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Getaround Car Sharing Platform Raises $200M At $1.7B Valuation

PYMNTS

Founded in 2009, the San Francisco-based company has already received more than $400 million in total venture capital funding from investors including GV, Madrona Venture Group and actor Ashton Kutcher.

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Even with Fair’s Job Cuts, Car-Sharing Keeps Racing Forward

PYMNTS

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. That’s hardly all.

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Even With Fair’s Job Cuts, Car-Sharing Keeps Racing Forward

PYMNTS

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. That’s hardly all.

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Whatever Happened To…Kabbage

PYMNTS

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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Who Will Disintermediate The Intermediaries?

PYMNTS

That was until Amazon branched out of books and niche players like Etsy provided a different and better product selection with a cleaner user experience less than a decade later. The retailer became the category leader by moving yard and garage sales online and later by expanding into selling new branded products.

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The Only Thing to Hate About Personal Finance Management Is the Term ‘PFM’

Javelin Strategy & Research

I said that in first PFM report for Javelin in 2009, and I’ve repeated it in the seven reports since, most recently in “Managing Money in the ‘Mobile-First’ Era: A Blueprint for On-the-Go Personal Finance Management.”. In January, Capital One snatched up Level Money’s budget app. And that brings me to Digit.

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Fenergo Brings its Client Lifecycle Management Innovations to ABN AMRO

Fintech Labs Insights

ABN AMRO’s Helène Erftemeijer elaborated on the role Fenergo’s technology will play in helping the bank improve the user experience for its clients. ” Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Fenergo demonstrated its Deal Manager solution at FinovateEurope 2012.