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MARCH 20, 2019

In a press release , Starbucks said the new fund, which is being managed by Valor Equity Partners, will identify and invest in companies developing technologies, products and solutions geared toward the food and/or retail markets. The company launched its first store in Seattle in the 1970s.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Backed by Airbnb , Comcast, Bowery and Initialized Capital, Zeus has raised $90 million in funding. The company is based in San Francisco and operates in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle and Washington, D.C. They obviously have a lot of data and understand the market and how it’s evolving.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

Founded in 2017, Bungalow aims to solve many of the issues that early career professionals face when looking to rent in urban markets. Since its launch, the company has operated in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego and Seattle. markets by the end of 2018. putting it on track to be in 12 major U.S.

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San Diego Los Angeles Security Portland 100

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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Bobsguide

JULY 7, 2022

Jeannette Kescenovitz, Senior Director, Solution Management, Banking as a Service and Orchestration at Finastra said, “Finastra’s Embedded Consumer Lending solution offers financial institutions a direct route to growth by offering loans via a merchant’s digital point-of-sale.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2016

Scott Jacobson, managing director of Madrona — whose ReplyYes, Bloomberg shares, has sold $1 million in vinyl LPs to date, while raising $2.5 “It hasn’t yet been diluted by massive spammy marketing channels.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2016

First Data has rolled out a commerce technology solution at CenturyLink Field and CenturyLink Field Event Center in Seattle, home to the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks, designed to “take the fan experience to the next level” for those at the stadium. Payments Take The Field. Last year, it rolled out facial recognition technology for Alipay.

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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. The post Seattle-Based Finagraph Completes $5 Million Financing appeared first on Finovate.

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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. Most organizations … are like, ‘Where is the most profitable market segment?’” What we do is we take that ethos and apply it to all of our decision-making in our product development or marketing.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

And Starbucks has a new investor : Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist hedge fund controlled by activist investor William Ackman, now has about a 1.1 Prime Now Grocery pickup, which came to market in August, is now available in eight cities, and Amazon said it has plans for continued expansion.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Such was the news out of Seattle HQ this week — Amazon is pushing toward fully automating its warehouses, but won’t be hitting that target until sometime next decade. Big Play Of The Week: Walmart Resets Its Store Management Structure. It was a full week that was, as always, full of last-minute developments. Such as … Amazon.

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Management Report Seattle Training 115

Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 3, 2017

The Seattle-based company announced this week that Korst will join Avalara as its new chief marketing officer and executive vice president. Previous to Microsoft, Korst served as vice president and general manager at T-Mobile, and senior product marketing manager at AT&T Wireless/Cingular.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

In fact, there were a lot of other things to talk about, as Facebook made a major investment in the Indian market, Expedia snapped up $3.2 It’s a major shake-up in an already competitive market, he noted, and will likely raise the stakes in the market and act as a powerful innovation driver. as their PPP funds have rolled in.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2018

Normal protocol would automatically push the tax filing deadline to April 16, but this year, April 16 marks Emancipation Day in the nation’s capital, and so, as a holiday gift to all of us, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has given Americans until April 17 to file their taxes. That means U.S. Windfall for Uncle Sam? It’s a question.

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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. Market opportunity. Stripe Connect and billing services help companies manage marketplaces, subscriptions. Expansion into emerging markets.

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Online Company Retail Payments 98

PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

While autonomous drones are just a part of the eCommerce giant’s various projects, they’ve received plenty of R&D resources and marketing support from Seattle. Ask a hundred people about drone deliveries, and there are better-than-normal odds that 99 of them will say something about Amazon.

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Nevada Resources Seattle United States 100

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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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In parallel, Amazon has made several fintech investments, mostly focused on international markets (India and Mexico, among others) where partners can help serve Amazon’s core strategic goal. Market strategy outside the US. The patent expired in 2017 and opened up the market for competitors to launch off-marketplace payment solutions.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 3, 2019

NACTO is an association of 63 American cities and 10 transit agencies across North America, including Seattle and the King County Metro and New York and the MTA. ” By creating a data standard for the streets, various parties can collaborate more effectively to identify and manage street space.

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Data Los Angeles Tools Mobile 72

Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 29, 2015

Industry news: SETL uses blockchain to help facilitate settlement of market transactions. Marketing Mag interviews new VP of marketing for Thinking Capital , Roshni Wijayashinha. Coin Telegraph talks with Fidor Bank AG Product Manager for Cryptocurrencies and Assets, Vladimir Tomic (in German).

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San Francisco Seattle blockchain Bitcoin 12

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Endless CRM and data management projects that shook our foundations and gutted our PMOs. Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. It will never regain its IPO value and it trades at one-third the market cap of LendingTree. FinTech threats and distractions.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

This week’s venture capital (VC) investment tracker finds that both blockchain and alternative finance are leading markets. Based in Seattle, Qumulo offers businesses data management technology via its cloud-based file storage solution.

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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. The service charges a flat 1% a year management fee and caps fund expenses at 0.59% with no performance fees.

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blockchain Lending Seattle Washington 12

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Amazon Go, Amazon’s new grocery store format in Seattle, opened last week. The Food Marketing Institute reported that about 50 percent of that spend is on perishables — stuff like meat (13 percent of that 50 percent), produce (11 percent of that 50 percent) and dairy (8 percent of that 50 percent).

Retail 100

Retail Online Branding Innovation 100

CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. ” In January 2018, Amazon launched its automated cashier-less Amazon Go store in Seattle. Bitcoin is a highly speculative market. The iPhone and iPod. Robo-advisors. Bitcoin is a bubble.”

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Bitcoin Apple Industry Nebraska 78

Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2015

There were two blockbuster deals, $170 million to German marketplace lender Auxmoney and $81 million to health insurance management platform Collective Health. Finally, congratulations to Finovate alum Financit which grabbed an undisclosed, but we are guessing considerable, amount of capital from Goldman Sachs. Payment management .

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

Edgewater Markets. HQ: Seattle, WA. Connects marketplace lenders to institutional capital. Credit management tools. Real estate investing management platform for consumers. Tags: Investors, big data, business intelligence, investing, capital markets. Latest round: $40 million. HQ: Austin, Texas.

Company 12

Company Fintech San Francisco New York City 12

Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

HQ: Seattle, Washington. Private tech stock market to sell pre-IPO shares. AI for capital markets news. Tags: Consumer, insurance, object insurance, mobile, risk management. Source: Crunchbase. International payments service. Latest round: $38.5 million Series C. Total raised: $61.5 Source: Crunchbase. million ($5.82

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San Francisco Company Fintech California 18

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

TechCrunch reported that the site, which is managing more than $2 billion in goods sold through online marketplaces, plans to double its workforce and expand its New York City office. Founded in Israel, Feedvisor also has an office in Seattle. This brings the site’s total amount raised to $33 million.

New York City 100

New York City New York Seattle Capital 100

CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

Select Investors: Tencent Holdings, Disney Accelerator, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vulcan Capital, ICONIQ Capital. Select Investors: Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Wellcome Trust, GIC, SoftBank Group, DST Global. Valuation: $12B.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

Legacy banks around the world have been under tremendous pressure in recent years to transform their business models, as upstart FinTech companies are removing the barriers to entry and credit access that have kept large numbers of growth businesses and consumers out of the market. market, for example, quadrupling to $3.4 billion. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

and Canada (its most lucrative markets, revenue-wise) isn’t growing and it’s suffered through a reputational beating over the last year. And for good reason, Karen Webster noted in a recent commentary – a minority of users managed to turn Facebook into a home and hub for some of the vilest content on the internet.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

T echnology trends and market needs are pushing companies to set their sights on the residential real estate and construction industry. The Washington-based company has raised $6M to date from Vulcan Capital, among others. However, tariffs in flux between the two countries could dampen the timber market.

Seattle 56

Seattle Capital Industry New York 56

CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Coda Automotive was an early player in the electric vehicle market, an early failure, and a great example of why being early is not always an advantage — even if the future your company envisions is probably the right one. Another, larger problem was that the market for electric cars did not take off the way that Coda expected.

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Apple Branding Google Company 78

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. TD has been a player that maintained its acquired market share so we are hoping this one doesn’t get messed up like other Canadian banks that have struggled in the Southwest. banks by market value.”.

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Community Fintech Industry Innovation 216

CB Insights

JANUARY 24, 2018

The Seattle-based giant also opened its cashier-less Amazon Go store to the public in January 2018, after reported delays. In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in Seattle as an online retailer of books; in 1998, Jack Ma founded Alibaba in Hangzhou, China as an online platform to connect merchants and buyers. Notably, Amazon paid $13.7B

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