Bobsguide

JULY 7, 2022

Financial institutions and retail brands gain a new embedded finance platform to help consumers access regulated loans at point-of-sale, powered by Banking as a Service. And for financial institutions, Finastra Embedded Consumer Lending provides access to a marketplace of distributors and merchants to distribute their banking products.

Lending 68

Lending Seattle Regulation US 68

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.

blockchain 199

blockchain Seattle Strategy Innovation 199

PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2016

Bloomberg recently reported on a number of tech companies that are continuing to drive interest surrounding text-based commerce in a variety of retail verticals. Scott Jacobson, managing director of Madrona — whose ReplyYes, Bloomberg shares, has sold $1 million in vinyl LPs to date, while raising $2.5

Seattle 100

Seattle Retail Capital Mobile 100

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. Stripe Billing optimizes subscription and invoice management.

Online 98

Online Company Retail Payments 98

Abrigo

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the same way, financial institutions conducting stress tests to satisfy prudential regulators’ queries on reserves and capital can generate additional benefits from this process, according to Elizabeth Williams, managing director of financial consulting firm CEIS Review Inc. Manage concentration risk.

Risk Management 150

Risk Management Exercises Capital Regulation 150

CB Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Traditional retail is getting an upgrade. Despite the rise of e-commerce and mobile, the physical channel still plays an important role in consumer experience — and retailers are increasingly leveraging technologies to stay afloat. Get the entire 54-page retail report. Why Are retailers are pivoting towards cashier-less retail?

Retail 71

Retail Technology San Francisco Mobile 71

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.

Seattle 150

Seattle Fintech Capital Lending 150

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.

Innovation 150

Innovation Seattle Fintech Company 150

PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

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. As the year rolls on he expects to launch in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Boston and Miami.

Miami 130

Miami Los Angeles Austin South Carolina 130

PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

This week both Amazon and Walmart were offering up pictures — albeit with very different levels of detail built in — of how the immediate retail future will take shape. 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.

Management 115

Management Report Seattle Training 115

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. At least, it seemed that way until a few days ago when a little-known Australian startup claimed the throne of autonomous delivery for itself.

Nevada 100

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).

San Francisco 71

San Francisco CA Capital Operations 71

PYMNTS

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.

Payments 130

Payments social media Seattle Marketing 130

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Retailers, already sweating bullets over the “ Amazon Effect ” on their business, now have one more reason to keep sweating. Amazon Go, Amazon’s new grocery store format in Seattle, opened last week. The “Uber” experience meets brick-and-mortar retail. Which brings me full circle to Amazon Go and its reinvention of retail.

Retail 100

Retail Online Branding Innovation 100

CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Bill Me Later was one of the earliest fintech payment platforms on the market and gave big retailers the ability to offer flexible financing programs. The company announced it would pass on the special card savings Amazon gets from card networks (because of the volume of purchases they can guarantee) to retailers that adopt Amazon Pay.

Cards 101

Cards Lending Strategy US 101

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.

Conference 101

Conference Industry Community Bank Community 101

CB Insights

JANUARY 24, 2018

With household retail names like Radio Shack and Toy “R” Us seeing a spate of bankruptcies and closures over the past few years, it seems the long-predicted “retail apocalypse” has arrived. Alibaba, meanwhile, has publicly announced a strategy to combine online and offline commerce, dubbed “new retail.”

Retail 65

Retail Online US Technology 65

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

blockchain 115

blockchain California Capital Lending 115

CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Here’s IBM’s chairman minimizing how Amazon might transform retail and internet sales all the way back in 1999. “Amazon.com is a very interesting retail concept, but wait till you see what Wal-Mart is gearing up to do,” he said [IBM Chairman, Louis V. Gerstner Jr.]. Robo-advisors.

Bitcoin 78

Bitcoin Apple Industry Nebraska 78

Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

Point-of-sale financing for retailers. 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. Total raised: Unknown. Front Desk.

Company 12

Company Fintech San Francisco New York City 12

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

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. The firm also announced another major retail play: It will be opening pop-up shops within select Macy’s locations across the U.S.

Video 153

Video Las Vegas San Antonio Branding 153

CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

Fullstack Modular is a Brooklyn-based modular prefabricated company thatclaims to incorporate Building Information Management (BIM) design and lean construction management to produce “a process which is faster and more cost-effective than conventional building.”. To date Katerra has had $1.3B Reimagining city living.

Seattle 56

Seattle Capital Industry New York 56

CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target. Julep started out as a single nail salon in Seattle. Declared Bankruptcy: 2018.

Apple 78

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. 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.

Community 216

Community Fintech Industry Innovation 216

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. Service — not sales — is the new human retail touchpoint.

Retail 197

Retail Baltimore Tools Online 197

CB Insights

AUGUST 9, 2017

From Marriott opening its first modular hotel, to tech giants like Alphabet investing in modular housing, to Japanese retailer Muji launching prefab micro-homes, offsite construction methods are gaining traction. Select Investors : Brightpath Capital Partners, Skagen Group, Vision Ridge Partners. Headquarters: Petaluma, California.

Company 54

Company Industry California Austin 54

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.

Capital 78

Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78

CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. 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. Remote learning technology. 3D printing. Online grocery.

Industry 101

Industry Technology Online Video 101

CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. 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. Retail/Consumer Goods.

Innovation 74

Innovation San Francisco Georgia Technology 74

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.

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Branding social media 78

CB Insights

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.

Company 78

Company US San Francisco Capital 78

CB Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

Retail is under pressure to crack the AI code. After all, corporations in every industry are scrambling to adapt and integrate artificial intelligence into their products — and retail is no exception. 15-Min Flash briefing: Can AI Save Physical retail? Using CB Insights data, we dug into the changing retail landscape.

Retail 78

Retail Online Branding Strategy 78