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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Affirm , a San Francisco-based point-of-sale (POS), buy now, pay later (BNPL) lender, announced a $500 million series G round of funding Thursday (Sept. Baillie Gifford, Spark Capital, Founders Fund and Fidelity Management & Research Co. 17) in a press release , bringing its total funding raised to more than $1.3

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APRIL 24, 2019

The RealReal , an online retailer for authenticated luxury consignment, has authorized the sale of up to $70 million in new shares that could put its valuation at $1.06 Earlier this year, it was reported that the online retailer was considering an initial public offering (IPO) for later this year.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We continue to evaluate capital options and are excited about our industry position,” CEO Anthony Hsieh told Bloomberg. the San Francisco-based peer-to peer lending firm and OnDeck Capital, the New York-based online small business lending company, which went public at the time were already trading down, Housing Wire reported.

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JUNE 29, 2020

revved a little higher Monday (June 29) as online car sales platform Shift announced it will go public in the third quarter via a complicated reverse merger arrangement. Arison said the move was about adding capital to scale the company. Securing that capital is even more complicated than the IAC merger.

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

According to reports citing the company, the Series A round of venture funding was led by 8VC, the venture capital company. The report noted Deliverr, which is based in San Francisco, uses machine learning and predictive intelligence to ascertain which warehouses have the clients’ merchandise. They didn’t build their own taxis.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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MARCH 9, 2018

EXCLUSIVE - On March 6 in San Francisco, 12 impressive startups demoed their latest in fintech technology at INV Fitnech's 2nd annual demo day. INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to Bank Innovation, is partnered with Fiserv and eight banking partners with over $3 trillion dollars in assets.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Truebil , an online marketplace to buy and sell second-hand cars, has raised $14 million in a Series B round led by Japanese investor Joe Hirao, the founder of ZIGExN. million from Kalaari Capital, Inventus Capital and San Francisco-based Tekton Ventures and existing investor Kae Capital.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

since the online job portal Headhunter listed shares in the country in May 2019, according to WSJ. Like the American eCommerce titan, Ozon originally started out in the late 1990s as an online bookstore. Ozon was the recipient of a $50 million investment from San Francisco-based Princeville Capital in March.

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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. We now live in a world where consumers expect their online purchases to arrive at their doorstep almost instantaneously.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 7, 2018

EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

the San Francisco-based mobile payment company, said Tuesday (Sept. Square’s shares have doubled since May, according to Bloomberg , and at $55 billion, the company’s market capitalization is eclipsing that of many traditional banks. Square Inc. ,

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Aura, a San Francisco-based fintech offering affordable loans to low to moderate-income households, wants to partner with banks to offer those loans to consumers who have traditionally been unable to secure them from larger institutions.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego and California Central Coast customers can order from Smart & Final. DoorDash’s on-demand grocery service is a nice addition to our online shopping options, and with delivery in under an hour, we know Smart & Final customers are going to appreciate it.”.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Account takeovers are becoming bigger business for criminals — or, at least, the business of preventing account takeovers in the digital retail and payments realm is becoming an increasing focus of companies and security experts. The new capital will help fuel hiring and other growth, the company said. Account Takeover Growth.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

Despite the many obituaries that have been written about brick-and-mortar stores over the past several months, physical retail isn’t dead — nor is it permanently shuffling off the stage. Physical retail is going to go on, although not in the form that the world previously knew it, sticky.io Capitalizing On Direct To Consumer.

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MARCH 30, 2020

Lightspeed Ventures, iFly.vc, Silicon Valley Bank and Goodwater Capital were participants in the investment, Deal Street Asia reported. The firm evolved into an online shopping website with a warehouse and delivery network in 2017. The company provides its offering in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Seattle.

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JULY 19, 2016

Lending Club, which has been struggling to recover from loan errors and the departure of its Chief Executive (among other issues), has named Patrick Dunne, a veteran of BlackRock, as its new chief capital officer. Dunne most recently was in charge of BlackRock’s San Francisco office.

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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.

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JULY 22, 2019

Much of the excitement surrounding automated retail — aka cashierless retail — has been driven by Amazon Go, but the enthusiasm for “just-walk-out” technology has been tempered by the stores’ limited locations. The next wave of automated retail might be heralded by U.K.-based Unattended Retail Can Boost Sales.

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MAY 3, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are changing the way they manage their workforces in the age of Amazon: Walmart , for instance, is testing multiple versions of a new team structure called the “Great Workplace” in some of its locations. At the same time, it was reported that Walmart plans to employ $11 billion in capital expenditures this year.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

billion valuation, with a funding round led by GPI Capital, bringing the company’s total funding to date to almost $1 billion. And in August, the company announced that it was testing robot delivery in San Francisco. Last month it was reported Postmates had raised $225 million at a $2.4 and after 6:30 p.m. on weekdays.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As the buyer of the luxury retailer brand negotiates with the store’s landlord, Barneys New York’s flagship store on Madison Avenue in Manhattan will stay open for at least another year in a smaller form. The release also noted that shoppers can participate in the sale online by visiting BarneysWarehouse.com and Barneys.com.

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JUNE 29, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic and its boost to online commerce has provided a major lift to Stripe , the San Francisco-based startup whose software provides the backbone for eCommerce networks around the world.

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JUNE 8, 2017

San Francisco-based startup Upbeat may have the solution to this problem with its cloud-based PR platform. Technologists did a lot of infrastructure-level work to help online advertising go the way of the exchange and help us trust strangers enough to ask them to drive us around or let us stay in their house.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

This is a decisive time in the history of retail banking. The company said that “the uniqueness of Klarna’s consumer offering, providing a healthier, simpler and smarter alternative to credit cards, with the addition of multiple services to smoothen the shopping experience, online and offline, is clearly resonating with the U.S.

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MARCH 1, 2019

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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MARCH 5, 2019

Just take the recent story of Three Babes Bakeshop in San Francisco. Indeed, the San Francisco-based company reportedly owes tens of thousands of dollars to its food suppliers, many of which are small businesses, and some of which told reporters they were never warned by Munchery of its plans to shut down. Tabs and Cash.

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JULY 18, 2018

The company said in the notice that the layoffs would impact eBay locations in San Jose, San Francisco and Brisbane and include layoffs in the company’s headquarters. The layoffs come as eBay continues to battle against Amazon in online retailing. RBC Capital Markets estimates Amazon made between $1.5

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

million for its anti-fraud solutions designed for retailers. With artificial intelligence (AI), Fraugster has developed a software solution that prevents fraud for online retailers, analyzing data from multiple sources and cross-checking information to determine whether a transaction is fraudulent or not. SESAMi/Capital Match.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

One may not think of beauty as a particularly luddite enterprise, but as it turns out, in a world where one can order anything up for digital delivery (particularly if one happens to live in a city) it’s not always so easy to simply book a haircut or light dye job online.

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MAY 4, 2016

According to Wall Street Journal reports, the online lender is shedding 28 percent of its staff and rearranging its executive team. The biggest individual cut will be a Utah office dedicated to lending for medical procedures, but 14 percent of Prosper’s San Francisco- and Phoenix-based workforce is also on its way out the door.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Brian Athaide, chief executive of Toronto marijuana grower Green Organic Dutchman Holdings , told the WSJ , “The capital markets have dried up.” So went the narrative, which formed the central thesis of a study about the regulated taxi industry in the City of San Francisco and was presented to then-mayor Gavin Newsom in 2006.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Goop has also notched over $82 million from outside investors and venture capital funds and reportedly has a value of more than $250 million. Kreuzberger told Glossy in October that 12 percent of the company’s online sales come from the New York metro area (more than Los Angeles and San Francisco).

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JULY 28, 2016

Shipt , the online grocery ordering and delivery service, has announced that it has secured $20.1 million in Series A funding that the company plans to use to expand into new markets and further compete with well-heeled online food delivery giants, like Amazon, Google and Instacart.

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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?

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