PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

COVID-19’s Price Tag Leaves Large Hospitals At Financial Risk. The pandemic has upended almost every dynamic of the healthcare system from funding to operations to profits. Dominick Colabella, CEO of Rectangle Health, told Karen Webster a drop in elective procedures has even put large hospitals at a financial risk.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Its main mission is to update those analog lost-pet posters via a a Bluetooth-enabled tag that not only helps pet owners find their wayward pets, but also gives them access to other digital and mobile services. Better Pet Tag. The goal is to create a really affordable, much better pet tag,” she said. Pet Medicine.

Retail 48

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Simply Treasury

JUNE 3, 2021

However, amazingly, the funding issue is not included in the top 6 priorities. On the question of which technology will be of most interest in the next 12 to 24 months, access to real-time information emerges, followed by real-time liquidity , explained by the current crisis, and need for immediate funding, sometime to simply survive.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

According to emerging news reports, the five-year-old home and body care product company is looking to raise $75 million in new Series D venture capital funding at $19.60 The big price tag on Honest Company, however, is as much a limitation as it is an honor. That places its total valuation at $1.7 So, is Honest no longer a unicorn?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The company has notched $45 million in funding. They can select which people they would want to stay with by tagging profiles, much like a dating website. The company counts over two million users of the European app, and has 300,000 listings in cities that include Barcelona, Madrid, London and Berlin.

Marketing 52

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

New Funding Values Swedish FinTech Startup Tink at $824 Million. Stockholm-based FinTech Tink announced a new funding round of €85 million, which boosts the startup’s valuation to €680 million ($825 million). The feature is expected to appeal to creators and brands, and will also allow users to add shopping tags to their posts.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

To date, the Tagly app has generated $2 million in seed funding from IZI Mobile, shares the outlet. A new app is poised to move social content marketing away from user-generated content and put the power in the hands of brands themselves.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

However, while women may be founding more businesses in the second decade of the 21st century than ever before, they are still collecting merely a fraction of the funding, Visa ’s Senior Vice President and Head of North American Marketing Mary Ann Reilly told Karen Webster. In fact, women are founding new firms at 1.5

Retail 76

Retail Nonprofit Startups Sales 76

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

billion in funding but may soon see a $20 billion haircut. $13 279 million | Total raised in venture capital funding rounds by B2B startups in PYMNTS’ B2B VC breakdown this week, backing firms that cover everything from accounting for blockchain companies to social and business networks for farmers.

Investments 53

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2018

-Israeli firm Armis recently raised $30 million in new funding. The company said it plans to use the funds to advance its sales and marketing, further develop its security platform and increase its ability to supply advanced technologies to security companies’ IoT-related digital transformation efforts.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

The bag that tags along, you might call it. The maker of the bag that tags along? A financing round was led by CDH Fund, according to VentureBeat , with participation from Eastern Bell Venture Capital. Flush with cash. The suitcase itself is known as autonomous luggage — as it follows its owner. miles per hour.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

The price tags attached to the deals were reported as $3.7 The Blackstone/CVC consortium of funds first approached Paysafe in early May, according to published reports and a company statement. The $470 million price tag will be funded by $90 million in cash and a $380 million loan. billion and $470 million, respectively.

Sales 43

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Those customers, according to the financial publication, are having funds transferred to other Chase accounts, across savings and checking options. billion tagged for this year and with significant focus on Chase mobile and digital efforts. They also will not pay service fees that are levied alongside the basic accounts.

Banking 56

Banking Accounting Numbers Technology 56

PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2016

According to a recent article by Re/code , Project September is an app and website that will give users the ability to tag images from Instagram with product details that help to make products more discoverable and (as Maybank and her team hope) drive purchases from the platform.

Leverage 40

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Apple’s HomePod voice activated speakers haven’t resonated with consumers partly because of the hefty price tag. It has raised roughly $44 million in venture funding including from CRV, Greylock, True Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and First Round Capital, reported Axios. It also has to contend with Google, relegating it to third place.

Valuation 57

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The biggest hurdle the cross-border payments industry faces is navigating the networks that govern payment flows in every correspondent bank through which funds pass. These fraudsters can make off with hard-earned funds, but mere cash is not the only target.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Launched in San Francisco as an on-demand storage company that would pick up and tag items from your home, then store them in a warehouse, it eventually started to expand into other cities. The startup has also received interest in its engineering team from Thumbtack. The news comes as Omni has been struggling.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

The case involves an 18-year-old in Ireland who is accused of posing as a legitimate supplier of medical ventilators and swindling one corporate buyer out of the funds — only the latest example of reported B2B payments fraud spiking in the context of the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The jackets use the owner’s smartphone to connect with smart NFC and QR tags hidden in the left sleeve, with serialized codes connecting to data profiles in EVRYTHNG’s IoT cloud. Rochambeau is known for being a 2016 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist and a Menswear Woolmark award winner.

Retail 59

Retail Technology Marketing 59

PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

Index Ventures’ portfolio includes iZettle and Adyen , with unconfirmed reports of a Funding Circle initial public offering (IPO) that could push Index Ventures into the $2 billion mark. ” Alternative lending platform Funding Circle — which, according to Forbes, has already facilitated $4.56

B2B 40

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

million in seed funding, According to a report in TechCrunch , the San Rafael, CA-based startup will use the proceeds of the funding to build awareness for its vending machines that are stocked with healthy food and drinks from vendors that are local. There are many opportunities here to partner with various local food providers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2018

Beyond answering the demands of social media users who crave celebrity and influencer fashions, Choosy seeks to solve another problem: making expensive designer fashions available to the masses without the big price tags. Fashion Through Social Tagging.

Manufacturing 40

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2019

Seventeen percent also said they spent more than $12,000 to address the issue, while 9 percent said the price tag exceeded $24,400. ” Small businesses, he continued, must be able to “anticipate, prevent, respond [to] and recover from a major security incident” while having access to emergency funds.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

The company currently has 39 employees and closed a $30 million Series B funding round in the fall. Clarifai offers customers an image and video recognition API that users can teach to automatically tag, organize and search visual content using machine learning. “If For video, Clarifai’s API doesn’t just send back one set of tags. “We

Startups 62

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

While the program is still just a pilot, journalists working for Mashable will be able to take a photo of, say, a celebrity and tag elements of his or her outfit with links to similar products available for sale on eBay. banks by assets have made 81 deals with FinTech companies since 2012 — and more than $4 billion in funding.

Startups 57

Startups Retail Banking eCommerce 57

PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

Demand has been slumping in China for Apple products in part because of the hefty price tag. Apple makes it easy for customers to apply; they sign up through their Apple Wallet with their accounts funded almost instantly in some cases. As of the fourth quarter, China accounted for around 15 percent of Apple’s sales.

Sales 43

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

billion in equity funding. A new report from research firm CB Insights said the 2020 funding was raised in at least 5,500 deals, with growth seen in North America, Asia and Europe. Digital health funding globally went up by 45 percent year on year, while equity funding to digital health companies hit an all-time high, reaching $26.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

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. million in two rounds of funding. To date, Jiobit has raised a total of $4.2 Those are the handful of teams I invest in nowadays.

Startups 40

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2018

Today, BingoBox has nabbed $80 million in venture funding and operates over 200 of its self-service specialty stores in 29 Chinese provinces. According to reports, Chinese data aggregator ITjuzi, in the third quarter of 2017 alone, found that China’s cashier-less stores sector attracted 1 billion yuan (about $156 million) in funding.

Retail 41

Retail Startups Planning Investments 41

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The stories come with significantly different price tags: $185 million and $13 billion. More immediately, the deal would give LendingClub a cheaper funding source for its loan business — last year, the company originated more than $12.3 Call it a tale of two bank deals. Making a sizzling leap into #digitalbanking : [link].

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

At the upper edge of the spectrum, students can be looking at a ~$330,000 total price tag for an education at an elite private college. And with price tags that large, there is going to be a generation of students who are by necessity going to be seeking private student loans. New Financing — New Growth.

Banking 40

Banking Education Finance Technology 40

PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

Reuters noted Walmart invested $320 million in the round of funding. Electronic price tags enable the retailer to keep prices current. Walmart has had a partnership with Dada-JD Daojia since 2016 when it invested $50 million. Currently, 200 Walmart stores in 30 Chinese cities are on JD Daojia. “We

Investments 40

Investments Retail Finance 40

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

They also include earmarked controls that allow producers to tag and reconcile purchases made for a particular project. On the bookkeeping side, tagging these purchases with an image of the receipt allows us to not hire a full-time bookkeeper,” Tayenaka explained. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

In April, on-demand meal kit service Kitchit closed down after finding itself unable to raise new funds. Two out of three all folded for lack of funding. Though it initially announced its bankruptcy after being unable to raise additional funds or find a buyer, the firm pulled off a last-minute deal with Brazilian firm iFood.

Investments 40

Investments Retail 40

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. The dreaded returns season has hit retail with a predictable but painful thud. But while the season is here, it doesn’t have to be a time of dread.

Retail 86

Retail Auditing eCommerce Forecasting 86

PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

The company previously raised $111 million in venture funding from Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, Square Peg Capital, Qumra Capital and others. billion – of funds were lost to card fraud in 2018, up from $1.4 Special tags can trigger purchases with Apple Pay without the need for a special app through the function.

Communication 63

Communication eCommerce Retail Technology 63

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. And at that time, Union Square Ventures’ Fred and Brad had started the firm, they had just raised the first fund. I led the Union Square Ventures investment in Etsy, I became a venture partner for that, and then became a GP in the 2008 fund.

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