A deals so far compared to 17 in the first four months of 2014. Oxford Business Group expects strong Kenya insurance M&A as companies merge to increase market share & meet higher capital requirements. -

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

These days, retail merchants must reach customers, both in-store and online, securely and conveniently. Now that merchants are more responsible for fraud that happens in their stores, he said, “it’s our responsibility to teach them about these tools, like EMV, that can secure them and secure their businesses.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

itself is already considered to be the global capital of FinTech, establishing unprecedented growth by bringing in the second highest amount of FinTech funding in 2015. The creation of new hubs for innovative companies, SMEs and startups has also helped to foster an emerging FinTech cluster in the region.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 20, 2016

Nineteen Finovate alums headquartered in Europe raised $350 million in 2015. And whether the funding represented an initial infusion of capital or was part of a multi-stage Series E round, it is clear that investors are very interested in the fintech innovations of Europe. Kreditech Secures $200 Million Line of Credit.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

According to the Brazilian Association of Startups , as of 2015, there were 335 startups in Rio. The Cariocas startup community was launched in 2015 and is an example of the startup scene’s maturation, providing a place of support and information for startups in the city.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Blockchain technology — cryptographically-secured, distributed ledgers — has existed for nearly a decade but is just now emerging as a viable solution in healthcare. ” The network is intended to provide a secure network for all sources of patient data, from EMRs to medical devices and pharmacies. health data security.

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