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DECEMBER 13, 2016

Merchants are capitalizing on the power of deals more than ever before. According to DynamicAction’s Retail Index: Holiday 2016 , retailers have increasing their promotions and offers by 52 percent this holiday season. This is a very interesting time for retail, as we’re in the midst of a generational shift of consumers.

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AUGUST 15, 2017

The growing popularity of mobile order-ahead is hardly news in the restaurant industry, where customers — especially millennials — crave the convenience, speed and personalization of a mobile ordering experience both in quick-service restaurants (QSRs), coffee shops and fast-casual dining environments.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

Slice Integrates No-Fee Visa For Millennial Shoppers In India. Slice is debuting a no-fee Visa Card that provides its millennial and Gen Z clients with cash back and no-cost EMIs during festive sales. The Indian payments upstart was founded in 2016 to serve the financial needs of the millennial and Gen Z generations.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

As the travel industry shifts into higher digital gear, and increasingly responds to the needs and desires of new consumer groups — millennials and Gen Z among them — some players are getting left behind and making their way into the history books. That’s the general case with travel search startup Hipmunk.

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MAY 30, 2016

And to make sure that everyone starts off 2016, Part II on the same footing, we thought we would bring you a few of the top trending stories, as well as hot data/research topics, that will give you a head start on that all-important planning for 2016 and beyond. Store Front Business Index: Main Street USA, A-OK? Financial Inclusion.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

The company’s Series B round was led by GGV Capital. Eldridge Industries, Tribeca Venture Partners, 3L Capital, Softbank NY, Upper90 and Tenaya Capital also participated. Airbnb has taught us that hotels are not the only to stay,” Hans Tung, GGV Capital’s managing partner, told TechCrunch. It is currently in 12 markets.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

“Our data confirms the growing importance of artificial intelligence for eCommerce as today’s online shoppers, and in particular millennials, want to spend less time searching for the products they want to purchase,” said Oliver Tan, cofounder and CEO of ViSenze, according to Business Insider. Last September, ViSenze closed a $10.5

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

The company, which launched in 2013, attracts millennials interested in trading stocks and cryptocurrency. It quickly expanded to one million subscribers in 2016 and six million by October of 2018. Participating investors included Ribbit Capital, NEA, Sequoia and Thrive Capital. Robinhood was valued at $7.6

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Afterpay went for its IPO about nine months after its first-ever capital raise. And the first big challenge was explaining that Afterpay isn’t a credit card and does not aspire to be one because millennial consumers don’t want the kind of revolving debt that goes along with one. But in Australia, Afterpay Co-Founder and U.S.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Luckily, research from Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Capital One and others often point to one thing: Despite the challenges, small businesses are optimistic. That doesn’t mean non-millennial entrepreneurs are necessarily struggling, though. billion in working capital is on the books for U.K. Eighty-one percent of U.S.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citi, to name a few, all scaled back their physical bank branch locations between 2012 and 2016, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). It has also meant working in anticipation of the changing needs of millennial users. It’s a really exciting time to be in the space.”.

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MAY 4, 2020

Robinhood Markets, coming off a new $280 million funding round backed by Sequoia Capital, has seen its value and services expand during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Reuters report. Last year, the company announced it had over 10 million users , up from 1 million in 2016. In February, Robinhood was ranked No.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

A growing group of consumers — particularly millennials and other young shoppers — are embracing connected grocery offerings. billion in capital. Even so, a recent report said that “Instacart is one of only a few companies with the infrastructure and capital to challenge Amazon in groceries. households. Instacart Threat.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Macy’s is partnering with the female-led millennial venture capital fund SoGal Ventures to launch an in-store initiative focused on women-owned businesses, Macy’s said in a press release on Thursday (Dec. SoGal was co-founded by Pocket Sun and Elizabeth Galbut in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

13) it closed a $13 million round of funding led by Flint Capital, with participation from ff Venture Capital, Santander InnoVentures and Two Sigma Ventures, as well as other investors. In a press release, Socure said it will use the capital to scale operations, accommodating the 300 percent growth it has seen in 2016.

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JANUARY 12, 2020

million in a Seed funding round for its neo-bank epiFi, led by Sequoia India and Ribbit Capital, TechCrunch reported on Sunday (Jan. Also participating in the funding rounds were David Velez, Kunal Shah and VC fund Hillhouse Capital. Two co-founders of Google Pay in India have raised $13.2

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NCR

JUNE 29, 2016

Coming of age during the last recession and being subjected to the barrage of headlines about financial executives misbehaving, many Millennials are distrustful of established financial brands and institutions. are in the bottom 10 of the least loved brands by Millennials. are in the bottom 10 of the least loved brands by Millennials.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The year 2016 has not been an easy one for Target — as its same-store sales have slipped, grocery has been an ongoing problem, and Target finds itself increasingly squeezed from two sides: by an expanding Walmart in the physical world and an ever-growing Amazon online. Young With Expendable Cash . Probably not a bad opening play.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Among the most disruptive changes introduced in 2016 by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act is the opportunity for small, private businesses to raise capital via crowdfunding, adding yet another avenue to capital to the long list of traditional and alternative finance options available to small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) today.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

We know almost US$1 billion was invested in PSD2-enabled services in 2016, up 200 percent from the year before¹. Open banking—where banks expose their data, functions and services to an ecosystem of customers, employees, third-party developers and vendors—has been hotly anticipated in Europe. As such it should be high on the agenda.

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MARCH 10, 2017

percent increase during the last three months of 2016, landing at a total of $92.8 The big winners in the declining months of 2016 were Americans with stock and mutual fund portfolios — they increased by a whopping $728 billion in value in the October-December quarter, according to Federal Reserve figures released Thursday.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Here are the numbers: $390 billion | Value of donations to nonprofit organizations in 2016. Within that $390 billion, online giving was up 10 percent last year, and mobile accounted for about 15 percent of those online transactions — percentage that is likely to grow as millennials become a stronger economic force.

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JUNE 18, 2019

The company was sold to Criterion Capital less than two years after, and the Birches purchased it for $1 million in 2013. eGaming was a $493 million industry in 2016, and that had increased to $655 million in 2017 (the last year for which data was available.) Bebo organized the viewers, and the streams appeared on Twitch.

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MAY 2, 2017

As of January 2016, 43 percent of borrowers were behind in their payments or had stopped making them all together. And now it seems credit cards are coming to the party — Capital One, Synchrony and Discover Financial have all increased their loan-loss provisions and reported increasing delinquencies. So is it time to worry?

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APRIL 23, 2019

We weren’t able to spend that much money in 2018 because we weren’t the most capitalized player,” said Postmates CEO Bastian Lehmann, in reference to DoorDash and Uber Eats. “We It debuted Postmates Unlimited, which lets customers get free delivery for orders over $15, in 2016. Postmates has a valuation of $1.85

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APRIL 19, 2016

Todd Smith, president and CMO at Sonic, told MarketWatch that this campaign comes from the company’s long experience with the millennial demographic. “The millennial target isn’t a new target for us, nor is it a customer that’s foreign to us,” Smith said. “We We want to make them even bigger superfans of the brand.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

They capitalize on specialized skills like photography or graphic design. The Millennial Majority. You might know these folks as millennials, and they comprise only 23 percent of the non-gig workforce. This second type tends to be male, high-income and more educated. T here’s More Than One Wey To Gig. percent of the GDP.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

And both of those big firms have a stake in China International Capital Corp. billion in capital via 924 funding rounds last year. Go-Jek entered the digital payments market in the spring of 2016 and by January of 2017, it said Go-Pay accounted for more than half of its transactions. Tencent was part of that action.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Millennials and Gen Z consumers show a clear preference for it, Kim noted, but widespread global adoption of user-to-user messaging in business applications has been slow to the gate — most of the messaging app market is divided between a handful of massive global technology players.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Activities marketplace Fixers , for instance, sees millennials as their target market, as they tend to prefer experiences over things. Millennials make up about a third of the U.S. But it is not a simple opportunity to capitalize, and it isn’t the traditional high-end travel transaction of the past. ” It had notched $2.5

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MARCH 6, 2019

By January 2013, the second-generation Instant Pot was Amazon’s best-selling pressure cooker, and in 2016 the product rose to national consciousness when on Prime Day the price dropped to $70 and hundreds of thousands of people bought one. Yes, Instant Pot-side chats are the fireside chats of the millennial generation.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In session from 2011 until May 2016, the Breakfast Council was a group of allegedly independent nutrition experts that worked with Kellogg’s to bring consumers healthy breakfast cereal options. Kellogg’s used the cultural capital that expertise holds to hold influence beyond the marketing space. So, what’s a major brand to do?

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JUNE 1, 2016

The company confirmed that its new capital will be used to help ramp up the development and launch of its WinView Games app in time for the start of the 2016 professional football season. With the latest investment, WinView’s total funding to date has now reached $6.5

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MAY 28, 2019

Much thought is given to millennials and even Generation Z — consumers who were born during fixed periods of time, and who are having an increasing impact on payments and commerce. million in fresh capital. That group of consumers, born between 1997 and 2016, is 86 million strong and influences $600 billion of spending by families.

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MARCH 14, 2018

Millennials stand to inherit approximately $30T from their parents, the baby boomers, in the coming decades, and both upstarts and advisors are vying for a piece of the pie. Millennials are now the largest generation in the workforce and 2x more likely than the average investor to make a sustainable investment. What’s at stake?

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JULY 4, 2018

million raised in late 2016. The latest round was led by Reach Capital with Rethink Impact, Homebrew, Ludlow Ventures, Afore Capital and BBG Ventures also taking part. A lot of younger millennial parents are turning to Google to find answers to these questions,” adds Halsall. “So A Better Solution Than Google.

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