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APRIL 10, 2020

While they will lack the sheer financial clout of federal assistance, they are starting to offer strategies beyond capital infusions that will assist in restarting small business when the crisis passes. Several examples have shown up over the past week. A year of work and a completely new day.

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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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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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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. The Voice Of Commerce.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

Since its launch, the company has operated in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego and Seattle. Bungalow is taking on the $650 billion rental market for early career professionals and it may prove to be a bigger total market size than travel and taxis,” said Jack Abraham, founder and managing partner at Atomic. “By

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MARCH 9, 2020

The operative word is control. “I With DineVite, consumers and restaurants get a better deal, since the restaurants can offer a deal to customers that they are comfortable with and consumers capitalize on it. Consumers can inquire directly with restaurants about existing promotions. It’s a new concept that means both parties win.”.

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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. 15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. 15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. Below are the detailed profiles of the Top 20 Venture Capital Partners.

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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. While Flirtey is certainly no Amazon, it’s not as if the Nevada test was some kind of fly-by-night operation.

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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 Louis, Orlando, Tampa and Tulsa, as well as additional areas of New York City and Seattle, the company said in an announcement. percent stake in Starbucks.

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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. The bank recently set up a branch inside the world’s greenest commercial building, the Bullitt Center in Seattle. “We Randell Leach, Beneficial State Bank. We’re not trying to do anything extractive.

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APRIL 24, 2020

The first is the ongoing phenomenon of “the platforms taking over the planet” and becoming increasingly integrated, enabled and developed to offer consumers digital mega-hubs from which to manage many aspects of their lives – from shopping to financial services to bill payment to entertainment and beyond.

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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. Stripe Connect and billing services help companies manage marketplaces, subscriptions. Sigma aims to streamline business operations. Source: Finix.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Clients can view the full list of 150+ cashier-free retail operators here. Some historians date its existence to over 2,000 years ago: texts from ancient Greece describe a coin-operated machine for dispensing holy water in temples. Today, Amazon operates four Amazon Go stores: 3 in Seattle and 1 in Chicago.

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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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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Despite charging lower fees, the company failed to gain enough traction with merchants who feared giving Amazon detailed data on their overall business operations. Today, 22 Amazon Go stores are live in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. But in October 2015, the company announced it would be shut down.

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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. Formerly known as Logtrust, Devo announced the investment coinciding with its rebrand.

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APRIL 6, 2018

With more than $95 million in financing placed, startups across eProcurement, cybersecurity, logistics, alternative finance, blockchain and supply chain management secured support. Blacksoil Capital linked B2B eProcurement firm IndustryBuying with nearly $2 million in venture debt, reports in Inc42 said this week. eProcurement.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Endless CRM and data management projects that shook our foundations and gutted our PMOs. 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. This year brought us: Mergers out the yin-yang. Payments chaos.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

. “While recent stories and reports of a new entity competing with the three major carriers in the United States grabs headlines, the reality is it would be a daunting task requiring tens of billions of dollars in capital and years to build sufficient scale and density to replicate existing networks like FedEx,” [Mike] Glenn said.

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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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JUNE 14, 2018

Now, startups and tech giants are getting in the mix, trying to fix the ways the real estate industry designs, builds, and operates. Several startups are already operating in this space; however, so far they’ve had only fledging success. The Washington-based company has raised $6M to date from Vulcan Capital, among others.

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JUNE 6, 2019

The company announced it was effectively ceasing operations immediately and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, putting more than 1,100 people out of work overnight. In January 2019, Munchery abruptly ceased all operations, as it informed customers via email. By September 2011, Solyndra’s business model had fallen apart.

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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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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. There’s nothing more Gonzo than a CEO who simply bleeds the soul of front-line relationship managers, and Brager could write a bestselling book on this topic. with Coinbase alone attracting $86 billion.

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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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CB Insights

AUGUST 9, 2017

Startups working in construction tech have the potential to upend approaches to design, procurement, and operations. Select Investors : Brightpath Capital Partners, Skagen Group, Vision Ridge Partners. Select Investors : Claremont Creek Ventures, RockPort Capital, General Electric. Track Construction Tech Startups. project frog.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Globe Fintech Innovations of the Philippines, the FinTech arm of Globe Telecom and the operator of the mobile wallet GCash, has landed $175 million in additional venture funding. In a press release , Globe Fintech, known as Mynt, said Bow Wave Capital Management and other existing investors all participated in the fundraise.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

operations Sunday (Sept. a Seattle-based researcher. Its investors include SoftBank’s Vision Fund, NEA, Tiger Global Management, KKR and GGV Capital. Oracle Corp. beat Microsoft Corp. in a bid to take over TikTok’s video-sharing app’s U.S. China-based ByteDance Ltd., The terms of the deal are unclear.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Now, with experts stressing the importance of rapid testing and tracking in managing the Covid-19 crisis, wearables and other health monitoring tech that enable diagnostics are taking center stage. VR has also helped businesses across industries keep operations running. Source: Oxford Medical Simulation. Online courses & content.

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JULY 19, 2017

From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Capital One. Innovation Lab Name: Capital One Labs.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

To attract millennial clients, some old-school gyms are adapting their models to capitalize on the increasing popularity of the boutique studios. US health clubs have already rushed to capitalize on millennials’ devotion to self-improvement, with the volume of US health clubs increasing by 20% between 2011 and 2015. Houseplants.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the internet — which there isn’t — the network is no substitute to the essential ingredient of capitalism — salespeople.”. Take retail salespeople — Stoll’s self-proclaimed cornerstones of capitalism. Stores will become obsolete. Do our computer pundits all lack common sense?”

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Twenty months of my absence have allowed the “professional” top managers to kill the company using the money of rich oligarchs. The initial 7 years were all about having negative working capital, positive cash flow and a sustained ability to fund our own growth. Majority shareholders abandoned it. Product: Bridj.

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CB Insights

APRIL 7, 2018

Lights-out manufacturing refers to factories that operate autonomously and require no human presence. Famously, the Japanese robotics maker FANUC has been operating a “lights-out” factory since 2001, where robots are building other robots completely unsupervised for nearly a month at a time. Blockchain for resource tracking.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Because this week food managed the hat trick with different and distinct fizzles. Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and Toronto have all signed off. Management responded with shock, horror and assurances that this was one warehouse gone out of control. Uber pulled the plug on the New York version back in April.

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APRIL 3, 2018

Operations are scheduled to begin in 2018. When fully operational, the system will make one T-shirt every 22 seconds. It appears much of the heavy lifting will be done by the AI-driven robots, with human workers taking over jobs around robot maintenance and operation. We will install 21 production lines. online solutions.

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