Capital, Cards, Lending and New York City

B2B Tech Startups Land Backing To Modernize The Enterprise

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The company said it would use the investment to expand its product features with a focus on its automated lending infrastructure, and noted it will now include ACH processing in its offering. Honcho plans to deploy the investment towards new hires and invest in its product roadmap.

New York City

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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: New Expansions, Partnerships And Reorganizations

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

According to reports out earlier this week, Goldman Sachs and Amazon are in discussions about possibly partnering for small and medium-sized (SMB) business lending in the U.S. The partnership would apply Goldman’s lending technology to SMB loans on Amazon’s underwriting platform, according to unnamed sources.

Austin

Austin Lending Omaha New York City

Digital Lending & The Biggest Conference Bankers Aren’t Attending

Gonzobanker

MAY 8, 2015

The annual LendIt conference was held last month at Times Square in New York City and GonzoLender descended boldly on the scene to evaluate the mysterious underbelly of digital lending. The lending attack on community banks and credit unions has been waged. LENDING VERTICALS. Consumer Lending.

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Webinars

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A Regulatory Oversight?

Independent Banker

DECEMBER 29, 2015

ICBA warns of risks of online marketplace lending models. Online marketplace lenders are a new form of nonbank specialty lending that uses technology platforms to allow Wall Street and individual investors to directly fund loans to consumers and small businesses. Lend exclusively over online peer-to-peer platforms.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lending New York City Online

Fintech Fundings: 29 Companies Raise $1.2 Billion Week Ending April 8

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. Ixaris landed $6 million for its prepaid card platform. HQ: Minnesota City, Minnesota. P2P lending platform. HQ: New York City. Scalable Capital.

New York City

New York City Company Fintech Minnesota

Fintech Fundings: Companies Raise $ Million Week Ending Feb 26

Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 1, 2016

Although we saw one high-flying fintech unicorn crash to earth this week , the fintech sector continued to attract significant capital with 21 companies raising $214.8 Three Finovate and FinDEVr alums raised new cash and one exited: PayActiv raised $9.2 FlexScore was bought by United Capital . HQ: New York City.

New York City

New York City Company Fintech San Francisco

Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $400 Million Week Ending May 20

Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 16, 2016

Along with the usual payment and lending startups, two insurtech companies raised substantial rounds: Embroker ($12.2 Finovate alums accounted for 40% of the week’s dollar volume including: Personal Capital raised $75 million for its digital wealth management service. Personal Capital. HQ: Redwood City, California.

San Francisco

San Francisco Company South Carolina New York City

Fintech Fundings: 24 Companies Raise $560 Million Week Ending Jan 8

Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 13, 2016

The $138 million in new equity last week was 25% more than the $110 million from the same week a year ago. In addition to LoanNow, Finovate alums attracting new capital included: Gem , which pulled in $7.1 HQ: New York City. Lendful Financial. HQ: New York City. million ($44.7

Company

Company New York City Fintech Lending

Fintech Fundings: 38 Companies Raised $300 Million First Week of June

Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 12, 2016

HQ: New York City. Prepaid debit card for youth. HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City. Kikka Capital. Tags: SMB, merchant, payments, POS, point of sale, credit/debit cards, acquiring. Total raised: Unknown. HQ: Austin, Texas.

New York City

New York City Company Fintech San Francisco

Fintech Fundings: 26 Companies Raise $270 Million Second Week of August

Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The fintech sector attracted $266 million in new capital the second week of August. 5 million to CUneXus to expand its consumer lending platform. . 5 million to CUneXus to expand its consumer lending platform. Consumer lending platform. HQ: New York City. Bigstone Capital. million Seed.

San Francisco

San Francisco New York City Fintech Company

Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $220 Million Week Ending March 25

Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

Three Finovate alums brought in new cash: Kreditech raised $11 million for its banking and lending services for the underbanked. Here are the fintech deals by size from 19 March to 25 March 2016: Open Lending. Automated lending solutions for financial institutions. Automated lending solutions for financial institutions.

Company

Company Fintech San Francisco New York City

Fintech Fundings: 13 Companies Raise $900 Million Week Ending Nov 12

Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

.” According to today’s WSJ story , the money appears to be earmarked for share repurchases, meaning it’s just a transfer of $820 million to the existing common stock holders, rather than new capital sitting on the balance sheet. HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City.

New York City

New York City Company Fintech San Francisco

Fintech Fundings: 30 Companies Raise $390 Million Week Ending May 13

Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 6, 2016

Capital Float. Working capital financing. Capital Float. Working capital financing. HQ: New York City. Tags: Consumer, banking, payments, deposits, loans, debit card. Source: Crunchbase. Bridge2Solutions. Incentive & rewards systems for financial institutions. Total raised: $35 million.

Company

Company Fintech San Francisco New York City

Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $330 Million Week Ending Jan 15

Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 18, 2016

HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City. Online consumer lending. Tags: Consumer, credit, lending, loans, underwriting. Source: Finovate. Person-to-person lender. Latest round: $59 million Series B ($153 million valuation). Total raised: $69 million. HQ: Bejing, China. Source: Crunchbase.

Company

Company New York City Fintech San Francisco

Fintech Fundings: 23 Companies Raise $530 Million Week Ending July 8

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 5, 2016

Lending Works. P2P lending platform. Lending Works. P2P lending platform. HQ: New York City. Multi-merchant credit/debit card loyalty progam. HQ: New York City. Tags: Consumer, rewards, cards, loyalty, payments, spending. Source: Crunchbase. Finanzchef24.

San Francisco

San Francisco Company New York City Fintech

Fintech Fundings: 9 Companies Raise $73 Million Week Ending Dec 31

Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 7, 2016

If you add the $6 billion in new capital raised in the IPOs of Worldpay, Square and First Data, the 2015 total is a nice even $25 billion. HQ: New York City. HQ: Trieste, Tags: SMB, credit, lending, trade financing, underwriting, commerce. Social media financial compliance specialist Gremln raised $1.4

St. Louis

St. Louis social media Company Fintech

Finovate Debuts: LiftForward Allows Clients to Offer Risk-Free Purchase Financing

Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 11, 2015

LiftForward launched in 2013 as a marketplace loan platform where investors lend small businesses up to $1 million. This lending platform is the basis for the company’s TaaSLift , a technology-as-a-service platform that enables LiftForward clients to finance product purchases for their end customers. Metrics: 10 employees.

New York City

New York City Case Study New York Lending

Fintech Fundings: 114 Companies Raised $7.3 Billion in April

Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

Marketplace small business lending platform. HQ: Mexico City, Mexico. HQ: New Delhi, India. Tags: SMB, merchants, security, payments, POS, credit/debit cards, authorization. Fintech deals by size from 23 April to 29 April 2016: Mosaic. Marketplace lender for residential solor projects. Total raised: $224.9 million ($98.3

San Francisco

San Francisco Company Fintech California

Fintech Fundings: 23 Companies Raise $685 Million Week Ending Dec 18

Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The vast majority went into alt-lending including NYC-based Pave ($30o million), Australian P2P platform MoneyPlace ($60 million from Auswide Bank), and Chinese lenders Fengjr.com ($80 million) and Dashu Finance ($77 million). HQ: New York City. Indexa Capital. Total raised: $300 million. Source: Crunchbase , WSJ.

Company

Company Fintech North Carolina California

Fintech Fundings: 32 Companies Raise $210 Million Second Week of July

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 8, 2016

HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City. Lost/stolen credit & debit card solution. Tags: SMB, merchants, credit/debit cards, acquiring, bitcoin, crypto-currency, blockchain, point of sale. Source: Crunchbase. Platform for investing in early-stage startups. Latest round: $14.4 million Debt.

Company

Company Fintech New York City blockchain

Fintech Fundings: 30 Companies Raised $330 Million First Week of August

Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The fintech sector attracted $332 million in new capital the first week of August. Four of those came out of the most recent batch of companies launched from accelerator 500 Startups , where each received $125,000 in seed capital. Middle market capital matchmaker. HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City.

New York City

New York City Company Fintech Comparison

17 Of The Biggest Startup Frauds Of All Time

CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

WrkRiot’s short-lived house of cards falls down. Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. Select Investors: CapitalG, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital.

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Fintech Fundings: 26 Companies Raise $280 Million in 4th Week of June

Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 21, 2016

Pearl Capital. HQ: New York City. Gift card payment network. HQ: New York City. Alt-lending marketplace for consumers. Tags: SMB, lending, underwriting, trade finance, B2B ecommerce. Source: Crunchbase. Invoice lender to small businsesses. Latest round: $30 million Debt.

New York City

New York City Fintech Company San Francisco

Fintech Fundings: 39 Companies Raise $930 Million Week Ending April 15

Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 25, 2016

Two Finovate alums raised fresh capital: Emailage raised another $5 million for its email-based fraud prevention solutions. Aire raised an undisclosed amount to further its new credit scoring system. P2P lending platform. P2P lending platform. Automotive lending platform. Lend Street Financial. million IPO.

San Francisco

San Francisco Fintech Company Lending

Fintech Fundings: 186 Companies Raised $1.6 Billion in June

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 1, 2016

Alt-lending to small businesses. HQ: New York City. Credit card with consumer controls. Marketplace lending analytics. HQ: New York City. Tags: Consumer, lending, peer-to-peer, credit, underwriting, investing. Total raised: $42 million. HQ: Ahmedabad, India. Source: Crunchbase.

Company

Company Fintech New York City Lending

Fintech Fundings: 38 Companies Raise $220 Million the Second Week of June

Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 14, 2016

million for its credit- and debit-card loyalty program. HQ: New York City. Tags: SMB, payments, mobile, mPOS, merchants, acquiring, credit/debit cards. CrowdFlower tapped Microsoft to lead a $10 million round to further its big data analytics. Buzz Points grabbed $1.8 Alt-lender and payments. Latest round: $20.6

San Francisco

San Francisco Company Fintech California

Fintech Fundings: 20 Companies Raise $175 Million Week Ending Nov 6

Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Two Finovate alums added capital: Roostify which picked up $500,000 from Wells Fargo’s startup accelerator to further its mission to streamline the mortgage process for consumers and Figo , a German-based firm, which banked “7 figures” to expand its suite of banking APIs. P2P lending. Expansion Capital Group.

Company

Company Fintech South Dakota San Jose

Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $215 Million Week Ending Feb 19

Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Although we saw one high-flying fintech unicorn crash to earth this week , the fintech sector continued to attract significant capital with 21 companies raising $214.8 Three Finovate and FinDEVr alums raised new cash and one exited: PayActiv raised $9.2 FlexScore was bought by United Capital . Prepaid card issuer.

Company

Company Fintech San Francisco Texas

Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $260 Million Week Ending Feb 5

Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Private capital continued to flow into the fintech sector this week with 21 companies raising $257 million. One Finovate alum raised new cash; London’s Revolut brought in $4.8 Just five weeks into the new year, fintech companies have raised $4.25 HQ: New York City. billion in the same period last year.

Company

Company Fintech Bitcoin California

Fintech Trending: Look Who’s Chasing Venmo, Student Loan Servicing Falls Short

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 26, 2016

The issue lies in part with low consumer interest and adoption; it’s still faster to swipe (or insert) your credit card than to take out and unlock your phone, open an app, and try to convince the cashier it is a legitimate way to pay. Capital One Wallet. Other news in the payments space. Wells Fargo Wallet. In the U.K.

Trends

Trends Fintech ATM Google

37 Corporate Innovation Labs In Finance

CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

Notable projects: Card Free Access is a program developed out of the lab that allows Wells Fargo Banking customers to access ATMs through a variety of methods without their cards. Capital One — Capital One Labs. Key people: James Patterson, Managing VP & Head of Capital One Labs at Capital One.

Innovation

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Community Banking Brief

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Fintech Fundings: 29 Companies Raise $1.2 Billion Week Ending April 8

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Fintech Fundings: 24 Companies Raise $560 Million Week Ending Jan 8

Fintech Fundings: 38 Companies Raised $300 Million First Week of June

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Fintech Fundings: 13 Companies Raise $900 Million Week Ending Nov 12

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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $330 Million Week Ending Jan 15

Fintech Fundings: 23 Companies Raise $530 Million Week Ending July 8

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Finovate Debuts: LiftForward Allows Clients to Offer Risk-Free Purchase Financing

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