Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv. Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 4, 2016

SEATTLE — The Silicon Valley model for its startups is well-known. Heck, there’s a Wikipedia for it. It centers on a simple principle: build a business that scales, no matter the initial profitability. And then scale it like mad. Or, in technical terms, build a business that has the potential Read More.

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Filene

APRIL 14, 2016

QCash - An omni-channel lending solution that offers relationship based underwriting (without credit check) to members in search for small, short-term unsecured loans. It was also a great forum for the Coast Capital team to engage with peers within the organization and across the industry. Filene Feedback | Linda Young.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

After a difficult deliberation, 10 early-stage fintech companies were selected by a team of judges to compete in this year’s DEMOvation Challenge, to take place in Seattle on March 1. Many applied, few were chosen.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Lighter Capital made a two-fold funding announcement last week. First, the Seattle-based company closed $9 million in Series B funding. Investors include: Voyager Capital. Summit Capital. Individual investors, including Lighter Capital’s Chairman, Jeff Seely.

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Capital Lending Seattle Community 12

Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The company, which demoed at FinovateSpring 2013 as BBC Easy, will use the fresh capital for both product development as well as increasing its market reach in North America. Founded in 2010 as BBC Easy and rebranding as Finagraph in 2013, the Seattle-based company demonstrated its Base Borrowing Certificate technology at FinovateSpring.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Beneficial State Bank was born from a bold idea and a gift of capital from activists and philanthropists Kat Taylor and Tom Steyer. It’s a CDFI, which means that 60% of lending is made to low- and moderate-income customers or underserved communities. Randell Leach, Beneficial State Bank. It’s how we look at everything.”.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. billion in assets community bank with 22 branches that encircle the Seattle Sound. First Capital, Inc. Nasdaq: FCAP) First Capital, Inc. This includes asset based lending, insurance premium financing, leasing, and factoring among others.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Through trial and error, the company has set up key financial pillars across payments, cash deposits, and lending. Today, 22 Amazon Go stores are live in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. An RBC Capital Markets report put the average annual sales of an Amazon Go location at about $1.5M. Amazon Lending.

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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. Business lending and corporate cards. Most recently, Stripe has launched a Corporate Card and a Lending product geared towards small businesses.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

For example, this week, private-equity firms Silver Lake and Apollo announced they are poised to buy a $1 billion minority stake in Seattle-based travel listing giant Expedia Group Inc. Businesses have to look at this capital as their lifeline to the future with tremendous uncertainty ahead.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 2, 2016

The small business intelligence and analytics platform Finagraph has earned an investment from Moody’s , giving the rating service and research firm a minority stake in the Seattle-area company. Finagraph was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The amount of Moody’s investment was not disclosed.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

For the third consecutive year, we worked with The New York Times to identify and rank the top 100 venture capital professionals from around the globe. Below are the detailed profiles of the Top 20 Venture Capital Partners. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. Current Firm: First Round Capital (Founding Partner).

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 27, 2017

With the stock market rallying to new highs, the new robo fund from LendingRobot may have arrived just in time for people looking to diversify their portfolios with investments in the alternative lending market. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, LendingRobot demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2016, where it won Best of Show.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Finovate alum Lighter Capital had the second-biggest round this week raising $9 million in equity and announcing a loan-funding commitment of $100 million (not included in fundraising totals). Lighter Capital. HQ: Seattle, Washington. Mortgage lending platform. Alt-lending platform. Lending portal.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 12, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. Alt-Lenders (Digital) Lending to Small-to-Medium Businesses (SMB) in the United States. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. HQ: Seattle. Fundera (NerdWallet). Camino Financial. It’s a work in progress, so expect changes in the formula. Kabbage (acquired by American Express).

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. Top 30 Alt-Lenders (Digital) Lending to Small-to-Medium Businesses (SMB) in the United States. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. HQ: Seattle. Fundera (NerdWallet). Biz2Credit. It’s a work in progress, so expect changes in the formula. Rank (by FAB score). FAB Score = 396. –

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. Top 30 Alt-Lenders (Digital) Lending to Small-to-Medium Businesses (SMB) in the United States. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. HQ: Seattle. Fundera (NerdWallet). Biz2Credit. It’s a work in progress, so expect changes in the formula. Rank (by FAB score). FAB Score = 396. –

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. Top 30 Alt-Lenders (Digital) Lending to Small-to-Medium Businesses (SMB) in the United States. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. HQ: Seattle. Fundera (NerdWallet). Biz2Credit. It’s a work in progress, so expect changes in the formula. Rank (by FAB score). FAB Score = 396. –

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

Three Finovate alums brought in new cash: Kreditech raised $11 million for its banking and lending services for the underbanked. Here are the fintech deals by size from 19 March to 25 March 2016: Open Lending. Automated lending solutions for financial institutions. Automated lending solutions for financial institutions.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

While the alternative lending hype has dulled a bit, it’s been replaced by a far greater hype-machine: blockchain. This week’s venture capital (VC) investment tracker finds that both blockchain and alternative finance are leading markets. FinCompare.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

HQ: Seattle, Washington. Marketplace small business lending platform. AI for capital markets news. Tags: Consumer, lending, credit, underwriting, healthcare, payments, insurance. Fintech deals by size from 23 April to 29 April 2016: Mosaic. Marketplace lender for residential solor projects. Total raised: $224.9

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 4, 2015

Alten Capital. Baird Capital Partners. Capital One. Capital Source. Crosslink Capital. Foundation Capital. Lending Club. Metropolitan Capital. Quantum Capital. Seattle Metropolitan CU. Sorenson Capital. Alliant Credit Union. Altpoint Ventures. America First Credit Union.

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San Jose San Francisco Capital Tennessee 12

Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Finally, congratulations to Finovate alum Financit which grabbed an undisclosed, but we are guessing considerable, amount of capital from Goldman Sachs. Lending to bootcamp students. LoanBook Capital. Marketplace lending platform. HQ: Seattle, Washington. Ten companies raised $1.7 million or less. Skills Fund.

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Company Fintech California North Carolina 12

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Bravo to CEO Brian Vance, President Jeff Deuel and team for a watershed expansion into the hot Seattle market with a bank whose commercial skills can complement those of its acquirer. The Get Outta Dodge (and Focus) Award – Goes to Capital One for exiting a significant mortgage business to focus on cards and direct banking.

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Conference Industry Community Bank Community 117

PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2018

Seattle-based Suplari enhances the eProcurement process with artificial intelligence, with a focus on helping the enterprise identify cost-savings opportunities and supplier risk they might have otherwise missed. The India-based startup has already seen funding from Kalaari Capital, Saif Partners and Beenext. eProcurement. Blockchain.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 8, 2016

HQ: Seattle, Washington. Tags: Institutions, underwriting, commercial lending, loans, information, BI, API. Platform for investing in early-stage startups. Latest round: $14.4 million Debt. Total raised previously: Unknown. HQ: New York City. Source: Crunchbase. OK Car Insurance. Online automobile insurance. Total raised: $14.4

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 8, 2016

It’s surprising that neither Lending Club nor Prosper have their own official apps* for tracking portfolios. But it’s even more mind-boggling that a third-party hasn’t seized the opportunity to aggregate P2P lending accounts– similar to what Mint did 10 years ago for bank accounts. billion industry.

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Lending Mobile Seattle Maine 12

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. SoFI gets a commercial bank that brings deposits, compliance, AND business lending. Goes to Tom Brown and the Second Curve Capital team for the inspiring message from Clemson CEO Jim Clements.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The fintech sector attracted $332 million in new capital the first week of August. Four of those came out of the most recent batch of companies launched from accelerator 500 Startups , where each received $125,000 in seed capital. Middle market capital matchmaker. Lending marketplace for small businesses. AxialMarket.

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New York City Company Fintech Comparison 18

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In this review of failure, we’ve looked in our venture capital database to find the most well-funded startup companies that ultimately failed or had an undesirable exit, such as an asset sale or an acquisition for less than the total funding raised by the company. The 101 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time. Total Funding: Over $100M.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 14, 2022

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

BTCjam, a P2P marketplace launched in 2012 to borrow and lend using bitcoin, announced the company has made “the difficult decision” to close up shop, according to multiple news sources. The initial 7 years were all about having negative working capital, positive cash flow and a sustained ability to fund our own growth. Product: Bridj.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2017

Brent Beardall, president and chief executive of Seattle-based Washington Federal, one of 90 or so banks with more than $10 billion in assets overseen by the CFPB, says he welcomes curbs on the bureau’s “superpowers,” adding that it appears to be ignoring obvious abuses from non-banks in online lending and payday lending.

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Washington Seattle Lending America 108

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and Toronto have all signed off. Can Amex and Intuit fill the gap that has been left by traditional banks when it comes to lending to SMBs? The winners will be the SMBs, and the sizzle comes from opening up the cash flow spigot by providing working capital where and when working capital is needed.

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Apple Course Samsung San Francisco 100