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Bain Capital Nets $800M For Business Impact Funding

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Bain Capital has raised $800 million for a social impact fund — a category of investment vehicles whose stated objectives are to advance social or corporate governance policies in addition to turning profits, the Wall Street Journal reported. The managing director was former Massachusetts Gov. billion through Nov. 20 compared with $76.2

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ShipMonk Pulls In $290 Million For eCommerce Growth Effort

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ShipMonk has pulled in $290 million in a funding round led by Boston-based Summit Partners as part of an expansion effort. Summit Partners Managing Director Christopher Dean and Vice President Chelsea Jurman will join ShipMonk’s board. Florida’s ShipMonk, started in 2014, offers eCommerce fulfillment services and technology solutions.

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Alphabet-Backed Healthcare Startup, One Medical, To IPO

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One Medical is backed by technology and management firm 1Life Healthcare and will trade under the symbol “ONEM.” Other investors include Benchmark Capital Partners, which owns 13 percent, and Oak Investment Partners, with 11.4 Amir Rubin, a former UnitedHealth group executive, succeeded Lee. million on $176.8

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Rescuing The Restaurant Business From App Decline

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With DineVite, consumers and restaurants get a better deal, since the restaurants can offer a deal to customers that they are comfortable with and consumers capitalize on it. As the year rolls on he expects to launch in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Boston and Miami.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. Even so, September 2020 was one of the strongest months for IPOs since Uber went public in May 2019. The disruption of asset management. Table of contents.

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AI/BOTS: Consumer Behavior Transformation Via AI

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In the past two years alone, there have been 650 venture capital investments for artificial intelligence technologies — totaling more than $5 billion — and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is predicting that figure will reach a market value of $70 billion by the year 2020.

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How Main Street Businesses Honed Their Survival Skills In 2020

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For Main Street businesses, to say 2020 was challenging is an understatement. The good news, according to PYMNTS data , is that as 2020 is coming to a close, small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are feeling genuinely more confident about their odds of continued survival than they were when the pandemic began.

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