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MAY 4, 2016

Prosper also spent $40 million to acquire medical loan provider American Healthcare Lending LLC and personal finance startup Billguard Inc. Changing market conditions (and some higher-than-expected default rates) have changed the math and softened investor interest some. And though Prosper was valued at $1.9

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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.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2017

Peapod was one of the earliest Internet startups to offer grocery delivery services, so it only makes sense that the company would strive to stay at the forefront of the grocery sector – now more than ever, as the changing grocery landscape threatens to cull the weakest players in the space.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math. Moreover, as Amazon is continually increasing its investment in delivery logistics, they are appearing as more a competitor on the horizon than a collaborator. The firm is also investing $1.5 market share. Amazon led that round.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like, like the, you know, like the accounting standards.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In its third annual Request for Startups, Plaid is aiming to focus on student debt management along with other areas of financial services that FinTech has underserviced. The company said in a blog post, “There is significant opportunity for startups to innovate in a way that helps improve the lives of student loan borrowers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Is it a stealth startup from Silicon Valley? Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Visa, and many of the most valuable startups, like Uber, are multisided platforms. Some do — and below we talk about how to increase the odds that you, or the company you are investing in, are one of them.).

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It seems that whether you work in government, a not for profit, tech startup, corporation, or even your own business, the part of the economy that is claiming positive social impact is growing rapidly. And I am a lover of math. I was a math nerd in high school. Math is one of my favorite tools.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

So, a few years ago I was at a conference for executives of very, very, very large financial services enterprises who were talking about these huge ginormous checks that they were writing to make investments into advisor technology. What an incredible technology investment if they can pull this off.”

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Bitcoin uses math — and math equations that anyone can solve and see — to provide this cash-like feature. More than $1 billion was invested in bitcoin ventures in 2015 alone and billions more in the blockchain technologies that underpin the ledgers that record bitcoin transactions.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I think he wanted to train me and wanted to invest in me, and he saw that to be the best way to invest in me. They might have a $2,500 or a $3,500 or even a $5,000 planning fee, and then they may have $1 million invested with us at 1%, with actively managed mutual funds underneath. But I think he saw potential in me.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Instead, by conveying a clear and simple message to clients about how the advisor’s value can provide for a very specific type of client and their unique needs, advisors can enhance their business growth by attracting the right type of client while investing less time and fewer resources actively seeking out new prospects.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I talked to Lenore Blum , she was one of the first professors of math at Berkeley, and she was talking about how difficult it was and how eventually her contract was not renewed, how she was almost kicked out of her next university, before she went on to a great career and success. And so we’re going to continue to invest in and grow that.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

It’s a storyline with some very strong parallels to the cryptocurrency stories being told and the investments that they now garner. These early advocates have stimulated a vast amount of investment into this vision; $1.7 billion has been invested into bitcoin/crypto-related ventures over the last eight years.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

At that point, I’d been covering, as you mentioned, investment banking, Goldman Sachs for a couple years. HOFFMAN: Yeah, so Bill, bit of a germaphobe, but he, you know, in mid-February, he has been reading, he’s a voracious consumer of, everything’s kind of a funnel to him and internalizes it in these investment theses.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

FanDuel decided to merge with DraftKings last November, because we believed that this deal would have increased investment in growth and product development, thereby benefiting consumers and the greater sports entertainment industry. Sizzle: European startups: Startups get validation when big investors put their money to work.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital & Invest America , is below. Brad Gerstner is a founder and investor in technology startups. They invest primarily in private and public companies. And he had a little startup RV company called Forest River. I have an extra special guest.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

? ?. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Steve Case on AOL, Startups & Venture , is below. Revolution is the outgrowth of his family office that does everything from seed to venture, to growth investing. And if you are at all interested in technology, venture, startups, entrepreneurship, I suspect you will also.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

How does a kid from Arizona, from Phoenix, get interested in venture investing, not exactly known as a hotbed of early-stage tech companies. LINDZON: So now the one lucky investment that I made, and it was a dumb investment, much like the dumb investments people made in ’21. So in 1999, I invested in this.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? CLYMER: So he actually invested as early as 2015. FOWLER: That was a good investment, by the way. They had invested in a true watch shop in Atlanta, Georgia, where the business was founded and is based.

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