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JANUARY 17, 2021

17) in an announcement that it has raised $180 million in new investments, which push its valuation to $7 billion and come in advance of what the company stated is a “potential initial public offering” (IPO). The online food delivery market is nascent and underpenetrated. Durable Capital Partners is based in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Vertical payments startup Flywire has acquired healthcare technology startup Simplee , while also closing a $120 million Series E investment round led by Goldman Sachs, the company announced on Thursday (Feb. This funding round brings the company’s total capital investment to $260 million. It is estimated that U.S.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Boston-based Eastern Bank , the nation’s largest mutual, is pushing ahead with plans to go public and shed its long-time format in a move that could raise nearly $2 billion, according to a press release. Shares of Eastern will trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol EBC, according to the filing.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm Equiteq announced that it advised The Shelby Group , an eProcurement transformation and optimization consulting firm, on a recent growth investment from Boston-based private equity firm WestView Capital Partners , according to a press release.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

hedge fund Tiger Global Management and existing investors Coatue Management and Valiant Capital. The funding round was led by hedge fund D1 Capital Partners, and came only six months after the startup closed on a $350 million round of investing. At that time, the company had a valuation of $4.35 Instacart has raised $1.87

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MAY 12, 2019

WeWork is heading to the public markets at the same time as the high-profile IPOs of Uber and Lyft had appeared to disappoint. Supporters of WeWork see the company as a disruptor in the industry, while skeptics view it as yet another overvalued, unprofitable startup that can only do well in a strong economy.

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MAY 24, 2018

Ohio-based Spangler Candy Company won the auction with a bid of just under $19 million, The Boston Globe reported. “We McGee — along the company’s executive team — are planning to stay onboard until the end of July. But the team will remain with the company “longer if they need us,” McGee told the Globe.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As SMBs seek opportunities to expand their operations, and reach new customers and markets, they will need the right spend and workforce tools to ensure funds are spent appropriately. This demand is driving the global expense management software market to reach $6.6 billion in value by 2025. Inside The Playbook. Yordex , a U.K.-based

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AUGUST 6, 2019

This latest round of funding brings Cybereason’s total amount raised to approximately $400 million, with previous investors including CRV, Spark Capital and Lockheed Martin, according to a press release. The new funding will be used to boost the company’s operations, with a focus on global growth. and its affiliates.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

California-based automaker Tesla is one company that has witnessed the merits of offering 2FA for its car owners. The company recently announced that it would allow its customers to sign in to their accounts using SMS-based 2FA, with customers supplying their credentials as well as codes sent to them via third-party app or text message.

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JANUARY 5, 2020

.” It has applied as common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. percent of the company’s common stock pre-offering. Other investors include Benchmark Capital Partners, which owns 13 percent, and Oak Investment Partners, with 11.4 As of September, the company had 77 physical offices.

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JULY 22, 2019

has announced the launch of a venture banking and lending business to provide debt capital financing and commercial banking solutions to growth companies and their investors. The business will target early stage startups through mature growth companies, with a focus on the technology, healthcare, and life sciences industries.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

What happens if Main Street becomes less a proving ground for smaller businesses — born of, and serving, local communities — and more a collection of larger firms, well-capitalized, but already enjoying competitive advantages? Millions of smaller businesses are grappling with the impacts of the pandemic.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Sources told Bloomberg that the retailer had discussions with lenders and equity holders from its previous bankruptcy filing, including Oaktree Capital Group, with some investors agreeing to rework about $280 million of debt and to provide $55 million of new money to keep the company in business. Canada, U.K.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Companies are staying private longer, lengthening initial public offering (IPO) cycles and lowering benefits for the average investor, MainVest Co-founder Nick Mathews told PYMNTS in a recent interview. Last week, small business accounting company ScaleFactor released a new survey on how SMBs access capital. Localizing Capital.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Caesars Entertainment announced that it has reached an agreement to offer DraftKings , the leading sports-tech entertainment brand in the country, providing market access for its online gaming products. The access is exclusive to Caesars locations across select states where the company operates casino properties. and Australia. .

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

The key, one source – whose company had been paid in cryptos – told The WSJ , is to get revenue-generating applications out on the market. “I The debris also litters the ICO field , as the financial publication stated that many of the companies that raised funds amid these coin offerings have shuttered.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Boston-based PreVeil did not disclose how much it raised in its Series A funding round, but it did note that Spark Capital provided the funding to support the company’s email and file security solution. The company said it will use the funding to focus on growth. PYMNTS breaks down the latest deals below. Cybersecurity.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In hyper-competitive markets like Boston, New York and San Francisco, many buyers overbid and sometimes wave inspections to sweeten the pot for sellers. million round of venture capital funding to expand into the San Francisco market, seeks to simplify the real estate process with its offering. percent platform fee.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Word on the street is that B2B startups may be landing on the same path as B2C startups when it comes to the venture capital wells drying up. It could explain India’s rare absence from our B2B Venture Capital Roundup this week. Instead, the funding landed in the U.S., eProcurement. It’s all about working smarter.”

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JANUARY 18, 2019

With the help of Robomart , a startup based in California, the grocery chain plans to bring produce, convenience items and meal kits to the customers’ doors through roving autonomous mobile stores in the Boston area. Those vehicles, according to the company, only deliver goods and do not carry passengers or drivers.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This is a market that Boston-based ButcherBox is catering to by delivering grass-fed, grass-finished meat and other humanely raised, sustainably sourced meat and seafood directly to customers’ doors on a monthly basis. We did not expect to be a larger company or have lots and lots of customers,” Salguero said. will reach 56.8

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JULY 21, 2017

No longer are retailers working with marketers to figure out a way to mass market products and services. Even as consumer expectation rises, a mere 25 percent of retailers are confident that they’re meeting the omnichannel demands of the retail industry, according to Boston Retail Partner research.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Cava Group (formerly Cavamezze Grill), is the company behind the fast, casual Cava Grill restaurants and a fast-growing prepared foods wholesale business. Cava has around 30 restaurants in the DC, LA, and NYC markets, and its packaged dips and spreads are sold in more than 200 Whole Foods Market stores. sweetgreen. Oh My Cream!

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Which is why Munich-based Freeletics is trying to disrupt the fitness market with a customizable training app that requires no equipment. Founded in 2013, the firm has recently raised its first ever capital round of $45 million after almost five years of bootstrapping. According to some estimates, Americans on the whole waste $1.8

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 20, 2017

2017 has seen a spate of venture-backed tech companies go public, including California-based Okta , Snap , MuleSoft and Cloudera. After a slow beginning of the year, New York has joined the IPO party and saw three of its VC-backed startups reaching $900M+ valuation on the public market. All but one are B2B companies.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2017

With WeWork ‘s latest funding mega-round bringing the unicorn to a whopping $20B valuation with $2.76B in total funding to-date, investors have long been speculating whether the company merits such a high valuation. Specifically, we looked at Boston Properties, Vornado, and IWG plc (dba Regus). Real Estate Tech Research Briefing.

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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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MAY 11, 2017

In an effort to better understand the startup environment around the world, global collaborative company Startup Genome conducted a study that surveyed 10,000 founders from 100 cities in 50 countries. These ecosystems tap into a worldwide circulation of ideas, knowledge, talent and capital. The technology industry currently sits at 4.5

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JULY 20, 2017

Boston-based Drizly , which raised more than $35 million, has a foothold in 70 cities and a stated ambition to be the “Amazon of Alcohol.” Though the field is crowded with well-capitalized players, Saucey co-founder and CEO Chris Vaughn genuinely isn’t worried. ” The work is not easy. .

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MAY 30, 2017

Serving society’s appetite for socially conscious company behavior, Longo’s grocer in Toronto has introduced Flashfood , a mobile app that enables its shoppers to buy surplus groceries at a deep discount, thus reducing food waste and serving customers on tighter budgets. Flashfood bears a close resemblance to Boston, Mass.

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MARCH 17, 2017

With a big focus on technology in Silicon Valley and Boston, New York City slowly made its way to becoming a powerhouse tech player. Albany, New York’s state capital, has a population of just over 150,000. NYC is also the center of one of the biggest markets in the world for the tech industry. trillion (2012).

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APRIL 17, 2018

For the third consecutive year, we worked with The New York Times to identify and rank the top 100 venture capital professionals from around the globe. Artificial intelligence companies had a big quarter, while overall funding increased over fewer deals. 3 of the top 20 founded (or co-founded) their own companies. BILL GURLEY.

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MARCH 16, 2022

Startups looking to raise capital have more options today thanks to evolving technology, regulation and market behavior. only seeing deals that could not raise elsewhere), but now that it has matured, it’s becoming an option to other sources of early capital (eg. Company Funding ($M). First Round Capital blog post.

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APRIL 20, 2017

There are more than 175 startups and tech companies. Michael Praeger, CEO of AvidXchange , an accounts payable and payment automation solutions company, shared his thoughts on how the Charlotte technology sector is expanding. MP: I would say that the biggest challenge facing startups in Charlotte is access to early-stage capital.

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CB Insights

JULY 9, 2018

Many major food companies have begun to invest in e-commerce, healthier product options, new corporate venture funds, and other tools, but is it enough? This market map includes private companies only and is not meant to be exhaustive of companies in the space. Scroll down to see the full list of companies in the graphic.

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APRIL 20, 2018

It used to be that when “Goldman Sachs” was mentioned, it was in the context of the storied Wall Street investment banking firm trading and underwriting securities, advising on mergers and acquisitions, taking companies public and brokering deals. Not so much anymore. After all, it’s not easy being the new kid on the playground.

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