PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

has completed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection process and emerged from one of the highest-profile retail collapses since COVID-19 began, the Dallas-based company disclosed. We emerge from Chapter 11 as a stronger, more innovative retailer, brand partner and employer.”. Neiman Marcus Holding Company Inc.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 19, 2019

The Series C funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, will help the San Francisco-based company hire more engineers to help build out more products, according to Erica Dorfman, Tally’s head of finance and operations. […].

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 7, 2018

EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Despite wide-ranging economic uncertainties and a challenging investment environment, venture capital (VC) firms and special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are actively raising or seeking fresh funds for investment in the payments space. Kibo added, “We love global companies with very capital efficient structures.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk. Flutterwave.

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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

JUNE 8, 2017

San Francisco-based startup Upbeat may have the solution to this problem with its cloud-based PR platform. Innovation in PR is overdue. As a result, some great stories may be missed. This week, Upbeat announced its $1.5-million

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PYMNTS

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. The company has deployed innovative robotic technology in its operations as well, improving its operations and overall speed. “We

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

And the company is not done expanding — it plans to find one or two new partners for the fresh kiosks in the San Francisco Bay area, according to Inc. Even food products that cost several times more than Urban Remedy’s typical fare have made the cut — like caviar, for example, according to PYMNTS Unattended Retail tracker.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The crisis is hardly over, but post-pandemic reality is setting in for Main Street retail. The prevailing sentiment, as the crisis heads into its third month, is that more innovative government programs will be necessary to provide any meaningful relief. In comparison, small businesses selling similar products were forced to close.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

This week’s B2B venture capital rundown includes some of the usual suspects, like blockchain and HR tech, and a few not-so-usual ones, like fleet and small business insurance. million in Series C funding this week led by MDI Ventures, the venture capital unit of Telkom Indonesia. and Singapore. Greenhouse. Oasis Labs.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

The round was led by Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), and backed by Dubai’s BECO Capital and San Francisco-based Lumia Capital. Being a global company, we got lots of interest from international VCs, and are proud to have San Francisco-based Lumia Capital joining the round,” Zeqiri says.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Chief Innovation Officer, Salesforce (NYSE: CRM). CEO, Groww (backed by Ribbit Capital, Sequoia Capital India, and Y Combinator). Co-founder & COO, TradingView (social trading platform for active retail investors). CEO & Founder, Magnetis (Brazilian retail robo-advisor with minority stake by Julius Baer).

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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

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

eCommerce was teeny at $160 billion in sales, and physical retail hadn’t yet felt the impact of the retail apocalypse that would start to punch it in the gut later that year. Uber was a San Francisco-based on-demand black car service. Facebook was two years away from realizing it really needed a mobile app. All the time.

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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. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2017

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. Instacart started in San Francisco but announced that it plans to launch in more than 100 new markets by the end of 2017. Finally, Campbell Soup Co.

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PYMNTS

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. This is likely why we saw such a robust embrace of trying new things throughout the marketplace this week. “As

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

Stripe, a San Francisco-based payment service provider that specializes in online transactions, is expanding its arsenal of financial products to cater to the needs of data-hungry businesses. Stripe is a leading innovator in the financial technology space.

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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. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. How will we shop in 2020?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

With the increasing trade volume between the two countries, payments have become a major pain point for retailers that often rely on wire transfers, which can take up to three days to complete. A need for larger working capital and a slower supply chain for both exporters and importers. The result? Businesses kind of operate on that.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

” Retailers have come to recognize the incredible marketing opportunity presented by the multi-weekend music festival in Southern California. Palm Springs, Orange County, San Francisco, New York and Dallas). ” “In other words, it’s a whirlpool of commercial potential.”

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Retailers, already sweating bullets over the “ Amazon Effect ” on their business, now have one more reason to keep sweating. The “Uber” experience meets brick-and-mortar retail. But to say that Amazon Go is about innovating checkout is like saying the iPhone innovated the telephone call. And for sure, that’s pretty cool.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2016

Paulina Gonzalez, Executive Director, California Reinvestment Coalition, San Francisco, CA. Retail Bank, Citibank, New York, NY. Arjan Schutte, Founder and Managing Partner, Core Innovation Capital, Los Angeles, CA. William Howle, Head of U.S. Ruhi Maker, Senior Attorney, Empire Justice Center, Rochester, NY.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Eric has always been a student of innovation, and now at Coastal, this fearless leader has spearheaded a number of high-profile banking-as-a-service partnerships. The most important aspect of this deal is Huntington.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

while Kroger gets a stake in the company worth about 5 percent of existing share capital, valued at $247.5 based retailers. But the firm had operational difficulties, and after a few rounds of layoffs, the firm officially closed down operations everywhere except its home city of San Francisco in 2015.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

When he returned a few years later on vacation, he started wearing the simple, slip-on canvas shoes and realized he discovered the innovation the world needed. You can’t eat shoes,” Bruce Wydick of the University of San Francisco said simply. He sold his current venture — a student driving startup — for $500,000 and got to work.

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 13, 2019

Rather than focus on the deal particulars, which you can get from Bloomberg , the Guardian , Business Insider , and Forbes , I want to think through some corollaries of an event like the digital-first transportation company hitting the retail markets. As a retail investor, your just desserts are Betterment’s index-led asset allocation.

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 13, 2019

Rather than focus on the deal particulars, which you can get from Bloomberg , the Guardian , Business Insider , and Forbes , I want to think through some corollaries of an event like the digital-first transportation company hitting the retail markets. As a retail investor, your just desserts are Betterment’s index-led asset allocation.

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San Francisco Software Trends Google 40

Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” Who would’ve thought lending $1 million to a San Francisco cab driver to buy a house at 100% loan to value would go bad? To you, manage your interest rate risk.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Capital One Financial Corporation is a financial holding company whose subsidiaries, which include Capital One, N.A., and Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., Capital One, N.A. A Fortune 500 company, Capital One trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “COF” and is included in the S&P 100 index.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Be sure to check out coverage from our recent developers conference in San Francisco. The latest from FinDEVr San Francisco 2015 presenters: Let’s Talk Payments interviews Kontomatik CMO, Konstantin Rabin. BAI Retail Delivery conference attendees select MX as the Innovation Showcase Award winner.

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