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B2B FinTech Investment Not A Total Bust

PYMNTS

Earlier in the week, we reported on the bust that is B2B venture capital this week. For a lot of consumer startups, it’s not always obvious how you are going to monetize, and there is a lot of competition for eyeballs,” explained 500 Startups venture capital lead Dave McClure in an interview last month with Reuters. “For Accounting.

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Newborn Unicorns: Meet The New Class Of $1B+ US Startups

CB Insights

Last quarter, the US unicorn “birth rate” ticked up significantly as 9 new VC-backed companies reached $1B+ valuations (compared to only 3 companies in Q1’17), the highest quarterly total since the close of Q3’15, according to our Q2’17 Venture Capital Funding Report with PwC. Valuation: $1.4B. Clover Health.

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Walmart’s Been On A Buying Spree. Which Company Could It Acquire Next?

CB Insights

Select investors: General Catalyst, Collaborative Fund, Forerunner Ventures, Mickey Drexler, Gwenyth Paltrow, Burch Creative Capital. Select investors: Comcast Ventures, True Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, First Round Capital. It offers express delivery of fresh produce — a priority for Walmart — and targets urban millennials.

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Newborn Unicorns: The First Half Of 2017 Sees 12 New US Startups Valued At $1B+

CB Insights

While late-stage investing rounds are the typical “tipping point” for entry into the unicorn club, one quarter of newborn unicorns in H1’17 earned their $1B+ valuations with a mid-stage Series C capital raise. Select Round Investors: Breyer Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, Wildcat Venture Partners. Valuation: $1.4B.

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Top 5 Customer Development Posts of 2022: Digital Banking and Pricing Opti

FICO

That said, customers have increasingly high standards and you only have a short amount of time to impress them (especially Millennials). Unlike traditional methods rooted in price sheets, loan prices now emerge from very granular Big Data-driven analytic segmentation of customer populations.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. There were a ton of big mergers in 2019, including the vaunted BB&T and SunTrust combo and a great get-together between First Horizon and Iberia Bancshares. Might be time to.

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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $330 Million Week Ending Jan 15

Fintech Labs Insights

Millennial saving & investing app. Data analytics for financial services companies. Startup capital raising platform. Tags: SMB, capital, crowdfunding, equity, investing. Latest round: $3.1 million Seed. Total raised: $4.2 HQ: New York City. Source: FT Partners. Latest round: $3 million Seed. HQ: London, England, UK.

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