CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

SoftBank’s capital firepower has helped it become the #2 unicorn investor in the world. Meanwhile, the average deal size has decreased steadily in the past few years, and the firm is cutting checks to many first-time investments as it aims to diversify its portfolio and build out a wide-sweeping ecosystem of disruptive tech brands.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The venture capital games of embedded finance , open banking, PSD2 and API, all of these revolve around the premise that banks are behind on cloud technology and do not know how to package and deliver financial products to where they matter. As a comparison, we have always needed light, but the technology of light?—?from

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

So, while seemingly paling in comparison, this week had its fair share of Sizzles — and some interesting Fizzles. Restaurants — the epicenter of payments innovation, it seems — were on the receiving end of a couple of new opportunities this week that could drive even more feet into them and help them grow. Here ya go… SIZZLE.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It also helps that issuing governance tokens for a DAO creates market capitalizations and enterprise value for token holders. These are your industry comparisons. Attackers prefer to go after those who have the least defense, not those who are most capitalized. Time will tell whether relying on an SEC speech is valid defense.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

capital appreciation and dividends. For comparison purposes, here are last year''s top five , as measured as of December, 2013: #1. The lion''s share of their growth, profitability, and capital have come since their re-branding to Open Bank in 2010. This, naturally, eliminated many of the smaller, illiquid FIs.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2016

The problem, which seems quite manageable by comparison, is the volume of transactions that are still manually reviewed and the number of false positives that still plague the good guy shoppers in the face of an ever-growing number of transactions happening online. Mobile was down, online was down and even cross-border fraud was down.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This analysis focuses on where insurance innovation in the market is happening today and where it is headed next. The rise of online marketing and referral services has added new complexities to the issue as individuals who are neither brokers nor agents use websites and blogs to promote brands. Insurance in Indonesia today.

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Tefkin

MARCH 12, 2014

In the last years, most of the focus on innovation in financial services has been, it seems, on banking (investing and lending) and payment. In the past 20 years, arguably the investment side of the insurance business has seen the most innovation. A classic case of Innovator’s dilemma. billions. A new carrier?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s easy enough to think of small businesses as not being particularly innovative – and even to find data to back up that claim. In fact, on the zero to 100 scale offered by the Readiness Index, small businesses underscore large firms in terms of digital innovation adoption by over 20 points. Assortment as a Service.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 16, 2020

year run from high to low; for comparison the S&P dropped 48%). Companies were abandoned and it led to a 5- to 6-year drought in fintech innovation. And it took the rest of the decade for the capital to gravitate to all the good ideas. Projects were halted. Just as things were beginning to pick up with the so-called Web 2.0

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CB Insights

JUNE 11, 2018

investment fund dedicated to startups innovating in the AV space. With Apollo, Baidu aims to be the brains behind autonomous vehicles, allowing OEMs and auto suppliers to focus on manufacturing, branding, and the relationship with their customers rather than software engineering. For comparison, Google’s R&D ratio was 15.0%

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

The easiest possible summary is that in a post-apocalyptic future, the United States has become the Kingdom of Panem, which consists of a rich, technologically vibrant capital city ringed by 12 impoverished agrarian or industrial districts that are exploited for their resources by wealthy residents of the capitol. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

From a tech standpoint, this is probably one of the single most important innovations that has happened first in China, and at the moment it’s only in China,” said Richard Lim, managing director of venture capital firm GSR Ventures. Literally every business and brand in China is plugged into this ecosystem.”.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Few places are more receptive to new ideas and innovative business models than Silicon Valley. Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. But the model doesn’t always work perfectly. Total Funding: $490M.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Discount and budget retailers are capitalizing on this, targeting their stores toward consumers that are looking for a bargain. We look into how stores are being transformed into showrooms, community gathering spots, and even event spaces as retailers leverage the physical store as tool for brand marketing.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 24, 2018

Alibaba has a greater advantage in marrying online and offline data, and has already opened countless tech-enabled grocery stores and retail outlets; at the same time, however, the Chinese powerhouse faces stiff domestic competition from large players like JD.com and Tencent, as well as from smaller startups looking to innovate in-store retail.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Capital Preferences is an enterprise consumer risk profiling system that uses a series of simple investment games based on advances in game theory, econometrics and experimental economics, to help banks, insurers and wealth managers solve growing regulatory scrutiny and unscientific profiling methods used to document client risk preferences today.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

As part of that capital raise, there was also a commitment to buy an additional $30 million in tZERO tokens to be used inside the blockchain/crypto-enabled ecosystem that Overstock, with its tZERO subsidiary, is creating. Uber invested in Lime in July as part of a $335 million capital raise that valued the company at $1.1

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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. Fewer buyers means that brands no longer find those outlets useful for distribution. And so went the Ottoman Empire.

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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. Fewer buyers means that brands no longer find those outlets useful for distribution. And so went the Ottoman Empire.

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CB Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

Rival Nike is also focusing heavily on manufacturing innovation and speed. Nike has also applied for patents to automate shoe parts assembly and identification, underscoring its commitment to manufacturing innovation. “We are investing very, very heavily at the moment in innovation. online solutions.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In the process, these brands, spanning everything from detergent to sneakers, are radically changing consumer preferences and expectations. These well-positioned startups are not just competing with some of the biggest retail brands in mattresses, razors, shoes, and more, by launching their own brands.

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