CB Insights

JANUARY 14, 2020

In case you missed it, the 5th annual Future of Fintech (June 14-16) is moving west to San Francisco. Chairman of the Board, Santander Innoventures ; EVP and Chief Digital and Innovation Officer, Banco Santander (NYSE: SAN). And that’s not the only change. 50+ startup demos and hundreds of VCs on the hunt.

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OCTOBER 4, 2020

Hims , a direct-to-consumer company selling health products targeted at millennials, is using a SPAC to go public , for example. 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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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Millennial purchases grew 36 percent in 2019, which Bergsund sees as the key to what he calls the next generation of wine drinkers. Millennials are leading a premium trend for wine. Millennials are also leading a trend in high-end spirits, which will be a focus for 2020. Revenue from the company’s mobile app grew 60 percent.

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JUNE 21, 2018

The old model of opening a retail store with merchandise as a main focus of the space may not appeal to today’s consumers – millennials in particular. This generation values experiences, not just tangible goods.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The company said the pandemic, despite its adverse effect for many markets, had done well for its own revenues, with 58 percent of adults and 70 percent of millennials saying they were more likely to have food delivered now than two years ago. DoorDash said last month that it only had around 3 percent of the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Founded a little over a year ago, Hims seeks to tap the millennial male market by offering up skincare solutions, hair-loss products and erectile dysfunction medication (specifically, a generic form of Viagra) online. Mens health and personal care startup Hims offers up a pretty straightforward business proposition.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Its platform, which has 4 million Gen-Z and millennial users, provides customers with insight into their finances and data to make financial decisions. market, and make additional management hires in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cleo bills itself as a digital financial assistant and adviser for Generation Z.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2017

The San Francisco-based company, has made numerous strides, from issuing its millionth loan to expanding its retail partnerships; from preparing to launch new products in the fall to moving into a permanent office space. This has been a good year for Affirm, the lending startup established by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin.

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JULY 29, 2020

Apartment List , a San Francisco platform that connects renters and listings, reported that a record number of tenants and homeowners, 32 percent , missed some or all of their rent or mortgage payments in July. As a result, many millennials are not in the housing market.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

Other stores for a mix of in-house brands are set to move into Westfield World Trade Center, San Francisco Centre, and Garden State Plaza, among other places. Verishop is targeting mainly younger, affluent and millennial shoppers.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

While millennials are a highly coveted demographic in many business sectors, there is one restaurant in San Francisco that is reaching to new heights to attract a younger, tech-savvy clientele — or at least to attract some additional attention. Three-Michelin-star restaurant Quince has reportedly begun to serve food on iPads.

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MAY 14, 2018

Bridge Millennials And The Threat To Physical Retail. We called them Bridge Millennials. At 30 to 40 years of age, they are younger than Gen X-ers but older than most millennials. The chain’s investment in Flipkart includes $2 billion of new equity funding, which Flipkart will use to accelerate growth.

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MARCH 10, 2017

LendingHome, the San Francisco mortgage company, is aiming to expand its market for loans by going after first-time homebuyers. That customer base is expected to increasingly include millennials who are purchasing their first homes. With its new product, LendingHome said it’s setting its sights on the 15.8

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JUNE 1, 2019

Older adults tend to own, while younger adults skew much more heavily toward renting – particularly millennials, for whom homeownership is lower than other generations at the same point in their lives. Try finding a place to live in San Francisco with a $1,215 monthly rent budget. What is Nuns and Nones?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The move comes as consumers — particularly millennials — are opting for furniture subscriptions through startups like Feather. The American dream has changed [for millennials ],” Jay Reno, Feather’s founder and CEO, told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster in an interview. “The

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 9, 2020

San Francisco-based Affirm , an installment financing platform for online commerce run by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin , filed its S-1 in preparation for going public in November. Affirm wants to disrupt the credit card business, a notoriously opaque realm of consumer finance.

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MAY 27, 2020

The CEO of SoFi, the digital personal finance company based in San Francisco, said its investor accounts have doubled this year, mostly due to fractional shares. Founded in 2011, SoFi made its reputation by refinancing student loans for millennials. In 2019, it launched SoFi Invest and SoFi Money, a cash management account.

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MAY 29, 2019

SoFi , which is based in San Francisco, has launched numerous new products this year. The company began in 2011 and originally focused on student loan financing for millennials , but has since expanded into personal and mortgage loans. The company also introduced a product called SoFi Money, which is a cash account that has a 2.25

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

If the seller is still interested Shift personnel will pick up the car from one of its hubs (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento and Portland) and pay the seller via ACH transfer. Shift says its biggest demographic groups are millennials and GenXers (or an age range of 25 to 45).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

According to the report, Candytopia has turned into a popular place for millennials looking for a good picture for Instagram as well as families aiming to provide their children with “a sugary day of fun.” The company has opened locations on a limited-time basis in New York, Santa Monica and San Francisco.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Entrepreneurs sometimes see opportunity in places that are far from the hustle and bustle of city life: When spending time in San Francisco, Outdoorsy Co-founder and CEO Jeff Cavins spotted an unmet need for accommodations other than hotels or home shares in scenic destinations. They want everything on demand,” Cavins said.

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APRIL 16, 2018

The San Francisco-based startup lets brides and bridesmaids shop together online, mimicking the traditional offline bridal-party-shopping outing. The new funding was said to be used to Weddington Way’s team, expand its efforts to acquire new customers and make improvements to its collaborative-shopping platform.

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JUNE 24, 2019

The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials. Razer, which was founded in 2005, has 18 offices around the globe and headquarters in both Singapore and San Francisco. The integrated service is expected to roll out in select countries in Southeast Asia before expanding across the world.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Eatsa recently opened in San Francisco, Berkeley and Woodland Hills — and almost no human interaction is required. Millennials love customizing everything, and this is clearly aimed at that demographic.

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JULY 23, 2018

The move comes as consumers — particularly millennials — are opting for furniture subscriptions through startups like Feather.

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JULY 21, 2017

When we saw the engagement and session times for Dote and heard from users, we saw that it had created the ‘shopping as entertainment’ experience on smartphones for millennial and Gen Z women,” says Jeremy Liew, a partner at Lightspeed. “We Lightspeed Venture Partners led the $7.2

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The company’s target market includes Gen Z and millennials. The company offers rooms in markets like New York, San Francisco, Nashville, New Orleans, Chicago and Orlando. Their profiles will display a blue checkmark once they are verified.

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JUNE 27, 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. is down this year compared to 2017, particularly with millennials, and that baby boomers are now the new drivers of the movement.”

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Younger shoppers, however, are still seeking out places like IKEA even in the age of online shopping: A Home Furnishing News survey found that brick-and-mortar stores provided 63 percent of indoor furniture purchased by millennials. As it stands, Amazon Go stores in Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco use the cashierless technology.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

But, while closing physical bank branches might appear to be a wise cost-saving measure, the move comes with risks that could hurt banks’ relations with new millennial customers. It has also meant working in anticipation of the changing needs of millennial users. You just start with that digital-first mindset.”.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Online lenders could be opening doors for female entrepreneurs; the San Francisco Fed's Mary Daly talks about closing the gender gap in the research department; Barclays' UK diversity chief shares mentor-mentee relationship tips; Centric's Patti Husic creates a millennial advisory board.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Brian Armstrong, the CEO of San Francisco-based Coinbase , reportedly had some strong words for U.S. Environmental and safety concerns over vehicles have led many Gen Z and millennial customers to rely more on public transportation or rideshares. A bailout could reportedly involve equity from SoftBank and debt from JPMorgan.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Three ways millennials could accelerate FinTech trends in 2016. When it comes to finance, millennials are a generation known to be conservative in spending and distrustful of financial institutions. Thus, it’s not shocking that millennials are a driving factor in the growing financial technology, or FinTech, movement.

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MARCH 5, 2017

And according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, “… cash remains a unique, resilient and heavily used consumer payment instrument.”. Millennials have a very difficult time getting things like credit cards, debit cards or bank accounts, unless they are backed up by a parent or a guardian.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Todd Smith, president and CMO at Sonic, told MarketWatch that this campaign comes from the company’s long experience with the millennial demographic. “The millennial target isn’t a new target for us, nor is it a customer that’s foreign to us,” Smith said. “We Palm Springs, Orange County, San Francisco, New York and Dallas).

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JUNE 12, 2019

More than 100 Goodwill store locations ranging from New York to San Francisco are uploading products like collectibles, clothing and furniture to the platform to drive in-store and online sales. With the tie-up, the items are listed under handles for regional Goodwill locations.

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MAY 20, 2019

Millennials prefer to use cards for smaller transactions, namely those under $5. He noted that Philadelphia and San Francisco have banned cashless stores. The convenience factor, he said, looms large in data tied to a Visa survey that found in the U.S.,

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