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“We are excited to partner with Shift and its world-class management team as it leverages its technology platform to disrupt the $840+ billion used car market,” said Daniel Cohen, chairman of the board of directors of Insurance Acquisition Corp. Arison said the move was about adding capital to scale the company.

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It added that the Russian eCommerce market has grown by 41 percent during the same period. The company is seeking to list its American depositary shares (ADSs) on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Ozon said it plans to use proceeds from the transaction to expand its business, which is still operating in the red.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Eventbrite, the company that operates a platform to create, manage and sell tickets to events, filed an amended registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in which it said it is aiming to raise a $200 million initial public offering (IPO). At the midpoint, Eventbrite would have a market capitalization of $1.55

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If approved by the SEC, nCino will be listed on NASDAQ’s Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “NCNO.”. Founded in 2012, nCino has raised $213 million in venture-backed funding, according to Crunchbase, the San Francisco provider of business data about private and public companies. million. . million, $22.3

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JUNE 17, 2016

Uber has turned profitable in all of its developed markets. The company’s operations in North America, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa are now returning profits, Financial Times reported. “We its most profitable market. We are number two in China, which means that we still have a ways to go,” Kalanick said.

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Lightspeed Ventures, iFly.vc, Silicon Valley Bank and Goodwater Capital were participants in the investment, Deal Street Asia reported. The new funding will assist the startup in speeding up team building, supply chain optimizations and market growth. Bigbasket competes against Amazon and Flipkart in the Indian eCommerce market.

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The San Francisco-based fintech startup also announced it has surpassed $1 billion in bookings through its platform, which enables small businesses and freelancers to streamline processes from capturing leads and delivering proposals to sending invoices and […].

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JANUARY 24, 2020

While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk. Flutterwave.

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While the market has been booming for the two companies, it has been tougher to operate in than previously thought, noted the WSJ. The report pointed to Scoot Networks, a small San Francisco operator of electric Vespa-like scooters, which was granted the right in the summer to roll out a fleet of as many as 650 scooters.

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MARCH 5, 2019

The company ceased operations in late January after laying off 30 percent of its workforce in May 2018. Munchery had said it was planning to focus on its largest market, San Francisco, in an effort to become profitable, but that never happened. “The

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Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company to debut on the stock market. Capital One Halts BNPL Transactions On Its Credit Cards. Capital One Halts BNPL Transactions On Its Credit Cards.

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21) to operate a virtual asset trading platform, according to a press release. OSL, a member of BC Technology Group, will be allowed to operate a brokerage and trading platform for digital assets, such as security tokens, the release stated. DIA is marked as an open-source data aggregator for DeFi markets.

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The FinTech company, based in both San Francisco and Nigeria, secured the venture capital (VC) investment from Worldpay , which has also struck a strategic partnership with the firm. The goal is to take advantage of Africa’s growing payments market while expanding Flutterwave.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2019

San Francisco firm Kruze Consulting said young companies are raising more while spending less and hoarding cash in the name of longevity. Chief operating officer (COO) Scott Orn told the NYT that “people are locking down that last dollar.” . Kruze’s clients kept a cash-on-hand average of $3.5 million, he said. Parr said. .

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

This week's B2B Venture Capital roundup saw more than $76 million in new funding. The company operates a business verification platform allowing corporate customers, including B2B buyers and suppliers, to verify their business partners and mitigate risk. The company highlighted the $8.14

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“As a matter of policy, we do not provide comment on funding speculation until we have news to announce,” said Allison Van Houten, Getaround vice president of marketing, according to Yahoo Finance. In April, Getaround announced its acquisition of Drivy , a Paris-headquartered car sharing startup that operates in 170 European cities.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Coca-Cola’s supply chain operations are run by an IT firm called Coke One North America (CONA), and the company recently had such a successful run with blockchain software provider SAP that it’s going to expand the program from two to 70 manufacturers, according to reports. . The funding round was led by Polychain Capital.

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Founded in May of 2016, San Francisco-based Darkstore offers a platform that enables on-demand, same-day and 2-day delivery options for eCommerce sites. million in a seed funding round led by VC firm PivotNorth Capital. Darkstore already operates in San Francisco, Phoenix and New York City.

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Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Commerce Ventures, Flint Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Synchrony and Sorenson Capital also participated, according to reports.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Yesterday, the smaller-scale fulfillment company closed $40 million in Series C funding, led by Activant Capital, bringing its total capital raised to $70 million. In the age of Amazon, achieving success in this market takes dozens of fulfillment centers, advanced logistics and sophisticated enterprise technology.

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In a move that would take on Uber in one of its largest markets outside of the Americas, Ola is gearing up to go up against the ride-hailing company in London. The firm has been granted a license to operate in the British capital, CNN reported.

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It was a busy time for B2B venture capital this week, and while funding ranged across verticals from expense management to SaaS, there was a clear theme in investment rounds: high-tech data analytics. The company said it will use the backing to focus on its go-to-market strategy and expand existing leadership. Talent Management.

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million in new venture capital (VC) funding. The company currently operates in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, with expansion plans to enter other new markets in the first quarter of 2018. A logistics startup that is already servicing some big names has announced $4.3 Monday (Dec. Monday (Dec.

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Or maybe a relatively bland extended-stay operation right off the interstate. To learn more about the trend, PYMNTS recently caught up with Kulveer Taggar, co-founder and CEO of Zeus , a digital and mobile-focused operation that puts business travelers into furnished housing that Zeus rents from owners.

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But consolidation looms, according to some observers, and online food delivery services will eventually have to shift more focus away from consumers and toward restaurant operators in order to thrive in a crowded marketplace. Meanwhile, the eCommerce operator and logistics heavyweight continues investing in its delivery fleet.

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The funding will help Klarna continue its rapid rise in the United States market, where it is currently growing at an annual rate of six million new consumers. The funding round was led by San Francisco-based growth-oriented investor Dragoneer Investment Group. in particular.?”. consumer.”.

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7) that the Shanghai opening adds to Standard Chartered’s existing network of labs, which are open in Singapore, Hong Kong, Kenya, London and San Francisco. The labs are a part of Standard Chartered’s venture capital arm SC Ventures, reports noted. NS Banking said Wednesday (Aug.

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and RBC Capital Markets. As of June 30, the San Francisco-based company had 1,016 employees, with more than 10 percent based in Argentina. Eventbrite’s biggest shareholder is Tiger Global, which owns 21 percent, while Sequoia Capital owns 20 percent and the Hartzes own a combined 17 percent.

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“We did some research and found out that the majority of businesses in the beauty industry operate offline, without any software at all. The cloud-based software platform is designed to do a good deal of operational heavy lifting for salons by automating areas like customer records, inventory, financial reporting and other tasks.

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The company, which is based in both Switzerland and Singapore, has been talking with regulators and petitioned for a capital markets services license, which will allow the firm to offer asset management as a first step into financial services, co-founders Mathias Imbach and Gerald Goh said, according to Deal Street Asia. “In

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In its 25-year history, JNK has continued to evolve with the financial markets. We are excited to become part of Uphold’s vision for the future of digital capital formation, while continuing to offer our acclaimed industry research to our institutional customers,” said Scott Kaplan, CEO of JNK Securities Corp.

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In other news, the SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) announced that it is joining forces with the Swiss National Bank (SNB) on a proof of concept to look into how digital central bank money could be used in the settlement of tokenized assets between market participants. “As We are starting to see more demand pick up in the market,” Lim said.

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Asia and broader European markets. The company plans to open its first international office following the investment, which was led by Dawn Capital, said reports in CBR Online. Working in the business management market is Scoro , an Estonia-based startup that just announced $5.2 SESAMi/Capital Match. quantilope.

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23) $30 million in venture capital raised from Sequoia Capital and other backers, including Matrix Partners, True Ventures and Greenspring Associates. This week, one payroll software company is celebrating thanks to its own payday. Namely, which provides payroll and HR solutions, announced on Tuesday (Feb.

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In a world where sunshine in the news is in something of short supply, the good folks at Thrive Market can add good news for those in need of some to report to the list of things they deliver. You can’t eat it, but after the week the world’s markets have been having, reporting numbers in black ink is pretty delicious.

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million seed investment from Sweet Capital Ltd. Science’s partnership with Earny will help expand the team’s reach, and we are excited to have them move from San Francisco to our L.A. office, where they can work side-by-side with our operators, engineers and marketers.” and Science Inc.,

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Kirk has a decade of experience running treasury and capital markets for large fleet companies, and is well known on the capital markets side. Its Getaround Connect device now operates in the United States, as well as in seven European countries: Norway, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, Belgium and the U.K.

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