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DECEMBER 18, 2020

The IPO rate for Chinese companies is the highest since Alibaba’s massive market debut in 2014, according to CNBC , citing a new report from Renaissance Capital. The last big Chinese IPO rush occurred in 2014, when 14 companies, including eCommerce titan Alibaba, raised $25.7 market for 2020, according to Renaissance Capital.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

The round was led by General Atlantic and WestCap , and existing investors Activant Capital and Tribe Capital also participated. Bolt was founded in 2014 in San Francisco and works on tools to streamline web transactions.

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JUNE 25, 2019

When it comes to retail, general commerce and online payments, the increasingly powerful middle class in India will probably get major credit in future textbooks for shaping the global digital economy. billion worth of capital coming from the likes of SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Airbnb Inc.

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DECEMBER 15, 2019

Delivery Hero acquired a majority stake in Yogiyo in 2014. The (food) delivery market has been flooded with gigantic Japan-backed capital and influential online platforms, leading Woowa to factor in partnership as a survival strategy,” a spokesman at Woowa Brothers told Reuters. UberEats left South Korea earlier this year. .

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JULY 8, 2020

Ant Group, the online payment service affiliate of China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, is looking to go public as early as this year, Reuters reported. . Ant Group was launched in 2014 to provide global financial services. At the time, Credit Suisse and China International Capital Corp.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

A banking veteran with stints at such traditional mainstays as Lloyds, RBS and Standard Chartered, Boden recently published a 300-page book offering an insider look at the launch of Starling in 2014, “Banking On It.”. I’ve got my sights on an IPO,” Boden told TechCrunch, saying she has no desire to sell Starling and wants to stay independent.

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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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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The pre-seed funding was from Peak Venture Capital , which also led the new seed round, along with Album VC and strategic partner Pattern. . Using the Route App, users can visually track and protect online orders as well as resolve issues. Route+ offers retailers an end-to-end post-purchase experience. .

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JANUARY 28, 2020

Temasek led the funding round, with Bpifrance, Eurazeo, General Atlantic, Piton Capital and Kismet Holdings also participating in this latest funding cycle. The company has secured $344 million in total since 2014. ManoMano previously raised $125 million in April of last year.

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MARCH 9, 2020

Goodlord is backed by Finch Capital, which led the company’s previous round, also a Series B, and Latitude Ventures, which is a “sister” fund to London seed firm LocalGlobe. Oxx Capital, the recently ousted software-as-a-service (SaaS) firm founded by Richard Anton and Mikael Johnsson, also contributed to the round.

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JUNE 7, 2017

BAM Worldwide, a provider of cash management and working capital, e payment solutions to the transportation industry , announced Tuesday (June 6) that it has completed a $10-million investment led by Millstone Capital Partners. BAM provides technology, payments processing and working capital loans to the U.S.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Cloud-native London FinTech startup Thought Machine has raised $83 million in a Series B funding round led by Draper Esprit, with participation from existing investors Lloyds Banking Group, IQ Capital, Backed and Playfair, Thought Machine announced on Monday (March 2).

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MARCH 26, 2018

A lack of access to capital. 80 percent of Chinese small businesses earn more than 10 percent of revenue from online sales , found CPA Australia for its Asia-Pacific Small Business Survey. 24 percent of Aussie SMBs use traditional banks for funding, down from 38 percent in 2014, Scottish Pacific’s report found.

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MARCH 22, 2019

If data makes the world go ’round, so, too, does it garner investor interest, as evidenced by venture capital and other investors’ funds coming into the coffers of corporates that scrape the web for information. USD in series A funding from a consortium of investors, including Green Visor Capital. An Acquisition in Africa.

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APRIL 6, 2020

Online food delivery platform Swiggy has raised $43 million as part of its ongoing Series I round to develop and expand its new businesses, according to multiple reports on Monday (April 6). New investors included Ark Impact, Korea Investment Partners, Samsung Ventures and Mirae Asset Capital Markets. Swiggy raised a total of $1.42

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Since 2014, Mastercard’s Start Path “has invited more than 230 later-stage startups worldwide to participate in its six-month virtual program, providing technical guidance, operational support and commercial engagements within the Mastercard ecosystem,” the company said. Startups in this growing network have gone on to raise $2.7

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Florida’s ShipMonk, started in 2014, offers eCommerce fulfillment services and technology solutions. The ShipMonk funding is part of a surge in cash going to such B2B companies as GoSite , which targets small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) that are moving operations online.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Over the first half of 2014, these banks, with an approval rate of just under 60 percent, beat out large national banks (31 percent), large regional banks (45 percent) and online lenders (38 percent). In fact, its 2014 Survey of Credit Underwriting Practices noted that 2014 marked a third consecutive year of eased standards.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Bompard also plans to downsize brick-and-mortar by selling or closing 273 underperforming stores the company acquired from Spanish retailer Dia in 2014. “We have a huge ambition and I am well aware of the magnitude of this challenge.”. PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said the change was a defining moment for the industry, TheStreet.com reported.

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MARCH 9, 2018

BlueVine , the provider of working capital to small business (SMB) owners, announced news on Thursday (March 8) that it has inked a deal with Veem , the cross-border payments company. Veem has been tackling this problem since launching in 2014,” wrote Amadon in the blog post. There are no wire fees.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Lendify reportedly locked in $115 million in funding from Insight Investment, which had supported the online lender with a 1.5 Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Sunden-Cullberg said the infusion will also assist the 2014 startup in taking control of the consumer loan space. Morgan Stanley and J.P.

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JULY 18, 2017

Headway Capital , which provides online flexible credit lines of up to $50,000 for­­ U.S. As we work with business customers with non-prime credit, decisions around credit risk are key to the success of our business,” said Haijian Hu, head of Headway Capital.

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MARCH 20, 2018

The “Scottish Pacific SME Growth Index,” released twice a year, found the portion of small businesses that said they would use banks for funding declined from 38 percent in 2014 to 24 percent in 2018. At the same time, interest in alternative lenders increased. Nearly half (47.6

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Three big Silicon Valley venture capital firms want to invest in Telegram ’s initial coin offering (ICO), The Financial Times reported. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark and Sequoia Capital have each told the messaging startup that they want to invest $20 million, according to three individuals familiar with the deal.

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JUNE 23, 2016

Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

For instance, online marketplace and auction site eBay has released eBay Motors, a new app that uses AI to list a car in under five minutes, according to a report by The Verge. The online marketplace company aims to eventually use AI technology on descriptions, so that a user could give basic details and the AI would flesh out the rest.

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JUNE 21, 2018

Launched in 2014, Robinhood is a minimalist app that lets users set up an an online brokerage account, transfer funds from accounts at major banks (including Chase, Citi and Band of America) and check the prices of their stocks. The talks are not final and no deal has been made. In May, the company received a valuation of $5.6

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MARCH 11, 2019

And Phillips, on the eve of founding his dessert delivery on-demand business SugarMoo in 2014, had two problems to solve. This was a pretty big leap since online food delivery business in Dubai was worth $750 million per year at the time. The first was cupcakes, which were everywhere five years ago. The products were solid.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

New and past investors participated in the round, including PayPal, Soros Capital Management, JS Capital Management and others. Paidy was launched in 2014 and uses machine learning to offer instant credit to consumers and payment guarantees to merchants throughout Japan.

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JULY 29, 2020

Enova International plans to acquire online small-business lender OnDeck for some $90 million in cash and stock. The deal comes some three months after activist investor Voce Capital urged shareholders to dump three members of the company’s board. OnDeck and Enova enjoyed a combined $4.7 Second-Quarter Earnings .

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AUGUST 1, 2017

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JUNE 1, 2018

Square’s founder and chief executive, Jack Dorsey, helped to enable merchants to accept bitcoin as a payment method back in 2014. Square began its journey with in-person solutions, while Weebly began its journey online. payment volume, RBC Capital Markets analyst Daniel Perlin predicted in a recent note to clients.

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JUNE 3, 2019

PetSmart wants to take Chewy.com, its wildly successful online venture, public at a valuation of $7 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg. million of net proceeds, which are already highlighted for working capital and various other corporate purposes. They rose from $204 million in 2014 to $3.5 million by giving 5.6

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

A report this week said that an online used-car platform in that country called BeliMobilGue has raised $10 million in fresh capital in a Series A funding to help expand its offerings. Consumers who want to sell their cars via that platform reportedly seek an online price estimate. “If Take Online auto retailer Vroom.

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JUNE 13, 2018

With the completion of a $325 million “mega-round,” online real estate firm Opendoor is now valued at over $2 billion, a source close to the deal told Reuters. The firm’s twist on online real estate is that it sells houses that it owns. based venture capital firms — to follow suit. to court entrepreneurs.

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MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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