CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Asia is highly competitive, with tech giants like Ant Financial and Tencent’s WeChat actively dominating mobile payments and expanding their reach in financial services across lending, wealth management, and insurance. The core product is a digital-first app that tracks spending from a linked card issued by either MasterCard or Visa.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

HQ: San Francisco, California. Income tax service. HQ: San Francisco, California. Tags: Consumer, SMB, accounting, bookkeeping,, tax returns, tax prep. Latest round: $56 million Debt (from Goldman Sachs). Total raised: $154.3 million ($98.3 million Equity, $56 million Debt). HQ: Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

Compared to the alternative — losing it in the market anyway and/or being taxed on whatever returns they might manage to eke out — the downside doesn’t appear too threatening. Platforms have dependencies that they have to manage carefully. Even payments cards charge both sides. Worst case — VCs lose it all.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Congrats to Randy and a great management team. Based on a clearly defined strategy, this team has established a dedicated fintech group that offers services ranging from BaaS to sponsoring card issuance and lending, to providing crypto services, to offering niche partnerships to the gaming industry. Has it worked? 82% to over 2.3%

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The New Hampshire town, Keene, has more bitcoin-accepting businesses per capita than San Francisco, according to CryptoCoinsNews , and its inhabitants are forward-thinking and proactive. Well, to be specific, the banks want to use blockchain and its decentralized record-keeping to manage real transactions.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 25, 2015

HQ: San Francisco, California. Payments risk & compliance management. Canopy Tax (formerly Beanstalk). Tax & accounting practice management. Online investment manager. Tags: Investing, wealth management, stocks, trading, equities. So far this year, fintech has attracted $7.9

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 11, 2016

HQ: San Francisco, California. Digital wealth management platform. Employee expense reporting management. HQ: San Francisco, California. Mobile payments & personal financial management. Tags: Consumer, payments, personal financial management, PFM, biometrics, authentication, mobile.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Gift cards backed with public company equity. HQ: San Jose, California. Expense management solutions for small businesses. Fingerprint-authenticated payment card. 401(k) management. Using the blockchain for managing records. Card rewards management. Total raised: $165 million. Xpenditure.

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Alex Jimenez

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

As noted in a previous post, I attended IBM’s Think 2019 conference in San Francisco earlier this month. Also, during the Chairman’s Address we heard from IBM’s President and Chairman, Ginni Rometty, Hyundai Card CEO, Ted Chung, and Geico CIO, Greg Kalinsky. IBM Think 2019 Campus. It paid for itself within the first year.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

HQ: San Francisco, California. Tags: SMB, health care, employees, benefit management, insurance. Source: WSJ. Equity crowdfunding platform. Latest round: $30 million. Total raised: $47 million. Source: Crunchbase. Investment advisory for small savers. Latest round: $17.2 Total raised: $40 million. Total raised: Unknown.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 22, 2016

Lien rights management. Digital rights management platform on the blockchain. HQ: San Francisco, California. Tags: Consumers, tax-savings, investing, personal finance, financial planning. Latest round: $52 million (post-IPO equity). Total raised: $75+ million. HQ: Atlanta, Georgia. Source: Crunchbase.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 11, 2017

Fintech example : AI can be used to augment portfolio management and rebalancing decisions typically made by a human. Fintech example : Multiple card issuers use AI to detect unusual spending activity. We’ve seen AI used to generate reports, both in written and video form, in the wealth management and compliance sectors.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Provided instant card-issuance technology to Bank of the Ozarks. Announced EMV-instant issuance milestone of more than 10 million cards in the U.S. Signed deal with Vision FCU to provide its money management app. Partnered with fellow Finovate alum NCR to launch new money management platform. Paul Business Journal.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

WrkRiot’s short-lived house of cards falls down. Select Investors: MasterCard, Wellington Management. However, Hyperloop’s ambitious vision of the future of mass transit was met with a series of high-profile lawsuits alleging a range of misconduct at several levels of management across the company.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 20, 2016

Credit card payoff loans. Income tax prep. Research management software for investors. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Francisco, California. Tags: Consumer, SMB, personal financial management (PFM), expense reports, employees. Source: FT Partners. Latest round: $46.76 million Series C.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 11, 2015

Last fall we held our first developer’s conference, FinDEVr San Francisco 2014 , and saw an impressive showcase of APIs and SDKs from a dozens of companies. We’ve been looking forward to bringing the event back to San Francisco. Avalara , creates software for automated tax compliance.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Cloud cash and treasury management solutions. HQ: San Diego, California. HQ: San Francisco, California. Self-employment tax payments. Tags: SMB, payments, merchants, credit/debit cards, acquiring, POS. Total raised: $245 million. HQ: Oakland, California. Source: Crunchbase. Latest round: $22.7 Robo-advisor.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 27, 2016

million to fund growth of its digital password management system. Wealth management platform. Password management & secure digital wallet. HQ: San Francisco, California. Wealth management platform. Personal finance management app. billion valuation, for its international funds transfer service.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2015

From online payment portals to unified APIs, Hyperwallet’s global payout network provides collaborative economy companies and their workers with a range of payments capabilities, integrated financial tools, tax reporting solutions, and business support services. operational complexity of managing multiple payment methods.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

The event will take place October 6 & 7 at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco ( check out our event brochure ). Why it’s a must-see: It has nearly 120 APIs that will power the next generation of digital wealth management applications. Avalara will detail the Weird and Wacky World of Sales Tax.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 1, 2016

HQ: San Francisco, California. Credit card with consumer controls. Tags: Consumer, investing, advisors, wealth management, information, analytics, crowdsourcing. Fintech deals by size from 25 June to 1 July, 2016: Paycor. Online payroll system. Latest round: $45 million. Total raised: $164 million. HQ: Cincinnati, Ohio.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

With CRMnext, replacing a lost card or request a new pin is a one button process. Data and Analytics are a profit center rather than something that just needs to be managed. Demo: A Wealth Management Company (ACME)– GoodData can embed analytics directly in ACME’s dashboard. I think cards from Dynamics ARE big in Canada.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The San Francisco-based food startup was founded on a unique premise: custom, constantly changing menus of high-end dishes prepared by professional chefs and delivered directly to members’ homes. The lawsuit hinged on Julep’s promotional free Welcome Box of Julep products, available for just the cost of taxes and shipping.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The San Francisco-based company launched a new (and free) tax return preparation offering this week to complement its flagship, free credit score monitoring, as well as its loan and credit card comparison technology. New and existing users will have access to free tax filing in January 2017, just in time for tax season.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Twenty months of my absence have allowed the “professional” top managers to kill the company using the money of rich oligarchs. 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.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

In recent years, Tax Day has also become a time to make big statements on taxes. The privatization pact was struck with an investor group led by Francisco Partners and is expected to close in the third quarter of this year. Other investors include Canadian firm British Columbia Investment Management Corporation.

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