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MARCH 31, 2020

Other participants included BitRock Capital as well as current shareholders CreditEase Industry Fund, China Growth Capital and IDG Capital. Fenbeitong, which was started in 2015 by Xi Lan, created a business wallet app that let people pay, manage and get reimbursement for business costs. In July, the company notched $12.36

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MAY 3, 2021

The round was led by Oak HC/FT Partners with participation from Declaration Partners, PayPal Ventures, and Mithril Capital, among others. The company received the New York Department of Financial Services state Trust charter in 2015, which it has since retained. How’s the company performing? Become a CB Insights customer.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

” Launched in 2015, San Francisco-based Onward was started to allow computers to participate in natural, human conversations and answer simple questions. In July, the company announced it is launching a new initiative, the People + AI Research (PAIR) initiative to study how humans and robots interact.

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MARCH 10, 2020

Other participants in the new round included BitRock Capital and existing shareholders IDG Capital, CreditEase Industry Fund and China Growth Capital. The new funds will be used for further optimization of the product and to expand Fenbeitong’s workforce with additional research and development staff, Lan said.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 12, 2024

Research and insights Research from financial technology firm EV and Opinium finds that 80 per cent of 18 to 34 year olds, and 49 per cent of those aged 35 to 54 would consider moving their current account to access digital tools to help with financial decisions. While Feinberg has been with MoneyGram since 2015.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Mobile transactions topped 190 trillion yuan ($27 trillion) in China in 2018, making it the world’s largest such market, according to the Chinese research firm iResearch. The country changed its rules in 2015 so that licenses could be granted to foreign bank-card clearing providers by establishing units or acquiring a local company.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

American Express launched the Plenti program in 2015, allowing members to earn points from purchases at a list of participating partner retailers, then redeem those points with any of said partners. Maritz research found the rewards program was always a bit of a miss with consumers in the U.S.,

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

bet on Uber in June 2016 as well as participating in billion-dollar investments in Noon , Virgin Galactic , and most recently Lucid Motors. 12/23/2015. 12/23/2015. appeared first on CB Insights Research. That said, PIF has been the most dominant investor representing the country’s leadership, with its $3.5B

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The announcement revolves around its Series A funding with participation and support from CincyTech Fund IV and other sources within the CincyTech local, regional and national investor community. United States Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Eccrine Systems $3.96 Eccrine Systems, Inc. just raised $5.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

households, is half a percentage point lower than when the survey was last conducted in 2015, and the lowest level recorded since the survey began in 2009. That said, PYMNTS’ research demonstrates the road to financial health and inclusion remains very difficult for many consumers, including those without bank accounts. million U.S.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Since 2015, top pharma corporates have made 413 investments across 28 subsectors — ranging from drug development to e-commerce. The largest investments with big pharma participation were GRAIL’s $914M Series B, followed by Immunocore ‘s and Allogene Therapeutics ‘ $320M and $300M Series A rounds, respectively.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2017

According to the 2017 COLLOQUY Loyalty Census research, consumers in the U.S. This may seem like an all-time high, but research indicates that loyalty program growth is not moving at the same rate as it has in the past. In 2015, there were 3.3 billion people participating in programs. have reached 3.8

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

The research also predicts that Prime Day will be the third time that eCommerce spending goes over $2 billion on a day that’s not a holiday; the other two days were Labor Day in 2018 and Memorial Day in 2019. With Prime Day now in its fifth year, a record 250 retailers are participating by offering bargains on their own sites.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

51job and existing investors Origin Ventures, Uncork Capital and others also participated in the round. Founded in 2015, Fountain processes more than 1 million applications to fill 150,000 hourly and gig positions every month for its customers, which include Golden Gate Bell, Chick-fil-A, Lime, Safeway and more. .” ”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2018

In that effort, the funds will also go toward additions to its research and development staff. ” In late-2016, BlueVine secured $49 million , a funding round in which Menlo Ventures also participated — alongside Lightspeed Venture Partners, 83North, Citi Ventures, Rakuten Capital and Silicon Valley Bank.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

The initiative, which is supported by the Consulate General of Canada, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP), is designed to help foster research and development collaboration between Canadian and Brazilian companies, as well as the development of global FinTech products. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

While it was trying to perhaps poke fun at this older segment of the population, research shows that seniors are actually making purchases online. In a recent survey by SeniorWorld.com , it was revealed that while seniors are using the internet mostly for searching (90 percent), approximately 55 percent are participating in online shopping.

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CB Insights

JULY 25, 2017

Research Briefing: Construction and Infrastructure. Their investments including overlapping participation in rounds to drone solutions provider Airware , which has also seen investment from Y Combinator and Google Ventures. SPOTLIGHT: Corporate Participation. funding round to AR/VR company Holobuilder in Q1’17.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

peak in 2015, 47% ($4.1B), went to tech unicorns. Between 2015 and 2016, as funding more than halved, the number of deals closed jumped 9.6% — from 889 to 974. across several rounds that year, including SoftBank Group’s participation in the second tranche of its $1.4B When funding hit an $8.7B In Q2’18.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In the context of separate research that found SMEs in the U.S. According to the data, the cost of the average data breach on a Canadian SME increased from $250 to $278 compared to 2015 analysis. According to IBM And Ponemon researchers, certain industries are particularly at risk when it comes to data breaches.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2017

Between 2015 and 2016, U.K. Stemming from Interactive Media in Retail Group’s research, eCommerce sales in the U.K. have doubled the amount of cashless payments within the past decade due to the increased use of debit and credit cards, according to the UK Cards Association (UKCA) research we shared last week. billion, U.K.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Founded in 2015, Seattle-based Convoy is among the biggest operators of online marketplaces that match truckers with shippers needing to move cargo,” the report said. PYMNTS caught up with Yan as her company raised $97 million in Series C funding, money that will help the firm, founded in 2015, to expand its business model and offerings.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Since reaching its peak in 2015 with 51 deals, smart money VCs’ participation in cancer therapeutics has been slowing down, evidenced by two consecutive years of decreasing investments in this space. Research Briefing: Healthcare Horizons. Clarus did this for 2 out of the 3 companies it financed in this space.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2018

SynDaver raised a $3M round in 2015 from angel investor and Shark Tank star Robert Herjavec. Founded by entrepreneur Jack Davis and horror auteur Eli Roth in 2015, Crypt Holdings (dba CryptTV ) spreads the message #WeirdisGood through its mobile-friendly, short-form original content featuring monsters, horror stories, and more.

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CB Insights

JULY 16, 2017

Smart money VCs have participated in 5 drone deals so far this year: General Catalyst participated in a $26M Series B to Airmap , New Enterprise Associates backed Echodyne in a $29M Series B, Social Capital joined a $1.5M An in-depth research briefing covering the current drone “stack”, the future of autonomy, and more.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

Black Hat has conducted this survey annually since 2015, with the most recent survey being conducted in May of 2018. Three hundred and fifteen cybersecurity professionals were interviewed, including chief information officers, chief technology officers and researchers in sectors such as financial services, government and healthcare.

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CB Insights

JULY 21, 2017

With Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin making headlines, space tech has seen an increase in both media attention and investment activity: total funding ballooned to more than $2B in 2015, and last year deals hit a record high of 49. Using CB Insights data, we examined funding trends to startups working in space tech.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

At that time 10 TikTok creators, including Michael Le ( @justmaiko ), a dancer with 43 million followers, and other creators will participate in a one hour shoppable variety show, called the “Holiday Shop-Along Spectacular.”. EST on the Walmart profile page on TikTok. New Uses For Existing Tech . According to Vimeo, there were more than 1.1

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CB Insights

AUGUST 25, 2017

July 2017 saw the two largest-ever restaurant tech deals: a $151M private equity investment by Vista Equity Partners to Providence-based Upserve , and a $101M Series C (with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Generation Investment Management, and Lead Edge Capital) to Boston-based Toast. Annual Financing trends.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2018

Based in China, data analytics firm Kyligence announced $15 million in Series B funding this week led by Eight Roads Ventures, while Redpoint Ventures, Cisco, China Broadband Capital and Shunwei Capital also participated. said the funding will be used to launch a research and development center in the U.K., The funding follows $2.5

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

CHAPS payment scheme in 2015 , and the infrastructure is used primarily for corporate treasury payments , according to the latest data from UK Payment Markets 2016.The The figure was provided by researchers examining the trends away from cash as businesses and consumers increasingly use cards.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Successful participants will become “innovation champions” who can be called into other divisions within AARP to help foster ideas and early-stage growth. Founded: 2015. Verily was formerly known as Google Life Sciences, and in 2015 became an independent subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded: 2015.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Looking back at 2015, according to research from Korn/Ferry International, about a fifth of American retailers added a new CFO, where other industries hover around 15 percent or less, with similar numbers in 2016. This means that CFOs have to participate in the strategy and operations of some organizations, where they didn’t used to.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

Since launching the Visa Everywhere Initiative in 2015, Biggar told Webster, the company has run 23 programs, declared 70 winners from 75 countries and worked with 4,000 startups that it’s helped to raise more than $2.5 To participate, firms can be early stage, but must have a product in market or some Seed funding. billion in funding.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

The program is free to participate in and available by invitation in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan. This was backed up by PYMNTS research, which concluded that trust was the driving factor behind consumers’ decision to shop on a particular eCommerce website.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

Microsoft, Facebook and Snapchat are all investing in both AR and virtual reality (VR) research and development. The current hype surrounding AR can draw in new customers to a brand that implements it, while AR’s ability to increase user participation can work toward customer retention.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Research from the June edition of the PYMNTS.com OmniReadi Index™, powered by Vantiv , showed that there is an ever-widening gap between merchants who are the most and least prepared to support commerce across the online, mobile and in-store channels. Scores for most merchants increased from Q2 2015 to Q4 2015 before stagnating in Q1 2016.

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