CB Insights

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2018, 14 European startups reached unicorn status, led by Roivant Sciences with its $7B valuation. The companies on our list operate across industries including healthcare, cybersecurity, transportation, and more. Using CB Insights data, we identified all the Europe-based startups that have reached a $1B+ valuation in 2018.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

Automakers that want in on ridesharing, self-driving cars or innovative car financing options aren’t always developing their own technologies or starting their own ventures. As such, automakers are hitting the venture capital highway in droves. The number of automaker-backed investments seems to have skyrocketed overnight.

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CB Insights

MARCH 20, 2019

From e-commerce to software to payments, several companies with $1B+ valuations exited in 2018. Using CB Insights data, we identified the startups with a $1B+ valuation that exited in 2018. We’ve also covered 2018’s 14 European unicorns , 37 Chinese unicorns , and 55 US unicorns.). Meituan Dianping.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Virtual Kitchen , a startup founded by ex- Uber employees, has raised $20 million in fresh capital in a bid to capitalize on the need for food delivery amid the pandemic, according to CNBC. Virtual Kitchen works to provide technology for others to set up commercial kitchens for food delivery. billion by 2026, CNBC reported.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2018

CB Insights unveiled the second annual Fintech 250 — a list of 250 of the most promising private companies applying a mix of software and technology to transform the financial services industry. This year’s cohort has already seen more mega-rounds in 2018 YTD than 2017’s Fintech 250 list in all of 2017, with 23 mega-rounds investments.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With more than $1 billion raised — and more to come — this week became the most lucrative for B2B FinTech venture capital funding. million in new funding for its technology targeting small businesses in the U.K. Digital Risks’ first Series A round closed in 2018.) Digital Risks. InsurTech company Digital Risks announced $10.4

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JUNE 22, 2020

nCino, which was founded in 2012, said it will use the proceeds of its stock sale to purchase additional office buildings, and may also use a portion to acquire, invest in or obtain rights to complementary technologies, products, services or businesses. . percent of total revenues) in fiscal 2018, representing a 64.7 million, or 74.7

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The alliance will reportedly result in a digital technology that offers wholesaler access to credit and completely digitized marketing campaigns. The group will also harness the mobile technology of N-Frnds to more effectively communicate future promotional efforts involving wholesalers and suppliers. The ADB approximated a $1.5

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AUGUST 12, 2020

AscendantFX Capital , which works in technology-based payment innovations, has joined the SWIFT Network for the benefits it offers, including better transparency and faster payments, the company announced in a Wednesday (Aug. SWIFT gpi’s technology is revolutionary for the payments industry and gives power back to the customer.”

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MARCH 26, 2019

In 2015, news outlets ran articles about the “ gold mine ” of venture capital investments in the alternative finance sector. FinTech funding reached its highest level in five years in 2018, according to CB Insights data published last month, hitting $11.89 Further, GLI Finance revealed a $25.93

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JUNE 6, 2019

The round was led by Innovation Endeavors, with Dynamo Venture Capital, AngelPad, Fontinalis Partners and Trucks Venture Capital also participating. The company has been testing the vans on public roads in California since early 2018. A two-year-old self driving startup called Gatik has raised $4.5

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JULY 10, 2018

Coming up on the half mark in 2018, total fundraising on the continent has hit $168.6 Financial technology seems to be leading the startup charge, representing 40 percent of the largest 10 deals of the year so far, collectively worth $100 million. million — already ahead of 2017’s full-year take of $167.7 So why the boom?

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JULY 7, 2020

nCino said it will use the proceeds of its stock sale to purchase additional office buildings, and may also use a portion to acquire, invest in or obtain rights to complementary technologies, products, services or businesses. It recorded net losses in fiscal 2018, 2019 and 2020 of $18.6 The company has yet to earn a profit.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

Faster Payments Council named the members of the FPC Board Advisory Group , which will advice the FPC Board of Directors and staff to add additional industry insight and expertise as the council continues its work to support the nation’s adoption of faster and real-time payments technologies. Visa Joins NACHA Pilot.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

The way it works, since the company began testing it in the city of Kahramanmaras in 2018, is that users can send a text message and refill their cards via mobile phone. The method is soon to be rolled out in Ankara, Turkey's capital, and other cities as well, FT reported. That was inconvenient for those who lacked bank accounts.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Kraft Heinz, one of the world’s prominent global food and beverage companies, operates Evolv through a team effort, involving food, startup and venture capital professionals. He said Fabric’s goal was to “change the game” in how businesses operate. Fabric launched an automatic fulfillment center in October of 2018.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2019

Strategic participation in fintech climbed in 2018, with 41% of all fintech financings containing either a corporate VC or strategic investor. This is up from 35% in 2017, and way up from 18% in 2013, according to Financial Technology Partners’ 2018 Annual Fintech Almanac.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Crowdz’s goal is to accelerate [SMB] profitability by enabling access to real-time working capital, so more businesses can flourish.”. In 2018, Crowdz announced an investment from Barclays , which had picked Crowdz for its Accelerator program.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

Previous investors Global Founders Capital, Comcast Ventures and Trinity Ventures also gave money. Among the fastest-growing hotel brands, Life House has over 800 beds and 25 hotels that are expected to be operational by early next year. . Its website directly garners more than 65 percent of its bookings. .

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Qonto is operational in Spain, France, Italy and Germany, and handled €10 billion ($11.08 It also plans to hire more employees with the capital. In 2018, Qonto was awarded a payment institution license, developing its own banking apparatus from there. billion USD) in transaction volume last year. . million.

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DECEMBER 8, 2019

Founded in 2018, B-North is looking to obtain its banking license in the first quarter of 2020. In September, the company announced that it was working with Banking-as-a-Service firm Mambu and cloud-based loan and deposit origination platform provider nCino to power its small business lending and banking operations. million ($1.97

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Fitzmaurice added that “the new [pandemic] era of operating a non-optimized back office will affect a business’ ability to make fast decisions, which, as we have seen over the course of the pandemic, is vital, given the difficulties with traditional forecasting techniques. Enterprises have been onto this for a while.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

million in new venture capital (VC) funding. The company currently operates in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, with expansion plans to enter other new markets in the first quarter of 2018. million in revenues by April 2018 and currently facilitates more than 150,000 shipments each month. Monday (Dec.

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JULY 22, 2019

In addition, eBay appointed Mazen Rawashdeh senior vice president and chief technology officer, the company announced in a press release. Thompson has more than 20 years of experience building new products and services across a range of industries and technologies.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

Zippin, a cashierless checkout technology company, has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round, according to a release. The company, which was founded in 2015, uses artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision and sensor technology to provide a 100 percent cashier- and checkout-free experience.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

The funding round was led by Techstars Toronto, Open Circle Capital from Lithuania, Practica Capital, and angel investors from North America and Europe. . Eddy Travels was launched in 2018, and the company said it has more than 100,000 users around the world. Eddy Travels’ founders are CEO Edmundas Bal?ikonis,

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

With FinTechs offering clients a range of easy-to-use, sophisticated products, banks in 2018 were pressured to react to small businesses’ demand for advisory services — not just data, and not just digital platforms. Bank technology provider nCino has kept this challenge in mind throughout 2018.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

Financial institutions are in the midst of becoming more mobile, with many of those legacy operations opting to — or at least considering — working more closely with FinTech providers to upgrade services, retain customers and acquire new ones. The debut of 5G promises to add another tool that can aid such efforts. What does that mean, then?

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

It comes a day after the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) adopted technologies from Plume and other companies to develop an open-source software platform that will allow Internet of Things (IoT) devices from third parties to co-exist. As TIP explains it, most residential Wi-Fi networks operate independently. percent) between 2018 and 2019.

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JULY 23, 2019

The new fund, like the previous one, is meant to spark investment in cutting-edge technology companies around the globe. The initial Vision Fund was created in 2016 after SoftBank made a deal with Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman to have the world’s biggest buyout operation. Creditas is aiming to change that.

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MARCH 2, 2018

Toward the start of 2018, analysts began to highlight the potential for venture capital (VC) to embrace the B2B business model. Total venture capital across the global FinTech market between 2010 and 2017 hit a combined $97.7 This week’s blockchain investment comes from Square Peg Capital, which provided $5.5 Blockchain.

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MARCH 12, 2020

PeP is the fastest-growing payment technology company in one of the fastest-growing digital payment economies in Europe, and we have been impressed by the PeP team, their high-quality in-house operation and business performance,” said Bo Nilsson, CEO of the Nets Group. percent of payments in 2018. “We

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

billion | Total spending on blockchain technologies by 2021, according to International Data Corporation figures. 100 million | New funding capacity of small business lender OnDeck, according to its CEO Noah Breslow, and it is experiencing a decrease in quarterly operating expenses of $15 million year-over-year.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Investment bank Financial Technology Partners is advising AvidXchange on this fundraising round, according to sources. AvidXchange processed more than $120 billion of invoices and payments across its network of more than 500,000 suppliers in 2018, transforming the way 5,500 customers in North America pay their bills, according to its website.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

As innovative technologies move down stream, small and medium-sized businesses are poised to benefit significantly from being able to customize a flexible payroll and human capital management (HCM) program. The evolution of payroll is all about pushing back against the notion of one-size-fits-all. ” In the U.S.,

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MARCH 13, 2019

Naspers, Africa’s largest company based on market value, is gearing up to spend $1 billion in India in the form of investments focused on the financial technology market. Tencent also operates WeChat, the wildly popular messaging app. The country ended 2018 on a high note, with startups receiving a combined $10.5

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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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