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11 Startups Show Their Latest and Greatest at INV Fintech Demo Day

Bank Innovation

Eleven startups participated in the Demovation challenge at the Bank Innovation Ignite conference in Seattle earlier this month. These startups, diverse in focus, comprised a wide range of the fintech ecosystem, including payments, security and blockchain.

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Amazon’s Alexa Reaches 1,000 Skills

PYMNTS

Since the launch of the Alexa Skills Kit less than a year ago, the Seattle-based company has been making strides in working with the developer community to build out Alexa’s skill set. In a press release , the company highlighted its new partnerships with top brands, such as Capital One, Domino’s, Fitbit, KAYAK and Uber.

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An App A Day Keeps Grocery Shoppers Coming Their Way

PYMNTS

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. Further north in Seattle, two AmazonFresh Pickup locations have finally opened for business after months of anticipation.

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Swedish Company Wheelys Is Rolling Out Moby Mobile Grocery Mart

PYMNTS

Moby Marts could be available to communities like this for little more than the price of a new car. 30,000 plus logistics support costs could give a fresh breath of life to small communities like the one where Mazetti grew up. . For Amazon’s part, it’s continually finding new ways to capitalize on people’s hatred of running errands.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2019 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. billion in assets community bank with 22 branches that encircle the Seattle Sound. Founded in 1980, Plumas Bank is a full-service community bank headquartered in Quincy in Northeastern California. First Capital, Inc. They are a $6.2

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. A decade of online payments innovation.

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

Fintech Labs Insights

In total, there were 13 fintech startups (or 15 by the Bank Innovations definition ), 12% of the total YC W16 class of 109. HQ: Seattle, WA. Connects marketplace lenders to institutional capital. Tags: Investors, big data, business intelligence, investing, capital markets. Source: Crunchbase. Front Desk. Hockeystick.

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