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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Blend , the home loan tech startup, isn’t done growing. Underpinning it all is a data-driven approach that shortens pre-approval processes to minutes, leveraging the data to which the banks already have access to. The San Francisco-based digital mortgage and loan platform on Wednesday (Sept.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

FinTech startup Digits has announced the close of a $10.5 ” Digits, which is currently invite-only, describes itself as “a counting company” that leverages APIs, classification algorithms and machine learning techniques to provide a real-time view into a business’ finances. “As Digits’ production systems now see over $1.5

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JANUARY 18, 2019

The January Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker examines how table-service restaurants and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) alike are leveraging mobile ordering to better serve customers, as well as introducing new upgrades to keep their apps compelling. Around The Mobile Order-Ahead World.

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APRIL 2, 2019

Our investment will allow us to explore potential collaborations to leverage blockchain technology,” a PayPal spokesperson said. “We made an investment in Cambridge Blockchain because it is applying blockchain for digital identity in a way that we believe could benefit financial services companies including PayPal.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Lighter Capital, an alternative lender targeting the startup community, is adding new financing products to its offering. The products aim to promote the financial health and growth of startups by providing new companies with capital as they need it, as companies do not need to have already raised venture capital to qualify for financing.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

Fluree, a database management startup based in North Carolina, has raised $4.7 It has the ability to make the data immensely collaborative by allowing multiple parties to actually interact with it and improve security, and it really allows you, especially with how we’ve organized our database, to get better leverage out of the data.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In separate news, reports surfaced over the summer that retail messaging startup Attentive notched $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia. Existing investors Bain Capital Ventures, NextView Ventures and Eniac Ventures — as well as new investors IVP and High Alpha — also participated in the funding round. .

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JANUARY 11, 2024

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JANUARY 9, 2019

Self-driving tech startup Mobileye is expanding its business in China through two new partnerships. The Israeli company, which was bought by Intel in 2017 for $15.3

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This time of year has been no different for these seven startups, all of which have launched new products and features, fielded new investor funding, upped the security ante and, in the spirit of the holidays, generally worked toward payments peace on Earth. Weeks and hours whirl away, and there always seems to be something going on.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

New York-based FinTech startup Capital , an alternative financing company for startups, launched on Wednesday (Oct. Silverberg, a former Silicon Valley Draper Fisher Jurvetson investor, noticed that tech startups tend to take on significantly less debt than other privately funded companies. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

In today’s top news, 2019 is on track to be the second-best year after 2011 for startups worth over $500 million, Toyota unveiled plans for a smart city in Japan, and ExxonMobil and Fiserv have teamed up to let people pay with Alexa at the gas pump. US Backers Rain Money on Savvy Startups.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

A young logistics startup that gives eCommerce brands same-day delivery capabilities just scored a major chunk of venture funding. The way Darkstore’s service works is by leveraging excess space in storage facilities, convenience stores or malls, allowing them to act as fulfillment centers via smartphone.

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JULY 10, 2018

Emailage , the online fraud prevention startup that uses email addresses to assess risk, is expanding its operations in the Canadian market. Phipps said that the expansion is “an opportunity for us to leverage the work that we’ve been doing with email at [the] core of our solution.”. That’s where companies such as Emailage come in.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

At the time, the retailer said it will leverage its stores and Shipt’s proprietary technology platform and community of shoppers to bring same-day delivery to Target customers around the country. On Monday, Kroger said it is considering buying the online wholesaler startup Boxed. Morgan Stanley is acting as the advisor to Boxed.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Two former Microsoft employees, Joanna Bichsel and Amanda Arch, have recently launched a women’s health care eCcommerce startup in Rwanda called Kasha. Customers can order from Kasha’s smartphone app, website, via USSD shortcodes for consumers without smartphones or by placing a phone order with the startup’s call center.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Startup founders typically face a fundamental tradeoff: They can grow the company, increasing its value and the value of their shares, but to do so they must give up some control. Co-founders and employees who join the startup want to know that it is well managed. Or, they can keep control, at the expense of growth.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The whole point of startups is to do things differently than mainstream players, and that is exactly what these companies are doing with automation, interoperability and digital currency initiatives. Why are one startup’s customers calm in the face of Visa’s upcoming new chargeback rules? Chargehound. Jewel Paymentech.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

Nuro, the robot delivery startup created by two former self-driving car engineers for Google, Dave Ferguson and Jiajun “JZ” Zhu, have raised $92 million in funding. According to a report in Forbes , the Series A round of fundraising was led by Banyan Capital, the Chinese venture firm, and Greylock Partners of Silicon Valley.

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CFO Share

MAY 6, 2022

Giving away company equity in a startup . How to value startup equity. A startup CFO, like those at CFOshare, will be able to guide you toward the best decision for your business. This is closely related to leverage and measures the total debt relative to the amount of investment and earnings retained over time.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, commerce operators like Timberland and Macy’s are demonstrating how to leverage VR-equipped smart mirrors for tasks like checkout and product testing. The news comes as virtual reality (VR) and AR are beginning to make larger gains in the retail world.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

Humana’s investment comes at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has upended the world of healthcare, with many people reluctant to visit the hospital or even go to the doctor’s office out of fear of becoming infected with COVID-19.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

Nordstrom , for instance, announced Thursday, March 8, that it closed acquisition deals with startup retail tech companies BevyUp and MessageYes. Of course, Nordstrom isn’t the first or only company to turn to tech startups for help. Walmart has been snapping up startups left and right.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

We are both a startup and a company that sells enterprise software, so our culture is a mix between a cool, upbeat work environment and a very serious and responsible work ethic. PYMNTS: Can you give me some personnel growth numbers? OL: We started the company with two employees, and we now have 80. PYMNTS: What’s the company culture like?

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

Retailers are seeking solutions to digitize their physical stores—both as a means to draw consumers in, but also to leverage the data that comes with digital transformation. For their part, technology startup Dor is a foot traffic counting and analytics solution vendor. Just recently, Dor announced a $3.8

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Until very recently, the tenor of the relationship between financial services startups and mainstream banking was contentious at best and adversarial at worst. It gives banks and their third-party partners the best solution for leveraging API capabilities. “If Historically, all business payment is payor directed.

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JULY 31, 2018

This month, startups such as Tipalti have brought on three partners to extend value to its clients, while startups such as AvidXchange are deepening their existing relationships. Here is the latest news from startup-land in July. It’s hard to go it alone: Tipalti’s mission is to automate the entire payables process.

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MAY 5, 2023

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Eleven new bot-related startups have caught the eye of cloud-based team collaboration tool Slack, which decided to invest in them, build out its bot portfolio and keep its competitive streak up. And, for those that are keeping count, after this current round, Slack has now invested in 25 bot startups.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

Residential real estate startup Bungalow announced it has secured $64 million in funding: a $14 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures, Atomic, Founders Fund, Cherubic Ventures and Wing Ventures, as well as a $50 million debt facility. The company also revealed that Opendoor Founder Keith Rabois has joined its board of directors.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Collaborations allow corporations to leverage nonprofits’ capabilities and reputation when launching new products and services. Meanwhile, the Cleveland Clinic Ventures arm has launched more than 80 startup companies that have provided economic returns while furthering the nonprofit’s ambitions. While Tomorrow.io

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JANUARY 27, 2017

Jiobit, a technology startup based out of Chicago, makes something that seems like every parent, from those expecting to empty nesters, will want or wish they’d had. The startup has developed a location-tracking smart tag and accompanying mobile app that sends alerts to parents when their child has gone outside a preset range.

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JULY 2, 2018

When it comes to financial services and financial technology startups, making the right investment decisions is not easy or obvious work. And separating the wheat from the chaff isn’t easy, says Samantha Ghiotti, partner at Anthemis Group – particularly because there is a lot more chaff than wheat when it comes to early-phase startups.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Combined, more than $337 million in funding will fuel growth for an array of B2B startups that revealed their latest funding rounds this week. based startups dominated, with investors focusing on cybersecurity solutions and on startups that aim to streamline back-office functions. PYMNTS breaks down the latest deals below.

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MAY 1, 2017

“Swift was not watching for the launch of cyberattacks on its customers beyond the core network,” Marcus Treacher, a Swift board member from 2010 to 2016 and now an executive at digital payments startup Ripple, an alternative to Swift, told the Wall Street Journal.

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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.

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