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. 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.

San Francisco 71

San Francisco CA Capital Operations 71

Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Her answer: lack of capital. The above chart is from a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter: Slow Business Start-ups and the Job Recovery published in July. The second chart shows the primary sources of capital. But only 34% of small businesses bank with regional and community banks.

Lending 93

Lending San Francisco Community Community Bank 93

PYMNTS

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.”.

Miami 130

Miami Los Angeles Austin South Carolina 130

PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

A need for larger working capital and a slower supply chain for both exporters and importers. That’s a problem that San Francisco-based Wyre is offering to solve with its real-time cross-border payment solution. “We Businesses kind of operate on that. The result?

Payments 105

Payments blockchain San Francisco Compliance 105

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The FinTech sector saw a strong pull of banking activity as Atom Bank raised roughly $126 million and said that it would announce within the next few weeks the names of the investors who put up the capital. With offices in New York and San Francisco, this global reach currently requires a lot of travel.

San Francisco 100

San Francisco Mobile New York Fintech 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2016

Organic delivery service Good Eggs was forced to pull back its operations to the San Francisco Bay area after they learned what so many who deliver consumer groceries have learned before: it’s much harder than it looks to get to scale and make money while doing it. And it is a segment that has seen casualties.

Marketing 102

Marketing San Francisco Phoenix Branding 102

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. Sigma aims to streamline business operations. Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community.

Online 98

Online Company Retail Payments 98

PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

With more consumers moving to mobile transactions over visits to branches, some banks are considering closing brick-and-mortar locations to reduce operational costs. The price of real estate is prompting even the largest players in the banking world to scale back their branch operations. Can banks have it both ways?

Millennials 132

Millennials Digital Banking San Francisco Fintech 132

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. From nowhere, sizable regional players are being created. Performance and multiples continue to be solid, outperforming most regional banks. Acronym of the Year. Has to be M-O-E. Now, about that execution….

Fintech 147

Fintech Strategy Leadership Lending 147

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

million Series C financing round led by Foundation Capital and joined by Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Canaan Partners. Investors depend on fund advisers to give them the straight scoop on performance so they can make informed investment decisions,” said Jina Choi, director of the SEC’s San Francisco regional office.

Lending 135

Lending Fraud Management San Francisco 135

CB Insights

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.

Cards 101

Cards Lending Strategy US 101

CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

One of the biggest challenges these companies face is that many operate without a bank charter or license. Both have access to significant financial capital to scale far beyond what’s available to even well-funded startup challengers. Existing startups like the UK’s Revolut are also looking to expand in the region.

Retail 78

Retail Cards Millennials Mobile 78

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Although the San Francisco-based company has offered no confirmation or denial of the delay, people familiar with the situation told Bloomberg the company decided to delay filing for an IPO “to keep it from being overshadowed by the fallout from the U.S. election.”. We do expect DoorDash also to file, probably Instacart as well.

San Francisco 141

San Francisco Regional Operations Company 141

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As a result, a number of mobility startups have emerged, deploying new transportation models that stand to disrupt personal car ownership in dense urban regions, and potentially in more suburban regions moving forward. Investors in Bird’s most recent $300M Series C round in May included Accel, Index Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.

San Francisco 78

San Francisco New York City US Mobile 78

CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Automatic food: Cafe X (San Francisco). The weeknight bar: School Night (San Francisco). Cafe X in San Francisco is one of the first food businesses to successfully integrate robots into its operations. In June 2018, the company opened its first kiosk on the streets of downtown San Francisco.

San Francisco 69

San Francisco California United States CA 69

Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

I think the most compelling part of the story is that we opened our front-end PPP portal to serve every borrower who needed capital,” says Phil Goldfeder, the bank’s senior vice president of global public affairs. “It In mid-June 2020, the community bank launched Cross River Digital Ventures, a venture capital arm that invests in fintechs.

Community Bank 196

Community Bank Community National Fresno 196

CB Insights

JUNE 11, 2018

In many ways, Apollo resembles Google’s Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Google’s open software platform for a mobile operating system (OS) that launched in 2007. In addition to the Apollo platform, Baidu is dedicating significant capital to autonomous vehicle startups, all of which have joined the Apollo partnership alliance.

Google 71

Google Industry Software Data 71

CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

After soaring to a multi-billion-dollar valuation behind an iconic founder, a team of prominent backers, and a promise to revolutionize blood testing, Theranos officially ceased operations in 2018. That July, it banned Holmes from owning or operating a lab for two years. The rise and fall of Theranos. Total funding : $161M.

Report 78

Report San Francisco Capital New York 78

CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. Select Investors: CapitalG, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Select Investors: BlackRock, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital.

Fraud 78

Fraud Las Vegas Company Video 78

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Fintech 195

Fintech Community Regional Technology 195

CB Insights

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.

Seattle 56

Seattle Capital Industry New York 56

William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

From their web site: Based in San Francisco, MarketX was founded by a group of experienced professionals from finance, legal, and technology backgrounds. Demo: Customer Insight Dashboard for Regional Manager who can view their forward looking metrics such as customer attrition and look forward several quarters.

social media 40

social media ATM Mobile Customer Experience 40

Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

State Bank of Texas, led by president Sushil Patel (center), has a niche working with hospitality customers like Reena and Arun Patel, who own and operate a La Quinta hotel in Dallas. The bank also helped hotel operators obtain Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. Photo: R.J.

Community Bank 209

Community Bank Community Texas Dallas 209

PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2017

The remaining triple-digit deal in the period came as Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria invested in Atom Bank with as much as $101 million, part of continued capital raising since the latter months of the last year. Looking at the regional breakdown, the U.S. Other regions notched only single-digit percentage rates.

Mobile 108

Mobile Marketing San Francisco Fraud 108

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

MAY 15, 2019

The success of the One Market Center location in San Francisco has spurred other Innovation Centers across the world, in locations such as Dubai, Singapore, Miami, and London. DBS leaders expect to see more than 5,000 people actively innovating DBS’ services and operations at DAX each year. Capital One — Capital One Labs.

Innovation 78

Innovation blockchain Technology Groups 78

CB Insights

AUGUST 20, 2017

Endless Mobile is a computer and operating system tailor-made for the developing world where a reliable Internet connection can be hard to obtain. Select Investors: Good Capital. Select Investors: Data Collective, Female Founders Fund, Ribbit Capital, Google Ventures. Endless mobile. Total Disclosed Funding: $42.1M.

Company 60

Company Community Capital Mobile 60

CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

million to cook and deliver its own gourmet meals in the San Francisco area, but insiders said it was losing six figures monthly and could not expand the service into other cities. The initial 7 years were all about having negative working capital, positive cash flow and a sustained ability to fund our own growth.

Company 78

Company US San Francisco Capital 78

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and Toronto have all signed off. Since launching Instant Delivery, UberEATS has significantly expanded from allowing people in downtown to pick four to five meals during the lunch hour to offering thousands of items at all hours of the day and throughout the Puget Sound region.

Apple 100

Apple Course Samsung San Francisco 100