Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite. Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty. Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 25, 2019

Eleven startups participated in the Demovation challenge at the Bank Innovation Ignite conference in Seattle earlier this month. These startups, diverse in focus, comprised a wide range of the fintech ecosystem, including payments, security and blockchain.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 10, 2019

Remitly, a Seattle-based online international money transfer service, announced $220 million of new financing on Wednesday to expand its global customer reach and stretch beyond remittances into other areas of financial services.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The funding round was led by Harbert Growth Partners, with other participants including Highland Capital Partners, Camber Creek, Working Lab Capital, Geolo Capital, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and former Bain Capital Partners MD Mark Nunnelly all participated in the round.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 4, 2016

SEATTLE — The Silicon Valley model for its startups is well-known. Heck, there’s a Wikipedia for it. It centers on a simple principle: build a business that scales, no matter the initial profitability. And then scale it like mad. Or, in technical terms, build a business that has the potential Read More.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The feature is currently only available at two Amazon Go stores in Seattle, but the eCommerce giant plans to expand it to its other checkout-free stores. Stripe Heads Up $12M Funding Round For PayMongo. PayMongo plans to use the funding to introduce new features and products, and to keep building its product, design and engineering teams.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

Those areas are becoming more important to Starbucks as the company seeks to drive growth by inking external relationships to drive innovation. The company launched its first store in Seattle in the 1970s. Starbucks also said it will explore direct commercial arrangements with the startups.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

According to John Roth, chief compliance and ethics officer at Seattle-based exchange Bittrex, it will be costly and difficult for companies to follow these regulations. The company announced a $15 million Series C co-led by Union Square Ventures and Multicoin Capital.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

Amazon opens an Amazon Books location in the nation’s capital. Some are expected to be in Seattle — Amazon’s hometown and the location of its first Amazon Go. As for its hometown of Seattle, the report noted the company has pinpointed three potential locations for more stores, which were identified last year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

Since the launch of the Alexa Skills Kit less than a year ago, the Seattle-based company has been making strides in working with the developer community to build out Alexa’s skill set. In a press release , the company highlighted its new partnerships with top brands, such as Capital One, Domino’s, Fitbit, KAYAK and Uber.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

According to the Bloomberg report, another innovation is “a cross between a camera and a smoke detector” above Kroger’s aisles, which analyzes data and watches for items that are low in inventory. At the same time, Kroger said the experiment “will guide expansion plans in 2019 and beyond.”. The Grocery Market.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

South Korea topped Bloomberg’s 2015 Innovation Index , gaining the highest overall score across six measurements: research and development, manufacturing, high-tech companies, education, research personnel and patents. The company will also expand its R&D presence in Silicon Valley and Seattle, in addition to Shanghai and Seoul.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

Whether it’s San Francisco, New York City, London or Hong Kong, each of these areas have become well-known for developing and implementing innovative ideas. These ecosystems tap into a worldwide circulation of ideas, knowledge, talent and capital. While global growth is only at 2.6 Los Angeles.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2017

Hunger and wasted food are two problems that can have one solution,” believes Daily Table founder Doug Rauch, former Trader Joe’s president and co-CEO of Conscious Capitalism, Inc. Further north in Seattle, two AmazonFresh Pickup locations have finally opened for business after months of anticipation.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In 2015, Starbucks introduced a monthly and annual subscription option for customers desiring the West Coast experience without having to travel to its Seattle Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room. The company also plans to introduce other coffee innovations down the road. The New K-Cup.

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Filene

APRIL 14, 2016

Innovation Immersion - Filene’s Innovation Immersion program helps credit unions execute on innovation, ideas, and cultural change. We'll walk through some of Filene's latest programs, and the research and innovation behind them. Filene's impact always begins with research. Filene Feedback | Linda Young.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2017

For Amazon’s part, it’s continually finding new ways to capitalize on people’s hatred of running errands. It launched its first public Amazon Go location – which functions just like the stationary version of Moby – in Seattle earlier this year. The company’s internal plans showed that it could build 2,000 grocery stores across the U.S.

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Bobsguide

JULY 7, 2022

” Josh Williams, EVP, Chief Banking Officer at Seattle Bank said , “Banking as a Service (BaaS) is a vital component of our growth strategy and embedding loans at the consumer point-of-sale opens a new channel to provide financing to customers we couldn’t have reached before.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

Select Investors: Tencent Holdings, Disney Accelerator, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vulcan Capital, ICONIQ Capital. Select Investors: Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Wellcome Trust, GIC, SoftBank Group, DST Global. Valuation: $12B.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

It’s a major shake-up in an already competitive market, he noted, and will likely raise the stakes in the market and act as a powerful innovation driver. For example, this week, private-equity firms Silver Lake and Apollo announced they are poised to buy a $1 billion minority stake in Seattle-based travel listing giant Expedia Group Inc.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Such was the news out of Seattle HQ this week — Amazon is pushing toward fully automating its warehouses, but won’t be hitting that target until sometime next decade. Still, as Edward Yruma, an analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets, pointed out to Bloomberg, Walmart is not without built-in advantages in this arena as well.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Amazon Go, Amazon’s new grocery store format in Seattle, opened last week. But to say that Amazon Go is about innovating checkout is like saying the iPhone innovated the telephone call. Sure, Amazon Go innovates checkout, but if you’re a retailer, that isn’t why you’re curling up in the fetal position right now.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

And as of last week, the list got a bit longer, as California made a few great leaps toward becoming the autonomous delivery capital of the country, with two big pilots by brand-name firms scheduled for the cities and suburbs.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. billion in assets community bank with 22 branches that encircle the Seattle Sound. First Capital, Inc. Nasdaq: FCAP) First Capital, Inc. NASDAQ: FSBW) FS Bancorp, Inc. busts onto the JFB Top 5 in a big way, at #1! Twelve basis points!

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. Innovation Summit: (N+1) Trends. ” In January 2018, Amazon launched its automated cashier-less Amazon Go store in Seattle. ” Innovation Summit: (N+1) Trends. The iPhone and iPod.

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CB Insights

JUNE 4, 2019

Tech innovations shaping a more sustainable fashion industry. Tech innovations shaping a more sustainable fashion industry. This innovation is being put into practice at H&M’s textile recycling facilities in Hong Kong. These biotech innovations are not as resource-intensive as conventional fibers or fabrics.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

In May 2018, Munchery ceased all operations in Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle, three of the company’s most valuable markets, leaving only its San Francisco business operational. Founded by Jane Park in Seattle in 2007, beauty brand Julep quickly grew from a scrappy startup to a major omnichannel retail operation.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 24, 2018

The Seattle-based giant also opened its cashier-less Amazon Go store to the public in January 2018, after reported delays. In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in Seattle as an online retailer of books; in 1998, Jack Ma founded Alibaba in Hangzhou, China as an online platform to connect merchants and buyers. Notably, Amazon paid $13.7B

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. Eldercare has long been a target for technological innovation, with advocates highlighting the practical and infrastructural challenges presented by 73M baby boomers aging into their retirement years.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Eos Venture Partners and IQ Capital Partners also participated in the round. private equity round led by Long Arc Capital and BPI France. Talege , a Reno, Nevada-based digital insurance platform, raised a $5M Series A led by Merus Capital. N2uitive , a Seattle-based claims interview platform, raised $1.3M

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, in less than 20 years, books have shifted from being a product that used to be bought only in a physical store to one bought online 70 percent of the time and from one retailer in particular (you-know-who, in Seattle). It is exactly the blue ocean opportunity that innovators are using technology and regulatory know-how to conquer.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 3, 2017

Starting in 2017 former Microsoft executive Jeremy Korst will be the man driving the message at tax compliance innovator and FinDEVr alum , Avalara. The Seattle-based company announced this week that Korst will join Avalara as its new chief marketing officer and executive vice president.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 30, 2024

Naturally, we were excited about it, naming it the biggest innovation of the year. CAN Capital FAB Score = 127 (down 1) – HQ: Atlanta – Founded: 1998 – Raised: $1.0B It was the first time anyone had put a mortgage app online and one of the first online credit apps of any kind.** So, the capability has existed for 20+ years.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 12, 2021

Naturally, we were excited about it, naming it the biggest innovation of the year. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. It was the first time anyone had put a mortgage app online and one of the first online credit apps of any kind ( note 1 ). So, the capability has existed for 20 years. Fundera (NerdWallet). Camino Financial.

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