PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2017

12), the company said California-based venture capital firm Accel Partners led the funding round, with participation from Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures, and Temasek Holdings. “It’s probably a combination of things,” Cormac Leech, a principal at private-equity firm Victory Park Capital Advisors, told Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

The firm takes in-person returns from participating online retailers at six malls in California, Chicago and Virginia. metro areas last year, compared with 24 in 2015 and 19 in 2014, according to data from real estate researcher Reis Inc. “We And some online-focused businesses — Happy Returns, for example — thrive in mall locations.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Founded: 2014. Robo-advisory platform for financial institutions and financial advisors. The UK-based independent fintech industry group attracted 100 entries resulting in 22 finalists across 8 categories, 8 category winners and one overall champion. HQ: London. Funding: $3.2M. 200k 2015 $3M 2017 $12M 2020. Wirex pitch (7.5

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 18, 2016

What does the world need with another robo-advisor, the founders of Scalable Capital , a Munich-based automated investment platform, asked from the Finovate stage in London earlier this year? As Adam French explained, this is part of what makes Scalable Capital unique among robo-advisors. Total funding of more than €11 million.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Consumers love it, but consumer advocates hate it,” said Paul Purcell, principal at Continental Advisors. In 1996, California legalized medical cannabis; in 2014, Colorado did one better and legalized marijuana for adults over 21 for recreational use. Pot Shots in Payments.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

He said that DarcMatter is less a traditional robo-advisor and more a platform that “streamlines the process to display the opportunities that would be best.” Founded in November 2014. . “Recommendations shouldn’t come from intermediaries, but from your behavior,” Lee said. Provides $1.5

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CB Insights

JULY 16, 2017

The same group completed 20 investments in aggregate between 2012 and 2014. Liberty also made an investment toward its thematic focus in next-gen vehicles, participating in Michigan-based connected car security company Karamba Security ‘s $12M Series B in May 2017. in funding. Munich Re/HSB Ventures. Number of investments: 8.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 8, 2017

The first licensed robo advisor in Singapore, Miss Kaya, was unveiled this week. Among the FIs participating in the company’s Series A are Goldman Sachs, J.P. Funding Circle has received a total of $84 (£80) million from the BBB, which provided the lender with an earlier, £40 million infusion of capital in 2014.

FinTech 16

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Most companies need help navigating the process, and investment banks participate in this service along with lawyers. Skeptics have pointed to the fact that new exchanges typically fail due to traders’ reluctance to trade in markets where there are few participants. BOUTIQUE BANKS.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

This doesn’t bode well for teams that held them, or their legal advisors. Its $12M Series A at the end of March also saw participation from Andreessen. The firm participated in multiple rounds to Earn (fka 21), which was first a bitcoin mining company, and popular exchange Coinbase. One company working on this is Harbor.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The same group completed fewer than 25 investments in aggregate between 2012 and 2014. In 2015, Assurant participated in a $7.7M Since then, USAA has undergone significant personnel changes and has since slowed its investing pace from 7 new companies in 2015 and 6 in 2014 to just 3 in 2016 to date. Allianz Ventures.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 31, 2018

Since 2012, the top 10 US banks by total assets have participated in 81 deals to fintech startups, totaling nearly $4.1B In the last year, banks have homed in on the consumer, backing robo-advisors and companies offering easy-to-use money management apps. . in disclosed funding. Fintech: 2017 Year-in-Review & 2018 Trends.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2017

It later announced in October 2014 a partnership with DirectHealth.com, which provides in-store licensed agents to help consumers navigate health insurance exchanges. In 2015, Walgreens participated alongside OrbiMed Advisors and other investors in the $11M Series B of Israel-based telemedicine company TytoCare.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In Q3’17, it participated in a $20M seed round to Canada-based Kinova Robotics , which focuses on industrial service robots. Robo-advisors, or digital wealth managers/financial planners, have made the most progress towards fully-automating a conventional fintech business model. Foxconn has also backed external robotics startups.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 9, 2017

The funding was led by Hasso Plattner Ventures (HP-Ventures), and featured the participation of Amplify Partners, Battery Ventures, Clear Venture Partners, Leslie Ventures, and Sutter Hill Ventures. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Vera demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2016.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 4, 2018

And that has started with the category broadly known as robo-advisors. He writes: “Software does a better job than traditional financial advisors because it provides to an unlimited number of customers important services that had previously been available only to the very wealthy. Another company here is Restless Bandit.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Laplanche was barred from participating in the securities industry for three years and also agreed to pay a fine of $200,000. In 2014, mobile payments company Mozido was valued at $2.3B. However, Asenqua resurfaced in 2015, boasting a new website and another entity known as Asenqua Financial Advisors, Inc. Total Funding: $314M.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

DAX has also worked with the DBS Innovation Group (DiG) on Hack2hire, a hackathon that allows participants to code their way into a career at DBS, and the UNI.CORN management internship program. Key people: Jennifer Tescher, Founder and CEO of CFSI; Ryan Falvey, Senior Advisor & Former Managing Director at CFSI. Founded: 2014.

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Finovate

MARCH 11, 2024

.” Fundica’s platform enables small businesses to identify and apply for relevant government and private sector funding, while giving financial institutions the ability to promote inclusion and serve as a more comprehensive financial advisor to its SME clients. Interested in demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco in May?

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

The company has developed a number of additional features for Teams, including a “raise your hand” feature to indicate when a meeting participant wishes to speak; support for offline access; and an integration with RealWear industrial headsets. Apple, Google, and Samsung began adding virtual wallets to their mobile products as early as 2014.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Mobile bill pay usage volume spiked, hitting well over $1M a day by the time Check was acquired by Intuit in June 2014. As part of a study into people’s understanding of growth, the psychologists Craig McKenzie and Michael Liersch asked participants how much saving $400 per month with 5% return annually would turn into after 40 years.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

2014 Second Update (9/24/2014). 2014 First Update (6/3/2014). Original 50 Startup Failure Post-Mortems (1/20/2014). Background: Pearl was founded in 2014 by three ex-Apple iPod engineers, and hired dozens of other ex-Apple employees. 2017 Third Update (10/31/17). 2017 Second Update (6/9/17).

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The bed-in-a-box startup Casper launched in 2014 with five co-founders and one fundamental observation about the mattress industry: that buying a mattress is an “awful consumer experience.” In 2014, the New York Times published a 2200-word piece about the “Kafkaesque” process of trying to buy a mattress. By 2014, it hit $150M.

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