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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The round was led by funds and accounts advised by T. The shift to eCommerce has prompted a shift in logistics , with even the biggest companies looking for new, efficient ways to move products and take advantage of the latest technology. Walmart said Nuro's mission "runs parallel" with its own of "helping customers live better.".

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

India’s FinBox landed an undisclosed amount of pre-Series A funding, reports in Inc42 said this week, with investors at Arali Ventures leading the investment in the credit risk management technology startup. FinBox plans to use the investment on product research and development. Funds and accounts advised by T.

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JUNE 28, 2019

Corporate travel and expense (T&E) management solutions provider TripActions led this week’s B2B venture capital roundup with its announcement of new funding that propelled its valuation to $4 billion. Prime Venture Partners provided the investment, reports said. Fairjungle.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

B2B FinTech enjoyed more time in the spotlight with investors this week as companies around the globe — ranging from eProcurement to small- and medium-sized business (SMB) accounting to supply chain management startups — secured fresh funding to support growth. SMB Accounting. B2B eCommerce. Alternative Lending. B2B payments.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

New pet owners account for about $4 billion in fresh demand for food and accessories. Petco has invested $300 million over the past three years to renovate, launch an eCommerce site and implement a full-service veterinary hospital network. It could be looking for a $6 billion valuation. .

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

The last big Chinese IPO rush occurred in 2014, when 14 companies, including eCommerce titan Alibaba, raised $25.7 Others have suffered from their own internal problems, such as Luckin Coffee, which was delisted in April over an accounting scandal. The Chinese IPO boom comes amid heightened tensions between the U.S. China and the U.S.

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MAY 6, 2019

Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba and South Korean investment firm Mirae-Naver led the round of funding, according to a report by Reuters , citing the company. Alibaba is in a fierce battle with Amazon in all aspects of eCommerce as both expand around the globe. CDC, the U.K.’s Bigbasket is in 25 Indian cities.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Companies like alternative small business (SMB) lenders or accounting solutions providers, for instance, remain popular investment targets. PYMNTS takes a look at the latest investment rounds, totaling more than $447 million. The investment follows a $1.5 million investment round later this year. Portal Finance.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

European tech startups are getting a new source of funding thanks to a new $200 million investment from Japan-based SoftBank. SoftBank reportedly will invest that $200 million in Mubadala, the state investment company of Abu Dhabi. Among the most recent investments? based robotics startup. Vision Fund. Startup Worries.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

European tech start-ups are getting a new source of funding thanks to a new $200 million investment from Japan-based SoftBank. SoftBank reportedly will invest that $200 million in Mubadala, the state investment company of Abu Dhabi. Among the most recent investments by Softbank? based robotics startup. Vision Fund.

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MARCH 29, 2019

This latest round of funding brings the startup’s valuation to between $2 billion and 2.3 This isn’t the first time that Alibaba has invested in BigBasket. Back in 2017, Alibaba invested $200 million in the company, leading a $280 million funding round. South Korean firm Mirae Asset and U.K.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to Iron Pillar’s report, B2B startups need 50 percent less capital than startups providing consumer-facing products and services if they wish to achieve a $1 billion valuation (unicorn status). leading the investment. Also in the U.K., Funding Xchange secured $10.3 The Access Group , a U.K.-based

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

From a firm that targets accounting for blockchain companies to a social network for farmers, investors certainly diversified their funding targets. million in Series A funding announced this week, Libra said it plans to roll out new apps and services for accounting, auditing and tax processes, according to Accounting Today.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

FinTech investment in India proceeds apace through the last few weeks of the year, with funding rounds extended to digital payments firms and digital lenders. To that end, the total invested, year to date and as tracked by PYMNTS, stands at a bit more than $4.5 billion USD equivalent. RupeeReDee.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Things were a bit more active on the Amazon front, with a big infrastructure investment pushing its market cap back over the $1 trillion line, a new B2B financing partnership with Goldman Sachs potentially in the offing and its expanding stores and services menu. Market Cap Watch: Back to the Trillionaire Club With Logistic Investments.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Munchery came on the scene in 2010, and hit a valuation of $300 million in 2015. Munchery even offered monthly membership plans for its prepared, healthy meals, tying itself to the subscription eCommerce trend. Careem plans to invest a sizable amount of money into the new service — to the tune of $150 million.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

That’s not some silly riddle, but a description of a growing part of eCommerce, one that is going far beyond the resale of used apparel into other, more complicated and costly products. What’s new is old – and then new again. China, too, is experience growth in online sales of used cars. Phones and Luxury Watches.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Adding to the confusion is the latest data from KPMG International and CB Insights, which revealed that private investment in FinTech startups more than doubled last year. It’s home to Nubox, a Software-as-a-Service company that provides businesses with cloud-based accounting, payroll and billing solutions. B2B eCommerce.

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MARCH 19, 2018

According to John Hecht, consumer finance analyst at the investment bank Jefferies, retailers “have become really aggressive at pushing back” and looking for better rates from the card networks. Reports in Bloomberg last week indicated that Walmart is looking to become Flipkart’s biggest shareholder with an investment of $7 billion.

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MARCH 15, 2019

It’s a form of “inward” investment, we might term it. Fast Money in the Bank: PayPal launches its Instant Transfer to Bank feature, which lets users move money from PayPal accounts to bank accounts for faster access, a process that took one day under its standard offering. regardless of the wrangling between the U.K.

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JULY 10, 2017

Visa’s push into mobile payments continues when late last month it announced its strategic investment in Klarna, the 12-year-old, Sweden-based startup focused on payments and POS financing that counts 70,000 eCommerce sites among its 65 to 70 million customer roster throughout 18 countries. according to Gajda. “We

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

eBay’s essential allegation is that after being tipped off by a seller on the platform, an internal investigation revealed that Amazon has allegedly been creating fake eBay seller accounts so they could use eBay’s internal messaging system to reach out to eBay sellers – and invite them to come sell on Amazon’s marketplace instead.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

“We still think that AMZN is the best long-term growth investment available to investors today,” Sanderson wrote, according to CNBC. By 2025, the unit will account for close to 32 percent of its $88 billion of profits, he said in the note. Earlier in August, Apple became the first U.S. percent of the retail market in the U.S,

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MARCH 15, 2019

It’s a form of “inward” investment, we might term it. Fast Money in the Bank: PayPal launches its Instant Transfer to Bank feature, which lets users move money from PayPal accounts to bank accounts with faster access, when the process took one day under its standard offering. The company may come to market with a $6.2

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

Moreover, even in its home country, Uber’s dominance has been slipping, with some estimating that rival Lyft will account for as much as a third of the market within the next few years. a share, a price that would decrease Uber’s $60 billion valuation by 30 percent. billion in funding.

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JULY 17, 2020

Several B2B FinTechs topped the list in Q2, however, including commercial card startup Brex, which raised $150 million, as well as global business account service provider Airwallex with $160 million and small business alternative lender Fundbox with a $200 million raise — the largest of the quarter. TradeDepot. ’s Ravelin secured $20.6

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AUGUST 22, 2018

No one wears just one suit of armor, and no one shops in just one place when it comes to the mixing and matching of that armor, the hunting for designer names and comparing price tags against the waxing and waning of one’s bank account. Why should luxury fashion be any different? Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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APRIL 6, 2017

billion to expand its eCommerce offerings beyond its own website. While online sales from Walmart’s direct website account for a mere 3 percent of its total revenue, the entire eCommerce arena makes up 11 percent of the entire retail industry. Likewise, back in 2016, Walmart acquired Amazon competitor Jet.com for $3.3

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Payment will come from the consumers’ Visa accounts. According to the KPMG Fintech report , Q2 shows investment in VC-backed Fintech deal activity dropped to a five-quarter low in Q2 2016. Shopify already has 30,000 eCommerce sellers that use its tools in the U.K., The company hopes to roll it out later in this year.

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JUNE 30, 2016

is impacting everything from eCommerce sales to the value of the nation’s biggest financial institutions. In the very near future these companies may see the valuation of their businesses diminish, capital requirements change and even more investors looking to invest in the E.U. s decision to say “see ya” to the E.U.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Go big or go home — that could describe Tencent ’s aggressive investment philosophy, one whose pace will not ease, according to Martin Lau, president of the China-based internet firm that is responsible for WeChat and other digital tools. Both Tencent and rival Alibaba have poured money into international expansion efforts as well.

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MAY 6, 2019

Japanese capital group SoftBank has invested $20 million in Clip, a Mexican FinTech startup that offers a mobile credit card reader for smartphones. The investment is one of the first Latin American deals by SoftBank, as it launches its $5 billion tech fund in the area. The company’s total funding amount so far is about $160 million.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Global investing enthusiasts and eCommerce watchers have been reading the headlines about the coming explosion in Indian eCommerce for at least the last two years (possibly more, depending on how international one’s reading tastes are). That accounts for 13 percent of the internet-connected population and 2.6

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The newest PYMNTS eBook is full of expert insight into the future of B2B payments, from commercial cards to accounts receivable. This week’s B2B Data Digest pulls some of the highlights from that eBook and serves up the numbers behind the forecasts. — $20 trillion: the expected valuation of the B2B payments market.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Although explosive enthusiasm for such primitive technology can be hard to fathom now, Yapstone Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Sanjay Saraf noted in a recent conversation with Karen Webster that from the point of view of the time, the internet and early eCommerce looked absolutely miraculous.

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MAY 20, 2016

It took on Square by introducing a white label mPOS reader that makes omnichannel not only a reality for SMBs but a friction-free one at that — all of the sales made across any channel are all neatly integrated into the accounting software that they use to run their business. For Amazon this seems to be a pretty clear sizzle.

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AUGUST 13, 2018

Facebook Wants Access to User Bank Accounts. Facebook has reportedly had conversations with banks about giving Messenger access to user bank accounts. And never mind that consumers aren’t sitting on hold for hours these days with the bank waiting to get updated information on transactions and account balances. Why wouldn’t he?

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