PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

Automakers that want in on ridesharing, self-driving cars or innovative car financing options aren’t always developing their own technologies or starting their own ventures. As such, automakers are hitting the venture capital highway in droves. The number of automaker-backed investments seems to have skyrocketed overnight.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Recently, your intrepid Gonzo investigators found themselves (again) in Las Vegas to get a take on payments at Money20/20. (We For those not directly tied to a bitcoin company, the message was, “Think of all the things we can do with the underlying technology.” By Brandi Gregory, Nick Lane & Terence Roche. Apple Pay … not.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. The problem was that Theranos’ proprietary blood-testing technology was completely fictitious. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. Select Investors: BlackRock, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

This week was one of the latter, as Walmart hosted its investor meeting in Arkansas and Amazon decided this week’s menu of technological innovations in retail would be an all-you-can-eat buffet. The announcement was made by CEO of Worldwide Consumer Jeff Wilke on Wednesday (June 5) at the company’s “re:MARS” conference in Las Vegas.

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