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Visa On Bringing More Female Founders Into The Reinvention Of Retail

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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

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ForwardX Nabs $10M In Financing Round Amid Smart Luggage Push

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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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Brandless Turns To Subscriptions To Make Service Stickier

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“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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BingoBox’s Unattended Retail Revolution

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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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Cool, Comfort And Ecology — The Allbirds Secret To Retail Success

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The merino wool blend they use is proprietary, and the price tag for one pair is $95. That expansion will be funded in part by the $17.5 million Allbirds snapped up in Series B funding earlier this year — care of Tiger Global Management, Elephant, Lerer Hippeau Ventures and Maveron. Allbirds’ total funding comes to $27.5

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Data Dive, Farewells Edition: Apple, Chase, SoFi, Uber

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billion tagged for this year and significant focus on Chase mobile and digital efforts. Under Noto’s charge, SoFi has been investing in different areas such as high-yield checking and no-fee, exchange-traded funds, but those areas will take time to generate profit. In May, the company raised $500 million in venture funding.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

Barry Ritholtz

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.