PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

WeWork, a New York-based company providing flexible, coworking workspaces, has inked a deal to acquire space in department store chain Lord & Taylor’s flagship Manhattan location for $850 million. According to a report in Fortune, the deal will lower HBC’s debt levels and give WeWork a new headquarters in New York City.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

A young logistics startup that gives eCommerce brands same-day delivery capabilities just scored a major chunk of venture funding. million in a seed funding round led by VC firm PivotNorth Capital. Brands without local inventory can use Darkstore’s storage space to ship same-day. Just recently, the company scored $1.4

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

3 in the best running cities in the U.S., you’d be hard-pressed to find a Chowdahead who doesn’t think Boston is the running capital of the world. Matt Taylor, co-founder and CEO of running apparel brand Tracksmith has found himself and his company a little slice of Boston’s running history. I think that will carry into 2020.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2018

A press release announcing Landsman’s new role explained that she will be focusing on “consumer technology and commerce” and will be based in the company’s New York City office. “I Before becoming Jet’s president in January 2017, Landsman was its chief customer officer.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Called by some the Warby Parker of hair color, Madison Reed has announced $13 million in new venture capital funding and a newly hired CMO. To obtain funding, Madison Reed upped their game on several fronts, including airing QVC spots and debuting a chatbot and a storefront dubbed the Madison Reed Color Bar in New York City.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The company has raised a total of $288 million in funding from venture capital and private equity backers, including Great Hill Partners, Greycroft, PWP Growth Equity, Sandbridge Capital, Industry Ventures and Canaan. Luxury brand s are increasingly using chat app WeChat in China to reach customers and sell big-ticket items.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In a press release , Kasisto said Oak HC/FT led the fundraising round, with participation from existing investors Propel Venture Partners, Two Sigma Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Mastercard and Partnership Fund for New York City. AI’s adoption in financial services has continued at a rapid pace.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

In addition to the current Hudson Yards location, additional New York City locations are planned to roll out this year). Silver said the space can appeal to a wide range of demographics, from the office worker to the tourist coming off the High Line to someone traversing around the city or freelancing. Hudson Yards .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Ma noted in an interview that the firm’s most important innovation is that its underlying technology platform easily integrates online assortments from new brands. Currently, Zola’s registry has about 60,000 products on offer from 600 brands. Their intention is to remain a digitally centered brand. ”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Bulletin — described as “WeWork for retail” — opened its second New York City retail space this week while also raising funds in anticipation of opening additional NYC locations as well as eventually branching out to other cities.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

“Nike has made a big shift in their strategy over the past couple of years,” he said, adding the brand is investing less in what he called wholesale relationships while providing a more digital and mobile experience to customers — and getting store associates more involved in that effort.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Through a pop-up store in New York City, consumers are able to browse and buy gear from official Olympic sponsors, such as Nike, Swatch and Oakley. Last year, it closed a $1 billion venture capital round , according to news reports from Reuters. 1 city for sales of Team USA gear,” Boyle said. The Economics.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

Appear Here’s Series B round was led by Octopus Ventures and saw participation from Simon Venture group as well as existing investors Balderton, MMC, Meyer Bergman and Playfair Capital. as well as internationally, breaking into Paris and more recently New York City. All told, the company has raised $21.4

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

Freshly , an overnight delivery meal service similar in concept to Blue Apron, announced on Tuesday (July 12) that it has secured $21 million in funding and plans to expand its business to all 50 states, as well as New York City, according to Crain’s New York Business.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

According to the recently bankrupt brand’s CEO, David Brandon, Toys“R”Us will be shrinking its stores in favor of small locations and revamping its larger outlets through the bankruptcy restructuring process. We haven’t had the capital to do it.”. We want] toys out of the box and into the hands of kids,” Brandon said. “We

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Tons of capital was raised and spent on new systems and processes. DoorDash and Grubhub also got deliveries — in the form of municipal lawsuits over tipping, billing and compensation practices common to MOA brands. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

While they will lack the sheer financial clout of federal assistance, they are starting to offer strategies beyond capital infusions that will assist in restarting small business when the crisis passes. Our goals are to help businesses, brands and cities increase individuals’ peace of mind around sanitation, contact and visit frequency.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2018

And brands have helped to fuel that strong growth. More than entertainment, brands have been an important trend to move the needle for the industry so far this year,” The NPD Group Global Toys Industry Analyst Frédérique Tutt said in a press release.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

30) from the Columbia Spectator , which covers news important to students at Columbia University and Barnard College in the global fashion capital of New York City.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

Currently exiting beta in New York City, Fahmy’s new company, DineVite, claims to put the discounts back where they belong — with the restaurant owners. It’s a new concept that means both parties win.”. [Few] would argue that these services make life easy for the consumer.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

According to Vijay Dandapani, CEO of the Hotel Association of New York, large brands are currently in tight negotiations with Booking on this new policy. If a compromise can’t be reached, he told the WSJ , those brands could quite likely “minimize their exposure” to online travel sites.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Under the terms of the deal, FreshDirect will keep its brand name, be supervised by a seven-member board and continue its independent operations in New York City. I’m not going to be a Pollyanna and say things are perfect,” Geoff Freeman, chief executive of the trade group Consumer Brands Association, told the Post.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2019

Miller clarified that she has no problem with predicting the future for commercial purposes – she herself has been known to write horoscope-influenced gift guides for brands like Tory Burch – but she takes the work seriously and actually tries to focus her expertise into those commercial works, something she does not feel Amazon has done.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

While not exactly an empire yet, the online retailer launched its 13th store in New York City last month and it features the ability to use cash, answering a complaint that’s been lodged at unattended retail generally. Similar results were reported by RBC Capital Markets after analyzing Amazon Go productivity.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

toy market and its sudden disappearance left toy brands — large and small — quaking, as they now find themselves competing for shelf space that is vastly diminished. “A The pop-up shops will open alongside the Halloween City chops this September and run through the holiday season. Pop-Up Toy Stores.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The loans themselves would reportedly be co-branded. John Cronin, an analyst at Goodbody’s, told the Financial Times that by using banking partnerships, Amazon could “significantly extend” its SMB lending platform, “without any associated credit risk of regulatory obligations (in the context of capital and liquidity and so forth).”.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Select VC Investors: Khosla Ventures, Social Capital. ” The company operates six permanent and two temporary locations in the New York City area, as well as one at Disney’s BoardWalk Inn in Orlando, Florida. Select VC Investors: Cue Ball Capital, Valley Oak Investments. Select VC Investors: Otium Capital.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2017

We have a significant level of awareness,” said Andrew Louie, brand manager of refreshment beverages at Kool-Aid’s modern corporate parent company, Kraft. The brand continues to be extremely popular, even though it’s over 50 years old.”. Sometimes, though, Kool-Aid has been popular in the wrong way.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

Bartlett said Walmart didn’t receive any “special packages or tax breaks that were out of the ordinary” when building its campus, a not-so-thinly veiled jab at Amazon — whose financial incentive package with New York City causes such massive local uproar that Amazon was eventually persuaded to pull the project entirely.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Getting consumers over that first hump — buying those items online — was done by making friends with the brands whose products consumers already knew, bought and trusted: Bounty paper towels, Tide laundry detergent, Pringles potato chips, Folgers coffee. The same can be observed for baby wipes.

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CB Insights

JUNE 4, 2019

Even luxury brands are contributing to this problem. In this report, we examine how fashion brands are leveraging technology to make clothing production and consumption more sustainable, from the use of plant-based textiles and bacteria-based dyes to leveraging a blockchain-based supply chain to increase transparency.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Anita Drentlaw , CEO, president and CFO at $190 million-asset New Market Bank in Elko New Market, Minn. Jill Sung , president and CEO of $325 million-asset Abacus Federal Savings Bank in New York City. Sills: Our bank has about $100 million in new capital. Koger Propst , president and CEO of $3.2

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Associated funds: Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC) is the venture capital arm of Johnson & Johnson and falls under the umbrella of Johnson & Johnson Innovation. It was given an initial capital investment from Pfizer of $600M and primarily focuses on investing in early-stage therapeutics companies.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 17, 2016

. “We will continue to forge these white label partnerships with companies that have existing small business relationships,” Sheinbaum said, “with the goal of solidifying the Bizfi brand and expanding our reach.” Founded in 2005 and headquartered in New York City, Bizfi demonstrated its technology at FinovateFall 2015.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 22, 2014

While we may see an uptick in the number of new bank charters from the near zero we have today, too many other industries with less regulation will attract capital. Useful filters could include qualities like geography, asset size, branch network, balance sheet mix, capital levels and niche businesses. Identify M&A Partners.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

Select investors : Amazon, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Bowman Capital Management LLC. Launched in February 1999, Pets.com sought to capitalize on widespread internet access and a $23B pet supplies market by selling products directly to consumers. Total funding : $161M. The rise and fall of Pets.com.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Dockless systems, which allow users to park their bike or scooter anywhere along the sidewalk rather than in a fixed docking station, are more convenient and less costly to scale given lower capital costs, as operators don’t have to build out fixed stations. ” incumbents are fighting back.

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