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23 VC-Backed Brick & Mortar Startups Changing The Face Of Main Street

CB Insights

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. Select VC Investors: Cue Ball Capital, Valley Oak Investments. Select VC Investors: Otium Capital.

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Fintech Policy in the US – Things Are Things Heating Up

FICO

It’s August and it’s hot in Washington DC. Yet in the nation’s capital, fintech policy may actually be hotter than the temperatures outside. These emerging areas offer significant promise for both consumers and market participants alike and can be accelerated by a balanced and thoughtful policy approach.

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From China With Love: AI, Robotics, AR/VR Are Hot Areas For Chinese Investment In US

CB Insights

We define Chinese investment as participation in private financing rounds by investors (corporate, venture capital, angel, private equity, etc.) Between 2013 and 2014, Chinese investors completed tech investments to companies headquartered in 13 states plus Washington DC. headquartered in mainland China. Hong Kong or Taiwan).

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37 Corporate Innovation Labs In Finance

CB Insights

Visa — One Market Center. Key people: Chris Curtin, Chief Brand & Innovation Marketing Officer; Shiv Singh, Senior Vice President of Innovation & Strategic Partnerships. ” Visa already teamed up with Transport for London on a contactless payment system that the team now looks to expand to transportation hubs worldwide.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company. GonzoBanker of the Year – Large Banks.

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AI Will Put 10 Million Jobs At High Risk — More Than Were Eliminated By The Great Recession

CB Insights

With the emergence of industry-specific AI, the effects of automation — initially felt in manufacturing — are seeping into retail sales, restaurants, e-commerce, marketing, and even software development. Outsize impact on the labor markets. But the expectations for what an AI system is capable of achieving have changed over the years.

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Guest Post: 2012 Economic Year in Review by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

more “promises,” and a constant flow of new money into the markets. The biggest beneficiary of all this Fed activity has been the stock market—which ended the year at some pretty good “handles,” with the Dow above 13,000, S&P 500 above 1,400, and the Nasdaq above 3,000. The estimated reduction to GDP would be -.3%

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