PYMNTS

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.

Tools 141

Tools Boston Cards Management 141

PYMNTS

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.

San Francisco 100

San Francisco Boston New York Capital 100

PYMNTS

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.

Retail 137

Retail social media Customer Experience Boston 137

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

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. Select VC Investors: Khosla Ventures, Social Capital. Select VC Investors: Cue Ball Capital, Valley Oak Investments. Select VC Investors: Otium Capital. sweetgreen.

Maine 70

Maine Capital Rhode Island DC 70

PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2017

Flashfood bears a close resemblance to Boston, Mass. non-profit grocer Daily Table, which stocks healthy and convenient foods at an affordable price by sourcing them from a large network of growers, markets and manufacturers. is beefing up its ecommerce capabilities with a $10 million investment in online meal kit retailer Chef’d.

South Carolina 121

South Carolina San Francisco Connecticut Utah 121

PYMNTS

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.

Retail 128

Retail Customer Experience Boston Branding 128

Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Check out our latest lists: SMB online lenders (33) | SMB challenger banks (12) | SMB insurers (15). Market cap: $3.5B ( NASDAQ:EXFY) – Raised $301M ($263 in past 12 months via IPO) ( Crunchbase ). Lola (acquired by Capital One, 2021) FAB Score = 11. – HQ: Boston. Tribal Credit. Bento for Business. FAB Score = 305. –

Cards 15

Cards Online Utah Austin 15

Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Check out our latest lists: SMB online lenders (33) | SMB challenger banks (12) | SMB insurers (15). Market cap: $3.5B ( NASDAQ:EXFY) – Raised $301M ($263 in past 12 months via IPO) ( Crunchbase ). Lola (acquired by Capital One, 2021) FAB Score = 11. – HQ: Boston. Tribal Credit. Bento for Business. FAB Score = 305. –

Cards 15

Cards Online Utah Austin 15

CB Insights

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. Below are the detailed profiles of the Top 20 Venture Capital Partners. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. Current Firm: First Round Capital (Founding Partner).

San Francisco 71

San Francisco CA Capital Operations 71

PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

“The idea of curbside pickup is that shoppers are demanding the ability to get purchases however they want and wherever they want,” said Laura Kennedy, director of retail insights at Boston-based Kantar Retail. “A The data show that operating earnings from sales have declined by up to 25 percent as a result of a shift from in-store to online.

St. Louis 102

St. Louis Retail Dallas Mobile 102

CB Insights

JULY 9, 2018

This market map includes private companies only and is not meant to be exhaustive of companies in the space. Bar Tech — Companies in this category bring big data and online features to bars and restaurants. DISRUPTING THE HAPPY HOUR MARKET MAP COMPANIES. Hoving & Partners, VOC Capital Partners. FreshTracks Capital.

Industry 64

Industry Branding Capital Trends 64

CB Insights

AUGUST 4, 2017

Download our research briefing as we take you through private market trends, major investors, and pioneering medical device startups. Kernel is an early-stage brain-machine interface company formed by Bryan Johnson, founder of the online payments company Braintree and the OS Fund. Modern Medicine: Trends In Medical Devices.

San Francisco 78

San Francisco Training Capital Trends 78

Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Its first outside capital was from the Barclays Techstar accelerator in 2017 ( see Techstars demo here ). The company is an aggressive online marketer attracting nearly 300,000 visits via paid marketing across 740 publishers vs. 80,000 via organic search according to SEMrush (Aug 2021). SMB digital banks. Debit card.

Boston 15

Boston Cards ATM Community Bank 15

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Mexico and the Philippines — two of the world’s top remittance corridors — are the first two markets out of the gate. CFO Adam DeWitt noted that a seven-year-old, Boston-based LevelUp serves 200 regional and national brands, with a point-of-sale (POS) approach that seeks to replicate each brand’s experience online.

Branding 100

Branding Cards Fraud Marketing 100

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Digital laggards – Many big-box retailers either failed or were too late to establish an online presence. In 2018, the company has agreed to close at least 26 UK-based warehouse-size stores and focus on higher-performing stores and online commerce. Date: September 2017. Category/Product(s): Footwear. Date: June 2017.

Retail 78

Retail Branding Company Capital 78

CB Insights

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. Taking a hefty fee mitigates the investment bank’s risk by insulating it from the stock’s actual performance in the market. Source: Getty. STAYING PRIVATE.

Management 78

Management Capital Company Marketing 78

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Notable projects: The Mayo Clinic OB Nest explores ways for women with low-risk pregnancies to reduce the number of their in-person doctor visits through a combination of dedicated nurses, a special online community, and in-home monitoring. Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA). Founded: 2015.

Innovation 73

Innovation Cleveland New York New York City 73

Tefkin

JUNE 3, 2014

By automatically tracking indexes, they offer investors the possibility to obtain market performance at a lower cost than a typical managed funds. By lifting the ban on general solicitation and making crowdfunding easier, the JOBS act is opening access (for accredited investors for now) to the Venture Capital and Hedge Funds asset classes.

Industry 42

Industry Management Innovation Analysis 42

Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 13, 2016

Three Finovate alums raised capital and one of the first FinovateSpring presenters, TradeKing , was acquired by Ally Financial for $275 million. Online & offline real estate broker. Scalable Capital. HQ: Boston, Massechuesetts. Online stock trading game. Total dollars raised YTD is $7.9 Total raised: Unkown.

New York City 12

New York City Company Fintech Minnesota 12

PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

million in venture capital — the most the industry has seen in a while. According to Dyadic, the funds will go toward marketing and sales efforts as it looks to expand across North America. Autobooks provides online banking platforms with solutions tailored to the SME crowd, including accounting and payments. SME Banking.

Fintech 104

Fintech Detroit Michigan Capital 104

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2018

no one under 21 years old is legally allowed to purchase alcohol , which means trying to sell it online isn’t as easy as hanging out a digital shingle and delivering to the consumer’s door. And Drizly’s offering, according to Rellas, gives consumers something the market has heretofore lacked, which is a well-designed, easy-to-use channel.

Retail 128

Retail United States Boston System 128

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

An annual report by RSA shows how consumers perceive the security of their digital experience, where those perceptions are well (or poorly) founded and how organizations can capitalize on opportunities to distinguish themselves in the market by providing stellar security. Is your information secure online? Are you sure?

Security 180

Security Report Fraud social media 180

Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

Edgewater Markets. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Online foreign exchange services. Connects marketplace lenders to institutional capital. Nigerian online credit card processor. Tags: Investors, big data, business intelligence, investing, capital markets. Latest round: $40 million. HQ: Austin, Texas.

Company 12

Company Fintech San Francisco New York City 12

CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. Select Investors: Tencent Holdings, Disney Accelerator, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vulcan Capital, ICONIQ Capital. It is also known for developing Unreal Engine.

San Francisco 77

San Francisco Company US California 77

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

No small businesses in those areas means no SMB jobs in those markets. Furman, in his speech, said that an Economist report published in 2016 showed that the top four companies in more than 40 percent of the 900 industries they examined controlled more than a third of the market. The rest of the country, combined , added 300,000.

Retail 134

Retail Innovation Maine Community 134

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. They used every available resource to understand industries, markets, consumer sentiment, and companies’ product lines.

Strategy 78

Strategy Management Analytics Tools 78

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The nine or 10 years that smartphones and apps have existed is a digital lifetime in developed markets like the U.S. What worked in China for WeChat at a much different point in time in a much different market may not be the copy/paste solution for these markets. We take our weather very seriously in Boston. and the U.K.,

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Apple Google 100

CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

E-commerce sales growth is pulling ahead of total retail sales ( 17% vs. 6% for year-over-year in Q4’17), and Amazon is controlling upwards of 40% of online sales in the US, according to the US Department of Commerce and Slice Intelligence, respectively. ” — Alistair Davidson, CFO, Ikea.

Retail 59

Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

Banking 2020

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Those services can include anything from working capital and other types of loans to additional features such as positive pay. The key is to understand the businesses’ needs in order to upsell and cross-sell effectively through targeted marketing and promotions. However, revenue is just one part of the equation.

How To 40

How To Training Boston Millennials 40

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

While historically a “pen and pencil” business, technology has begun to push the global real estate market into digitized approaches. Market participants could access more reliable data at a lower cost. ShelterZoom has partnered with over 90 brokerages around the world, including RE/MAX Revolution in Boston, Massachusetts.

blockchain 78

blockchain Fraud Technology Management 78

PYMNTS

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! and the U.K. contemplate their own moves.

New York 100

New York Lending Cards Retail 100

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In this review of failure, we’ve looked in our venture capital database to find the most well-funded startup companies that ultimately failed or had an undesirable exit, such as an asset sale or an acquisition for less than the total funding raised by the company. The 101 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time. Total Funding: Over $100M.

Capital 78

Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston. It then also became the first to test such technology on public streets in Boston, Massachusetts. Ford taps private markets for self-driving, partners with Domino’s & Postmates. Aptiv hits the road for testing.

System 78

System Technology Michigan California 78

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Though not venture capital, the private equity raised for New Jersey-chartered community bank Cross River Bank is noteworthy not only for its impressive price tag of $100 million, but for its reflection of investors’ support for financial institutions that collaborate with the tech startup scene. Cross River Bank. Wise Systems.

Analytics 176

Analytics Data Capital Software 176

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 1, 2016

Online payroll system. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Online accounting. Crowdforecasting future events for financial markets. Tags: SMB, capital raising, VC, venture capital, p2p, peer-to-peer, investing. Total dollars raised YTD is now $17.4 billion, more than double the $8.4 Latest round: $45 million.

Company 12

Company Fintech New York City Lending 12

CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

While still relatively new, biometric technology is a growing market , and its advantages are driving increased adoption. The company has raised $75M in funding from investors including Accel and ICONIQ Capital. As the world moves increasingly online, cybersecurity is an omnipresent threat (as we discuss further on in this report).

Meeting 101

Meeting Tools Survey Company 101

Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 14, 2016

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Risk management for capital markets. Tags: B2B2C, institutions, payments, marketing, loyalty, marketing, Finovate alum. Latest round: $8 million Series A. Total raised: $10.4 Source: Crunchbase. Bento for Business. Digital business banking platform. Latest round: $7 million Series A.

San Francisco 12

San Francisco Company Fintech California 12