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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 Just under $3 billion – or $2.7 billion in 2017. billion in losses around the world last year.

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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. Choosy raised $5.4

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The company has already raised $11 million in funding from three major Hollywood studios — Warner Bros., IMAX, venture capital firm Bold Capital Partners and mall chain Westfield Corp. 21st Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — along with an investment from director Steven Spielberg, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Entertainment 40

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2017

This time around, the B2B sector led FinTech as the area where the most funds flowed, with about $456 million. The biggest announcement came as Magento Commerce, spun out from eBay two years ago, got $250 million from Hillhouse Capital, one of China’s largest investment firms. The implied valuation here is $700 million.

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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 Alphabet’s investment was part of a $25 million round that also included input from existing investors Notion Capital Ltd and Rakuten Inc., among others. among others.

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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. Brexit: The price tag on this divorce is getting higher.

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JULY 13, 2016

And RedKix has just shored up $17 million in seed funding from some very big-name investors to attempt to buck said conventional wisdom. billion price tag represents a hefty profit for Apax, which bought Epicor for $1 billion.
. That funding round was led by IIFL Asset Management.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

And then of course as a CEO, doesn’t matter the size of the company, you’re always talking about where to allocate capital. 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: Sure. JOHNSON: For sure.

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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. Bridge Bank provided $4 million in funding to BuyerQuest, a U.S.-based

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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. There are also venture capital firms such as Union Square Ventures and Ribit Capital on board. The members can leave for any reason.

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PYMNTS

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. Anki , which had raised over $200 million in venture capital, announced this week that it will be laying off its entire staff, shutting down its website and shuttering its operation.

Technology 75

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And he starts talking about money and free enterprise and capitalism and ownership and balance sheets and all this stuff and I’m sitting there mesmerized. 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. How do we get that funded?

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JUNE 10, 2019

billion tagged for this year and significant focus on Chase mobile and digital efforts. The Wall Street Journal reported that Marketing Chief Joanne Bradford, Head of Risk Kevin Moss and Ashish Jain, the lender’s top capital markets executive, informed Chief Executive Anthony Noto that they would be leaving their roles.

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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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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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

By corporate events we mean takeovers, funding rounds and the like. A spate of headlines across Wall Street and venture capital these past several days shows a broad range of corporate actions that take into consideration, in varying degrees, cash/debt and valuation. The numbers are eye-popping.

Valuation 40

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Can I just tag along? It’s the sort of hedge fund trading operation that Sam Bankman freed is operating under. And his idea of starting it is to start it with a bunch of effective al altruists in Berkeley where there’s money from effective altruist to supply the capital. No controls co-mingling of funds.

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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. You sold your house to fund this. HAMBURGER: Absolutely.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 61

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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. How does a kid from Arizona, from Phoenix, get interested in venture investing, not exactly known as a hotbed of early-stage tech companies. I mean, I didn’t set out in life to be a hedge fund guy.

Leverage 112

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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. Then we raised our first venture capital. And Louis Vuitton has a watch business and division. CLYMER: Yes.

Retail 65

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Barry Ritholtz

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. No, no individual was really trading commodity features.

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