PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company, Reuters reported, to help it debut on the stock market. It has also begun work in stock trading and cash management accounts.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

We are satisfied with the unprecedented business growth rates demonstrated by Ozon in 2019,” Alexey Katkov, managing partner, said at the time. In late March, PYMNTS reported Princeville Capital of San Francisco made a $50 million investment in Ozon.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Credit Sesame, the San Francisco-based credit score monitoring and advice platform, is building out its AI-based credit management tools with the help of a major fundraising round last week.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

Stripe, the San Francisco digital payments startup, has landed a $100 million investment from Tiger Global Management, boosting its valuation above $20 billion. According to a report in CNBC , citing The Information, with the $100 million investment by Tiger Global Management , Stripe now has a valuation of $22.5

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Abrigo

AUGUST 30, 2024

Prepare now for potential changes to FHLBs Capital rules and membership criteria are among the areas where banks could see changes in how the Federal Home Loan Bank system operates. Takeaway 2 Reform moves are stemming from actions of the FHFA against the San Francisco and New York FHLBs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Tencent is a global technology company based in Shenzhen, China, and Dragoneer is an investment firm based in San Francisco. Farfetch will use the capital to continue growing and expanding into new markets, particularly China. Each company will purchase $125 million of the notes. “I

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

San Francisco-based Princeville Capital has announced a $50 million investment in Russian online retailer Ozon, which is partly owned by the Russian-based conglomerate Sistema. Ozon said Emmanuel DeSousa, managing partner at Princeville Capital, joined its board following the transaction.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 28, 2018

Bento for Business wants to provide its customers with money management tools combined with banking solutions, similar to the personal financial management app for millennials, MoneyLion, according to company CEO Farhan Ahmad. For the task, San Francisco-based Bento raised $9 million in a new round of funding today.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

The company has reportedly been hiring numerous product managers and engineers. Uber is taking advantage of New York’s talent pool in the financial department, which has more depth in the San Francisco sector. Uber is expanding its services and moving toward providing financial products, according to a report by CNBC.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

IAC will change its name to Shift as the transaction proceeds and the Shift management team of CEO and Co-Founder George Arison and Co-CEO Toby Russell will stay in place. “We Arison said the move was about adding capital to scale the company. Securing that capital is even more complicated than the IAC merger.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The round was led by EQT Ventures and joined by existing investors Balderton Capital, LocalGlobe and SBI. They’ve taken a radically different approach to money management and created an AI financial advisor with a personality that proactively delivers personalized insights that help customers spend less and save more.”. “As

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 2, 2019

Nyca Partners has closed on $210 million for its third investment fund, a vehicle that will let it continue to support the growth of fintech innovation, David Sica, partner at the New York- and San Francisco-based venture firm, told Bank Innovation. “I think there’s still a lot of opportunity,” Sica said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Affirm , a San Francisco-based point-of-sale (POS), buy now, pay later (BNPL) lender, announced a $500 million series G round of funding Thursday (Sept. Other returning investors included Lightspeed Venture Partners, Wellington Management Co., 17) in a press release , bringing its total funding raised to more than $1.3

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Abrigo

MARCH 9, 2017

Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) loan funds help to promote healthy communities by providing early-stage credit, capital, and financial services to small businesses, affordable housing and community facilities developers, community organizations, and other types of borrowers. communities where capital tends to be scarce.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2020

DoorDash , the San Francisco-based prepared food delivery service, is planning to go public by year’s end, Bloomberg reported, citing sources. The startup raised about $2 billion from investors, including SoftBank and venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. Palantir Technologies Inc., Snowflake Inc., Rowe Price Group.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

venture capital sphere this week: VC funding for FinTech startups in Q1 alone hit $1.2 Analysts said the industry has seen its highest venture capital activity since Q1 of 2016, fueled by focus on late-stage investment rounds. This week’s B2B venture capital roundup is quite indicative of these trends. According to KPMG’s U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

It was a busy time for B2B venture capital this week, and while funding ranged across verticals from expense management to SaaS, there was a clear theme in investment rounds: high-tech data analytics. Data Management. Expense Management. Talent Management. Trilio Data.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2018

Ripple , the blockchain company, announced news on Wednesday (April 11) that it has invested $25 million of its XRP cryptocurrency in Blockchain Capital’s $150 million fund Blockchain Capital Parallel IV. Blockchain Capital is the premiere fund for any project looking to get off the ground in the blockchain space.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

San Francisco-based activist-investment firm Voce Capital Management LLC is urging stockholders to vote against the three OnDeck Capital directors facing re-election — a challenge that sent OnDeck shares rising as much as 11.2 percent Friday (April 17).

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San Francisco Capital Analysis Management 150

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Despite wide-ranging economic uncertainties and a challenging investment environment, venture capital (VC) firms and special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are actively raising or seeking fresh funds for investment in the payments space. Kibo added, “We love global companies with very capital efficient structures.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2020

The San Francisco-headquartered startup runs membership-based healthcare clinics and was launched by internal medicine doctor Tom Lee, who served as the company’s chief executive officer until 2017. One Medical is backed by technology and management firm 1Life Healthcare and will trade under the symbol “ONEM.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The experts estimate that the United States government spent millions trying to enforce it and deprived the states of billions in tax revenue — all without managing to make any significant change in American alcohol consumption. San Francisco’s Muni public transit system was reportedly hit by a ransomware attack last weekend (Nov.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Commerce Ventures, Flint Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Synchrony and Sorenson Capital also participated, according to reports.

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Security Capital Analytics Software 189

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

hedge fund Tiger Global Management and existing investors Coatue Management and Valiant Capital. The funding round was led by hedge fund D1 Capital Partners, and came only six months after the startup closed on a $350 million round of investing. Instacart has raised $1.87 billion in total, with a $7.87

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

San Francisco FinTech Brex announced a $200 million debt capital raise from Credit Suisse that will be used to expand its eCommerce business and credit offerings to new companies, Brex announced in a press release on Thursday (Dec. The product automates expense management and integrates with accounting systems.

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Fintech San Francisco Capital Software 131

PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

The round, which was led by General Atlantic, gives the San Francisco-based app a post-money valuation of $11.2 The company, anticipating this, said it will use the new capital to grow its “merchant footprint in Europe and North America.” Wish was launched in 2010 by Danny Zhang, a former Yahoo!

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San Francisco Big Data Mobile America 115

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The remaining $10 million came as unannounced follow-on financing from early investors, including BDC Capital and Blumberg Capital. The most recent funding will be used to capitalize on growth, including scaling up operations in new markets, said Trulioo, and to grow headcount to 200 people from the present roster of 130 individuals.

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San Francisco Georgia Capital Fraud 144

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

This week's B2B Venture Capital roundup saw more than $76 million in new funding. The startup, which raised the funding from angel investors including Southern Water Managing Director Rob Barnett, EV Cargo CEO Craig Sears-Black and Lyre's Spirit Co. CEO Carl Hartmann, was founded amid the pandemic as supply chain risks skyrocketed.

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San Francisco Compliance Capital Management 158

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

the San Francisco-based online bank, had the last laugh. As a national charter, the bank can offer credit and cash-flow management, the company said. The initiative was co-led by new investor Gallatin Point Capital LLC, a Connecticut private investment firm, and existing investor The Rise Fund , a global impact investment fund.

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National Fintech San Francisco Connecticut 172

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

To bolster its subscription business, San-Francisco-based Recurly has notched $19.5 million in funding led by F-Prime Capital along with participation from Polaris Partners, Silicon Valley Bank and Greycroft. The new funding brings its total raise to almost $40 million after raises in the past totaling $19.6

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

Founded in 2012, nCino has raised $213 million in venture-backed funding, according to Crunchbase, the San Francisco provider of business data about private and public companies. nCino said it works with more than 1,100 financial institutions (FIs) globally, with assets ranging in size from $30 million to $2 trillion. .

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Software North Carolina San Francisco Capital 140

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The company plans to open its first international office following the investment, which was led by Dawn Capital, said reports in CBR Online. In addition, using artificial intelligence, quantilope provides real-time analytics for customers in marketing, product management, HR, business development and other areas of the enterprise.

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Software Capital North Carolina San Francisco 158

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Indian digital payments platform Cashfree has just landed tens of millions in new capital to help fuel its expansion, the Bengaluru-based company announced on Tuesday (Nov. Cashfree is a “2017 alumnus of Y Combinator,” the San Francisco-based startup incubator, according to the release.

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San Francisco Payments Leadership Cards 166

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He said the company’s new owners include PIMCO, a California-based global investment management firm, Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP, a global institutional alternative investment management firm headquartered in New York City and Sixth Street Partners, the San Francisco global investment firm.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The round was led by Initialized Capital, with continued participation from CRV and Y Combinator, and new investors including Draper Associates. In addition, Garry Tan, co-founder and managing partner at Initialized Capital, and Devdutt Yellurkar, general partner at CRV have both joined Standard’s board. “In

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San Francisco Retail Capital America 135