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Chipper CEO Ham Serunjogi confirmed on Twitter the startup, which got its initial foothold in the market as a peer-to-peer (P2P) payments service, has just wrapped up a $30 million Series B round of venture capital. Ribbit Capital, a VC firm in the U.S. Ribbit Capital, a VC firm in the U.S. That was followed by a $13.8

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The San Francisco-based company said the infusion of new cash will be used to reinvent its web product and expand the platform overseas. . help students create lasting memories and friendships through shared experiences, and look toward international markets.” . This new funding will allow us to.

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Investors in this round included Kholsa Ventures’ Keith Rabois, General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja, Blockchain Capital, Naval Ravikant, Suna Said, Adam Ludwin, Adam Nash and Elad Gil. Based in San Francisco, Bitwise is an investing fund that focuses on the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market […].

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AUGUST 11, 2020

Revolut attributed the losses to its expansion into new markets and the introduction of new products. The latest infusion of cash came from TSG Consumer Partners , a San Francisco-based private equity company. The company posted a total loss of $139.6 million (£106.5 million) in 2019 — up from £32.9

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EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. But the fintech market has rebounded. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

Chipper Cash, a FinTech startup in Africa that facilitates cross-border peer-to-peer (P2P) payment services in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda and Ghana, has raised $6 million in a seed round led by Deciens Capital, according to a report. Chipper Cash, which went live in 2018, raised $2.4

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MARCH 6, 2020

San Francisco-based Empower Finance, a mobile banking app aimed at helping millennials save wealth, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Defy Ventures and Icon Ventures, according to a report. The company, which was founded in 2017, is run by a former Sequoia Capital partner named Warren Hogarth.

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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. million, according to Reuters.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Opendoor , a San Francisco-based startup that offers a one-stop-shop for buying and selling real estate, is negotiating to go public with a California blank-check company, Bloomberg reported. Opendoor is in advanced talks with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. Since then, its 21 markets have reopened.

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billion and gave it an implied market capitalization of $14 billion. Wish, which is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2010 by ex-Google engineer Peter Szulczewski, runs an online marketplace known largely for selling discounted items from China. This helped Wish raise $1.1 The company said it made over $1.7

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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. Because of the pandemic, he said, younger people have begun investing, seeing the market downturns as an opportunity.

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MARCH 19, 2019

The Global Wellness Institute found that the market for those kinds of offerings was value at $4.2 Chief Revenue Officer Kimberly Kreuzberger said, according to the outlet, “We’re marketing to a very actionable consumer because they’re a shopper.”. While Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Inc.

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MAY 22, 2017

Menlo Ventures , the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, closed a new $450 million venture capital fund aimed at investing in early stage companies focused in the consumer, enterprise and so-called frontier technologies markets. The move is designed to put the VCs closer to where the action is.

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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. Tencent is helping the company reach the market through its WeChat platform. “We

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JUNE 29, 2020

Expansion of the assortment, active development of the marketplace, the enhancement of delivery channels and growth of the number of loyal customers made it possible for Ozon to strengthen its leading position in the Russian eCommerce market. Ozon has captured the attention of several investors.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) wants to amend rules so that companies can go public through a direct listing, and raise capital from public market investors at the same time. As it stands now, companies cannot raise capital with a direct listing.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

Aurora, with logistical operations currently in Palo Alto, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco, has approximately a dozen self-driving vehicles used for testing on American public roads. 620 million has been financed to date, with Sequoia Capital, Amazon, and T. Rowe Price Associates contributing.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Santander InnoVentures, Santander Group’s global corporate venture capital fund, announced Tuesday (March 19) its appointment of Chris Gottschalk as a senior adviser to lead the $200M fund’s strategic direction in the U.S. Prior to Blumberg, Gottschalk worked at Menlo Ventures.

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MAY 31, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has many smaller property owners looking to unload their properties to save money, which could lead to big owners seeing a market ripe with purchasing opportunities, according to a CNBC report. Stay Alfred announced that it would be shutting down soon, while the other companies all announced layoffs and new debt.

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JUNE 21, 2019

While there were no mega-deals in the B2B startup funding realm this week, it was still a busy time for companies and investors, with many funders targeting companies operating in less common markets. million from Alteria Capital. Alternative small business lender Lendingkart secured new funding this week to the tune of $11.5

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JUNE 29, 2020

“We are excited to partner with Shift and its world-class management team as it leverages its technology platform to disrupt the $840+ billion used car market,” said Daniel Cohen, chairman of the board of directors of Insurance Acquisition Corp. Arison said the move was about adding capital to scale the company.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

WATCH Takeaway 1 Banks and credit unions are critical sources of capital for businesses in their communities, so how institutions assess CRE credits matters. Takeaway 2 Advisors recommend that financial institutions look behind some of the headlines and examine their own markets before ruling out CRE altogether.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Aura, a San Francisco-based fintech offering affordable loans to low to moderate-income households, wants to partner with banks to offer those loans to consumers who have traditionally been unable to secure them from larger institutions.

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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. .” ” It has applied as common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The investment was led by GPI Capital, and it brings the company’s total funding amount to date to almost $1 billion. Many other unicorns, like Uber and Lyft , have gone public and struggled to maintain their value on the market, even though they were coddled for years by private investors. and after 6:30 p.m. on weekdays.

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JULY 26, 2020

Four years ago, the eCommerce giant’s venture capital fund invested in the Seattle-based company and gained access to the technology startup’s finances and other confidential information. Daniela Braga , founder and CEO of DefinedCrowd Corp., a data platform for artificial intelligence (AI), has a beef with Amazon Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It added that the Russian eCommerce market has grown by 41 percent during the same period. The company is seeking to list its American depositary shares (ADSs) on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. markets since Headhunter in 2019. In March, San Francisco-based Princeville Capital announced a $50 million investment in Ozon.

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MARCH 21, 2019

The San Francisco-based fintech startup also announced it has surpassed $1 billion in bookings through its platform, which enables small businesses and freelancers to streamline processes from capturing leads and delivering proposals to sending invoices and […].

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market, where it has already done some testing. He brings more than two decades of experience with Standard Chartered, Citi and Capital One. market via a partnership with Sutton Bank, which is based in Ohio. Monzo Bank Ltd., the British digital bank, has taken the next step to expand into the U.S. Monzo entered the U.S.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

At the midpoint, Eventbrite would have a market capitalization of $1.55 and RBC Capital Markets. As of June 30, the San Francisco-based company had 1,016 employees, with more than 10 percent based in Argentina. billion, noted Seeking Alpha in the report.

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MAY 3, 2020

San Francisco tech startup founders are accepting tougher funding terms — if they can even get any money — as many announce layoffs, cuts and spending freezes amid the global coronavirus pandemic, according to the Financial Times (FT). “At They kind of went from fear of missing out to a more patient stance on investments.”.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego and California Central Coast customers can order from Smart & Final. A June fundraise put San Francisco-based DoorDash’s market capitalization at about $15 billion , but the company’s rapid growth has come with challenges.

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JUNE 17, 2016

Uber has turned profitable in all of its developed markets. The company now also seems to be profiting in China — a market where it has long faced intense competition from Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing, which stands atop the space with the largest market share. its most profitable market.

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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. Stripe is a leader in the market, with its platform that enables electronic payments and secure transactions both in-store and online.

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MAY 20, 2020

San Francisco-based Tonal — which offers a $2,995 exercise station with subscription-based workouts — is looking for more funding as the COVID-19 crisis upends the world of exercise. Discussions are taking place with Connecticut-based L Catterton, which was a key player in Tonal’s $45 million venture capital funding round in 2019.

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JULY 7, 2020

If approved by the SEC, nCino will be listed on NASDAQ’s Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “NCNO.”. 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. million. .

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