PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

Corporate travel and expense (T&E) management solutions provider TripActions led this week’s B2B venture capital roundup with its announcement of new funding that propelled its valuation to $4 billion. Small business lending startup Lulalend is driving alternative finance growth in South Africa, and just announced $6.5

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 5, 2024

Next, came a new solution, Datarails Connect , which leverages Excel's success to transform it into a kind of self-service BI solution, enabling finance professionals to become truly independent by connecting their entire data stack to Excel in a simple and self-service manner. The Winners!

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Spreadym

OCTOBER 27, 2023

EBITDA is often used in financial analysis and business valuation because it provides a more standardized and consistent measure of a company's operating performance, especially when comparing companies with different capital structures or when assessing their ability to generate cash from operations. Ignores Taxes: EBITDA excludes taxes.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Silicon Valley startup Social Finance (SoFi) is closing a merger deal with blank-check firm Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. The deal would give SoFi a post-money valuation in excess of $8.65 Founded in 2011, SoFi has worked to leverage lending after the 2008 financial crisis, focusing on student loan refinancing.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

FinTech startup Marqeta has been tapped by Goldman Sachs to power digital checking accounts for Marcus. Marqeta said that Goldman Sachs “will leverage our modern card issuing platform” to introduce digital checking accounts to Marcus customers, according to a Marqeta blog post on Thursday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Grubhub is denying rumors that the food delivery startup is on the chopping block or considering an acquisition, triggering a 6.7 I believe the value of Grubhub to Walmart is that they could leverage Grubhub for delivering food and groceries.” billion valuation is down from a high of $13 billion last year. Grubhub’s $4.5

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Point-of-sale restaurant technology startup Toast recently held a secondary share offering that reportedly valued the company at $8 billion as restaurants and ResTech rebound from COVID-19 lockdowns’ depths. billion valuation as of February. “In SharesPost said that gave Toast a $4.9 Island Grill in Kansas City, Mo.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

It notched an $800 million valuation after its Series E funding round, the article said. Betterment is among several FinTech startups that have launched deposit account products. . By collaborating with FinTechs, banks can bring a solution to market faster and offer it themselves.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

That deal put Jio’s valuation at $65 billion, according to the Financial Times. General Atlantic said it has gained a reputation for backing startups including Airbnb, Alibaba, Ant Financial, ByteDance, Facebook, Slack, Snapchat, Uber Technologies Inc. In May, General Atlantic closed an $870 million deal for a 1.3

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2016

With competition for investments rising as quickly as the valuations of private technology companies, GV has reportedly invested 20 percent less this year compared to last year. The ever-changing startup landscape may also be a reason for Google Ventures making the decision to bring its separate European-focused arm into the GV fold.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

While the wholesale startup had early talks with Amazon , Target and Costco , the source said that only Kroger offered a bid, and that Boxed has a valuation of $470 million. The startup competes with Walmart’s Jet.com, which was founded by Marc Lore. Boxed is not alone in the home delivery space.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Leveraging UPI across omnicommerce networks, LazyPlus gives consumer access to real-time credit, with the money repaid over time with interest using the product’s Revolve feature. That’s helped push the payments firm’s valuation past $10 billion as it looks to expand business.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WENGER: Yeah, that had really been my goal since my own first startup in ’96, ‘97, which was a company called W3Health that ultimately failed. From that experience, I realized that I really loved startups, but then I was never going to be good operator, but I thought I could maybe be a decent investor. Why is that?

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This trend makes SaaS valuation increasingly important. This makes determining an accurate SaaS valuation difficult. By ensuring that the appropriate methods and models are used, SaaS companies can attain more accurate, higher valuations that provide leverage when seeking financing or negotiating sales.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

According to reports, that big funding round should be finished up in the next week or so — thus far, the proposed valuation and lead investor remain a mystery. But whoever it is — and whatever valuation goes with it — a $500 million round would count as one of the bigger fintech blockbuster deals of the year. billion in funding.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2016

It wasn’t that long ago that Jessica Alba and The Honest Company looked set to ride the trifecta of celebrity-powered startups, boutique commerce and health-conscious consumerism to the top of the sales charts. Just know that it will not distract or deter us from our mission of helping families build happy and healthy lives.”

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The key is to encourage accounting graduates to learn how to leverage upon new and emerging technologies, work with structured and unstructured data, conduct data storytelling effectively and most importantly, adapt in a fast moving business environment with changing business models and evolving business needs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

They can capture that distribution by aligning with incumbents who can leverage enablers’ innovations. That’s especially true in the consumer lending and demand deposit account (DDA) startups. It’s not a one-sided relationship, though. There’s a continuous need, too, for tech innovators to find distribution. It’s overfunded by a lot.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Average valuations range from $500 million to $4 billion, reports last year said, and while individual floats may not be high value, Malay Mail analysis found they account for most of the tech IPO market. Venture capitalists have remained a close ally of SaaS startups too. APIs Add to the Exhaustion.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

the Brazil-based firm is on a path to becoming the most valuable startup in Latin America. The goal is to become one of the most valuable financial technology startups in the world as it eyes a region-wide expansion and seeks a valuation between $8 billion and $10 billion, according to reports in Recode.

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PYMNTS

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. billion in 2015, when Klarna raised $80 million.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As a startup founder, it’s got to feel exhilarating to see new customers streaming in and paying for your product or service. Considering how many startups fail, watching customers put money down can make you feel like you’ve slayed a dragon. CURT NICKISCH: So what is the scale-up phase and how do startups know when they’re in it?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

According to the report , “Alipay’s new PSD2 license in Luxembourg will allow the group to leverage the EU passport to serve its customers across Europe in the future and connect Chinese users with merchants in EU countries.”. Monzo recently achieved a valuation of $1.3 billion , making the startup the most recent in a string of U.K.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. And so, Crispin and I were having lunch in late 2003.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2017

And it’s only continuing to drive the point home after its latest Series D funding round generated $50 million in new investments, catapulting it to a $275-million valuation. Seasoned collectors, who often come to the platform with a very specific need in mind, can leverage the same algorithm to help them find it.

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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. What are the, you know, I’d literally have it in my handheld.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

It was all rainbows and unicorn valuations for a bit as the app went viral, becoming a household name. Before things went sideways, TikTok was the most promising new business unit in China’s highest-valued startup, ByteDance.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 18, 2023

In the short run, there can be distortions in public market valuations as we saw in 2001 and we saw prior to that in 2007, and prior to that in 2000, in ‘99. I mean, there have been leveraged loans and high yield bonds since the 1980s. You get paid for the incremental risk that you’re taking in a more leveraged capital structure.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Howard Lindzon, Social Leverage , is below. Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. So with no further ado, my discussion with Social Leverage’s Howard Lindzon. HOWARD LINDZON, MANAGING PARTNER, SOCIAL LEVERAGE: Hello, Barry.

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