CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Date: April 25, 2014. Ballmer led Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia for over $7B in a deal finalized in 2014. Date: January 13, 2014. In 2014, Google sought to make an entrance into smart homes by acquiring Nest Labs, a four-year-old startup founded by two ex-Apple engineers, Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers. Price: $3.2B.

Acquirers 76

Acquirers Online and Mobile Banking Innovation Non-Bank 76

CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2018

Companies are arranged in descending order of market cap (as of 03/16/18). . “This market cap is not justified,” he said on CNBC’s Fast Money three days after the announcement. Longfin corp. Note: Longfin Corp began trading on NASDAQ on 12/12/17. . 48-hr stock change: 1,717%. Industry: Fintech. Exchange: NASDAQ.

Blockchain 48

Blockchain Cryptocurrency Bitcoin Accreditation 48

PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

Over Labor Day weekend in 1995, Pierre Omidyar wrote the original code in his living room for the company that would later become known as eBay. It was shuttered in 2014. Facebook shuttered Gifts in August of 2014. With a market cap of $37.2 Airbnb was launched a year later. Or so they thought.

PayPal 51

PayPal Push-to-Card Consumer Acquirers 51

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Webpay failed to gain user traction and was shut down in 2014, unlike up-start Venmo (now a part of rival payments processor PayPal). With the talent acquired from GoPago, Amazon launched Amazon Local Register, a card reader for SMBs in August 2014. Its first entry point in the market was in payments in October 2014.

Online and Mobile Banking 101

Online and Mobile Banking Push-to-Card Payment APIs and Integration Non-Bank 101

PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 with a market cap of $12 million, down from $4 billion just a decade before in 2002 — the year that Netflix IPO’d. percent in 2014. Netflix saw that same consumer friction as an opportunity to build a new service, delivery and revenue model.

Payments 47

Payments Consumer On-Demand Returns 47

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Simple, an early contender founded in 2009, floundered following its 2011 launch before ultimately being bought by Spanish banking giant BBVA in 2014. Originally launched in 2015, Qapital has raised $51M in funding to date and gained roughly 420,000 users, who have reportedly saved nearly $500M. As of 2018, the app had 3.7M

Finance 77

Finance Online and Mobile Banking Micro-Entry Advisors 77

CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The online bookseller didn’t turn a profit for six years — today, it’s the second publicly traded company ever to hit a $1T market cap. 2014: Bet on ideas that have unlimited upside. At Amazon, it is always Day 1— it’s a powerful refrain that has featured in every shareholder letter since the original.

Innovation 78

Innovation Product Risk Technology 78

PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2016

2014, which raised $25 billion to become the largest global IPO ever, investors couldn’t wait to get their hands on the stock, sending it skyrocketing from its IPO price of $68 to open at $92.70 14, 2014), as Alibaba closed the day at $83.59 That’s nearly $10 less than its opening price two years ago, despite a market cap of $202.76

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NOV On-Demand Caps Product 40

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Market Cap ($B). Its acquisitions of smaller grocers like Roundy’s (2015) and Harris Teeter (2014) have bolstered Kroger’s supply chain further by integrating their warehouses and distribution centers into the company’s larger operations. Total sales for Kroger store brands hit over $20B, dwarfing the sales of brands like J.M.

Product 67

Product Research Consumer On-Demand 67

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MAY 1, 2018

When the company went back to the original formula, Peter Jennings broke into hit TV show “General Hospital” to announce the news and US Sen. Fire Phone, Amazon (2014). Google Glass, Google (2013-2014). New Coke, Coca-Cola (1985). This was a change consumers never asked for and public backlash was a disaster.

Product 78

Product Innovation Origination Consumer 78

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Facebook’s $22B acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014 was (and still is) the largest private acquisition of a VC-backed company ever. Startups can end up with as many as five or six different VCs in their cap table. The previous year, King’s 2014 IPO was hotly anticipated. Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC).

Returns 78

Returns Online and Mobile Banking Acquirers On-Demand 78

CB Insights

MARCH 2, 2018

in market cap. Both companies can afford to spend aggressively on expansion as their stocks have soared — market caps sit at $720B for Amazon and $483B for Alibaba. Eight months after their original investment, Alibaba and Ant Financial invested another $680M into the quickly growing company.

On-Demand 68

On-Demand Acquirers Product Continuity 68

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.

Consumer 78

Consumer Product Returns On-Demand 78