PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2020

Similar to Afterpay online, shoppers can pay for their in-store purchases in four installment payments. “As we enter the second half of the year and retail re-emerges across the world, it’s critical we help our partners drive business growth, both online and offline,” said Nick Molnar , Afterpay Co-Founder and U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Those innovations did more than just leverage digital and connected devices to make it easier for consumers and businesses to interact and to effectively blend the online and offline worlds. In 2009, the Uber app introduced consumers to a whole new way of getting transportation and a way for black-car drivers with the capacity to serve them.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

The four-year-old online startup has also reportedly advanced negotiations with supermarket retailer Kroger, which is struggling to compete with Amazon now that it owns Whole Foods Market. The investment was led by GGV Capital and Digital Sky Technologies, with participation from Founders Fund, AME Cloud Ventures and Vaizra Investments.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

On this day in history in the year 2009, the world of payments and commerce was changed forever. No, we’re not talking about the launch of Square – that was in February of 2009. True in 2009. The skies parted, the Earth shook and the song of angels was heard from on high. Well, that’s how we remember it, anyway.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

In a press release , the company said the fundraising round was led by Goldman Sachs and included participation from current investors General Catalyst, GGV Capital and Tenaya Capital. Our mission is to help every business selling online maximize success through the benefits of SaaS,” said Brent Bellm, CEO of BigCommerce.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2016

TransUnion is betting big on Dashlane , a password management company that enables users to monitor their online identities across multiple sites and apps, by leading a Series C funding round for the startup. The password and online identity management startup is now used by more than 5 million consumers across 150 countries.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Pepsi has had a distribution agreement in North America with Rockstar as of 2009. Separately, Pepsi spent $705 million to acquire Be & Cheery , a Chinese company that sells online snacks, per reports in February. The move comes as Pepsi and Coca-Cola have both been moving into the energy drinks market, CNBC reported. rose by 29.8

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Founded in 2009 as FindTheBest, Graphiq aimed to collect and organize details about products, places and people to simplify online research. The company had raised approximately $32 million in private financing, with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Pritzker Group Venture Capital as its biggest venture capital backers.

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MARCH 9, 2018

The website is also an attractive sales channel for CPG companies looking to offer their household products online. The investment was led by GGV Capital and Digital Sky Technologies, with participation from Founders Fund, AME Cloud Ventures and Vaizra Investments.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

TechCrunch noted that, in 2009, Sequoia Capital made an investment in Pine Lab and remains its largest single investor. It closed on an $82 million round in March with private equity firms Actis and Altimeter Capital investing in the company. With the round of funding, Pine Labs has raised a total of $208 million.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

There is an out-and-out frenzy to capitalize on the pandemic-fueled digital shift that gave consumers few options for accessing products and services over the last twelve weeks. Fulfilling those digital purchases meant figuring out how to accept payments online and managing the logistics of getting products delivered. Digital’s 2.0

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

In 2009, the private label brand entered the world of the mega eCommerce retailer when Amazon decided to create its own brand of electronics accessories called AmazonBasics. “We Since 2009, AmazonBasics has sold well — very well. As JCPenney grew, so did its private brands. The strategy would prove to be timeless. For Everyone.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

retail sales declined the most during the month of December since 2009, so-called like-for-like revenue at Walmart is forecasted to have jumped more in the last three months of the year thanks to the holiday shopping season. percent, reported The Financial Times, citing analyst estimates compiled by S&P Capital IQ.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Kirk has a decade of experience running treasury and capital markets for large fleet companies, and is well known on the capital markets side. The funding round brings the company’s total amount raised to $450 million since the company’s inception in 2009, when it was called Relay Rides.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Kirk has a decade of experience running treasury and capital markets for large fleet companies, and is well-known on the capital markets side. The funding round brings the company’s total amount raised to $450 million since its inception in 2009, when it was called Relay Rides.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

That couldn’t ring truer for the state’s capital, which many consider to have a tech scene bursting with potential and growth. Last year, 147 companies in Austin’s digital tech ecosystem raised more than $966 million in new capital, with more than $3.9 You know what they say, everything is bigger in Texas. billion in exits.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

The real trick is to tie engaging consumer experiences to those cards, which is critical, as prepaid and reloadable cards continue to evolve — moving from plastic cards to mobile accounts that can adapt to an expanding portfolio of use cases, including payroll, online gambling or even consumer and business lending. Step back a bit first.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. The DOJ Finding. In 2010, LendingClub added to its war chest with a $24.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Back in 2009, that’s what NerdWallet did. Seeing NerdWallet grow from a singular credit cards tool in 2009 to providing content and tools across 11 personal finance topics today is something I have great pride in,” said Tim Chen, CEO and cofounder of NerdWallet. So, what’s a good startup idea? A personal finance site. Its mission?

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JULY 18, 2016

consumers in 2009 by Booz & Company, a global strategy consulting firm owned by PricewaterhouseCoopers, found that the Great Recession brought a “new frugality” to consumers that was only becoming more “entrenched” and would likely “persist even as the economy starts to recover.”. A survey of 2,000 U.S. A survey of 2,000 U.S.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Executives from Payoneer, NCR, FTV Capital and Ingo Money touch upon all of these trends as they tell PYMNTS their own visions for B2B payments next year. trillion by 2020, and eCommerce in India will grow 67 percent into a $38 billion market — a tenfold growth since 2009. Find out what they had to say below.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

In a conversation with economist and author of “Matchmakers: The Economics of Multi-Sided Platforms,” David Evans, in 2009, Co-Founder and CEO Jack Dorsey initially hinted at ambitions of controlling both ends of the payments ecosystem with what he called a “more elegant” payments experience. And industry pundits fell in love. What’s Next.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground. million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. E-Bay acquired online ticket exchange, StubHub, in 2007.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The iPhone was years away, online video streaming remained a novel concept and the idea of skipping the commercials had only reached the hands of TiVo’s newest customers. A 2017 report from Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends found a whopping 75 percent of new online advertising spend comes from either Google or Facebook.

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MyBankTracker

AUGUST 12, 2020

Personal Capital is an online wealth management concept that started in 2009. Today, Personal Capital offers two sets of tools depending on whether you pay for their services or not. Personal Capital provides a paid wealth management service for those with $100,000 or more in investable assets. Budgeting Tools.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The year was 2009, and it was rough for some, but a fertile ground for others. “I Our focus has always been on user experience and for them to get capital in less than ten minutes. Petralia remembers back to 2009 when the team was looking for a bank partnership. million to date, after five rounds and 17 investors.

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MAY 6, 2019

Déjà vu because it was 10 years ago, in May of 2009, that Facebook launched the alpha version of Facebook Credits. First stop on Facebook’s capital raising tour: The big guns with successful payments rails, loads of money and a demonstrable appetite to invest in innovation. It shut down in 2012, 15 months after its official launch.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

But despite its market size, SMEs are struggling to get the working capital they need. Even with the SMEs that did not seek financing in the time period, the CFIB found that many of these companies expressed a need for capital anyway. percent in 2009, it still is significantly higher than levels seen in 2000 (10.5

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

But global car production was down 1 percent in 2018 from 2917, and that marks the first downturn since the 2009 financial crisis. For at least part of the supply chain, he said, online platforms can help smooth the interactions (and payments) between buyers and suppliers, amid onboarding activities and negotiation of payments terms.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Those investments, according to Menear, will be spread out across the board: store layout, staff training, flexible work/pay schemes, a streamlined point-of-sale checkout experience, online and mobile shopping options, supply chain logistics — it’s all on the table for renovation and improvement. However, Home Depot was hit especially hard.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It was rebranded as “Sparkhouse” in 2009, and currently boasts a client roster that includes Nissan , Forever 21 , Experian and Capital One , among other firms. Sparkhouse’s corporate cards are used for a variety of expenses, including catering for crews and hiring remote talent through online portals.

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BankBazaar

APRIL 29, 2020

It is way worse than the global financial crisis of 2008-2009.”. Use UPI-based apps and online transfers. For example, some debt mutual funds are volatile and therefore it’s better to get assured returns with capital safety from a deposit at a large bank. “This is a crisis like no other,” said IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

LendKey takes the hard parts — demand generation, online credit decisioning, origination and customer service — and manages that, Passione said. Our partners give us the input for their own parameters for solutions they want and the borrowers they want to work with.”. There are currently 13,000 community banks in the U.S.,

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AUGUST 2, 2017

VR fashion shows that put one in the action in London or Paris or virtual fitting rooms that let online shoppers “try on” clothes virtually. InContext was early to this market and ready to build ways to provide the data in 2009. InContext provides for the right need at the right time, and the $15.2-million

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The regions wealthiest families and individuals are competing for deals alongside venture capital firms, Chinese tech investors, and others. Sinar Mas Group has also invested in Ardent Capital. Ardent Capital, a Thai venture capital firm that seeks to develop startups addressing market gaps. Series A in Q2’15.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

For the third consecutive year, we worked with The New York Times to identify and rank the top 100 venture capital professionals from around the globe. Below are the detailed profiles of the Top 20 Venture Capital Partners. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. Current Firm: First Round Capital (Founding Partner).

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