CB Insights

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2018, 14 European startups reached unicorn status, led by Roivant Sciences with its $7B valuation. Using CB Insights data, we identified all the Europe-based startups that have reached a $1B+ valuation in 2018. Select Investors: Founders Fund, SoftBank Group, NovaQuest Capital Management. Roivant Sciences. NuCom Group.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Since we would hate for anyone to go into the end of 2018 behind the eight ball, we decided to pay tribute to both a great bit and a great deal of news with our own top 10 list of the biggest news of summer 2018. It is not an exaggeration to say that 2018 has been the summer of movie subscription service MoviePass ’ discontent.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Voice reads key and then can access the dashboard manager where you can then log into a variety of apps like Credit Karma, Amex, Bank, etc. VoiceBiometrics, Password Manager, voice driven payments, digitizes ID’s, (not a digital ID), They are an identity provider. ^DG. Fortress ID is a password manager. 09:34 am Cashoff.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

million in funding led by F-Prime Capital along with participation from Polaris Partners, Silicon Valley Bank and Greycroft. The McKinsey survey puts the growth rate of the market for recurring eCommerce from 2013 through 2018 at more than 100 percent a year. million, VentureBeat reported.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

The company said it will use the capital to invest in growth and add some muscle to its $2.3 It has around $12 billion in assets under management. Previous SoFi investors include SoftBank Capital and Peter Thiel. The private capital space has attracted a lot of interest lately: Investments in the area grew to $4.4

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

“You don’t yank a $35 billion IPO two days before it’s going to be launched internationally, it makes the regulatory system look completely arbitrary and also confused,” Andrew Collier, managing director at Orient Capital Research, told CNBC. . “It It is also lower than Ant Group’s valuation in a 2018 funding round of $14 billion.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

22), after posting a $15 billion write-down on its most recognizable brands Kraft and Oscar Mayer, with investors raising concerns over majority shareholders 3G Capital and Berkshire Hathaway and their crackdown on the company’s expenses. Kraft Heinz saw its market value plummet by about $17 billion on Friday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Albertsons’ IPO is the culmination of a saga that began in 2006 when private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management took a major position, with plans to grow the chain into one of North America’s gargantuan power grocers. in 2018 got the cold shoulder primarily for this reason. billion fundraise once anticipated.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The funds will be managed by Ron Bloom, managing partner and vice chairman of Brookfield’s private equity arm, who said the focus would be on helping small businesses get back on their feet. “We mall owner General Growth Properties (GGP) in 2018.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2018

Venture capital activity within the B2B realm saw a few large deals, and a subset of smaller ones. The capital raised will be used for what Tradeshift termed “core strategic initiatives” with an eye on global expansion into Europe and Asia, and growth in transaction volumes.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2018

Kroger is doubling down on its human capital coming soon — the massive grocery chain has announced it will be hiring some 11,000 employees across its various supermarket brands. Of the 11,000 roles on offer, almost 2,000 will reportedly be management positions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

Its last announcement for fundraising was in 2018 from the venture capital arm of Line. In separate Asia eCommerce news, all-in-one eCommerce and technology firm Commerce.Asia has purchased a 30 percent stake in business platform BizApp, which aids brand as well as businesses in managing their order fulfillment and daily operations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

“We are at a defining moment in our corporate reinvention, with a proven track record for developing celebrity and sub-brand collections that resonate with our consumers,” CEO Greg Scott said in a statement. retail sales will be impacted by smartphones in 2018. Along with the name change, New York & Co. trillion U.S.

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Abrigo

JULY 5, 2020

Technology can facilitate delivery on credit unions' brand promise of relationship-based services. Only 3% of credit unions were active lenders in the SBA 7(a) program in fiscal 2018, originating 1.2% Capitalize on growth opportunities with new members. of all approved loans in the program. billion in loans had been approved.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

Izo chief financial officer Dan Steinberg, a man with hedge fund and venture capital experience, recently sat for a discussion with Karen Webster to preview the webinar and explain what izo brings to the table. “As

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

Other investors to participate in that round included Sandbridge Capital and Great Hill Partners. A recent report from the CBRE Group found 56 of the largest 100 warehouse leases in the first half of 2018 were with eCommerce firms and third-party logistics providers. FarFetch was able to raise $885 million, reported Reuters.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

True Food Kitchen , in one case, has created its menu around recipes that Dr. Andrew Weil inspired with anti-inflammatory ingredients and is mulling raising new private capital, Bloomberg reported. percent in the United States in 2018 to $167 million per Technomic data. Its sales increased 22.3 percent sales growth last year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

is an exciting and important development in Jaja’s journey and is part of our strategy to create partnerships that will help more people embrace a simpler way of managing credit.”. s Automobile Association and a Bank of Ireland branded card. (It The report comes as news surfaced that the U.K. And private equity investments in U.K.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

“This is a lightning start for Lyft’s stock as investors are salivating (over) owning a piece of the $1 trillion ridesharing market,” said Wedbush Managing Director Dan Ives. Lyft said it had elevating revenue in its IPO prospectus, but posted a loss of $900 million in 2018. We’re ready to be held accountable. “In

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

billion) in one the largest initial public offerings (IPOs) in Europe as of 2018, JDE Peet’s stock surged over 12 percent in its inaugural trading day. JDE Peet’s brands, for their part, include Peet’s Coffee , Douwe Egberts, and Kenco. After it notched €2.25 billion ($2.6 The firm sold 61.7 percent portion in the purchase.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

million from investors including Partech, Axeleo Capital, Lafayette Plug and Play and others to further develop its loyalty program integrated into credit or debit cards. Founded in 2018, Joko’s loyalty program already works with dozens of major retailers including McDonald’s, Uber, Starbucks, Zara and more.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

DoorDash has been a delivery service on the go, particularly throughout the summer and in the fall of 2018. Its war chest has recently swollen with a recent $250 million funding round co-led by Coatue Management and DST Global. and Canada, eyeing an expansion to 2,000 cities by the end of 2018. billion valuation.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

As Blue Apron mulls a potential sale, capital raise or “strategic business combination,” the company still sees potential in the competitive meal kit market despite its inherent challenges. The executive also noted that the company believes that “our brand remains the strongest in the U.S. industry.”. The Meal Kit Market .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

The move pushes Visa ever further away from cards and toward its goal of becoming, as management has often described it, a “network of networks.”. Specifically, Global Blue focuses on tourists spending abroad, and offers products that help capitalize on tax-free shopping as they buy luxury goods. For Citi , the U.S.-branded

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2018

Rent-A-Center ‘s decision to sell itself to Vintage Capital comes amid a continuing expansion of so-called “alt lending” options for consumers, which could make it more difficult for the chain to reinvent itself as it becomes a private company under its new ownership. percent between 2013 and 2018, according to research from IBIS World.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Brands (which now has a 3 percent stake in Grubhub), and has been expanding its market share in the United States, notching presence in more than 100 new markets last year. As has been reported, the firm has a partnership in place with Yum!

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Accenture

MAY 22, 2019

I am excited to have Tim O’Donnell join our Payments team as a managing director and draw on his insights in developing this blog. Companies are moving cash off the balance sheet and investing in areas like wages, capital expansion and innovation. 1 Accenture, “ Accenture Open Banking for Businesses Survey 2018 ”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

billion as of 2018, but a sale now would likely reflect a reduced valuation due to the rough first half of 2020. “We Those goals would all require vast amounts of capital, but Zoox lacks the automotive partners that facilitate other startups like Cruise (which works with General Motors) or Argo AI (Volkswagen and Ford). We believe $1.1

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

Target and Walmart are among chains now carrying the brand. In May, Impossible Foods Chief Financial Officer David Lee told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster, “I’m quite optimistic about how capitalism can fuel innovation on a level playing field to serve the customer better. million loss for the quarter vs. a $33.7

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Gonzobanker

MAY 4, 2020

All the capital flowing into the digital fintech space is helping to solve banking industry challenges. As the industry’s appetite for digital technology grows, the capital that’s been flowing into mostly digital-focused fintech is solving real industry challenges right now. SoFi/Galileo: This $1.2 customer impact.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The Plume solution, called OpenSync , is a cloud-based technology that acts as a brand-agnostic platform that manages connectivity and entertainment services. Of the 15 daily activities we studied, more than half of them were performed at home, and also involved making purchases at home more often than what we observed in 2018.

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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. in Q1 2018 to 64.0 in Q2 2018.The in Q2 2018, a slight increase from 62.9 in Q1 2018.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Dosh Doles Out Rewards By Connecting Brands And Cards. Dosh is an online cash-back rewards app that built its business model on creating a connection between retailers and brands — Nike, Toms, Gap, Walgreens, Walmart, Target and Sephora are all partner firms — and payment card providers like Visa and Mastercard. Card at Capital One.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

Bryant formed the Bryant Stibel venture capital firm in 2013 with Jeff Stibel, founder of Web.com. Bank’s Adam Kruis, senior vice president and manager of working capital consulting, and Jennifer Swenson, vice president of corporate payment systems, discuss how the bank ensures smooth implementation of virtual card solutions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. billion in 2018 from $945 million in 2017 and will grow more than 80 percent year over year to reach $9.7

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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

SoftBank’s capital firepower has helped it become the #2 unicorn investor in the world. Meanwhile, the average deal size has decreased steadily in the past few years, and the firm is cutting checks to many first-time investments as it aims to diversify its portfolio and build out a wide-sweeping ecosystem of disruptive tech brands.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As we enter 2018, we are working diligently to improve execution with a focus on conversion, gross margin and inventory management,” CEO Robert Niblock said in a statement. The chain announced it will be pouring more capital back into its workforce via bonuses and an improved benefits package following U.S. tax reform.

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