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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

“Visa seeks to buy Plaid — as its CEO said — as an ‘insurance policy’ to neutralize a ‘threat to our important US debit business,’” the Justice Department said in its lawsuit, filed in San Francisco federal court. The company said that it’s “confident” the deal will benefit consumers and enhance competition.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

San Francisco-based Salesforce has officially launched its “Vaccine Cloud,” a technology package designed to help manage the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines. Technology can play a critical role in ensuring it’s done efficiently, effectively, and equitably,” said Bret Taylor , president and chief operating officer of Salesforce.

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OCTOBER 4, 2020

Josh Harris , co-founder of Apollo Global Management , said the SPAC trend is not a flash in the pan. Michael served as chief business officer at the San Francisco-based ridesharing giant where he led the merger of Uber with Didi Chuxing Technology , a Beijing ridesharing company, according to the report.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

While many firms returned the money at Citi’s request, the bank said in court documents, a dozen have been sued after what the bank called an “operational error” caused it to transfer $900 million of its own funds to Revlon creditors one day after the troubled cosmetics company was sued over its restructuring tactics. On Tuesday (Aug.

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MARCH 27, 2019

SigFig, a San Francisco fintech specializing in robo advice, today unveiled SigFig Atlas, an interactive platform for financial advice and software-guided sales that faces both retail banks and their customers.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

Stripe , the San Francisco-based company which works to build economic online infrastructure, announced in a press release that Mike Clayville , a 36-year sales veteran of companies like Amazon Web Service (AWS), VMware and BEA Systems, would be joining to help grow the company’s global sales organization.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

San Francisco-based Salesforce is gearing up for expected COVID-19 vaccination campaigns by setting up Work.com for Vaccines, which will “help governments and healthcare organizations more safely and efficiently manage vaccine programs,” the company said in a press release.

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MAY 22, 2017

According to a report in TechCrunch , with the new fund, the VC has a total capital of greater than $5 billion under management. Menlo’s emphasis on early-stage investing in our main funds is a strategy that’s working,” says Managing Director Mark Siegel in a statement to TechCrunch.

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MAY 31, 2018

This week, Uber and Lyft were told by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera to “turn over records on whether they classify drivers as employees or private contractors, as well as records on driver pay and benefits,” according to a statement from his office. And here come the subpoenas ….

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

San Francisco-based Lever operates a talent acquisition platform, LeverTRM, that brings together applicant tracking system (ATS) and candidate relationship management (CRM) capabilities in one location. Lever , a talent acquisition platform provider, has raised $50M in a Series D from Apax Digital. Want the full post?

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Reis data indicates that the proportion of units sitting empty in some cities – with the inclusion of Birmingham, Alabama and Indianapolis, Indiana – is roughly four times higher than San Francisco, the Financial Times reported. However, the retail vacancy rate was under 7 percent in 17 cities, with San Francisco taking the lead at 4.1

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The San Francisco-based loan marketplace operator also said it’s well-positioned to navigate the current environment and complete the acquisition next year of Radius Bancorp , which LendingClub management called its “top strategic priority.”. We are not sitting still and hoping for things to get better.”.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the San Francisco-based company announced Monday (Aug. Filing confidentially allows a company to keep its financials private until 15 days prior to the actual offering to prevent competitors from gaining more detailed knowledge of their operations. 31) in a press release.

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

We’re always looking for ways to make shopping Target’s selection even easier,” John Mulligan, Target’s chief operating officer, said in a blog post. Since joining Target, Shipt membership tripled and it hired 375 new employees to work at its locations in Birmingham, Alabama and San Francisco.

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JUNE 29, 2020

IAC will change its name to Shift as the transaction proceeds and the Shift management team of CEO and Co-Founder George Arison and Co-CEO Toby Russell will stay in place. “We IAC is what is known as a “blank check” merger company that trades financial assets for stakes in companies that will go public.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Nigerian digital payments startup Paga is expanding its operations with the acquisition of Apposit , a software development startup based in Ethiopia, as reported on Wednesday (Jan. Speaking at Disrupt San Francisco , Oviosu announced Paga’s plans to expand globally. The amount paid for the acquisition was not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He said the company’s new owners include PIMCO, a California-based global investment management firm, Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP, a global institutional alternative investment management firm headquartered in New York City and Sixth Street Partners, the San Francisco global investment firm.

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JULY 7, 2020

Founded in 2012, nCino has raised $213 million in venture-backed funding, according to Crunchbase, the San Francisco provider of business data about private and public companies. nCino said it works with more than 1,100 financial institutions (FIs) globally, with assets ranging in size from $30 million to $2 trillion. .

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

29) announced a deal for the AML platform of Beam Solutions , a San Francisco-based startup that focuses on transaction monitoring and helping financial companies comply with KYC regulations. Another key component of the platform is helping companies manage various KYC and AML regulations in different jurisdictions across the world.

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MAY 18, 2020

Shares of the San Francisco-based mobile payment company fell by 2.29 For example, we wonder how many restaurants, retailers or salons can operate profitably if they are only allowed to be 25-50 percent full,” he said. Bank of America has lowered its rating of Square Inc. Square Inc.’s Paychex Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

San Francisco-based DoorDash is moving beyond North America and is now taking orders in Melbourne, Australia, taking on UberEats, Menulog and Deliveroo, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Sept. North America’s biggest food delivery service was launched in 2013 and operates in more than 4,000 U.S. cities as well as in Canada.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Last month, Grab expanded its reach with the announcement that it will offer consumer loans in Singapore along with wealth management products. The company said it will lay off 982 employees and furlough an additional 288 to trim operating costs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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JUNE 10, 2020

Flutterwave, based in San Francisco and Nigeria, has been on a roll since it pulled in $35 million last year in venture funding, including from Worldpay. Alon Lits , Uber’s general manager for Sub-Saharan Africa, said that, “depending on the country, you’ve got different top up methods available.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the San Francisco-based company announced Monday (Aug. Filing confidentially allows a company to keep its financials private until 15 days prior to the actual offering to prevent competitors from gaining more detailed knowledge of their operations. 31) in a press release.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

The company operates a business verification platform allowing corporate customers, including B2B buyers and suppliers, to verify their business partners and mitigate risk. Detected operates a platform that uses data points to confirm a business's identity, location and other metrics that are continually updated.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The acquisition will see Kabbage take on 20 new team members in its San Francisco office, with Radius Intelligence CEO Joel Carusone also joining Kabbage to support the integration of the data analytics solution into its offering. In another statement, Carusone pointed to the role data plays in small business cash flow management.

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MARCH 1, 2020

The company works with others, such as Nokia, Dell and PayPal , on managing contracts. Docusign, which is based in San Francisco, operates its largest base out of Seattle, where it was originally founded in 2003. Seal Software, founded in 2010, advertises itself as a leader in enterprise contract analytics.

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JUNE 5, 2019

Entrepreneur and Farmgirl Flowers Founder Christina Stembel, upon moving to San Francisco and being bitten by the “founders bug” that seems to affect so many in that city, didn’t just want to take on the best-known incumbents in the business – she wanted to do it with a sustainable, high-growth and completely bootstrapped operation. “I

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Authorize.net , Visa’s SMB digital payment management system, is eliminating its monthly gateway fee for the life of an account in addition to its transaction fees for the first 100,000 transactions of new North American clients enrolling on Feb. 7), according to a Tuesday (Feb. 2) announcement emailed to PYMNTS.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The San Francisco-based company said in the Thursday (Nov. Stratus works with companies to digitalize their operations and reduce or eliminate their reliance on manual or paper-based processes. 19) release that it will add Simfoni’s spend analysis capabilities to its procure-to-pay solution.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The company, which is based in San Francisco and has offices in Ghana and Kenya, will give people in Nigeria access to its peer-to-peer (P2P) payment service through a partnership with payment gateway company Paystack. Abiodun Animashaun, the co-founder of the Lagos-based ride-hailing startup Gokada, will serve as country manager.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

Airbnb managed to undercut a hotel industry that had been entrenched in global society for decades upon decades based on one simple principle: better lodgings at lower prices. That ethos still holds sway throughout much of Airbnb’s global operations , but for a few weeks in Rio, that book has been shotputted out of the window.

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MAY 27, 2020

Stripe, a technology company that allows businesses to make and receive online payments, has launched in five more European countries, the San Francisco firm announced Wednesday (May 27). The global payments company is now doing business in the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Malta.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

The San Francisco–based company’s announcement marks its next step in global expansion, specifically focusing on the “gig economy,” as well as new digital marketplaces and on-demand companies. The company has offices in the aforementioned San Francisco, as well as Austin and Vancouver.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Anine Bing tapped NewStore to leverage its cloud-based omnichannel order management system and mobile point of service offerings. “Operating a storefront in a major city like San Francisco isn’t cheap. Postmates is also stepping up. Retailers can visit the company’s partner page to start the pilot.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

26) that the company raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Ribbit Capital, based in San Francisco, and Steadview Capital, based in London. Its lending operations connect small businesses with about $500 million in financing over a three-month period, with the company planning to expand that funding amount to $2000.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Restaurant management app Revention is teaming with on-demand logistics platform DoorDash to help restaurateurs streamline delivery operations, Revention said in a press release on Tuesday (Aug. The partnership wants to build out restaurants’ operational efficiencies and eventually include supply fulfillment and last-mile logistics.

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