PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

has invested in artificial intelligence startup CognitiveScale for an undisclosed sum, bizjournals.com reported. CognitiveScale traces its roots to a number of IBM engineers who had in turn worked on Watson, the supercomputer project that works with A.I. The USAA (United Services Automobile Assn.) and data analytics.

Startups 43

Startups Investments Leverage Numbers 43

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

This time around, an Alexa integration, a new partnership leveraging telematic capabilities and a major manufacturing investment by BMW are all working to connect and evolve the automotive space. Insurance agencies are looking to leverage technology to improve driver safety (and save policyholders some cash). and $79.99

Investments 40

Investments Manufacturing Leverage Startups 40

PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

Zooz pulls data from all of a merchant’s financial solutions and third-party integrations into one central, easily visible portal, which has a number of benefits. million in four investment rounds. PYMNTS: Can you give me some personnel growth numbers? First, it can help detect and avert fraud by making trends easier to spot.

Leverage 54

Leverage Startups Retail Currencies 54

PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2017

The last five days have seen numbers bouncing around between $790 and $800. While not quite back up to last October’s highs, these numbers are nothing to scoff at. Another number was on Amazon’s mind of late as well: $20 million. Just a few days ago, Amazon quietly acquired AI security startup harvest.ai The number 11.5

Numbers 40

Numbers Retail Leverage Startups 40

PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2018

Carvana, the Phoenix-based online buying and selling platform for used cars and creator of the used car vending machine, has acquired computer vision startup Car360, which leverages 360-degree imaging technology to help sellers show off their vehicles from every angle.

Startups 40

Startups Leverage Investments Technology 40

PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

In the life of a startup, there’s no better news than growth, be it across new verticals, devices or geographies. As startups such as DadeSystems , FitPay and Jewel Paymentech expand across devices and functions, Tipalti , AvidXchange and Emailage announce new growth for their local, national and global footprints. AvidXchange.

Startups 40

Startups Compliance Currencies Leverage 40

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

They can capture that distribution by aligning with incumbents who can leverage enablers’ innovations. One of those areas, Rosen remarked, is the Neobank opportunity — one that he said is overfunded, and where venture capitalists have chased a significant number of firms with billions of dollars. It’s overfunded by a lot.”.

Investments 50

Investments Healthcare Startups Valuation 50

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Investment activity picked up markedly in the penultimate week of January — but only as a headline. The German FinTech startup has raised $64 million cumulatively and will use that money to expand its banking platform across Europe. It allows us to make predictions on how airfares will move with the precision of flight number.

Investments 58

Investments Leverage Startups Numbers 58

CFO Talks

MARCH 14, 2024

Leveraging Technology: In today’s data-driven environment, tasks that involve implementing or improving technological solutions should be high on the CFO’s priority list. Leveraging Technology for Integration: Modern technology platforms offer powerful tools for integrating data and processes across departments.

Prioritization 52

Prioritization CFO Leverage Risk Management 52

Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 13, 2023

We also talk about how Danika’s former career in corporate finance at a number of tech startups inspired her to work with women in tech, as she realized that she understood the financial issues they faced and by being specifically niche-focused, she could create more repeatable processes and it would be easier to scale the business over time, (..)

Auditing 97

Auditing Corporate Finance Leverage Startups 97

PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2016

What once may not have been taken seriously — cryptocurrencies and futuristic payments — is today exploding as the innovation financial institutions are targeting for investments, largely hoping to get a jump on the blockchain before disruption takes a bite out of their traditional business. FS must leverage the FinTech ecosystem.”.

Startups 50

Startups Banking Compliance Leverage 50

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The license, due to be introduced on January 1, 2019, will allow FinTech projects to accept public deposits, as long as they are not invested and no interest is paid on them. I have never invested in bitcoin, and therefore I never made the profit they say I did.”. I just want you to stop for a second. It is a scam,” he said.

Startups 46

Startups Pharmaceutical Healthcare Leverage 46

PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2017

A biometric security startup with a fast growing membership-based secure identification program just recently scored a considerable amount of additional funding. The company will soon add LAX to its list of airports leveraging its service. “We just recently received $15 million in private equity funding from asset management firm T.

Startups 40

Startups Securities Leverage Numbers 40

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2016

According to a report in Recode , which cited those who have seen its fundraising deck, the new fund will invest in health care companies. Recode noted Maris is one of a number of executives to leave Google parent Alphabet. The Financial Times also said the number of companies GV backed decreased from 57 last year to 34 in 2015.

Valuation 73

Valuation Startups Investments Leverage 73

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

With a managed accounting service (MAS) created for startup founders and chief financial officers (CFOs), AcctTwo has rolled out service called MAS for SaaS. By decreasing the number of tasks IT departments need to complete and removing manual processing tasks, the process is accelerated. It is years in the making.

Accounting 52

Accounting Reconciliations Leverage Startups 52

CFO Thought Leader

JUNE 6, 2023

Sruthi Lanka is clearly not the only CFO who began her professional career at blue chip investment house Goldman Sachs. A typical self-question of the time was “How did bankers make the decisions that they made about about whether to invest or not invest?” For example, you can buy a piece of a Banksy painting on Public.

CFO 52

CFO Investments Finance Entertainment 52

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As Martins said, the country’s financial system and central bank have restrictive rules about what types of collateral — or “leverage” — businesses can offer when seeking loans. Should the loan not be paid back, nobli can recoup its losses via returns on those investments. In essence, nobli functions as a Credit-as-a-Service provider.

Financial Systems 54

Financial Systems Startups Treasury Banking 54

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Griffin Carlborg, a researcher at the digital intelligence firm Gartner L2, said those numbers show how much people trust the eCommerce giant. The company invested $60 million in a same-day delivery startup called Kozmo, and even though that failed, the idea reportedly inspired Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive.

Leverage 56

Leverage eCommerce Startups Sales 56

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

And while the last week had no shortage of players pushing ahead with big moves, there were three that managed to put up some pretty staggering early-season numbers. Amazon’s Big Robotics Investment . Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has returned to the entrepreneurial life with a new food delivery startup called CloudKitchens.

Startups 40

Startups Investments Construction Education 40

BlueLight

JUNE 5, 2020

Some startups are thriving in this situation and some startups are fighting for survival. Either way, the business environment is changing rapidly and this typically means startup founders and their boards are communicating much more frequently than in a “business as usual” situation.

Startups 52

Startups Technology Investments Finance 52

BlueLight

MAY 6, 2020

The investor update email is a powerful tool to leverage this effectively across a big group of investors. Communication architecture Before we get to the investor updates, it’s important to lay out an overall communication architecture (if you do that well, you can leverage it for this audience too).

Communication 52

Communication Startups Finance Benchmarking 52

PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

It’s what you do with the data, and how you leverage it into new customer-facing offerings that matters. There are a whole range of forward-thinking firms leveraging application programming interfaces (APIs) to issue cards, to create virtual accounts, promote micro-lending and micro-saving and even pay workers — all in bits and bytes. “Our

Banking 92

Banking Concentration Accounting Leverage 92

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The lending service could be a boon for Patreon, leveraging its existing customer base. Patreon keeps records on startups that seem to be delivering, a luxury with which Facebook and YouTube likely don’t want to bother, with a number of influencers attempting to make it big on those latter two platforms.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Leverage Startups Numbers 52

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.

Valuation 117

Valuation Investments Marketing Technology 117

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. It was between corporate law and investment banking.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 103

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Leverage Numbers 103

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Having the ability to leverage technology and digitally pay suppliers instead of relying on paper checks has been a recent and important upgrade. “It Read More On Venture Capital: Chinese eSports Provider VSPN Raises $60 Million To Expand Overseas Investments In Healthcare Startups Surge To $80.6

B2C 73

B2C Construction Healthcare B2B 73

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

To that end, in South Korea, a number of government ministries are looking into blockchain, eyeing the potential boost distributed ledger technology can give to marine logistics. The startup helps other firms access APIs that in turn work with health firms and their systems. As Coindesk reported Tuesday (Dec.

Healthcare 62

Healthcare Auditing B2B Compliance 62

PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2017

The move may also position Tesla to collaborate with Chinese rideshare company Didi Chuxing, in which Tencent invested back in 2015. Working together, Tesla and Tencent could feasibly leverage Didi’s existing network in China to bring self-driving vehicle models into the nation of over 1.3

Leverage 40

Leverage Startups Investments Technology 40

PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2018

News came early this week that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (the international conglomerate) is aiming to invest as much as $285 million to acquire a stake of as much as 4 percent in One97 Communications, the company that owns and runs Paytm , the digital payments/financial services firm. I think the potential for India is incredible.

Communication 40

Communication Investments eCommerce Leverage 40

PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2017

ECommerce marketplace startup Apollo Box is working to see just what augmented reality (AR) technologies can do for digital retail. What separates Apollo Box from other brands leveraging AR technologies for displaying products, Li said, is that the startup’s AR feature is directly integrated into its eCommerce solution for iPhone and Android.

Retail 46

Retail eCommerce Startups Technology 46

PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2017

A bit more than $783 million in investment activity marked last week’s fund flow. The biggest transaction in that space, and, indeed, across all investment activity, came from Ant Financial’s $200 million investment in Kakao Pay was the largest deal. The majority, at 72 percent, came from FinTech.

B2C 49

B2C Concentration Leverage Investments 49

PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2017

Leveraging mobile payments, GPS- or Bluetooth-tracking, QR code or other mobile-based authentication and auto-locking kickstands, the next generation of bike-sharing companies in China are ditching the dock in favor of letting riders view available bikes nearest them and reserving one on their phones. sometime soon.

Transportation 48

Transportation Startups Concentration Leverage 48

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

The analytics tool is designed for SMBs and startups without access to financial analytics platforms. Sigma is also a great option for companies that aren’t ready to invest in developing custom analytics applications – either because of budget constraints or size.

B2B 42

B2B Invoicing Budgeting Currencies 42

PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

It costs merchants nothing to join or remain on Sky.Garden; all they provide is their shop name, MPesa phone number and a few personal and business details (such as operating hours). Others don’t even have a brick-and-mortar store and must invest their time transporting goods from Point A to Point B.

eCommerce 52

eCommerce Transportation Advertising Leverage 52

PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2018

Travel was one of the first verticals the internet disrupted, and today there are not only countless platforms aggregating hotel rooms, cruises and flights; there are also an almost equally countless number of platforms that aggregate other travel platforms to make sure the customer can get the best value for their holiday booking.

CFO 50

CFO Communication Leverage Startups 50

PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

After all, money on hand can be used immediately to pay bills, invest or make purchases — to grow a business or put a family on firmer financial standing. Additionally, an account-to-account transaction can become seriously derailed by an error like an incorrect bank account number. Payment speed can be dragged down in many ways.

B2C 40

B2C Invoicing Securities Banking 40

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

While Amazon is fairly tight-lipped about specific numbers, eMarketer has cut its estimate of Amazon’s current online commerce market share in the U.S. Moreover, as Amazon is continually increasing its investment in delivery logistics, they are appearing as more a competitor on the horizon than a collaborator. Amazon led that round.

eCommerce 40

eCommerce Retail Leverage Startups 40