CB Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Although startups based in California, New York, and Massachusetts have traditionally accounted for the majority of VC tech investment in the US, VCs are spurring other hotbeds of innovation across the country. We excluded debt deals and only considered venture capital, corporate venture capital, super angel, and growth equity firms.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In PYMNTS’ latest B2B venture capital roundup, which yielded $75 million in new funding, startups embraced distributed ledger technology for B2B payments and supply chain management, with 80 percent of total funding landing at blockchain companies. Transparent Systems.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Washington state became an example late in November and joins New York City as well as New Jersey. Commission rates of 30 percent may fall by the wayside where cities and states have been limiting what DoorDash can charge on eateries. Multiple states have put caps on the fees that apps and platforms can charge on eateries.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

“I think it is pretty obvious when you read stories about the payday lending industry – and how it goes wrong for customers – that consumers need a better alternative,” Onward Financial Founder Ronnie Washington said. In an effort to innovate a solution to these cash flow challenges, Washington founded Onward Financial.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

The retailer has also formed a collaboration with an upstart called Capital Rx that offers current information on prescription prices. The startup, which is based in Washington State and was launched a decade ago, creates apps to assist patients in managing their medications.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Blend’s venture into new territory comes a month after it raised $75 million in Series F funding led by Canapi Ventures , the Washington, D.C- based early growth, FinTech-focused venture capital firm. With our unified platform, our partners are able to accelerate digital innovation across every line of business.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

In tech, innovation is everything. In innovation, intellectual property is, well, almost everything — it can be the hardware, the software, the processes that come from creative endeavor. million in financing from a host of investors — including Maersk Growth, the venture capital (VC) arm of Maersk, the shipping firm.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health. Sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong , and we’ve written about corporate innovation theater before.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2019

Our theme this year was all about being bold, in innovation, leadership and life. I’ll end the month in Washington, D.C., for our ICBA Capital Summit. Our industry has so much momentum right now, especially in terms of advocacy and innovation, so now is the time to continue to push the boundaries.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Last month, The Washington Post reported more than 40 conglomerates, including Google and Dell, have nixed working with Chinese vendors in an effort to avoid those fees that aim to encourage businesses to shift their supply chains to the U.S. According to Kocher, bank-FinTech collaboration is key to addressing that gap, particularly in Asia.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

Betting that its popularity with shoppers online will translate into brick-and-mortar customers in Washington, D.C., Amazon opens an Amazon Books location in the nation’s capital. The store occupies a space that formally housed a Barnes & Noble store in Georgetown, The Washington Post reported.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

Washington, D.C. That is the rich — or at least well-off — side of Washington, D.C. when traded for food at one of six vendors (11 total locations) in Washington. is both a rich city and a poor city. The tokens sell for about $2.50 apiece and are worth $2.20 The vendors then redeem the coins for the $2.20

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Infarm will launch this month at two of Kroger ’s 15 Washington state supermarkets. The startup raised $100 million earlier this year in a Series B round with investors that included Skype founder Niklas Zennström’s investment firm Atomico as well as Balderton Capital, Bloomberg reported. and Europe.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

Jeff Binder, CEO of Layer3, was quoted by The Washington Post as saying, “We’re the first cable company in … 10 years to come that’s brand new. Consumers haven’t had a young innovative company to provide [pay TV] services to them since the mid-1990s, when Dish and DirectTV came on the scene.”. and has since rolled out to Chicago.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2018

Business intelligence is a common theme in this week’s B2B venture capital (VC) roundup, with many startups deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and sophisticated data analytics technologies for their business customers. Investors placed more than $136.5 The rundown of the latest funding rounds is below.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Barnum’s classic quote about a sucker being born every minute has reigned with the likes of Softbank, Tiger Management, Sequoia Capital, Kevin “Mr. Lobbying groups need to be jumping in to advocate and help frame the narrative around the right mix of regulation and innovation. And once again, P.T.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2018

Between 2015 and 2017, the amount of lending to small businesses by the five leading online lending providers increased 50 percent, according to a new report from NDP Analytics, a Washington, D.C.-based But digital channels will help more small business gain capital, according to the statement. based economic research firm.

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Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

To be American is to have the freedom to innovate, take risks, create, transform and put in the hard work that has led to the successes – and failures – that define human progress. Many innovators with great ideas and great potential do not begin with great wealth, so they need a great government partner to support their success.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2019

Even after such a phenomenal ICBA LIVE and the ICBA Capital Summit, which may be happening as you read this, I can still draw such inspiration from our nation’s community bankers. I’ll be at ICBA’s Capital Summit in Washington, D.C. Be bold in innovation, leadership and life! . I’m so glad that I did.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

In that sense it might be hard to pick them out as innovative as first glance. And candidly, they’re right,” Jim Abdo told The Washington Post. Abdo’s firm, Abdo Development, built Washington, D.C.’s In many locations outside the U.S. Because if the term ‘less is more’ ever really made sense, it is for this generation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

The retailer plans to pilot technology products using Microsoft’s Azure platform at two stores, one in Ohio and one in Washington. According to the Bloomberg report, another innovation is “a cross between a camera and a smoke detector” above Kroger’s aisles, which analyzes data and watches for items that are low in inventory.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

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 Washington State, Frey said that “for every $1 it invests in a Main Street program, there is a $13 return to the public coffer” in the form of taxes and fees.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Wideman offered examples of that platform-enabled flexibility, where Toast has expanded its POS service to restaurants to capitalize on contactless payment and order-ahead trends.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The entire process, cradle to grave, has failed to evolve and innovate with the customer in mind.”. Just this week, investors in Starwood Capital Group started to show signs of strain after the pandemic shuttered stores and wiped out emergency cash reserves, leading to default on a $700 million loan.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The capital city is Mexico City, which alone is home to almost 9 million. The nation’s capital is also one of the world’s largest cities. The global accelerator has more than 40 Mexican startups in its portfolio, and Lomelî believes the capital will soon see its own tech explosion. A Fresh Start For Mexico City.

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FICO

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And experts like Vanessa Perry of George Washington University warn that the mortgage lending industry’s adoption of scoring models that reduces minimum scoring criteria “would simply increase the pool of consumers with poor credit scores who either could not qualify for a mortgage or would enter the subprime market.”. In her role, Ms.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Derek Williams and fellow Georgia community bankers at the 2013 ICBA Washington Policy Summit, now the Capital Summit. He believes ICBA’s advocacy work in Washington D.C., Photo by Stephen Gosling A rapid ascent Williams set himself a goal of becoming CEO of a bank by the age of 40. ICBA is cutting edge on that.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2017

Procore Technologies has seen the largest number of top deals with 4 total unique financing rounds among the top 20, the most recent of which was a $50M Series G round in Q4’16 from ICONIQ Capital that brought the company to unicorn status. Brightpath Capital Partners, Skagen Group, Tim Disney, Washington Trust Investors.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

Though most testing takes place in California, those operations also are conducted in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Michigan and Washington State. The technology has undergone five billion hours of simulations, he said.

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American Banker

JUNE 13, 2016

During an event in Washington, Brian Moynihan touched on the regulatory environment as well as technological innovations like the distributed ledger that are changing the banking industry.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 11, 2018

At the Online Lending Policy Institute’s (OLPI) annual summit in Washington, D.C. Gardineer raised concerns about the application of bespoke capital, liquidity, and risk management requirements for SPNB charter applicants. Questions directed at Ms. A third summit speaker was Maria Vullo, DFS Superintendent.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

Thus far neither The New York Times nor The Washington Post have been persuaded to join up. But, of course, it has to price them right and package them right — and do it in a high-competition environment where they are a late entrant, not an early innovator. The lack of transparency on pricing, The Washington Post ’s Geoffrey A.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 22, 2017

Bellingham, Washington-based Whatcom Educational Credit Union (WECU) to deploy core processing technology from Fiserv. Bankless Times: Lighter Capital an alternative for tech startups. Bankless Times: Lighter Capital an alternative for tech startups. Barefoot Innovation Group features Bill Harris, CEO of Personal Capital.

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FICO

MARCH 31, 2016

During this period of Congressional gridlock, much of the activity in Washington DC impacting the financial services industry remains focused on the development and implementation of new regulations. In Washington, we will feature a session that highlights a use case from a leading APAC-based bank.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Select VC Investors: Khosla Ventures, Social Capital. Select VC Investors: Cue Ball Capital, Valley Oak Investments. Select VC Investors: Otium Capital. Follain is a healthy beauty store with locations in Boston, Washington DC, and Nantucket. Select VC Investors: Aarin Capital, Accel Partners India, Kalaari Capital.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. It is the Mountlake Terrace, Washington holding company for 1st Security Bank, a $1.7 First Capital, Inc. Nasdaq: FCAP) First Capital, Inc. Plumas Bancorp (Nasdaq: PLBC) Here is this year's list: #1. FS Bancorp, Inc. NASDAQ: FSBW) FS Bancorp, Inc.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

earlier this year, the program has hosted workshops in New York, Atlanta and, most recently, Washington D.C. Not much of a surprise, she noted, since the data also indicated that three-quarters of all dollars raised out of venture capital sources flow to firms with entirely male founding teams. “We Since its launch in the U.S.

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