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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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Groups Boston Capital Meeting 100

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

This demand is driving the global expense management software market to reach $6.6 The new Workforce Spend Playbook highlights the newest solutions helping SMBs to more effectively manage their capital, and focus on their expansion ambitions. billion in value by 2025. Inside The Playbook.

Tools 141

Tools Boston Cards Management 141

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Founded in 2000 by CEO Michael Praeger, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based firm provides software that automates payments, invoicing and accounting for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). percent through 2028, according to Boston Consulting Group. Revenue growth in the business payments sector is expected to grow by around 5.6

North Carolina 130

North Carolina Nashville Charlotte Boston 130

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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 is also looking to complete the development of its Software-as-a-Service solution and expand geographically, reports said.

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PYMNTS

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. ”

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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

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CB Insights

AUGUST 8, 2017

Select Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners, Lowercase Capital, Menlo Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures. Select Investors: Lux Capital, Social Capital. Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts. Select Investors: Draper Associates, NASA, Pelion Venture Partners, Sherpa Capital. Select Investors: Lux Capital.

Company 70

Company Nevada Utah Los Angeles 70

CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2017

Specifically, we looked at Boston Properties, Vornado, and IWG plc (dba Regus). This research briefing highlights emerging real estate tech categories like property management software, investment/crowdfunding platforms, and data analytics. Boston Properties, which trades at a valuation around $18B, trails second to WeWork.

Boston 69

Boston New York City Company Community 69

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Etsy is hardly alone: eCommerce is experiencing year-over-year growth of 14 percent, according to the Payments Powering Platforms Tracker , and merchants looking to capitalize on this rise must accept the preferred payment methods of their customers, which include everything from credit cards to PayPal to Venmo and everything outside and in between.

Retail 131

Retail Payments Apple Online 131

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Select Investors: DN Capital, The Raine Group, 500 Startups. Select Investors: Accel Partners, Horizon Ventures, Lowercase Capital. Select Investors: Advancit Capital, Lowercase Capital. Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts. Select Investors: Accomplice, Advancit Capital, aXiomatic eSports, Greycroft Partners.

California 49

California San Francisco Video Oakland 49

CB Insights

JULY 13, 2017

Consumer electronics startup Razer , which develops and sells hardware and software products for gamers, made a preliminary filing to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange earlier this week. Haste offers internet optimization software for gamers – enabling them to avoid lag during real-time eSports play. Haste closed $2.5M

Boston 32

Boston Capital Software Training 32

CB Insights

AUGUST 4, 2017

Select Investors: INKEF Capital, Life Sciences Partners, Wellington Partners, Gimv. Select Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Venture Capital, SoftTech VC, Jazz Venture Partners, Kima Ventures, Xfund. Select Investors: Boston Angel Club, Hantan Capital, Wandai Capital. Total Disclosed Funding: $40.8M.

San Francisco 78

San Francisco Training Capital Trends 78

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

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Honorable mention goes to MVB Financial’s acquisition of Trabian where MVB expands upon its focus on serving fintech through Trabian, a firm well known for the software development work that connects and develops from existing apps while also acting as acqui-hire picking up Trabian leader Matt Dean for to help MVB’s ventures. Enough said?

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Fintech Strategy Leadership Lending 147

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. Biotech firms saw most of the best IPO performances in 2019, but conditions appear to be favoring large software platforms and tech companies once again in 2020.

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Management Capital Company Marketing 78

CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Gupta exposed Shah to the opportunity and “emerging trend” in V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) communications: Prior to the discussion, Shah says he had yet to pay mind to the idea that autonomous vehicles must “communicate with other vehicles because decisions would need to be processed locally” by each vehicle’s respective software.

Security 34

Security Capital Software Data 34

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Innovation centers across the globe in Boston, London, California, and Shanghai serve as regional hubs that can connect with local entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologies. Diverse teams within Verily work with partners in healthcare, technology, and engineering to develop new hardware and software, publish studies, and encourage startups.

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Innovation Cleveland New York New York City 73

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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. The single-stack technology approach, in turn, can give companies a leg up on their competitors, helping them spot opportunities and move more quickly to capitalize on them, Salsify contends.

Boston 154

Boston Branding Online Analytics 154

Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

This includes everything from the portfolio management APIs of Advisor Software to the trader mood data APIs of PsychSignal. Advisor Software. Other founding members include incubators, Draper University in Silicon Valley, Fintech Sandbox in Boston, Level39 in London, and ValueStream in New York City. AutoChartist. Insight 360.

San Francisco 12

San Francisco New York City Software Fintech 12

PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

million in venture capital — the most the industry has seen in a while. Companies across the enterprise security, SME banking and even workplace communication (think WhatsApp for the enterprise) sectors all landed funding, but nearly 80 percent of the funding went to a single company in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) arena.

Fintech 104

Fintech Detroit Michigan Capital 104

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. Consumer lending software for financial institutions. Deposit software for financial institutions . Short-term working capital provider. million to advance its blockchain efforts.

Company 12

Company New York City Fintech Lending 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

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. Scalable Capital. HQ: Boston, Massechuesetts. Internex Capital. Working capital finance. Microfinance software. Total dollars raised YTD is $7.9 Source: Crunchbase.

New York City 12

New York City Company Fintech Minnesota 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

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. Cybersecurity.

blockchain 116

blockchain Capital Seattle Lending 116

CB Insights

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Boston-based Cybereason is close to reaching Unicorn status. The company raised $102M in Q2’17 from the likes Data Collective, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, NVIDIA GPU Ventures, Real Ventures, and Tencent Holdings. Felicis Ventures, Signatures Capital, Walden Venture Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Industry 78

Industry Capital Compliance Analytics 78

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston. The rebrand was intended to focus the company’s software, electrical components, and other work on autonomous vehicles. In October 2017, Delphi acquired autonomous software development shop nuTonomy, Inc.

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System Technology Michigan California 78

Banking 2020

JUNE 2, 2015

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) expects both volume and value of transactions to increase by about 9% per year reaching about 750 billion transactions valued at $782 trillion by 2020. The cost of capital is forcing banks to be more focused on their strengths.

Analytics 40

Analytics Compliance Boston Strategy 40

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

We take our weather very seriously in Boston. I tried last night to make a reservation from Boston to San Francisco, and it told me that I had presented it with a first: There were no flights between those two cities. Spare me the cutesy icon that tries to make a joke about it. At least that response only took a few seconds to get.

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Apple Google 100

CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

Asimov predicted the exploding population would cause US cities like Boston and New York to converge along the coast into combined super-urban bodies, while suburban communities would have to expand downwards, building subterranean homes. The Washington-based company has raised $6M to date from Vulcan Capital, among others.

Seattle 56

Seattle Capital Industry New York 56

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

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Most properties are currently managed either offline through manual paperwork, or through multiple software programs that generally don’t integrate well with one another. ShelterZoom has partnered with over 90 brokerages around the world, including RE/MAX Revolution in Boston, Massachusetts. ShelterZoom’s platform.

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blockchain Fraud Technology Management 78

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. Bain, whose co-founders would go on to start Bain Capital, had a particular expertise in finance from the beginning. William Bain Jr.

Strategy 78

Strategy Management Analytics Tools 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.

Analytics 176

Analytics Data Capital Software 176

PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

The company eventually relaunched under its new name in 2017 after a $14 million funding round led by Intel Capital, Google Ventures and Accenture Ventures. Mighty AI lists 74 employees on LinkedIn, with additional offices in Detroit and Boston.

Seattle 144

Seattle Detroit Boston Software 144

CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

Individuals using Alipay’s Health Code fill out a form in the app and the software uses big data to generate a QR code depending on a user’s contagion risk. The company has raised $75M in funding from investors including Accel and ICONIQ Capital. Source: Miro. Source: NPR via Twitter.

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Meeting Tools Survey Company 101

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Thinking that way misses a much bigger point: That is, looking at an “average” percent of sales done in a physical store is about as accurate as following the Farmer’s Almanac ‘s prediction of the average amount of snowfall in Boston each winter by examining how furry the caterpillars are. Take books, for example.

Payments 100

Payments Online Mobile Retail 100