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APRIL 6, 2018

With more than $95 million in financing placed, startups across eProcurement, cybersecurity, logistics, alternative finance, blockchain and supply chain management secured support. Blacksoil Capital linked B2B eProcurement firm IndustryBuying with nearly $2 million in venture debt, reports in Inc42 said this week. eProcurement.

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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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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

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

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Abrigo

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the same way, financial institutions conducting stress tests to satisfy prudential regulators’ queries on reserves and capital can generate additional benefits from this process, according to Elizabeth Williams, managing director of financial consulting firm CEIS Review Inc. Manage concentration risk.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

After a difficult deliberation, 10 early-stage fintech companies were selected by a team of judges to compete in this year’s DEMOvation Challenge, to take place in Seattle on March 1. Many applied, few were chosen.

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PYMNTS

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. Fifty percent of businesses say manual processes, sluggish payments and high operating costs have made managing accounts receivable departments nerve-wracking over the last six months.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2020

One Medical is backed by technology and management firm 1Life Healthcare and will trade under the symbol “ONEM.” Other investors include Benchmark Capital Partners, which owns 13 percent, and Oak Investment Partners, with 11.4 Amir Rubin, a former UnitedHealth group executive, succeeded Lee.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

The company said Atlanta has a diverse and growing ecosystem, with new firms, new talent, more connectivity, and greater capital. And, in May, a Seattle-based startup that manages an on-demand warehouse marketplace, Flexe , notched $43 million in a series B funding round. It said it will make a $5.6

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Hyperproof , an enterprise governance, compliance, and risk management technology provider, has raised $16.5M The investor in this round was Toba Capital. The post Hyperproof, An Enterprise Governance, Compliance, And Risk Management Technology Provider, Raises $16.5M in a Series A. HOW’S THE COMPANY PERFORMING?

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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. Several examples have shown up over the past week. Brookings continued, “This humanitarian crisis is rapidly turning into an economic crisis.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

TechCrunch reported that the site, which is managing more than $2 billion in goods sold through online marketplaces, plans to double its workforce and expand its New York City office. Founded in Israel, Feedvisor also has an office in Seattle. This brings the site’s total amount raised to $33 million.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

This week’s venture capital (VC) investment tracker finds that both blockchain and alternative finance are leading markets. Based in Seattle, Qumulo offers businesses data management technology via its cloud-based file storage solution. Formerly known as Logtrust, Devo announced the investment coinciding with its rebrand.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

In a press release , Starbucks said the new fund, which is being managed by Valor Equity Partners, will identify and invest in companies developing technologies, products and solutions geared toward the food and/or retail markets. The company launched its first store in Seattle in the 1970s.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2016

Scott Jacobson, managing director of Madrona — whose ReplyYes, Bloomberg shares, has sold $1 million in vinyl LPs to date, while raising $2.5 Bloomberg recently reported on a number of tech companies that are continuing to drive interest surrounding text-based commerce in a variety of retail verticals.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Backed by Airbnb , Comcast, Bowery and Initialized Capital, Zeus has raised $90 million in funding. The company is based in San Francisco and operates in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle and Washington, D.C. To date, Zeus has hosted more than 17,000 residents for over 500,000 nights.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2018

Sources said that while Wag had originally looked for $100 million from venture capitals, SoftBank’s fund convinced the startup to accept $300 million and use the funds to expand globally and compete against rivals, such as Rover. Housenbold will serve as Wag’s chairman.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

York Capital Management and Mike Archer, a former president of Applebee’s and TGI Fridays, bought Houlihan’s in 2015 and now blames the chapter 11 filing on a number of factors, including expensive leases, a tight labor market and “the rapid growth in costly third-party delivery.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2016

First Data has rolled out a commerce technology solution at CenturyLink Field and CenturyLink Field Event Center in Seattle, home to the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks, designed to “take the fan experience to the next level” for those at the stadium. Payments Take The Field. Last year, it rolled out facial recognition technology for Alipay.

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MARCH 9, 2020

With DineVite, consumers and restaurants get a better deal, since the restaurants can offer a deal to customers that they are comfortable with and consumers capitalize on it. As the year rolls on he expects to launch in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Boston and Miami.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

Since its launch, the company has operated in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego and Seattle. Bungalow is taking on the $650 billion rental market for early career professionals and it may prove to be a bigger total market size than travel and taxis,” said Jack Abraham, founder and managing partner at Atomic. “By

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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

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. Big Play Of The Week: Walmart Resets Its Store Management Structure. It was a full week that was, as always, full of last-minute developments. Such as … Amazon.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2018

Normal protocol would automatically push the tax filing deadline to April 16, but this year, April 16 marks Emancipation Day in the nation’s capital, and so, as a holiday gift to all of us, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has given Americans until April 17 to file their taxes. That means U.S. Windfall for Uncle Sam? It’s a question.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Beneficial State Bank was born from a bold idea and a gift of capital from activists and philanthropists Kat Taylor and Tom Steyer. The bank recently set up a branch inside the world’s greenest commercial building, the Bullitt Center in Seattle. “We Randell Leach, Beneficial State Bank. We’re not trying to do anything extractive.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

The development of new technologies is threatening to disrupt the business models of many of these traditional players, as fast, efficient and low-cost platforms are providing access to capital that traditional banks are either unwilling or unable to deliver to the marketplace. . Switch, Inc.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

While autonomous drones are just a part of the eCommerce giant’s various projects, they’ve received plenty of R&D resources and marketing support from Seattle. Ask a hundred people about drone deliveries, and there are better-than-normal odds that 99 of them will say something about Amazon.

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Bobsguide

JULY 7, 2022

Jeannette Kescenovitz, Senior Director, Solution Management, Banking as a Service and Orchestration at Finastra said, “Finastra’s Embedded Consumer Lending solution offers financial institutions a direct route to growth by offering loans via a merchant’s digital point-of-sale.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

For the third consecutive year, we worked with The New York Times to identify and rank the top 100 venture capital professionals from around the globe. Below are the detailed profiles of the Top 20 Venture Capital Partners. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. Current Firm: First Round Capital (Founding Partner).

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APRIL 24, 2020

The first is the ongoing phenomenon of “the platforms taking over the planet” and becoming increasingly integrated, enabled and developed to offer consumers digital mega-hubs from which to manage many aspects of their lives – from shopping to financial services to bill payment to entertainment and beyond.

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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. Stripe Connect and billing services help companies manage marketplaces, subscriptions. Stripe Billing optimizes subscription and invoice management.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 3, 2019

NACTO is an association of 63 American cities and 10 transit agencies across North America, including Seattle and the King County Metro and New York and the MTA. ” By creating a data standard for the streets, various parties can collaborate more effectively to identify and manage street space.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The company struggled with several aspects of its business, including managing the cost of individual meals and ongoing problems with food waste — but it used the money it raised to pursue an aggressive expansion strategy nonetheless. Julep started out as a single nail salon in Seattle. This would be Munchery’s downfall.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The company, which demoed at FinovateSpring 2013 as BBC Easy, will use the fresh capital for both product development as well as increasing its market reach in North America. Founded in 2010 as BBC Easy and rebranding as Finagraph in 2013, the Seattle-based company demonstrated its Base Borrowing Certificate technology at FinovateSpring.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2017

By offering software solutions that streamline law offices’ workload, automating rote and repeatable work, projects that might have previously required hundreds of hours of human capital, could be accomplished much more efficiently. The startup is creating development process management tools for repeatable and rote corporate law work.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Improve the efficiency of inventory management – Once retailers can view the full picture of shoppers’ online and offline activities, they can better localize their inventory. Today, Amazon operates four Amazon Go stores: 3 in Seattle and 1 in Chicago. Select investors: CRV, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Capital One. Innovation Lab Name: Capital One Labs.

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