Bank Innovation

JANUARY 6, 2020

Byunn will speak at Bank Innovation Ignite in Seattle on March 2-3, on a panel entitled “Embedded Finance: The Automation of Everything Financial.” For Eric Byunn, partner at Centana Growth Partners, tech innovation that supports an intuitive and personalized banking experience of the future has room to grow.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

After a difficult deliberation, 10 early-stage fintech companies were selected by a team of judges to compete in this year’s DEMOvation Challenge, to take place in Seattle on March 1. Many applied, few were chosen.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The investor in this round was Toba Capital. Seattle-based Hyperproof provides compliance solutions for continuous risk management across key industries, such as security tech, enterprise software, fintech, healthcare tech, and data communications. in a Series A. HOW’S THE COMPANY PERFORMING?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

The startup’s fast-paced growth comes against intensifying competition among FinTech startups, like PayPal’s Xoom, TransferWise and WorldRemit, which are striving to cut themselves a bigger share of the global remittance market that saw $582 billion in transfers last year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

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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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2021, there were more than 120 fintech IPOs in the U.S., 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Acquisition of the Year: Bank Acquiring a Fintech. Acquisition of the Year: Fintech Acquiring a Bank. The Remorseful Pioneer Award.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The company, which demoed at FinovateSpring 2013 as BBC Easy, will use the fresh capital for both product development as well as increasing its market reach in North America. Founded in 2010 as BBC Easy and rebranding as Finagraph in 2013, the Seattle-based company demonstrated its Base Borrowing Certificate technology at FinovateSpring.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

With a big government backing, bold entrepreneurial spirit and increasing FinTech interest, the country’s tech scene is quickly becoming a global force to be reckoned with. SoftBank’s capital will be used to fund Coupang’s continuing investments in end-to-end fulfillment service and same-day delivery operations.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Lighter Capital made a two-fold funding announcement last week. First, the Seattle-based company closed $9 million in Series B funding. Investors include: Voyager Capital. Summit Capital. Individual investors, including Lighter Capital’s Chairman, Jeff Seely.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 12, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. The 171 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (April 2021 update). The 171 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (April 2021 update). First Look: Watch 7 Fintech Startups Pitch at Startupbootcamp Sydney.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In total, 12 fintech companies raised $152 million, though 5 of the deals did not release the amount raised. Finovate alum Lighter Capital had the second-biggest round this week raising $9 million in equity and announcing a loan-funding commitment of $100 million (not included in fundraising totals). Lighter Capital.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2017

By offering software solutions that streamline law offices’ workload, automating rote and repeatable work, projects that might have previously required hundreds of hours of human capital, could be accomplished much more efficiently. FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING. Benchmark Capital. First Round Capital.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 12, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. HQ: Seattle. Related: Watch 12 Fintech Startups Pitch at Startupbootcamp Amsterdam Demo Day (May 2021 update)). Fundera (NerdWallet). Camino Financial. 153 reviews).

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

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 went on to raise a seed round from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, and PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk in 2011.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

Fintech deals by size from 23 April to 29 April 2016: Mosaic. HQ: Seattle, Washington. AI for capital markets news. The post Fintech Fundings: 114 Companies Raised $7.3 ——-. Marketplace lender for residential solor projects. Latest round: $200 million Private Equity. Total raised: $224.9 Source: Crunchbase.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. HQ: Seattle. The 260 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Oct 2021). Fundera (NerdWallet). Biz2Credit. It’s a work in progress, so expect changes in the formula.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

For the 12th consecutive week, there were 20+ fintech fundings worldwide. The number of deals was inflated somewhat by the six new fintech companies launched at YC’s demo day that we had not previously covered. Here are the fintech deals by size from 19 March to 25 March 2016: Open Lending. HQ: Seattle, WA.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 8, 2016

There has been an average of 28 fintech deals per week this year. Fintech deals by size from 9 July to 15 July, 2016: Blockchain Intelligence Group. HQ: Seattle, Washington. The post Fintech Fundings: 32 Companies Raise $210 Million Second Week of July appeared first on Finovate. Total dollars raised YTD is $18.1

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In parallel, Amazon has made several fintech investments, mostly focused on international markets (India and Mexico, among others) where partners can help serve Amazon’s core strategic goal. This report is a collection of everything we know about Amazon’s foray into banking, financial services, and fintech.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. HQ: Seattle. The 260 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Oct 2021). Fundera (NerdWallet). Biz2Credit. It’s a work in progress, so expect changes in the formula.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. We are calling it the FAB score, standing for Fintech Attention Barometer. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. HQ: Seattle. Fundera (NerdWallet). Biz2Credit. It’s a work in progress, so expect changes in the formula. Website visits: 940,000 (Oct 2021, SimilarWeb). Trustpilot : 4.6 (156

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 1, 2015

American Banker features how Seattle-based Lighter Capital loans money to tech startups. Around the Web: Seeking Alpha explains why a merger between Yodlee and FutureAdvisor makes sense. Xconomy features Vince Turner’s Planwise. Cardlytics Wins 2 Silver Stevie Awards at 2015 American Business Awards.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 3, 2017

The Seattle-based company announced this week that Korst will join Avalara as its new chief marketing officer and executive vice president. A member of the board of a number of companies including Shoelace Wireless and 9104 Studios, Korst is a mentor for Seattle-area technology accelerator, 9Mile Labs.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 29, 2015

Be sure to register soon for the only event exclusively for fintech developers, FinDEVr 2015 , October 6-7 in San Francisco. Marketing Mag interviews new VP of marketing for Thinking Capital , Roshni Wijayashinha. Alumni updates: Giftbit earns spot in Techstars Seattle 2015 accelerator. Are you building new financial technology?

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 15, 2017

SWITCH , a Seattle-based startup that makes it easy to manage your online payment information, has raised $400,000 in funding from angel investors. million in total capital. The company, which made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring last year , now boasts $1.9

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Finally, congratulations to Finovate alum Financit which grabbed an undisclosed, but we are guessing considerable, amount of capital from Goldman Sachs. LoanBook Capital. HQ: Seattle, Washington. The post Fintech Fundings: 27 Companies Raise $420 Million Week Ending October 23 appeared first on Finovate. SlimTrader.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 2, 2016

The small business intelligence and analytics platform Finagraph has earned an investment from Moody’s , giving the rating service and research firm a minority stake in the Seattle-area company. Finagraph was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The amount of Moody’s investment was not disclosed.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

For the third year in a row I traveled from Seattle to the LA-area to drop my son off at college. Thank goodness I had my trusty Capital One card along, because it seems to do a far better job minimizing false negatives, at least for my account. Capital One did have its concerns along the way though.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 4, 2015

And we are as excited as ever to see live and up close what our roster of 72 fintech innovators has in store. Alten Capital. Baird Capital Partners. Capital One. Capital Source. Crosslink Capital. Foundation Capital. Metropolitan Capital. Quantum Capital. Seattle Metropolitan CU.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Avalara , an innovator in automated tax management for small businesses, raised $96 million in new funding from a group of investors including Warburg Pincus, Sageview Capital, and Technology Crossover Ventures this week. Avalara’s total capital raised is more than $318 million.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

For the third year in a row I traveled from Seattle to the LA-area to drop off my son at college. Thank goodness I had my trusty Capital One card along, because it seems to do a far better job minimizing false positives (for fraud), at least for my account. Capital One did have its concerns along the way though.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

FinTech threats and distractions. Bravo to CEO Brian Vance, President Jeff Deuel and team for a watershed expansion into the hot Seattle market with a bank whose commercial skills can complement those of its acquirer. Oh, by the way, that Fintech darling of two years ago Lending Club? Heavy core conversions weighing us down.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 14, 2014

But with only a couple contactless terminals in my usual Seattle haunts, I guess I''ll be buying lots of coffee at Peet''s and Tully''s while I test it. Despite having 10 card accounts (4 business and 6 personal) across the six launch partners, I have only received emails from two (Wells Fargo on Sep 11 & 19 and Capital One on Sep 12).

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 27, 2017

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, LendingRobot demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2016, where it won Best of Show. The company has raised $3 million in funding , and includes Runa Capital and Club Italia Investimenti among its investors. Average maturity for short term series is 18 months.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

There is a clear pattern in B2B FinTech investment. This week’s venture capital (VC) investment tracker finds that both blockchain and alternative finance are leading markets. Based in Seattle, Qumulo offers businesses data management technology via its cloud-based file storage solution.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

Legacy banks around the world have been under tremendous pressure in recent years to transform their business models, as upstart FinTech companies are removing the barriers to entry and credit access that have kept large numbers of growth businesses and consumers out of the market. The report showed that investments hit a record $27.4

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

The real-time payments solution will be available for JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, PNC and Wells Fargo later this year, according to what representatives told Reuters. Bank of America announced its plans on Wednesday, following in the footsteps of U.S. Bank, who announced plans to bring real-time P2P payments to its customers on March 3.

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