PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

Betting that its popularity with shoppers online will translate into brick-and-mortar customers in Washington, D.C., Amazon opens an Amazon Books location in the nation’s capital. The opening is the eCommerce retailer’s first bookstore in the Washington, D.C.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Nearly a year and a half after it opened its first brick-and-mortar store on Long Island, online jewelry retailer Blue Nile has opened its fifth store in Bellevue, Washington, near its headquarters. The business is slated to be acquired by Bain Capital Private Equity and Bow Street LLC next year for $500 million.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle. INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite.

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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.

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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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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

At the time, the retailer said it would leverage its stores and Shipt’s proprietary technology platform and community of shoppers to bring same-day delivery to Target customers around the country. But not all retailers are moving as fast as Target. In fact, retailers, overall, only saw a 37.9 But some retailers lead the pack.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2019

Another one has bitten the dust when it comes to providing the vital last-mile delivery service for online consumers (especially the hungry ones). Take the rise of voice-activated retail tasks, as demonstrated in the recent PYMNTS “ How Will We Pay 2018 Edition.” Future Moves. So, what’s next in these delivery wars?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2017

For Amazon’s part, it’s continually finding new ways to capitalize on people’s hatred of running errands. It launched its first public Amazon Go location – which functions just like the stationary version of Moby – in Seattle earlier this year. 48 percent do at least some of their shopping online. The evidence? In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. 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. Restaurants create offers and promotions for profitable or loyal customers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2017

Hunger and wasted food are two problems that can have one solution,” believes Daily Table founder Doug Rauch, former Trader Joe’s president and co-CEO of Conscious Capitalism, Inc. Further north in Seattle, two AmazonFresh Pickup locations have finally opened for business after months of anticipation. Finally, Campbell Soup Co.

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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.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The Seattle-based eCommerce operator and cloud computing provider decided to build in both Crystal City, an urban area in North Virginia near Washington, D.C., Redfin also said that “online views of homes currently for sale in Crystal City and Long Island City on Redfin.com have skyrocketed. 13) on its new headquarters.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Unlike a regular retail purchase — which has little long-term risk to customers should they regret their purchases — buying a subscription-based product isn’t just about buying a good or a service; it’s about engaging in an ongoing relationship. But converting customers to subscribers can be a challenge for a subscription business.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Today, Amazon Pay has evolved to include a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants. 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.

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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.

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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

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.”

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Retail Online US Technology 65

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.]. We have ‘I’.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The firm also announced another major retail play: It will be opening pop-up shops within select Macy’s locations across the U.S. The new shops will feature 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores, and will be housed in The Market @ Macy’s.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

Point-of-sale financing for retailers. Online foreign exchange services. HQ: Seattle, WA. Connects marketplace lenders to institutional capital. Nigerian online credit card processor. Tags: Investors, big data, business intelligence, investing, capital markets. Total raised: Unknown. HQ: New York City.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Online retailers will be where we shop. I believe that this inflection point will accelerate the four big shifts that have been taking place right before our very eyes over the last decade — shifts that will now set the course for how every single player in payments and commerce and retail should be planning their 2017 and beyond.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

The real-time payments solution will be available for JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, PNC and Wells Fargo later this year, according to what representatives told Reuters. They’re at the end of their useful life,” said Secil Watson, who oversees online and mobile applications for Wells Fargo commercial banking.

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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.

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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. Do our computer pundits all lack common sense?” Stoll continued. “No

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CB Insights

JUNE 4, 2019

GET the 54-page retail TRENDS report. Download the free report to learn about the biggest emerging trends in retail and strategies to watch for 2019. Fueled by social media, consumers want to get a hold of the latest trends as quickly as possible, and retailers must rapidly increase production to meet demand. Source: ThredUp.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Education: Technology and online content make the classroom optional. Online courses & content. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Online grocery.

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Online platforms like Hipcamp and Campsy have emerged to help campers book unique lodging experiences like yurts, treehouses, and caves. To attract millennial clients, some old-school gyms are adapting their models to capitalize on the increasing popularity of the boutique studios. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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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.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Doorman says it will no longer accept incoming shipments after September 29th and that those who use their Doorman address for online shipments should update their information. “We Raptr, the online optimization platform founded by former pro gamer Dennis “Thresh” Fong a decade ago, is about to be shuttered. Product: Raptr.

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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.

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