PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Headlines are filled with reports of service outages and data breaches , and both banks and consumers are contending with rising fraud concerns as digital banking takes off. This means consumers also blame FIs when data breaches occur, regardless of the entity actually at fault. The Technology Gap That Fosters Fraudsters.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

And enter Drip Capital , the middleman that serves as the financial grease that enables trade to flow, easing concerns of both buyers and suppliers. said Pushkar Mukewar , co-founder and CEO of Drip Capital in a conversation with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster. When you think of any cross-border transaction — let’s say an importer in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

There may be a few resilient, strategic entrepreneurs out there who don’t need venture capital to run a successful startup. “It’s a huge anomaly,” said Small Business Administration Head of Innovation and Investment Mark Walsh, referencing the ability for startup founders to make it without venture capital.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

Bad news hit the startup community this week as new analysis from CBInsights revealed a significant decline in venture capital (VC) funding in the first quarter of 2020. India-based Xtracap secured $1 million in angel funding, YourStory reported. Trade finance technology startup CCRManager announced $2.12 Xtracap Fintech.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

In a nod to just how important cybersecurity is becoming to larger firms within the financial space, Capital One said on Monday (Feb. 29) that it has brought on board Amazon’s former chief security officer, Tom Killalea.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

They’re helping on-the-go domestic travelers get the food they crave, city dwellers more efficiently park their cars , companies address top technology concerns and business-to-business (B2B) startups secure funding to help them target enterprise data — and the changes are far from over.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Cloud services like AWS , Dropbox and Google Cloud store terabytes of users’ personal information and payment data, making them prime targets for fraudsters looking to wreak havoc. The cloud security space needs to completely rethink its options if such strong systems can still be breached.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

Commercial payments technology firm WEX landed a $400 million investment this week, but when it comes to venture capital, investors set their sights on B2B eCommerce, small business funding, payroll and more. PYMNTS breaks down the companies that did manage to secure funding, below. With a combined $43.3

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

But it was a Bellevue, Washington-based beauty and wellness industry enterprise software firm that secured the largest funding this week, coming in at $160 million. The fundraising was headed up by Advent International via Advent Tech and Sunley House Capital, an Advent affiliate. landed funding rounds. CloudTrucks.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

It was led by “Energize Ventures and Lux Capital, each of whom invests heavily in companies, fundamentally advancing how society implements and utilizes advances in technology,” Zededa said in a statement. IoT Security Concerns. Security Upgrades? 25) that it had raised $16 million in a Series A funding round.

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Abrigo

JULY 5, 2020

Key Takeaways Credit unions participating in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) found that the right technology helped them serve business members when they needed help and also gain new members. Technology can facilitate delivery on credit unions' brand promise of relationship-based services. billion in loans had been approved.

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Perficient

MARCH 30, 2023

The front office is screaming down to the Settlement Office, “Operations, we need more capital!” In this blog, we wanted to share a practical solution that blockchain technology can offer financial services institutions – the ability to provide instant settlement and optimize collateral on demand. I’m giving it all we’ve got.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Commerce Ventures, Flint Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Synchrony and Sorenson Capital also participated, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

-based company whose artificial intelligence-powered software platform enables in-home network security for network operators, after a Series B funding round. In addition, CUJO AI will continue to scale the business and hire world-class talents for its AI-powered technology, cyber analysts and commercial teams around the world.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

FPL Technologies, an Indian startup that is less than a year old, has raised $4.5 million in a funding round led by Matrix Partners India, with Sequoia Capital India and others also contributing, according to a report. Another problem is the lack of security when shopping online with a credit card.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Tanium, which provides organizations with an IT security platform, raised $200 million from Wellington Management, Baillie Gifford & Company and Adage Capital Management, pushing Tanium’s valuation up to $6.5 According to reports, Tanium addresses security friction within businesses caused by a disparate security strategy.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Automotive cybersecurity company GuardKnox announced it has secured $21 million in a Series A round of funding, bringing its total raised to $24 million. The automotive industry is experiencing massive disruption from emerging technologies,” GuardKnox CEO and Co-Founder Moshe Shlisel said in a press release.

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Bobsguide

APRIL 7, 2022

April 4, 2022 – NXTsoft , a company focused on data connectivity, data analytics, data management and data migration announced plans today to accelerate adoption of leveraging APIs to automate and easily access data through a zero-integration effort called Connectivity as a Service for financial institutions and FinTechs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Bank is shifting away from screen scraping in favor of direct data connectivity, but it's not the only financial institution (FI) embracing the data strategy. Bank shifts away from login-based screen scraping toward API-powered data integrations, the FI has announced a partnership with Akoya to accelerate the transition.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

If data makes the world go ’round, so, too, does it garner investor interest, as evidenced by venture capital and other investors’ funds coming into the coffers of corporates that scrape the web for information. Thinknum , which provides web-sourced alternative data, has garnered $11.6 An Acquisition in Africa.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Singapore-based FinTech startup InstaReM , which enables banks and consumers to send money across borders , announced a partnership with First Data to assist businesses that issue corporate credit cards. In November, it raised $20 million in capital from investors.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

This week’s B2B Venture Capital roundup is all about data. With a total of $388 million raised this week, newly funded startups are deploying an array of data analytics technologies to address B2B finance friction. Yellowbrick Data. Catch up on the latest investment rounds below. Biz2Credit.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

B2B startups are increasingly building themselves on top of troves of enterprise data, uncovering new ways to unlock and aggregate information across enterprise platforms, and introducing new ways to analyze and make use of that data. million was raised by B2B startups tearing down data silos. In all, more than $87.8

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

The hot topics in B2B venture capital these days are often cutting-edge technologies like blockchain and data analytics. Indeed, these spaces secured significant funding in this week’s B2B venture capital roundup. Check out the B2B payments, blockchain, logistics and data analytics firms that secured funding below.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

But for all the pressure to push forward, there are plenty of stumbling blocks and stutter steps when it comes to providing for security, the availability of tech or access to capital. Data: $175B: Approximate size of the lending gap for Southeast Asian SMBs. 27K: Approximate membership of a “stop 5G” U.K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

based Notion Capital has announced the launch of its newest fund, Notion Capital Venture Fund IV, which will focus on investments in the B2B Software as a Service (SaaS) industry. Notion IV also plans to become an accredited partner of the National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF), the announcement said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

Palantir Technologies is the latest in a recent flurry of tech companies to signal plans for a potential IPO. Known as the oldest startup in Silicon Valley, the data analytics software company said in a press statement that it has filed confidential paperwork with the U.S.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 26, 2019

Capital One Financial plans to complete the exit from its data centers and to go fully into the public cloud by the end of 2020, Chairman and CEO Richard Fairbank said during the bank’s first-quarter earnings call on Thursday. The McLean, Va.-based

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Social payments methods like Venmo and Cash App continue to grow in popularity, and the data is there to prove it, creating an opportunity to give customers what they want: 24/7 access to cashless, P2P and mobile transactions. Security is all. Safety and security repeatedly arise as key factors in customer decisioning.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

It was a busy time for B2B venture capital this week, and while funding ranged across verticals from expense management to SaaS, there was a clear theme in investment rounds: high-tech data analytics. Data Management. Trilio Data. PYMNTS takes a look at the funding rounds announced this week below.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

A seven-year-old cloud security company that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to find network intrusions has raised $100 million in a Series E funding round led by TCV, according to a report. Sheth said he plans to use the capital to double that number within a year to 18 months.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

Venture capital activity in the B2B space found software and data management firms securing funding. The company supports a number of open source technologies, with its Tidelift Subscription – which helps users discover projects and build applications – tracking more than 2.6 million open source packages.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Technologies such as automation and blockchain are thus receiving more attention from businesses, especially as the volume of data that accompanies cross-border transactions expands. Speed and security have always been a priority for firms in this space, but the pandemic is placing added weight on these considerations.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

PYMNTS’ latest roundup finds investor interest for B2B eCommerce , small business banking, corporate card technology, cybersecurity and autonomous supply chain tech, but it was a ResTech startup that secured the most funding of the week, by a considerable margin. MaxWholesale.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO). Morgan and BofA Securities , with Deutsche Bank Securities acting as another book-running manager for the proposed offering, the release stated. Enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software provider C3.ai ai Founder and CEO Thomas M. Shields said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Two cybersecurity companies came out on top, but they both focus their enterprise security efforts in different ways. Duo Security. The $70 million raise by Duo Security makes this cybersecurity startup the latest unicorn in the industry. It brings Duo Security’s valuation up to $1.17 Cybersecurity. Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

based corporate payments and treasury technology company AccessPay , reports in The Telegraph said on Sunday (Jan. million investment in Big Data Partnership in 2015, another B2B company focused on providing businesses with training, storage and support with their data needs. investors have placed new funds with U.K.-based

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