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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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OCTOBER 23, 2020

This week's B2B Venture Capital roundup saw more than $76 million in new funding. The company operates a business verification platform allowing corporate customers, including B2B buyers and suppliers, to verify their business partners and mitigate risk.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

million in new venture capital (VC) funding. The company currently operates in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, with expansion plans to enter other new markets in the first quarter of 2018. A logistics startup that is already servicing some big names has announced $4.3 Monday (Dec. Monday (Dec.

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MARCH 5, 2019

Just take the recent story of Three Babes Bakeshop in San Francisco. Indeed, the San Francisco-based company reportedly owes tens of thousands of dollars to its food suppliers, many of which are small businesses, and some of which told reporters they were never warned by Munchery of its plans to shut down. Tabs and Cash.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Further proof of that came recently from a young company based in San Francisco called Castle , which helps eCommerce operators such as Touch of Modern and Rue La La to defend against that type of fraud. The new capital will help fuel hiring and other growth, the company said. Fraud Prevention Innovation.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

The data compiled into the beginning of the fourth quarter, and as reported by London & Partners and Innovate Finance, showed that more than $ 2 billion had been invested across 114 deals for firms based in that city. That was outpaced, perhaps not surprisingly, by San Francisco, but led New York. and to the EU.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

“We did some research and found out that the majority of businesses in the beauty industry operate offline, without any software at all. The cloud-based software platform is designed to do a good deal of operational heavy lifting for salons by automating areas like customer records, inventory, financial reporting and other tasks.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

As the operator of the Swiss financial market infrastructure, we welcome the initiative of the SNB and the BIS to conduct more research into innovative financial technologies in Switzerland. percent rate.

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CB Insights

MARCH 20, 2019

China Development Bank Capital, Coatue Management, Hillhouse Capital Management, IDG Capital, Temasek Holdings, Tencent Holdings, Tiger Global Management. Select Investors : Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, DST Global, GGV Capital, Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital, J.P. Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Boston-based PreVeil did not disclose how much it raised in its Series A funding round, but it did note that Spark Capital provided the funding to support the company’s email and file security solution. Kenna said it plans to use the funds to expand its team, focus on sales and continue innovation efforts. Cybersecurity. Back-Office.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

Uber was a San Francisco-based on-demand black car service. Mobile devices, fast cellular networks, the cloud, data and new tech – along with investors with capital and incumbents with an appetite for innovation – gave innovators the tools, ideas and capital to disrupt the then-analog sacred cows.

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CB Insights

APRIL 6, 2018

The following is a guest post by Paul Asel, managing partner at NGP capital. The estimated annual cost to own a car is $8500 across the US, and much higher in cities: about $12,000 in San Francisco and $15,000 in New York City, including parking, insurance, maintenance, gas, and tolls. However, cars are expensive to own.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 6, 2015

Less than a week away from its Finovate debut in San Jose , wealth advisory technology innovator, Trizic has closed a $3 million seed funding round with Operative Capital. Operative Capital initially invested $1 million in Trizic, and this week increased its investment by another $2 million.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

With a strong penetration of smartphones and mobile commerce, Spain is quickly gaining visibility in the FinTech world, and its capital city is leading the charge. Spain’s capital city had more than 480 startups as of last year, with startups raising €659.4 million in private funding in 2015. billion that co-invests with VCs.

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JUNE 20, 2016

San Francisco-based Plaid was founded in 2012 with the vision of making the world a better place for FinTech firms by providing easy infrastructure to connect FinTech innovators with their clients’ bank accounts. We are excited to partner with Plaid and support the business as it continues to enable financial innovation.”.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

But then there are innovators who tempt us with their new ways of doing things. And in an innovation-intense environment, more is usually more — and out of step and out of date are just as good as broken. Amazon said Alexa Guard will operate as part of select Echo devices later this year.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. Select VC Investors: Khosla Ventures, Social Capital.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

With more consumers moving to mobile transactions over visits to branches, some banks are considering closing brick-and-mortar locations to reduce operational costs. The price of real estate is prompting even the largest players in the banking world to scale back their branch operations. Staying on Top of Customer Expectations.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

A need for larger working capital and a slower supply chain for both exporters and importers. That’s a problem that San Francisco-based Wyre is offering to solve with its real-time cross-border payment solution. “We Businesses kind of operate on that. The result? B2Bs’ need for speed.

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MAY 19, 2016

The first section of 2016 has not exactly been smooth sailing for the various innovators and entrepreneurs that decided to jump into the exciting world of becoming the Uber of something or other. Jonathan Baxter, a spokesman for the San Francisco fire department, told Bloomberg. Or are they? right to their doorsteps.”

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JUNE 29, 2016

Organic delivery service Good Eggs was forced to pull back its operations to the San Francisco Bay area after they learned what so many who deliver consumer groceries have learned before: it’s much harder than it looks to get to scale and make money while doing it. And it is a segment that has seen casualties.

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MAY 18, 2018

The nation’s largest supermarket operator announced this week that it has officially signed a deal with U.K.-based while Kroger gets a stake in the company worth about 5 percent of existing share capital, valued at $247.5 By next year, they hope to resume operations in Southern California. sites that Kroger will locate.

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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. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Strategy: San Mateo, California-based PokitDoc is a developer of APIs for healthcare verticals such as claims, pharmacy, and identity management. DokChain is a “distributed network of transaction processors operating on both financial and clinical data across the healthcare industry.” reimbursement. Chronicled.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2016

Paulina Gonzalez, Executive Director, California Reinvestment Coalition, San Francisco, CA. Arjan Schutte, Founder and Managing Partner, Core Innovation Capital, Los Angeles, CA. Dion Kidd Johnson, President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Risk Officer, Western Bank, Alamogordo, NM. William Howle, Head of U.S.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Using the CB Insights database, we surfaced 7 startups to watch that operate at the cross section of technology and maritime logistics. Select investors: New Enterprise Associates, Innovation Endeavors, PSA unboXed. Select investors: Mainport Innovation Fund. Select investor: Alliance Venture, Creandum, Smedvig Capital.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Acronym of the Year. Has to be M-O-E. The most important aspect of this deal is Huntington.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

million Series C financing round led by Foundation Capital and joined by Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Canaan Partners. In 2010, LendingClub added to its war chest with a $24.5 That same year, it was estimated that LendingClub controlled 80 percent of the U.S. The Aftershocks. So, Now What?

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 14, 2016

The move will enable the bank to better serve companies outside of Europe, and comes less than a year after the innovative FI opened offices in the U.K. To lead operations in Dubai, Fidor Bank has hired Gé Drossaert (pictured) to serve as Managing Director. Munich-based Fidor Bank is expanding to Dubai.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 26, 2016

A year-over-year gain of 219% in new bookings growth is the highlight of a record fourth quarter from financial-supply-chain innovator, Taulia , which added 50,000 suppliers across 71 countries in Q4. Cedric Bru, Taulia CEO, called Holzapfel a “powerhouse” and praised her expertise in strategic marketing and operations.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Increased expenses, supply chain inefficiencies, and the need to enhance operating results contributed to the perfume retailer’s bankruptcy, which was court-approved in October.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 5, 2015

Ayasdi , FutureAdvisor , Ripple Labs , Sedicii Innovations , and TransferWise were named as 2015 Technology Pioneers in the World Economic Forum’s Information Technology category. The San Francisco based company demoed its platform at FinovateFall 2013 , and has total capital of more than $20 million.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Traction : USV says 15,000 people have listed rooms, apartments or houses on the Flip marketplace since 2016, and over 50,000 people have used it to search for homes in three markets so far (New York, LA, and San Francisco). Select Investors: Data Collective, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, Tencent Holdings. Element AI.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Global identity verification provider Trulioo is appointing General Manager Zac Cohen as chief operating officer (COO), the company announced in a press release on Tuesday (Nov. He will also oversee policy, budget and investor relations while continuing to advance innovative solutions for instant identity verification.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

Select Investors: Tencent Holdings, Disney Accelerator, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vulcan Capital, ICONIQ Capital. Company Description: Samumed is a San Diego biotech company that develops tissue regeneration therapies. It is also known for developing Unreal Engine. Valuation: $12B.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

And as of last week, the list got a bit longer, as California made a few great leaps toward becoming the autonomous delivery capital of the country, with two big pilots by brand-name firms scheduled for the cities and suburbs. Postmates Takes San Francisco .

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JULY 18, 2017

Both Lending Club and Laplanche are currently facing shareholder litigation that claims they concealed material weaknesses in the online lender’s ability to monitor its operations. “I We’re ramping up volume over time as we learn more and get more comfortable with risk management, operating efficiency and marketing efficiency.”.

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