PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

True Fit , the Boston-based startup that helps connect customers with shoes and apparel that fits them really, really well, recently announced a $25 million investment from Intel Capital that it will use to expand its business, according to a report from TechCrunch.

Boston 100

Boston Branding Retail Video 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

ShipMonk has pulled in $290 million in a funding round led by Boston-based Summit Partners as part of an expansion effort. The ShipMonk funding is part of a surge in cash going to such B2B companies as GoSite , which targets small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) that are moving operations online.

Boston 167

Boston Branding US Online 167

PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

Ohio-based Spangler Candy Company won the auction with a bid of just under $19 million, The Boston Globe reported. “We Spangler was among two other bidders: Round Hill Capital LLC and Gordon Brothers. The candies are made in a suburb of Boston, where the company has a little more than 200 employees. Necco) has founded a buyer.

Boston 100

Boston Ohio Massachusetts Company 100

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. 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.

Retail 78

Retail Branding Company Capital 78

PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), retailers and merchants have the capability to reach a much larger array of consumers on an extremely tailored and personal level. As such, it should come as no surprise that many retailers are using AI to help boost both their products and services.

Retail 128

Retail Customer Experience Boston Branding 128

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. How will we shop in 2020?

Maine 70

Maine Capital Rhode Island DC 70

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Chris Douvos of investment firm Ahoy Capital told The Wall Street Journal , “We’ve been in the middle of a rollicking party that’s gone on for five years and someone has snapped on the light switch.” Rowe Price and Discovery Capital. As Voice-Assisted Retail Gets Emotional, Privacy Issues Loom. Other investors include T.

Google 129

Google Mobile Data Capital 129

PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. With DineVite, consumers and restaurants get a better deal, since the restaurants can offer a deal to customers that they are comfortable with and consumers capitalize on it. Restaurants create offers and promotions for profitable or loyal customers.

Miami 130

Miami Los Angeles Austin South Carolina 130

PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

Layer3 is betting big on basic and premium channel bundles, going against major players AT&T, HBO and CBS and others that have embraced online streaming via desktop and mobile apps to compete with the likes of Netflix and Hulu. and has since rolled out to Chicago.

Washington 100

Washington Colorado Illinois Boston 100

PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

What followed over the next four decades was the evolution of a once familiar retail fixture – the carhop – who first walked, and then later roller skated their way into creating a convenient way of serving the customer. Retailers are having to find new ways of fulfilling shoppers’ orders.”. Pulling Up To Convenience .

St. Louis 102

St. Louis Retail Dallas Mobile 102

PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2017

Flashfood bears a close resemblance to Boston, Mass. Hunger and wasted food are two problems that can have one solution,” believes Daily Table founder Doug Rauch, former Trader Joe’s president and co-CEO of Conscious Capitalism, Inc. Finally, Campbell Soup Co.

South Carolina 121

South Carolina San Francisco Connecticut Utah 121

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). But then, we had a feeling that something like this might be about to happen in a world suddenly able to be online and on the go at all times – it’s why we were founded in 2009. That is no longer the case today.).

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

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. Their retail experience needs a bit of reinventing , and she did that for the iconic brand when she joined them.

Bitcoin 109

Bitcoin Fraud Mobile Apple 109

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

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. That includes everything from tracking inventories to managing how products are sold across an array of online and other channels, as well as gauging progress through analytics.

Boston 154

Boston Branding Online Analytics 154

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

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. In December of 2017, Even went live and online for 1.4 billion euros.

Branding 100

Branding Cards Fraud Marketing 100

CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

Retail 59

Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

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

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. Producers (or importers) sell to distributors, distributors sell to retailers and retailers sell to customers.

Retail 128

Retail United States Boston System 128

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. However, the model doesn’t currently allow companies to issue new shares, meaning that DPOs do not raise any capital for the company. STAYING PRIVATE.

Management 78

Management Capital Company Marketing 78

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. Retailer point-of-sale system. Online stock trading game. Source: Crunchbase.

New York City 12

New York City Company Fintech Minnesota 12

Tefkin

JUNE 3, 2014

While other sectors attract more mainstream press attention (payment, retail banking), the asset management industry is also deeply affected by “software eating the world” Asset Class Competition. Traditional asset management companies are increasingly facing competition on both sides of the performance scale.

Industry 42

Industry Management Innovation Analysis 42

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. So, what does this all have to do with retail? Here’s a question: Does the U.S. Here’s an answer. We have both.

Retail 134

Retail Innovation Maine Community 134

Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

Point-of-sale financing for retailers. 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: $25 million Debt.

Company 12

Company Fintech San Francisco New York City 12

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Online retailers will be where we shop. I believe that this inflection point will accelerate the four big shifts that have been taking place right before our very eyes over the last decade — shifts that will now set the course for how every single player in payments and commerce and retail should be planning their 2017 and beyond.

Payments 100

Payments Online Mobile Retail 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

WeChat’s decision to create a separate mobile wallet to store consumer credentials that also exposed an API for any other app to grab made it easy for retail and commerce apps to live inside of the ecosystem. Apps like Chrome and Pinterest are used by consumers to discover things and then punch out to retailers to buy.

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Apple Google 100

Banking 2020

OCTOBER 20, 2015

All of this occurs in an environment where technology takes center stage and business owners may consume retail (for their personal accounts) as well as business services at a given financial institution. Those services can include anything from working capital and other types of loans to additional features such as positive pay.

How To 40

How To Training Boston Millennials 40

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

JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Capital One. Retail/Consumer Goods.

Innovation 74

Innovation San Francisco Georgia Technology 74

CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

iHealth’s no-contact thermometers retail for less than $45, and Salesforce’s Workplace Command Center, which centralizes key real-time reopening metrics, starts at $5 per user per month as an add-on to existing Salesforce products. The company has raised $75M in funding from investors including Accel and ICONIQ Capital.

Meeting 101

Meeting Tools Survey Company 101

PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. There’s been no shortage of capital to start new businesses. There’s no question that the world’s weather patterns are undergoing a massive change.

Google 148

Google Apple Retail Millennials 148

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

That further opened commercial access to other commerce centers, formed the Republic of Turkey with a new regime and moved the government’s capital from Istanbul to Ankara. The Bazaar’s most serious blow was the capture of Istanbul by the Allied Forces during World War I. And so went the Ottoman Empire.

Online 128

Online Google Branding Retail 128

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

That further opened commercial access to other commerce centers, formed the Republic of Turkey with a new regime and moved the government’s capital from Istanbul to Ankara. The Bazaar’s most serious blow was the capture of Istanbul by the Allied Forces during World War I. And so went the Ottoman Empire.

Online 112

Online Google Branding Retail 112

CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Doorman says it will no longer accept incoming shipments after September 29th and that those who use their Doorman address for online shipments should update their information. “We Raptr, the online optimization platform founded by former pro gamer Dennis “Thresh” Fong a decade ago, is about to be shuttered. Product: Raptr.

Company 78

Company US San Francisco Capital 78

PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. Stranger Things and Retail. The Real Retail Competition Threat. I was traveling at the time, so that shopping experience worked really well for me. Even 100 years later.

Innovation 170

Innovation US Maine Google 170

PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2017

May flowers did not appear for retail earnings, unless you consider a bouquet of stinkweed a blanket of blossoms. 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.

Retail 108

Retail Mobile Baltimore Management 108