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WEX Reorganizes With New Team For B2B Payments

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Mark Aquilina was named the senior vice president of product and strategy of corporate payment solutions and will be in charge of product strategy and management for front-end applications and cloud-native processors. The new team’s focus will be on the $27 trillion domestic B2B payments market. He also previously worked at U.S.

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For This Startup, Scale Was A Matter Of Necessity

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So, how did Vacasa , the online vacation rental home startup, go from managing one beachside cabin on the Washington coast that belonged to the family of one of the founder’s wife to a multimillion-dollar company with more than 1,400 employees that manages over 4,000 properties in the U.S. Italy, Spain, Belize and Chile.

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Acorns Can Now Offer Retirement Accounts Through Vault Acquisition

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According to a TechCrunch news report, Portland-based Vault’s application allows users to set aside part of their paychecks into retirement funds. While the deal enables Vault to reach a wider group of potential investors, it also gives Acorns a foothold in the Portland market, which it sees as an emerging hub for developer talent.

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Vacasa On Using AI To Put Predictability In Home Sharing

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The most visible and talked-about brand in home sharing for years has been Airbnb, with a dominant market position and high consumer awareness, making it a household name. From the outset, Vacasa approached short-term rentals with the mindset of a large-scale property management firm.

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New Report: Speeding Toward Startup Success?

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PYMNTS recently caught up with Joe Munk, the program manager of the Portland State University Startup Accelerator in Oregon, to discuss small business accelerators, the benefits of collaboration and what he sees ahead for startup success.

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Accelerating To The Future?

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And the financial benefits of these accelerators may only be the start of the equation, at least according to Joe Munk, program manager at the Portland State University Startup Accelerator in Oregon. He recalled a wearables firm that had been through the Portland State accelerator program two years ago, called ATBM.

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Real Estate Startup Bungalow Secures $64M In Funding

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Founded in 2017, Bungalow aims to solve many of the issues that early career professionals face when looking to rent in urban markets. It also announced today that it has added two new markets to its platform: Portland and Washington, D.C., markets by the end of 2018. putting it on track to be in 12 major U.S.

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