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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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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. That’s where Deliverr comes in,” said Steve Sarracino, founding partner of Activant Capital, in a statement. population now within 100 miles of one of its warehouses.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Postmates announced that is has partnered with Dine Brands, the parent company of Applebee’s and IHOP, so that its customers can now order from both restaurants in the more than 3,500 cities that Postmates operates in. And in August, the company announced that it was testing robot delivery in San Francisco.

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JUNE 29, 2020

“With its tremendous, ongoing success in its core markets, we believe that this merger and its accompanying capital infusion will enable Shift to expand its product offerings and execute on its growth strategies.”. Arison said the move was about adding capital to scale the company. Merging with Insurance Acquisition Corp.

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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 company provides its offering in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Seattle. It has over 5 million registered users.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The drop boxes will be in six cities — New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Washington, D.C. — Currently, the company has five locations — in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. so that customers can return and rent items with ease.

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PYMNTS

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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DECEMBER 20, 2017

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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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The round drew participation from Founders Fund, Meritech Capital Partners, Coatue Management, Bond, and Index Ventures. San Francisco-based Persona helps businesses verify customer identities in order to help with age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. HOW’S THE COMPANY PERFORMING?

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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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APRIL 10, 2020

While they will lack the sheer financial clout of federal assistance, they are starting to offer strategies beyond capital infusions that will assist in restarting small business when the crisis passes. Boulder, Colorado has been working on strategies to help downtown retailers since before the coronavirus crisis.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

This is a decisive time in the history of retail banking. The funding round was led by San Francisco-based growth-oriented investor Dragoneer Investment Group. Sebastian and the Klarna team have built an exceptional payments business with a global footprint, operating in a huge addressable market with strong tailwinds.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2016

Last week, the retail space saw the arrival of Earny, a personal assistant bot that — as a press release explains — automatically tracks users’ purchase history and monitors price adjustments. million seed investment from Sweet Capital Ltd. office, where they can work side-by-side with our operators, engineers and marketers.”

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Abrigo

MARCH 9, 2017

Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) loan funds help to promote healthy communities by providing early-stage credit, capital, and financial services to small businesses, affordable housing and community facilities developers, community organizations, and other types of borrowers. communities where capital tends to be scarce.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

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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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

“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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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

That would follow a reported $150 million funding round in May that was led by by Sequoia Capital. That news came after Uber spent $200 million to acquire bike-sharing operator JUMP. In addition, scooters are small — smaller than bikes — and, for some riders, require less skill to operate safely than bicycles.

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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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PYMNTS

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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DECEMBER 21, 2018

locations, offers a glimpse into a growing part of retail, and lessons for other such endeavors. Among them is Saison in San Francisco, which earned “three Michelin star status” in 2017, according to Food & Wine — and where the cost of dinner per person can run $400 or so. Pop-Up Growth. Pop-Up Planning. Cash Concerns.

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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. 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.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then.

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MARCH 20, 2019

China Development Bank Capital, Coatue Management, Hillhouse Capital Management, IDG Capital, Temasek Holdings, Tencent Holdings, Tiger Global Management. Select Investors : Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, DST Global, GGV Capital, Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital, J.P. Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator.

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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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

The news that on-demand delivery startup Munchery has closed its doors — even after raising $125 million in venture capital funding — serves as reminder of how difficult it can be to gain a profitable foothold (much less a dominant position) in the on-demand food delivery space. Future Moves. So, what’s next in these delivery wars?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. One of the biggest challenges these companies face is that many operate without a bank charter or license. why profitability won’t come easy.

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JULY 28, 2016

We seek to partner with capital-efficient businesses that are on rapid growth trajectories and look forward to working with Shipt and playing a role in the continued advancement of the company.”. The company now has an office in San Francisco, too, that gives it a presence in Silicon Valley.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. RESTAURANTS.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Those controversies have notably played out in San Francisco , though other cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, are going through them at their own pace. And investors are still pouring capital into companies operating in the sector.

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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.”.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

With Stripe Terminal, we’re introducing just that: a way for internet-first retailers and SaaS companies to leapfrog legacy retailers in building highly customized payments experiences for in-store purchases that match what they’ve built online.”. Amazon said Alexa Guard will operate as part of select Echo devices later this year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

With the increasing trade volume between the two countries, payments have become a major pain point for retailers that often rely on wire transfers, which can take up to three days to complete. A need for larger working capital and a slower supply chain for both exporters and importers. Businesses kind of operate on that.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Spark Growth and Social+Capital are all involved in the fund. The San Francisco-based company said this will allow users to communicate with the company in a space they are already spending a lot of time.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

The nation’s largest supermarket operator announced this week that it has officially signed a deal with U.K.-based while Kroger gets a stake in the company worth about 5 percent of existing share capital, valued at $247.5 based retailers. By next year, they hope to resume operations in Southern California.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It's hard to believe that an entire month has gone by since Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco — but baseball fans will have noticed that things have been a bit hectic here in Chicago of late. Most banks, however, are not Capital One. Banks can roll their own code, spool up a VM, and off they go.

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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.

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