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The United States Of Venture Capital: The Most Active VC In Each State

CB Insights

Using CB Insights data, we analyzed the most active venture capital firm in each state, based on unique tech investments from 2014 to 2019 YTD (1/24/19). We excluded debt deals and only considered venture capital, corporate venture capital, super angel, and growth equity firms. Merus Capital. BIP Capital.

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New Unemployment Claims Down 48K To 709K

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31 were in Illinois (+20,377), Kentucky (+3,868), Pennsylvania (+3,768), Ohio (+3,766) and Kansas (+2,711), while the largest decreases were in Massachusetts (-8,470), Georgia (-6,442), New York (-5,883), Michigan (-3,067) and New Jersey (-2,500). The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending Oct. and Alaska (6.1).

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Lenderfit Launches SMB Lending Tech In Beta

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.” Right now, the company can support micro-loans of up to $35,000, and has so far facilitated $750,000 in small business loans as the company spreads from Kentucky to neighboring states. Federal Reserve found an increase in small business capital demand in 2018 compared to 2017. Recent research from the U.S.

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Bankers: What's Your Art of War?

Jeff For Banks

FFKT Farmers Capital Bank Corporation (the “Company”), Frankfort, KY FFKT is a financial holding company which had four wholly-owned bank subsidiaries at year-end 2016. The Company provides a wide range of banking and bank-related services to customers throughout Central and Northern Kentucky. Citizens Northern”), Newport, Kentucky.

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Weirdness Is Currency In The Attention Economy

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Playing with one’s food is all part of the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) value proposition. There was the Watt A Box that let customers charge their phone while eating dinner, the Gamers Box that came with a mount for the phone as well as controllers attached to the sides — and now, the KFO, short for Kentucky Flying Object.

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Grubhub Spikes 10 Pct Post-CEO Stock Purchase

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the Louisville, Kentucky-based operator of KFC and Taco Bell. “We This is no doubt good news for the company after a report in March from KeyBanc Capital Markets said the food delivery service was struggling in its high-competition environment and failing to keep pace with players like Uber Eats and DoorDash. Brands Inc. ,

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OnDeck Channels Accountants For SME Funding

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While the tool initially launched in March , reports said OnDeck expanded this aspect of its operations this month across Kentucky, Florida and Alabama. ” OnDeck facilitates access to working capital of up to $500,000 for accountants’ SMEs with the program. . According to reports, annual interest rates can be as low as 5.99

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