PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

To bolster its subscription business, San-Francisco-based Recurly has notched $19.5 million in funding led by F-Prime Capital along with participation from Polaris Partners, Silicon Valley Bank and Greycroft. The new funding brings its total raise to almost $40 million after raises in the past totaling $19.6

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

Munchery had said it was planning to focus on its largest market, San Francisco, in an effort to become profitable, but that never happened. The company revealed it will earn $5 million from the sale of its equipment, machinery and San Francisco headquarters.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Yesterday, the smaller-scale fulfillment company closed $40 million in Series C funding, led by Activant Capital, bringing its total capital raised to $70 million. In the age of Amazon, achieving success in this market takes dozens of fulfillment centers, advanced logistics and sophisticated enterprise technology.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

A young logistics startup that gives eCommerce brands same-day delivery capabilities just scored a major chunk of venture funding. Founded in May of 2016, San Francisco-based Darkstore offers a platform that enables on-demand, same-day and 2-day delivery options for eCommerce sites. Just recently, the company scored $1.4

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The San Francisco-based digital mortgage and loan platform on Wednesday (Sept. based early growth, FinTech-focused venture capital firm. based early growth, FinTech-focused venture capital firm. Blend , the home loan tech startup, isn’t done growing. The round brought the company’s value to nearly $1.7

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2018

According to reports citing the company, the Series A round of venture funding was led by 8VC, the venture capital company. The report noted Deliverr, which is based in San Francisco, uses machine learning and predictive intelligence to ascertain which warehouses have the clients’ merchandise.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Retail performance mobile marketing expert Fidzup recently announced it raised $3.7 million in a new funding round with venture capitalists Cap Horn, Turenne Capital and existing investors. brands, like Ford, KFC and Timberland’s French locations, as well as major French brands, like Renault, Peugeot and Les Galeries Lafayette.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

Landed said it has helped 200 teachers so far in areas like San Francisco Bay, Seattle and Denver. Lofton said he imagines the real estate market, especially in the Bay area with a number of tech company IPOs on the horizon, will become even more difficult to navigate. We try to stay flexible to people’s realities.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2016

In a world where sunshine in the news is in something of short supply, the good folks at Thrive Market can add good news for those in need of some to report to the list of things they deliver. You can’t eat it, but after the week the world’s markets have been having, reporting numbers in black ink is pretty delicious.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Beyond New York, the retailer is planning to extend that experiential approach to partner locations, “offering the world that one-of-a-kind toy retail experience the brand is known for,” according to an announcement from the company, which is owned by ThreeSixty Brands. percent stake in Starbucks.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Investment in B2B FinTech startups came through a variety of channels this week, from venture capital to growth equity. trillion market. trillion market. The B2B SaaS market is diverse. Reports said Eden plans to use the investment to expand into new markets and hire more engineers. Software-as-a-Service.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The digital-first shift means there are more options for smaller, direct-to-consumer brands, to find first-time customers from around the country or even the world. Here’s how some really creative D2C brands are using new tech to do that. Capitalizing On Direct To Consumer. But Sticky.io 13-14 Amazon Prime Day.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

San Francisco area startup Helpshift is working to revolutionize the customer support industry through an enterprise-level, app-based customer support platform. Brands in a rapidly growing mobile world needed real-time, intuitive tools in order to solve user problems in-app, in real time,” he said. million from its investors.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

But one California company has taken a slightly different approach to marketing their products at the popular grocer — they’re stocking kiosks, not shelves. Urban Remedy has 30 branded refrigerated kiosks in Whole Foods stores across California. Venture Capital Investment. The Future.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

This week’s B2B venture capital rundown includes some of the usual suspects, like blockchain and HR tech, and a few not-so-usual ones, like fleet and small business insurance. The funding will go toward product development, enhancing its implementation team and brand development, the company said. and Singapore. Greenhouse.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Zippin , a new cashierless convenience store, has launched in San Francisco with the goal of reducing typically long lines. The store now takes cash since San Francisco banned cashless businesses. “We Similar results were reported by RBC Capital Markets after analyzing Amazon Go productivity.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2017

Effectively, these DTC brands have disrupted the retail industry by bypassing third-party vendors as well as brick-and-mortar stores. Through reaching out directly to consumers and building their businesses around those desires, direct-to-consumer brands have likely gone above the traditional retail mold and into a new territory.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The poll was conducted by a San Francisco-based advocacy group called Small Business Majority, and its CEO John Arensmeyer has been a proponent of community grants that exist outside of the formal banking system that has controlled government aid up to this point. billion in liquidity guarantees by the Federal Reserve.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

To say that there is perhaps an overabundance of meal kits in the market is something of an understatement. One PYMNTS reader living in San Francisco noted that between the various meal delivery startup services in her area, she and her spouse could literally sign up for free trials for a year and never once pay to make their own meals.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

The company is testing its workplace program at mainly smaller supercenters along with the company’s Neighborhood Markets. At the same time, it was reported that Walmart plans to employ $11 billion in capital expenditures this year. billion for its stores in comparison to $1.63 billion in the year prior. Louis, Tampa and New York.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

The news that on-demand delivery startup Munchery has closed its doors — even after raising $125 million in venture capital funding — serves as reminder of how difficult it can be to gain a profitable foothold (much less a dominant position) in the on-demand food delivery space. The coffee chain said this week (Jan. Future Moves.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

Mycoskie is no longer CEO — after selling much of his share in the firm to Bain Capital in 2014, he has since moved to the official role of Chief Shoe Giver and has focused his attention on what’s next for TOMS Shoes. TOMS’ social message — and commitment to donating as much as it sells — has put a spotlight on the brand.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Merger of Equals Deal of the Year (Credit Union) – Spire Credit Union and Hiway Credit Union put 2+2 together to make a $4 billion institution in the Minnesota market. While Huntington is down like most bank stocks, the pain hasn’t been as severe, and Huntington doubled down on local markets in 2023 by consolidating business units.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The pandemic has also accelerated recent trends in banking, especially among the millennial demographic, which tends to favor digital banking and online brands over traditional banks. Tech companies are chipping away at the traditional bank’s market share. get the full 45-page disrupting investment banking report. Investment banking.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

” Retailers have come to recognize the incredible marketing opportunity presented by the multi-weekend music festival in Southern California. We want to make them even bigger superfans of the brand. Palm Springs, Orange County, San Francisco, New York and Dallas). Coachella is a good way to do that.”. Is it though?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Spark Growth and Social+Capital are all involved in the fund. The San Francisco-based company said this will allow users to communicate with the company in a space they are already spending a lot of time.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Furthermore, the device is still not available in Brazil, France, Italy, Spain or Australia, along with many other markets. Finally, Mercedes-Benz busted Amazon for selling three sets of counterfeit branded wheel caps, which were listed on the platform and marked as “ships from and sold by Amazon.com.”

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Cava has around 30 restaurants in the DC, LA, and NYC markets, and its packaged dips and spreads are sold in more than 200 Whole Foods Market stores. 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.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

After some free-wheeling fun in the demand marketplace — powered by some free-flowing capital — the market space seems mostly to be narrowing and winnowing down those firms that are better in concept than they are in action. Entering The Market (For Good Or Ill) . Or are they? And, of course, the random trend of the week.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 12, 2016

Wealth management platform Personal Capital is partnering with BancAlliance. This gives California-based Personal Capital access to BancAlliance’s network of 200 community banks. The member banks can now offer co-branded personal finance and wealth management tools powered by Personal Capital. billion AUM.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 12, 2016

Wealth management platform Personal Capital is partnering with BancAlliance. This gives California-based Personal Capital access to BancAlliance’s network of 200 community banks. The member banks can now offer co-branded personal finance and wealth management tools powered by Personal Capital. billion AUM.

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Capital Management San Francisco Tools 12

PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

The Collison brothers had founded Stripe, but it would be a year before it would be in-market. Uber was a San Francisco-based on-demand black car service. Paytm was a brand-new prepaid mobile card in India. Square was a newbie, largely written off as a wrought-with-fraud business model that would never survive and scale.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The Food Marketing Institute reported that about 50 percent of that spend is on perishables — stuff like meat (13 percent of that 50 percent), produce (11 percent of that 50 percent) and dairy (8 percent of that 50 percent). percent of consumer spending (assuming a median annual income of $56,516 and annual grocery spend of $4,015).

Retail 100

Retail Online Branding Innovation 100

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

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. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Goodcover , a San Francisco-based insurtech, raised a $2M seed round led by Fuel Capital. Go-Sure, in contrast, looks to cover its customers in a rapidly growing Indonesian market where insurance penetration is less than 2% , among the lowest in the world. PRODUCTS, PEOPLE, AND CUSTOMERS. at an implied 12.4x P/E multiple.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

CPG corporates like PepsiCo, Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, and Campbell, for example, have invested in and acquired a number of brands focused on healthy snacking , while personal care incumbents like P&G and Unilever have backed natural and organic beauty brands. As consumer demand rises, businesses are buying into the trend.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The financing brings Boku’s total capital to $91 million, and will help fuel the company’s global growth. Participating in the venture round were existing investors Khosla Ventures, Benchmark Capital, NEA, Index Ventures, and DAG Ventures. million in additional funding. Additional new and existing investors from the U.K.,

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