PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

issuers for Mastercard , told Karen Webster in an interview, recent announcements of Chase rolling out a new card, Freedom Flex, while refreshing its Freedom Unlimited card, underscore the importance of flexible rewards, with points racked up across grocery and other categories. But as Linda Kirkpatrick , president of U.S.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

banking-as-a-service (BaaS) Startup Railsbank closed a $37 million funding deal co-led by MiddleGame Ventures and Ventura Capital. Also participating in the round were Anthos Capital, Global Brain, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Moneta VC, Mitsui Fudosan and Firestartr. “We

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Startups Leadership Financial Systems Banking 88

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Just a week after Amazon debuted its Luxury Store within its app for the couture crowd, Walmart is following with its own private label bid for the fashion category. Like Amazon, Walmart has been active in the clothing and apparel space, as Incandela indicated, including a joint venture with thredUP. billion in 2019 for a 9.5

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The FutureCFO Excellence Awards 2023 received nominations from across the region for categories in Leadership Practice, Business Leadership, Operational Excellence, and Technology Innovation. Most Innovative Use of Business Application: CCH Management Services Pte.

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Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Leadership SAP 52

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

17) that it has raised $120 million in a second round of venture capital funding. We’ll also be rolling out innovative new software features and a wider breadth of workout categories that we are excited to share more on in the coming months.".

Marketing 88

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Mint’s decision to phase out production of pennies next year, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a California-based venture capital firm, said money will be digital by 2030, Bloomberg News reported. There will be other entrants in this category,” Haun told the news service. On the heels of the U.S. It’s a real commitment,” Haun said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Global payroll company Papaya Global has landed $40 million in a Scale Venture Partners-led funding round, according to a blog post. The company said Access Industries (through its Israeli vehicle Claltech), Workday Ventures and “all of our existing investors” participated in the round, according to the post.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

The venture capital firm’s last fund totaled $200 million and was rolled out in 2017, according to reports. The fund reportedly intends to invest in early-stage technology firms in categories like FinTech, artificial intelligence (AI) and software-as-a-service (SaaS), among other areas.

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Startups Investments Banking Technology 56

PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

Anytime a startup like Scalefast can take $22 million off the venture capital table in the middle of a pandemic, things are changing. Its funding is indicative of its business model and the changing fortunes of the DTC category. That’s three distinct areas that look like safe bets to fuel the category. Now, will this class work?

Planning 72

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

With a focus on helping small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) recover, the company is rolling out new features for small business cardholders including up to $250 back on eligible business purchases and up to 400,000 Membership Rewards Points in a variety of purchase categories. "As

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 7, 2023

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

Accel Ventures and Index Ventures also chipped in. As a first in our category, we’re excited to provide our customers with a way to stand out no matter how they are getting started.”. That, PYMNTS wrote, should bode well for its chances. Squarespace was valued at $1.7

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

With more employees working remotely, commercial card FinTech Brex has introduced a new rewards feature that allows corporates using the Brex Card for Corporates to opt-in to reward bonus categories designed for work-from-home staff. Banks Nix SMB Card Fees. Plastiq Raises $75M For SMB Card Technology.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

It’s hard to find a retail fashion category that’s reliably successful these days. As hard as it is to handicap the category, a new online fashion startup called Affordable Chic – which launched online on Jan. It will extend from fashion to furniture and will include other categories as well.”. Luxury fashion is recovering.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

-Israeli startup Fabric has a new investor in Evolv Ventures for its Series B round. Evolv Ventures is most known as the venture arm of Kraft Heinz. Kraft Heinz, one of the world’s prominent global food and beverage companies, operates Evolv through a team effort, involving food, startup and venture capital professionals.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Gene Munster and Will Thompson, two researchers from Loup Ventures, tested Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, Siri and Google Assistant. The questions were from four categories: local information, general information, navigation and commerce. Loup Ventures also laid out how much each assistant improved over time.

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MAY 1, 2020

With $68 million in combined venture capital funding, this week’s B2B FinTech investments are certainly not the highest they’ve been, but considering the current market, the latest rounds remain impressive nonetheless. Additional investors included One Way Ventures, Maya Capital, Magma Partners and others. and Mexico.

Banking 66

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The social commerce category is finishing the year with a flourish. According to MarketWatch , L’Oréal is making a “minority investment” in Replika via its venture capital fund, BOLD Business Opportunities for L’Oréal Development. eCommerce currently makes up around 25 percent of L’Oréal’s revenue, she noted.

Entertainment 103

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

EDBI, EV Growth, Rakuten, 33 Capital and Cornerstone Ventures also partook in the round, DealStreet Asia reported. The company has more than 19 million users, providing cash back in categories that include travel reservations, general merchandise, food delivery, groceries, fashion, and health and beauty.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Recent developments in both categories show striking progress for the technology. Hygiene and safety are a top priority for the category, even for stores that have reopened. GM is very impressed with Envisics’ holographic AR-enhanced head-up display technology,” said Matt Tsien , president of GM Ventures.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

billion in venture capital funding in 2020, which was a 29 percent boost over the previous year, according to CNBC. Singh said the company’s process involves taking medical records and giving them to a network of physicians who specialize in those disease categories. Digital health startups attracted around $24.1

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

million investment from a few investors, including Opera Tech Ventures , which is the venture division of bank BNP Paribas. Older investors like EQT Ventures and Octopus Ventures also took part in the investment. EQT Ventures is delighted to support Steve and the team on their journey to transform banking!”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

Discussions are taking place with Connecticut-based L Catterton, which was a key player in Tonal’s $45 million venture capital funding round in 2019. According to a Bloomberg report , Tonal is in talks with investors for funding that would value the company at $250 million or more. “There is nothing like Tonal on the market today.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Other less healthy entries to breathe some growth into the category include Lucky Charms and Cinnamon Toast Crunch (now extended into ice cream). And SpongeBob has been rescued from his 2004 Bikini Bottom home for a new cereal intro – because one of the trends that has never faded in the category is nostalgia.

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Marketing Investments Sales Retail 64

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with American Express Ventures and Latitude Ventures also participating. NEA Venture Partner Liza Landsman, who was the former president of Jet.com, will join Flow’s board. There [are] services and knowledge that is very country-specific and even category-specific,” he noted.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

To bring about the next generation of service-oriented and software-defined automobiles, computing solutions provider GuardKnox has rolled out a new category on the worldwide vehicle supply chain called the Cybertech Tier. In 2019, GuardKnox announced that it had notched $21 million in a Series A funding round.

Technology 52

Technology Securities B2B 52

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Beyond Afterpay’s efforts to expand to new global markets while adding more consumers and retailers along the way, Molnar said the year ahead will be focused on adding new categories. To that point, the company has just signed a partnership deal with Westpac Bank, and Molnar said there will likely be similar ventures in the future.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When Miami-based Retail e-Commerce Ventures (REV) recently announced that it purchased the remains of twice-bankrupt RadioShack , it wasn’t some one-off strategy to acquire distressed assets for pennies on the dollar. Instead, it was the latest move in a business model that the company has long followed. Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods stores.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Startups that have offerings that are consumer-facing with the inclusion of financial services have brought in most of the venture capital this year at roughly $8.2 According to reports, there is some overlap when it comes to companies that have offerings that come in over one category.). billion per Tracxn. billion the year prior.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Venture capital firm Pear has announced $160 million in new fundraising to fuel its next wave of investments, with a focus on seed-stage B2B startups. However, Pear also noted that it does not focus on one specific vertical or category of startup. According to reports on Tuesday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As Glossier Founder and CEO Emily Weiss told the news outlet, “Fragrance is an extremely personal category — one that people understandably prefer to discover in person — and department stores are the largest channel for fragrance, making up nearly a quarter of all U.S. fragrance sales.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

The rideshare giant also recently dumped ventures in Russia, China and Southeast Asia to keep its promise to get rid of money-losers and turn a profit. . This acquisition significantly strengthens our position in the category,” said Deepinder Goyal, CEO of Zomato. percent business stake, according to reports on Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2019

Existing investors Rho Ventures, FirstMark Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners also participated in the round. “We believe this category has the potential to one day surpass anti-virus in size, and we are excited to partner with the emerging market leader as they create and grow the category.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2019

million in venture funding. Existing investors Susa Ventures and Dynamo, as well as others, participated in the round. To date, the startup has raised $15 million in venture funding. In conjunction with the round, STORD announced a new model and category of distribution dubbed Networked Distribution.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

The funding was led by ICONIQ Capital, with participation from existing investors Susquehanna Growth Equity and Citi Ventures. ICONIQ combines patient capital with a long-term vision of investing in category-defining businesses, and the firm has worked with some of the world’s most successful tech entrepreneurs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

The funding was led by ICONIQ Capital, with participation from existing investors Susquehanna Growth Equity and Citi Ventures. ICONIQ combines patient capital with a long-term vision of investing in category-defining businesses, and the firm has worked with some of the world’s most successful tech entrepreneurs.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

This round’s investors haven’t been revealed, but the company has previously been funded by Granite Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Visa — which invested $25 million — 83North and others. Marqeta sees an opportunity in this and is focusing on services that would work alongside digital payment ventures. In the U.S.,

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