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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

With the advent of emerging FinTech startups, banks face some competition for payments. As a result, banks are investing in and engaging with FinTech startups to grow their customer base and their market share. banks by assets have made 81 deals with FinTech companies since 2012 — and more than $4 billion in funding.

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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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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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JANUARY 21, 2021

Global investments in healthcare startups set a new record in 2020, reaching $80.6 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. billion in 2020.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Dreamscape Immersive, a new virtual reality technology startup, is looking to find growth and opportunity in the film and entertainment industry. The company has already raised $11 million in funding from three major Hollywood studios — Warner Bros., Tickets will cost $15–$20, said WSJ.

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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.

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MAY 22, 2019

Inserts, packaging and leaflets can come with near-field communication (NFC) tags and quick-response (QR) codes to allow customers to sign as well as pay using their smartphones for their subscriptions. And global payments platform Currencycloud has teamed up with Evarvest, a startup based in Lithuania, Currencycloud said in an announcement.

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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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AUGUST 22, 2016

The latest research puts a price tag on the finances of better procurement, banking, cash management and innovation among small and medium-sized businesses. 290 million in venture capital landed at blockchain startups in H1 , revealed Juniper Research. But it may be more effective to actually show how much money can be saved.

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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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APRIL 1, 2019

To that end, SentiLink said late last month that it had garnered $14 million in Series A funding. The price tag is enormous, as estimated by SentiLink and some of its partners, reaching as much as $2 billion annually — and that’s just for banks. Flavors Of Fraud.

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MARCH 16, 2017

based payments startup that enables financial service developers to create cross-border payment tools and services. The funding round will be put toward Currencycloud’s continued global expansion. The funding round will be put toward Currencycloud’s continued global expansion. among others. Alphabet is likely betting on the U.K.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Growing impatient waiting for their ETF fund to be listed and to boost bitcoin trading, the cofounders of the Gemini Trust Company, a digital currency exchange based in the U.S., Amazon is set to become the eCommerce leader in India, and bitcoin companies are keen to tag along for the ride. Now You Can Trade Bitcoin Any Time.

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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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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Security guards today rely very much on pen and paper and phone tag. How much funding have you received? Any startup bumps or battle wounds you can share? So I would say we’ve had many more challenges than your typical Silicon Valley startup. What we’ve done is used technology to streamline communication.

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MAY 5, 2017

Brexit and VC funding: If investing is a game that is best viewed through a “long” view rather than a “short” view, then venture capital is playing the long game when it comes to Brexit. billion in funding, the biggest capital raise for a tech co. With $5 billion in incremental funding, that’s a lot of backing for automated autos.

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MAY 24, 2016

Those funds will flow mostly into building new stores, renovating old ones and upgrading technology and logistics to support them. ” A big price tag is in part an outcome of a big operation. “It’s a big number there’s no question,” said Terry Kelly, principal at Bartlett & Co.

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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. eProcurement. Tradeshift. BuyerQuest. LendingFront.

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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. Namely, the fact that they are struggling to attract or keep them – a fact highlighted this week with the announcement that another once-hot robotics startup will be shutting its doors.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Feedvisor, an algorithmic commerce startup that helps sellers optimize their inventory and increase sales in online marketplaces, has secured $20 million in Series B funding from General Catalyst. The site will actually alter price tags on the stock in a client’s Amazon store when demand, supply or competition prices change.

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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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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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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

I mean, at first, I got out of undergrad, and a degree in finance coming out of a small college at the time, Quinnipiac College, the gigs I was offered were essentially customer service jobs at mutual funds, call service, manning the phones, which I was no stranger to. For most of the clients that come to us for startup work, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

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. I still think it is a startup, but it’s a startup where there’s a trail that’s been blazed.

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Barry Ritholtz

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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