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Capriza Chosen by Flextronics, Marvell, NTT, Symantec to Boost Workflow Efficiency

Fintech Labs Insights

Workflows for timesheet entries and approvals are among the main areas of focus. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Capriza will make its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2015 in New York in September. Capriza calls its approach “zero coding, zero APIs, zero upgrades.” Yuval Scarlet is CEO.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

In the same way that Square built a payment-centric ecosystem for brick-and-mortar SMBs and micro-merchants, Stripe has reinvented online payment acceptance. Stripe went on to raise a seed round from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, and PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk in 2011. Source: Square.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

CB Insights

That same year, the company acquired TextPayMe , a peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile service that was relaunched as Amazon Webpay in 2011. Amazon Lending initially launched in 2011 to help small businesses finance and sell more goods on Amazon. Its first entry point in the market was in payments in October 2014.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. Simple, an early contender founded in 2009, floundered following its 2011 launch before ultimately being bought by Spanish banking giant BBVA in 2014. Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. Active investing.

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If Facebook Wants To Be WeChat, Why Did It Launch Libra?

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When Tencent made the move to mobile and launched WeChat in 2011, it had to persuade QQ users to download and use the WeChat app. There are stories of micro merchants using it as a channel to sell, but it’s not clear how widespread those use cases are and the extent to which they have traction and scale. Just like WeChat did.

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