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OCTOBER 11, 2019

After one of the busiest weeks of the year for B2B startup venture capital funding, this week revealed a bit of a lull in the market. It was an SMB InsurTech startup, however, that led this week’s roundup, and brought the market its newest unicorn. Fleet management startup Avrios , based in Germany, raised $14.2

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MAY 22, 2019

The online retailer has already been looking to raise capital at a valuation of about $2 billion, and the acquisition of ShopClues could help its funding efforts. For its part, ShopClues raised nearly $150 million in funding in 2016 to reach a billion-dollar valuation, becoming the seventh Indian startup firm to join the unicorn club.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

More than $874 million in fresh funding landed at B2B startups this week across a range of market segments and geographies. based alternative small business lending isn’t dead with investors and an India startup landed more than half a billion dollars. FinBox plans to use the investment on product research and development.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

The latest funds put ShareChat’s valuation at about $650 million, according to a source. This investment will help ShareChat grow and provide the company’s management team access to Twitter’s executives as thought partners,” Manish Maheshwari, managing director of Twitter India, said in a prepared statement.

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BlueLight

AUGUST 21, 2020

Financial Advice for Startups I recently spoke with finance leaders from a couple dozen startups. I caught up with Ryan Keating, Managing Director of Keating Consulting Group , to get his perspective after 20 years of accelerating growth in venture-backed startups. Compliance ?—?We An Interview with Ryan Keating?—?Financial

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DECEMBER 10, 2016

“When I founded my first startup, it got me thinking — banks are middlemen that can and should be disrupted,” Laplanche noted in a 2007 interview on how he came up with the idea of Lending Club. Furthermore, there were reports that the date on the loans were tampered with to ensure they were within compliance requirements.

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MARCH 31, 2017

Investors are fueling growth for B2B FinTechs across Asia, with startups in Indonesia, Singapore and India securing most of the more than $125 million raised in recent days. Reports Wednesday (March 29) said Accion Venture Lab led the seed funding round as part of its broader focus to invest in businesses that promote financial inclusion.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

billion valuation. Stampli , an AP startup, announced new funding late last month to the tune of $25 million. But corporate payers are not the only entities in charge of driving adoption of AP automation technologies. Stampli Eyes Invoices as Supplier Collaboration Tools.

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APRIL 29, 2016

News that a group of leaders hailing from the finance industry weighed in on regulation in FinTech, stating that collaboration should be a major theme among all manner of players – from startups to the most entrenched big banks – may hint at the shape of FinTech to come. Elsewhere, compliance issues will dominate, and so will insurance.

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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.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

It was an idea slightly ahead of its time, but not by much – and despite the fact that most startups get their start by maxing out their credit cards. Its stock popped 56 percent in the first day of trading, leaving the company’s post-IPO valuation at $8.6 The Problems and the Reformation. The Aftershocks.

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JULY 24, 2020

London startup mobile bank Revolut Ltd. billion valuation as part of its Series D round that kicked off five months ago. The new funding is an extension of that round to $580 million while the valuation remains the same, the company said. has secured $80 million in new funding at a $5.5 the New York-based settlement platform.

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APRIL 2, 2019

Segment, a data collection startup that helps companies manage customer data, has raised $175 million in funding, according to a report by Bloomberg. The California-based company has a valuation of $1.5 Previous investors Accel and Alphabet outfit GV led the round with Meritech Capital Partners. billion. “You

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MAY 31, 2019

-based B2B FinTechs led the way in this week’s investment roundup, with more than $212 million in new funding falling in the hands of startups targeting a range of enterprise operations. Accounts payable, cloud migration, Big Data and even legal management for startups raising new funding were all targeted among investors.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Rapyd, the Silicon Valley-based startup that offers a slew of financial services from payments to ID verifications from one API, has raised $40 million in venture funding. It also has a tokenized identity management and compliance solution. With the round of fundraising, the company has raised a total of $60 million.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

Also, OYO , an India-based hotel and booking startup, announced a $1.5 Ant Financial to Invest $600M in Zomato. India Lodging Startup OYO Raises $1.5B Agarwal, who founded OYO in 2013, will triple his interest in the firm with a $700 million investment to purchase new shares, bringing its valuation to $10 billion.

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JUNE 12, 2018

There is a sudden surge in construction technology startups, and investors have perked up. Analysts forecasted a 40 percent increase in venture capitalist (VC) funding for construction startups between 2014 and 2017, with investments totaling $375 million last year. trillion global valuation by the end of the decade).

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It simplifies the filing process for very small and startup nonprofits. . If your nonprofit has gross annual revenue receipts greater than or equal to $200,000 OR a total asset valuation greater than or equal to $500,000, you’re required to file the full form 990. . Simple e-postcard for nonprofits earning less than $50,000/year.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The CFPB doesn’t like it and has decided it needs to go – and just like Wells was the big fish on the line for the ongoing crackdown/smackdown of big banks, nailing the startup that went to market as the kindler, gentler side of payday loans may be the example that’s held up to put the rest of the industry out to pasture.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

In what’s becoming an increasingly popular theme for B2B startup investors, this week’s funding rounds for B2B startups largely centered on tackling data silos and empowering the enterprise with the insights that data can provide. B2B eCommerce startup Nuorder, based in the U.S., Cross River Bank.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And we’d sort of turn that into a valuation business. MILLER: Well actually I thought, leading up to the great financial crisis, I thought to myself, we’re going to be out of business within a couple of years because nobody wanted an independent valuation. And I’ve never looked at it as an investment vehicle.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. How does a kid from Arizona, from Phoenix, get interested in venture investing, not exactly known as a hotbed of early-stage tech companies. So in 1999, I invested in this. Like I was just like my one internet investment.

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