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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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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Hot embers continue to glow in the fintech market that GonzoBanker mothership Cornerstone Advisors serves. Some perspective on how fast this fintech market is moving: Fintech Labs tracks 269 $1B+ valued fintech unicorns that have been founded in just the past two decades. According to CB Insights, US fintechs raised $14.6B

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MARCH 30, 2020

Lightspeed Ventures, iFly.vc, Silicon Valley Bank and Goodwater Capital were participants in the investment, Deal Street Asia reported. The new funding will assist the startup in speeding up team building, supply chain optimizations and market growth. Bigbasket competes against Amazon and Flipkart in the Indian eCommerce market.

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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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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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APRIL 14, 2020

Bloomberg reported that stock in the Seattle-based global eCommerce company has soared by nearly 20 percent since January. This makes Amazon one of the 10 biggest percentage gainers among its S&P rivals and puts the company back above the $1 trillion market capitalization threshold, the news service said.

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APRIL 8, 2019

Landed said it has helped 200 teachers so far in areas like San Francisco Bay, Seattle and Denver. Lofton said he imagines the real estate market, especially in the Bay area with a number of tech company IPOs on the horizon, will become even more difficult to navigate. “We try to stay flexible to people’s realities.

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MARCH 5, 2019

That came after it shut down service in Seattle, Los Angels, and New York. Munchery had said it was planning to focus on its largest market, San Francisco, in an effort to become profitable, but that never happened. The company ceased operations in late January after laying off 30 percent of its workforce in May 2018.

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JUNE 16, 2017

may raise more than $1 billion investment from strategic investors in a venture capital funding round including Alibaba and SoftBank. billion in venture capital in Grab through his eCommerce company or Ant Financial, the financial arm of the company. The company already has R&D centers in Seattle, Beijing, Jakarta and Singapore.

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JANUARY 5, 2020

.” It has applied as common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Other investors include Benchmark Capital Partners, which owns 13 percent, and Oak Investment Partners, with 11.4 Other investors include Benchmark Capital Partners, which owns 13 percent, and Oak Investment Partners, with 11.4

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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. They obviously have a lot of data and understand the market and how it’s evolving.

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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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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Zipwhip, the Seattle startup that enables companies to text customers from the internet, announced Monday (Oct. 17) it raised $9 million in Series B investment led by Voyager Capital. According to a report , Voyager Capital was joined by Microsoft Ventures, Microsoft’s new formal venture fund.

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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.”. Documents filed in U.S.

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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. Paxos provides settlement services in the precious metals securities trading market.

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APRIL 13, 2017

million in a seed funding round led by VC firm PivotNorth Capital. With the latest seed funding round, Darkstore has reportedly set a new goal to hit $110 million in product fulfillment and is expanding into three new markets: Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago. Just recently, the company scored $1.4

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AUGUST 6, 2019

However, the company hasn’t been immune from the same market conditions that sent Sears and Kmart into bankruptcy. The company said it received $75 million in new capital from Hilco Global and the Gordon Brothers Group to keep the lights on during the bankruptcy protection proceedings.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Although the investigation came around at the same time a Seattle woman hacked a database of credit-card issuer Capital One Financial that was stored on the eCommerce giant’s cloud server, examiners were reportedly not aware of the breach when they visited Amazon’s Virginia facility.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Founded in Israel, Feedvisor also has an office in Seattle. The site uses machine learning to track different market dynamics and can also ensure that sellers optimize their inventory and replenish it effectively. Other Feedvisor investors include Square Peg Capital, JAL Ventures, Oryzn Capital and Micro Angel Fund.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

Founded in 2017, Bungalow aims to solve many of the issues that early career professionals face when looking to rent in urban markets. Since its launch, the company has operated in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego and Seattle. markets by the end of 2018. putting it on track to be in 12 major U.S.

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JULY 18, 2016

Amazon has already dominated the online shopping and clothing markets, and now, it is setting its sights on the food delivery industry, something that startups, including Uber, have been eyeing. The venture capital industry has been responding, pouring money into the space for the last couple of years. If it launches in the U.K.’s

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APRIL 15, 2016

“As people get numb to social and email, messaging is still the unpolluted medium,” Matt Mazzeo, a managing director at Lowercase Capital (one of the companies that has invested in ReplyYes), told the outlet. “It hasn’t yet been diluted by massive spammy marketing channels.”

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

Furthermore, the device is still not available in Brazil, France, Italy, Spain or Australia, along with many other markets. Amazon told the Seattle Times that these two developments were unrelated and that the hiring lag was due to seasonal fluctuations. It is not yet clear whether Google will actually bring such a product to market.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

The news that on-demand delivery startup Munchery has closed its doors — even after raising $125 million in venture capital funding — serves as reminder of how difficult it can be to gain a profitable foothold (much less a dominant position) in the on-demand food delivery space. Future Moves. So, what’s next in these delivery wars?

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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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AUGUST 14, 2019

To keep the lights on during the bankruptcy process, the company said it received $75 million in new capital from Hilco Global and the Gordon Brothers Group. Still, in 2015 Macy’s market capitalization rate was close to $25 billion; as of 2019 it had fallen to a little north of $5 billion.

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JUNE 21, 2017

News has naturally spread that Amazon bought Whole Foods Market last Friday, June 16, for $13.7 For Amazon’s part, it’s continually finding new ways to capitalize on people’s hatred of running errands. The market is projected to grow by another 12 percent this year. In Other News…. The evidence?

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MAY 30, 2017

non-profit grocer Daily Table, which stocks healthy and convenient foods at an affordable price by sourcing them from a large network of growers, markets and manufacturers. Instacart started in San Francisco but announced that it plans to launch in more than 100 new markets by the end of 2017.

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JULY 23, 2018

Legacy banks around the world have been under tremendous pressure in recent years to transform their business models, as upstart FinTech companies are removing the barriers to entry and credit access that have kept large numbers of growth businesses and consumers out of the market. market, for example, quadrupling to $3.4 billion. .

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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. Most organizations … are like, ‘Where is the most profitable market segment?’” What we do is we take that ethos and apply it to all of our decision-making in our product development or marketing.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

Kroger is seeking to bring new customer experiences to market faster, drive personalization with insights and help store associates become more productive. The Grocery Market. The retailer plans to pilot technology products using Microsoft’s Azure platform at two stores, one in Ohio and one in Washington.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The Seattle-based eCommerce operator and cloud computing provider decided to build in both Crystal City, an urban area in North Virginia near Washington, D.C., Meanwhile, in at least one city that Amazon turned down (Chicago), creative marketing types exacted a bit of benign revenge on the company via its own technology.

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MARCH 28, 2019

Seattle-based Jargon spent a lot of time in advance of its recent $1.8 Amazon’s Alexa Fund was one of the investors in Jargon’s seed round, joined by Ubiquity Ventures and Crosslink Capital. million seed round trying to explain to investors what it wasn’t.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Dripkit markets its filters in two different ways — as a subscription service or a one-off purchase. Cohen and Kruger offered the one-time purchase option to expand their market to those who don’t want to make the commitment. “We New Markets. Subscription Service.

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APRIL 24, 2020

In fact, there were a lot of other things to talk about, as Facebook made a major investment in the Indian market, Expedia snapped up $3.2 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. as their PPP funds have rolled in.

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BankInovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

SEATTLE — Financial institutions are looking beyond so-called tech cities in the hunt for cloud engineers amid a surging demand for top talent. The market for cloud engineers is so hot, in fact, that $532 billion Truist Bank is scouting for talent in lesser-known areas of the U.S.,

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