PYMNTS

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. A whopping 42.5 percent of payments executives are focused on peer-to-peer (P2P) payments.

Startups 57

Startups Retail Banking eCommerce 57

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Dreamscape Immersive, a new virtual reality technology startup, is looking to find growth and opportunity in the film and entertainment industry. 21st Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — along with an investment from director Steven Spielberg, according to The Wall Street Journal. have also reportedly invested in Dreamscape.

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Transportation Startups Communication 40

PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

By the time of its initial public offering (IPO), the startup from Seattle was poised as the ultimate disruptor to these and other industries, ushering in an era of the same. 10,000 invested [at the IPO price/date] would be worth more than $12 million as of May 2020. Meet the New Boss.

Valuation 69

Valuation Entertainment eCommerce Healthcare 69

PYMNTS

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.

Cash Management 43

Cash Management Communication Currencies Startups 43

PYMNTS

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.

Startups 40

Startups Math Transportation Leverage 40

PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

In fact, Health Affairs reports, the pressures of the pandemic, and the systematic inequalities in weakness it has exposed has created an incentive for “rapid investment and modernization across the health care sector.”. An assertion seemingly backed up by the rapid explosion of healthcare investments of late.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare CFO Investments Leverage 52

PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Felix Rodriguez, founder and CEO of small business accounting and financial management startup Back Office , spoke with PYMNTS about some of the core functions of financial management that can crumble under the weight of accounting challenges. The firm secured $1.8 Accountants and accounting solutions must address this need, too.

Numbers 61

Numbers Accounting CFO Financial Analysis 61

PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2018

Instead of relying purely on cameras and sensors to determine what users place in their shopping carts and then auto-charging them through their Amazon payments account when they walk out the door, BingoBox’s items come embedded with a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag.

Retail 41

Retail Startups Planning Investments 41

PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2016

Separately, Bloomberg reported that, in July, Uber reached an agreement to buy Otto , a driverless truck startup that has 91 employees, including engineers from tech companies aiming to bring self-driving cars to the market. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but the report pegged the price tag at about $680 million.

Manufacturing 41

Manufacturing Startups Investments Planning 41

PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

The latest is global consulting firm McKinsey, whose new report has put a price tag on the potential of blockchain: $110 billion. But with more companies and government players investing in blockchain, it would seem that they are willing to wait to gain their share of what McKinsey estimates to be as much as $110 billion in savings.

Treasury 79

Treasury B2B Education Technology 79

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But a new report from cloud accounting firm Sage has put a price tag on this burden: a whopping $600 billion for firms across the globe. Manual processes are expensive for small businesses, in both time and money. Taking time to crunch numbers or hand-pick data is a waste for SMB owners, for sure. Canada, U.K. Canada, U.K.

Profit and Loss 45

Profit and Loss Accounting Economics Invoicing 45

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

Valuation 117

Valuation Investments Marketing Technology 117

PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

According to a 2016 study by the National Kitchen & Bath Association , millennials outspent the $19,155 typically invested in a kitchen remodel by other age groups by 17.7 The cookware startup announced today (April 3) that it has closed a $5 million seed funding round, led by Bonobos Founder Brian Spaly.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Budgeting Investments Startups 52

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Venture capital interest and investments have been on the rise, so growth is in the cards. The price tag, however didn’t scare off investors — who liked Founder and “hipster-vegan” Doug Evans’ pitch — and thought that selling “smart juice” had a future. Alexa is debuting a slew of skills aimed at kids. Fizzle of the Week: Juicero.

Sales 46

Sales Startups Compliance Retail 46

PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

On the investment end, Alphabet’s venture department (formerly Google Ventures) recently put some cash in the hands of Currencycloud, a U.K.-based based payments startup that enables financial service developers to create cross-border payment tools and services. Alphabet’s current estimated market cap sat over $591.4 among others.

Startups 40

Startups Leadership Marketing Investments 40

PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

SoulCycle’s smart bikes are available for pre-order (with a $2,500 price tag) but as of yet it has no online content to offer — and likely won’t until later in the year , according to the firm. The startup’s team, she said, “has been working around the clock to launch our digital product earlier than originally planned.”.

Startups 56

Startups Sales Investments Planning 56

PYMNTS

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.

Finance 40

Finance Accounts Payable Startups Banking 40

PYMNTS

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. Investments for the week ended 7-15-16. The firm makes enterprise resource planning and retail management software.

Investments 40

Investments B2B Startups Accounting 40

PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

But Kroger of course likes being at the top, and is investing big in making sure it remains there. A $4 Billion Investment In What’s Next . ” A big price tag is in part an outcome of a big operation. How risky a plan is it? Kroger is spending a lot of money building out and better coming up. .

Concentration 40

Concentration Retail Sales Investments 40

PYMNTS

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. Brexit: The price tag on this divorce is getting higher. There are two sides to Brexit too, as we will see the Sizzle as well as the Fizzle.

Retail 40

Retail Sales Startups Technology 40

PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

Laundry service startup Laundrapp announced that it has merged with its biggest competitor, Zipjet , to become the largest on-demand laundry service. Being a startup we have been able to do this by using clever technology to provide a high-quality laundry service without the associated price tag.

Startups 46

Startups Marketing Technology Investments 46

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

It was one of the biggest weeks for B2B FinTech investment in months. 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.

B2B 50

B2B Startups Finance Investments 50

Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This thriving market has led to significant competition among investors and venture capital to invest in and acquire SaaS companies of any size or stage of growth. SaaS is a notoriously investment-driven industry where companies can go years before reaching profitability. Get financial leadership without the C-suite price tag.

Valuation 40

Valuation CFO Leadership Forecasting 40

PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2018

Today, the whole affair runs approximately $44 million, with best actor and actress nominees collectively investing close to $1 million in attire alone — and well beyond that when factoring in accessories. That number was reported by Forbes and estimated by artificial intelligence (AI) startup LookLive.

Advertising 54

Advertising Investments Startups Numbers 54

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

How to recruit and retain the best people and how to use technology as a tool to give you an edge, not just in investing but in the ability to offer clients various solutions improving your efficiency, effectiveness and productivity as a company. Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. And it is slightly surreal.

Investments 60

Investments Finance Construction Technology 60

PYMNTS

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.

Investments 40

Investments Startups Manufacturing eCommerce 40

PYMNTS

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. B2B eCommerce startup Nuorder, based in the U.S., Cross River Bank.

B2B 70

B2B Startups Benchmarking Manufacturing 70

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. We also co-invested in an investment recently where we — RITHOLTZ: That’s right. HAMBURGER: — we participated in the same investment. Has that closed?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 60

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Compliance Investments Finance 60

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. CLYMER: So he actually invested as early as 2015. FOWLER: That was a good investment, by the way.

Retail 64

Retail Advertising Numbers Economics 64

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

How does a kid from Arizona, from Phoenix, get interested in venture investing, not exactly known as a hotbed of early-stage tech companies. LINDZON: So now the one lucky investment that I made, and it was a dumb investment, much like the dumb investments people made in ’21. So in 1999, I invested in this.

Leverage 111

Leverage Investments Valuation Finance 111