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AUGUST 8, 2017

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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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

Then, there was the announcement of Square Capital’s partnership with Upserve , a restaurant management system (the same one that also acquired Breadcrumb from Groupon in May) to extend working capital to restaurants. Its pitch to the family is to use their local Mastercard branded credit or debit card to make those payments.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. In the world of asset management, the biggest players are now dedicated firms like Vanguard. The disruption of asset management. Table of contents. STAYING PRIVATE.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2018

The game will be the main event for most people, particularly for fans in Boston and Philadelphia, as both cities are known for being ever so slightly fanatical about their sports teams. [GO It’s all hands on deck,” Chapin Hansen, Lyft’s Twin Cities market manager, said. “We Hey, we’re Boston-based. But not everyone. Go Pats!

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Then, just last week, Carl Schramm, a member of the board of directors for parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics , resigned due to concerns over the corporate management’s decision process. “I The company won’t receive any proceeds from the IPO, which implies a market capitalization of 7.1 million users, up from 9.2

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

” Here, a team of over 60 professionals in healthcare, design, IT, and project management work around a business strategy called design thinking. This simplifies the prescription filling process for patients and improves pharmacy inventory management. Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA).

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. From one perspective, the position of management consulting as an industry has never seemed more secure. Those companies made plans.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Salsify , a startup that helps companies and their brands “win on the digital shelf,” has just raised another $155 million as it doubles down on product development and expands globally. 23) that they have closed on a deal with the Boston-based software and eCommerce company for $155 million in a Series E round of financing.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Congrats to Randy and a great management team. With large banks, including Ally and Capital One, officially doing away with overdraft fees, banks and credit unions will have to decide how they want to handle the new reality.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand. Expensify is more known for expense management, but introduced a corporate charge card in Oct 2019. Lola (acquired by Capital One, 2021) FAB Score = 11. – HQ: Boston. Tribal Credit. Founded: 2018.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand. Expensify is more known for expense management, but introduced a corporate charge card in Oct 2019. Lola (acquired by Capital One, 2021) FAB Score = 11. – HQ: Boston. Tribal Credit. Founded: 2018.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Management: In a companion blog post on AVC , USV founder Fred Wilson says his wife “Gotham Gal” Joanne Wilson (an existing investor in Flip) introduced Flip founders Susannah Vila and Roger Graham to his USV partner Andy Weissman. Select Investors: Data Collective, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, Tencent Holdings.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2019

It had seemed for a moment— before it was revealed to have been a series of quirky coincidences—that In-N-Out Burger had pulled off the rarest of rarities in the world of retail: a well-done marketing stunt that managed to be just interesting enough to get people’s attention, and enjoyable enough to make people want to buy the product.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

As a result, an entire ecosystem comprised of hundreds of tech startups has emerged to help brick-and-mortar retailers adapt, working across categories from inventory management to shelf monitoring. Discount and budget retailers are capitalizing on this, targeting their stores toward consumers that are looking for a bargain.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The media has declared chatbots the digital version of the little black dress: a technology staple that every brand must now have and every payment type must now commerce-enable. Then, it managed to get the timing exactly right. We take our weather very seriously in Boston. At least that response only took a few seconds to get.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs.

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JULY 1, 2016

What we will say is that fun times with family, the dazzling display of fireworks and the perfunctory cookouts and beach time, truly and totally make this upcoming weekend one very big sizzle wrapped around what appears to be in Boston, at least, abundant doses of sunshine. Seriously a Sizzle! Our Fizzle/Sizzle picks for the week.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The percentage of sales lost by those physical store franchises can be seen not only in the pretty charts and graphs that we produce and share on a regular basis but the ongoing drumbeat of the national and regional store closings for those brands that can no longer keep up. And just like every other industry, there’s concentration.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2017

Fizzle: Chinese cross-border deals: With new regulations in place limiting cross-border capital flow, the dry-up is already here for Chinese firms buying companies outside the mainland, especially in the United States. Kohl’s managed to beat on earnings — which the market liked — but whiffed on sales, which investors didn’t.

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