PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Online shopping is on a tear, and marketplaces are reaping the rewards. billion — online payments were completed in the U.S. In the post, Shopify wrote, “by accepting Venmo directly in your online store, users can complete their purchase in just a few clicks. At the same time, GMS growth accelerated to 20.8 percent from 19.3

Retail 131

Retail Payments Apple Online 131

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

51 million : That’s the amount of new funding that Druva, an India-based enterprise security company, has secured from Sequoia Capital India and a new backer, Economic Development Board Investments, based in Singapore. Luckily, the PYMNTS 11 is here to break it all down. Luckily, the PYMNTS 11 is here to break it all down.

ATM 100

ATM Boston Survey Security 100

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Select VC Investors: Khosla Ventures, Social Capital. Cafe X is a robotic cafe in San Francisco that serves premium coffee using mobile ordering and automation technology. Select VC Investors: Cue Ball Capital, Valley Oak Investments. Select VC Investors: Otium Capital. Select VC Investors: Venture Capital.

Maine 70

Maine Capital Rhode Island DC 70

PYMNTS

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.

South Carolina 121

South Carolina San Francisco Connecticut Utah 121

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

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

If we had a nickel for every mobile wallet that had come and gone in that time period, we would at this point be larger than The New York Times. The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). Well, that’s how we remember it, anyway. True in 2009.

Innovation 177

Innovation Payments Cards Retail 177

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

CB Insights

AUGUST 8, 2017

Skydio makes smart drones that leverage computer vision and motion planning algorithms coupled with image sensors and processors in mobile phones. Select Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners, Lowercase Capital, Menlo Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures. Select Investors: Lux Capital, Social Capital. Disclosed Funding: $19.9M.

Company 70

Company Nevada Utah Los Angeles 70

PYMNTS

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. Barcode-Based Mobile Payments. It’s worth noting that CVS supports no other mobile wallet at this point.

Lending 100

Lending Apple Cards Study 100

CB Insights

AUGUST 4, 2017

Kernel is an early-stage brain-machine interface company formed by Bryan Johnson, founder of the online payments company Braintree and the OS Fund. The complete therapy combines electrical spinal cord stimulation with gravity-assisted physical training in order to promote remodeling of the neural circuits required for mobility.

San Francisco 78

San Francisco Training Capital Trends 78

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Overall, according to the Global Fraud Attack Index that we do with Forter every quarter, fraud attempts are up 217 percent, putting nearly $5 of every online sale at risk. Sizzle Or Fizzle: Wells Fargo Mobile Wallet. You want to know what really sizzled this week?

Bitcoin 109

Bitcoin Fraud Mobile Apple 109

CB Insights

AUGUST 25, 2017

July 2017 saw the two largest-ever restaurant tech deals: a $151M private equity investment by Vista Equity Partners to Providence-based Upserve , and a $101M Series C (with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Generation Investment Management, and Lead Edge Capital) to Boston-based Toast.

Trends 28

Trends Georgia Google Boston 28

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

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

million in tokens for DENT, a mobile data ICO; and over $1.1 In July, Grubhub announced it would be buying up LevelUp for $390 million in cash to expedite integration with restaurants and “create a seamless diner experience in-app, online and in-store,” said the 423,000 daily average grubs, up 35 percent year over year. billion euros.

Branding 100

Branding Cards Fraud Marketing 100

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. It was created to help people with limited hand and arm mobility eat comfortably.

Innovation 73

Innovation Cleveland New York New York City 73

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. Mobile payment platform for restuarants. HQ: Boston, Massechuesetts. Online stock trading game.

New York City 12

New York City Company Fintech Minnesota 12

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

According to PYMNTS data, more than 60 percent of Main Street firms have at least three channels operating to drive sales: online, at physical stores and mobile. Seventy-one percent use online channels, 68 percent use physical stores, 66 percent use mobile and 59 percent use marketplaces.

Maine 169

Maine Philadelphia Community Boston 169

Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 13, 2016

In addition to LoanNow, Finovate alums attracting new capital included: Gem , which pulled in $7.1 HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Online alt-lender. Online accounting. Tags: Consumer, insurance, automobile, mobile. And the number of deals was up 40% (24 compared to 17). million to advance its blockchain efforts.

Company 12

Company New York City Fintech Lending 12

PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

million in venture capital — the most the industry has seen in a while. Autobooks provides online banking platforms with solutions tailored to the SME crowd, including accounting and payments. The B2B FinTech investment space has been relatively slow in recent months, but U.S. startups led the way this week with a healthy $101.5

Fintech 104

Fintech Detroit Michigan Capital 104

Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 18, 2016

App Annie garnered $63 million for its mobile analytics and development tools. Mobile analytics . Online marketplace for real estate investing. Mobile insurance brokerage. Mobile banking app developer for financial institutions. Tags: Enterprise, B2B2C, mobile banking, digital banking. Mambu attracted $8.7

Company 12

Company New York City Fintech San Francisco 12

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. Further, t he banks underwriting the IPO of SoftBank’s mobile business lowered their fee to about 1.5%. STAYING PRIVATE.

Management 78

Management Capital Company Marketing 78

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 8, 2016

Online automobile insurance. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Mobile payments platform. Tags: SMB, merchants, payments, acquiring, mobile banking, core system. Platform for investing in early-stage startups. Latest round: $14.4 million Debt. Total raised previously: Unknown. HQ: New York City. Source: Crunchbase. Alt-lender.

Company 12

Company Fintech New York City blockchain 12

Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Mobile wallet. Online foreign exchange services. Mobile business scheduling, invoicing & payments platform. Connects marketplace lenders to institutional capital. Tags: Investors, big data, business intelligence, investing, capital markets. Source: Crunchbase. Maxwell Health.

Company 12

Company Fintech San Francisco New York City 12

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. The bulk of local stores don’t have websites and thus don’t have an online catalog of goods. Minimally, an ID will have to be checked.

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

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

APRIL 6, 2018

Blacksoil Capital linked B2B eProcurement firm IndustryBuying with nearly $2 million in venture debt, reports in Inc42 said this week. The India-based startup has already seen funding from Kalaari Capital, Saif Partners and Beenext. million from InnoVen Capital, Inc42 reported this week. IndustryBuying. Logistics.

blockchain 116

blockchain Capital Seattle Lending 116

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Technology enthusiasts draw pictures on whiteboards showing bots as the new king of the stack, out-stacking the last great stack — apps, which sit on top of the next-to-last great stack — mobile operating systems, which sit on top of the next-to-next-to-last great stack — the web. It did — and WeChat was born. Add some sizzle.

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Apple Google 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Mobile payments will be how we pay. Online retailers will be where we shop. Shift Number One | The Shift To Buying Online. We’ve been watching online sales now grow — even double — year over year, for many years now, but it’s still tiny, overall. Technology — not traditional payments companies — will be who leads the way.

Payments 100

Payments Online Mobile Retail 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

While it was easy to chalk things up then to the financial crisis and the consumer spending hangover that resulted, we dug deeper and discovered the enormous shifts in buying online from physical stores that had been underway. Clover Food Labs was one food truck with a Square reader in Boston in 2008.

Retail 134

Retail Innovation Maine Community 134

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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The demo vehicle, known as the e-Palette, was designed as a multi-function, autonomous minivan to move goods, people, or even a mobile office. Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston. Read more: The Guardian , Reuters , Bloomberg , The Guardian , Wall Street Journal.

System 78

System Technology Michigan California 78

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. Its membership fee revenue grew 12.6%

Retail 59

Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

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

JULY 23, 2020

To stay ahead of the curve, companies will need to consider key investments across wellness, remote collaboration tools, mobile cybersecurity tech, accessible HR tools, and workforce training programs for professional development and upskilling. The company has raised $75M in funding from investors including Accel and ICONIQ Capital.

Meeting 101

Meeting Tools Survey Company 101

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 1, 2016

Online payroll system. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Online accounting. Mobile payment & financing platform for field sales. 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 19, 2017

Products from these labs include HeartSense and AkTrac (“wellness apps for activity detection and physiological sensing using mobile phones and wearables”), a mobile phone digital stethoscope, and RehabBox, a “Kinect-based telerehab system for post stroke patients.”. Innovation Lab Name: IBM Mobile Innovation Lab. AT&T.

Innovation 74

Innovation San Francisco Georgia Technology 74