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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.

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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.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

Dada-JD Daojia, a grocery and delivery company in China, disclosed Thursday (August 9) that it raised $500 million from Walmart Inc and JD.com in a round of financing. Reuters noted Walmart invested $320 million in the round of funding. Electronic price tags enable the retailer to keep prices current.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Artificial intelligence may still seem futuristic to many, but a startup trying to bring artificial intelligence into our daily lives has piqued the interest of investors, reportedly raising $5 million in a Series A round of venture funding. It comes nearly a year-and-a-half after the startup, Mad Street Den , closed a $1.5

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

million in a new funding round with venture capitalists Cap Horn, Turenne Capital and existing investors. The Fidbox is like the physical equivalent of the HTML tag you can find on a website that helps eRetailers understand what shoppers are doing on their website,” said Magnan-Saurin.

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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 And it happens much faster than a human can do it.”.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

“The thing that’s so cool about having those relationships is that they literally tell us, either through their posts, their tags, their emails or their tweets, what they’re looking for, and we respond in kind.” And then building direct relationships with the community we serve,” she told Retail Dive.

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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.

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JULY 13, 2016

When even the biggest name startups in the segment like Snapchat started reporting down rounds, the conventional wisdom started to shift to the idea that chat innovation had hit its peak and was now in decline. billion price tag represents a hefty profit for Apax, which bought Epicor for $1 billion.
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APRIL 3, 2019

The cookware startup announced today (April 3) that it has closed a $5 million seed funding round, led by Bonobos Founder Brian Spaly. The pans come with graffiti-styled labels on the bottom and plantable paper tags embedded with basil seeds. As a result, the cookware is more or less manufactured here in the U.S. —

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MARCH 16, 2017

Alphabet’s investment was part of a $25 million round that also included input from existing investors Notion Capital Ltd and Rakuten Inc., The funding round will be put toward Currencycloud’s continued global expansion. The end products will likely be comprised of cheaper component parts to bring the price tag down.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

This time around, the B2B sector led FinTech as the area where the most funds flowed, with about $456 million. The new capital will help fund global expansion, with focus, as the name implies, on eCommerce. With the funds brought in from the Series B, Terry said Conversica has a few different plans in mind.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

billion to date, including $600 million in its most recent funding round. It is unclear whether the iPhone X’s $999 price tag will drive Google to raise its prices as well. Lyft has raised more than $2.5 It’s A Deal, Mate. SMBs can now use Gmail to leverage integrated eInvoicing via Intuit tools. Take My Money.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

The company places SmarterHQ’s tag on its website, which then captures consumer browsing data — actions, purchases, product views, abandonment, etc. Last month, SmarterHQ closed a $13 million venture funding round. Implementing SmarterHQ’s system is relatively straightforward, Osborne said.

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JULY 11, 2023

But once the rules started changing, it became difficult around things like seeding new funds. Within a year, you couldn’t be more than 10% of the fund. RITHOLTZ: So were you — in the early days, it was mutual funds it was SMAs, what were you guys doing? So once the rules changed, yeah, so we kept it for a long time.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Alternative lending, eProcurement and cross-border payments innovators all saw impressive activity (though several funding values remained private), and one single startup raised $165 million — more than the rest of the eight other funding rounds this week combined. million investment round led by Heartland Bank.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Sounds a bit to us like tag teams: One partner switches out but tags in another teammate who is game to go — and Libra tokens, of course, stay in the pot. It remains unexplained — thus far — how ignoring (or not getting support from) vital parts of the commerce ecosystem would get funds to and from the 1.7

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

After all, the sooner their funds are delivered, the sooner they can defray the costs of recovery, repairs and other expenses, and get their lives back on track. Funds are disbursed instantly via Visa Direct , once that customer accepts the estimate’s conditions, and can be used at the auto shop for repairs. About The Tracker.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, another extra special guest, Robin Grew, President of Man Group, $145 billion publicly traded hedge fund in the UK, and soon to be Man Group’s CEO. Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. That has to be a little bit of a surreal experience.

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MAY 11, 2019

That device is still in the working prototype phase and is forecast to have a six-figure price tag when it hits the market. The robots are small, but the funding raised was not – the little robotics firm brought in $200 million in venture capital from some very well-known Silicon Valley investors like Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

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MAY 30, 2023

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. There’s no funding base for financial literacy. How do we get that funded? So our mission in schools is to get financial literacy funded by Congress, K through college.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

In what’s becoming an increasingly popular theme for B2B startup investors, this week’s funding rounds for B2B startups largely centered on tackling data silos and empowering the enterprise with the insights that data can provide. LeanIX said it plans to use the funding to focus on accelerating growth in the U.S.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

By corporate events we mean takeovers, funding rounds and the like. As the world knows, Elon Musk sent a short missive – over Twitter, where all the missives are short – that he was considering a go-private deal, with an attendant price tag of about $72 billion, or at $420 a share, where the stock ended last Monday at around $356.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Can I just tag along? It’s the sort of hedge fund trading operation that Sam Bankman freed is operating under. It’s not that 8 billion is a rounding error, but in the grand scheme of things Yeah. No controls co-mingling of funds. They’re just round made up numbers. What could go wrong?

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MAY 2, 2023

And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was really kind of in the Tag Heuer timeline for me, career-wise, that I became aware of Ben and of Hodinkee. FOWLER: Yes, I was at LVMH for a number of years, mostly with Louis Vuitton for the first few years. Hand wound moon watch.

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MAY 16, 2023

He rolls that cash into his next venture, which becomes a wildly successful angel fund, which now is in its fourth edition. So indirectly, I became a hedge fund manager to manage our cash at the Squeeze Ball Company. I’m a comedy kid and I’m like haphazard VC, not haphazard hedge fund, like my haphazard VC.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. And the problem is it you have to define what Bitcoin is, because there’s certain things you can put into a mutual fund or ETF wrapper and certain things you can’t, right? Why don’t you speak to him?

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

00:26:19 [Speaker Changed] It, it’s, it’s usually it is aggressive shorts from leveraged funds on s and p futures. You know, that’s the reason why, you know, there’s a hedge fund, you know, clients that, that, that you visit outside New York City. You can see it also in futures positioning.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

It was j Aaron, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, a little bit of a I g a little bit of JP Morgan, you know, and then a bunch of the, the funds. If you wanted that exposure, you were giving your money to a professional, a commodity trading advisor, or some hedge fund. How can you fund yourself? They run outta liquidity.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It's yet to be determined exactly how much stimulus funding will be available, who will be eligible to receive it and how it will be calculated going forward. The SBA is taking steps to improve the First Draw Paycheck Protection Program loan review so that small businesses have as much time as possible to access much needed PPP funds.

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MAY 18, 2020

After a slightly rocky rollout, complaints that funds took a long time to arrive and that a few dead people got payouts they can’t really use, the first round of $1,200 stimulus funds has largely been delivered. The HEROES Act first and foremost is about sending funds to individuals affected by the pandemic.

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