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Fintech Fundings: 186 Companies Raised $1.6 Billion in June

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HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. HQ: New York City. HQ: Bedford, New Hampshire. Tags: SMB, capital raising, VC, venture capital, p2p, peer-to-peer, investing. Source: Crunchbase , Finovate. Goji (formerly Consumers United). Consumer insurance portal. Latest round: $19 million. Total raised: $89 million.

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Massachusetts: Frozen Growth In The Frozen North

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New Englanders are known nationwide for several things: a stoic disposition, a fondness for chowders, a congenital love of wool and a weird horror at the letter “r.” The vagaries of the New England economy show up, encapsulated, in Massachusetts. And this is a good thing, since growth has been less than on fire of late.

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Payments And Commerce On The Campaign Trail

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A highly unscientific poll of our coworkers found that the average collection of people waiting for a bus in downtown Boston has a more cohesive political ideology than our staff, who are all supporting wildly different candidates for wildly different reasons. Discomfort Despite Good Progress. But not everywhere.

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