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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Feedvisor, an algorithmic commerce startup that helps sellers optimize their inventory and increase sales in online marketplaces, has secured $20 million in Series B funding from General Catalyst. Other Feedvisor investors include Square Peg Capital, JAL Ventures, Oryzn Capital and Micro Angel Fund.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Goop has also notched over $82 million from outside investors and venture capital funds and reportedly has a value of more than $250 million. New Enterprise Associates General Partner Tony Florence said, according to the report, “Gwyneth was super sophisticated in how she thought about the market opportunity.”

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In general, omnichannel consists of consumers researching an item online, then going into a store and talking to salespeople, or just using their smartphones in the store to research the item there. They check the prices of what they want (showrooming), then buy the item online because it’s cheaper there.

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MAY 18, 2017

Appear Here’s Series B round was led by Octopus Ventures and saw participation from Simon Venture group as well as existing investors Balderton, MMC, Meyer Bergman and Playfair Capital. as well as internationally, breaking into Paris and more recently New York City. All told, the company has raised $21.4

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JUNE 10, 2020

After all, they have access to capital, and they have shown strong balance sheets in the past. consumers have gone online to shop since the pandemic started. There are solid reasons consumers are going online, most having to do with health and safety. They’re optimistic about reopening. Which brings us to market conditions.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

One of the latest, ongoing trends is the rise of online luxury resale commerce. The company has raised a total of $288 million in funding from venture capital and private equity backers, including Great Hill Partners, Greycroft, PWP Growth Equity, Sandbridge Capital, Industry Ventures and Canaan. Indeed, in its recent U.S.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Online lending as a business model has taken some lumps over the last several months, with Lending Club (and investors) only the most visible casualty of alleged fraud. As for questions surrounding the viability of these online lending platforms, as posited by Webster, Moore said the model exists as one that is here to stay.

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AUGUST 16, 2017

The success in the latest round of results is largely attributed to Target’s $7-billion turnaround plan (first introduced to the world in February of this year) that came with capital improvements for stores and leveled up digital progress to help it keep its footing in a rapidly shifting competitive arena. “It Same-store sales were up 1.3

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In describing the turnaround for the struggling specialty retailer, a plan called “Project Sunrise,” Brandon said the company would focus on integrating online and in-store shopping experiences. We haven’t had the capital to do it.”. We want] toys out of the box and into the hands of kids,” Brandon said. “We We know we need to do it.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Bulletin — described as “WeWork for retail” — opened its second New York City retail space this week while also raising funds in anticipation of opening additional NYC locations as well as eventually branching out to other cities.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Dutch global grocery conglomerate Ahold Delhaize — the firm behind grocery behemoths Giant and Stop & Shop — has acquired a majority stake in supermarket delivery startup FreshDirect in an attempt to up the level of its digital grocery offerings amid the online shopping surge created by COVID-19. “We Farmstead Picks Up $7.9M

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MARCH 9, 2020

Currently exiting beta in New York City, Fahmy’s new company, DineVite, claims to put the discounts back where they belong — with the restaurant owners. The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. It’s a new concept that means both parties win.”.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

Ma noted in an interview that the firm’s most important innovation is that its underlying technology platform easily integrates online assortments from new brands. Their next big jump forward will be into physical retail, with Zola’s first brick-and-mortar store set to be up and running in New York City next year.

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JULY 22, 2019

While not exactly an empire yet, the online retailer launched its 13th store in New York City last month and it features the ability to use cash, answering a complaint that’s been lodged at unattended retail generally. This is the wave of the future, if new CBRE research is to be believed. Retailers vs. Customers.

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APRIL 23, 2019

Selling fast food these days is not exactly for the faint of heart, given how the industry faces extreme — and increasingly online — competition for the consumer dollar. Those competitive pressures have led to a host of new tools, features and offerings. The latest? Combining cannabis culture with hamburgers. Denver CBD Burger.

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JUNE 27, 2019

After that wave of complaints about gauging, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began warning hotels and online booking sites against opacity in pricing — so the problem was rectified to the extent that most online booking platform at this point list both the base price and the total price with fees.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Alibaba, meanwhile, has publicly announced a strategy to combine online and offline commerce, dubbed “new retail.” Both companies have a tremendous data advantage as they seek to understand and influence consumer behavior in-store and online. ” — Daniel Zhang, CEO, Alibaba Group.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

John Cronin, an analyst at Goodbody’s, told the Financial Times that by using banking partnerships, Amazon could “significantly extend” its SMB lending platform, “without any associated credit risk of regulatory obligations (in the context of capital and liquidity and so forth).”. The Expanding Range of Amazon Offerings .

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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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AUGUST 26, 2016

That couldn’t ring truer for the state’s capital, which many consider to have a tech scene bursting with potential and growth. tech hubs, like Silicon Valley and New York City, the city has been recognized as having a fast-growing tech sector with strong expansion. billion in exits.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Before they founded Dripkit , Ilana Kruger and Kara Cohen freelanced in different offices throughout New York City. Every month, subscribers can have access to what the company calls “small-lot coffees” that are exclusive to online customers and those visiting the roastery. New Markets.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

Existing toy retailers have announced they will be dedicating more space and will carry more toys this holiday season both in-store and online,” Lennett said in a press release. We’re also seeing new store formats emerge that are more experiential, and we will have new toy retailers entering the space.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Select VC Investors: Khosla Ventures, Social Capital. ” The company operates six permanent and two temporary locations in the New York City area, as well as one at Disney’s BoardWalk Inn in Orlando, Florida. Select VC Investors: Cue Ball Capital, Valley Oak Investments. Select VC Investors: Otium Capital.

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DECEMBER 29, 2015

ICBA warns of risks of online marketplace lending models. Online marketplace lenders are a new form of nonbank specialty lending that uses technology platforms to allow Wall Street and individual investors to directly fund loans to consumers and small businesses. Typical Practices of Online Lenders. capital policy.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

. “To stay one-step ahead of the market demand,” Dashlane’s Malaika Nicholas wrote on the company blog , “Google and Dashlane are helping create a seamless, universally-acceptable Android app authentication solution to increase your online security.” In May, Dashlane raised $22.5

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Online sales today are a speck on a pinhead, accounting for just $7 billion, or a little more than 1 percent of total grocery sales. Letting its Prime customers buy Bounty paper towels or Tide Laundry Pods or extra-large Milk-Bones online eliminated the hassle factor of having to go to the store to get them and then lug them home.

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JULY 6, 2018

Party City CEO James Harrison said in a statement , “The creation of a Toy City concept to complement our temporary seasonal retail strategy is a logical extension of our brand, one that will allow us to leverage our existing pop-up store capabilities and capitalize on the category whitespace that has recently been created.”.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

In a letter to Terry London, chairman of Pier 1’s board, Alden Global Capital had harsh words , saying that London and the board “cannot be trusted to protect the best interest of Pier 1 shareholders.”. Using Apple’s iOS platform, guests place orders through their smartphones and pick up at its “Midtown East Shack” in New York City.

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JUNE 17, 2020

In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Education: Technology and online content make the classroom optional. Online courses & content. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Online grocery. 3D printing.

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JUNE 17, 2016

Big Retail’s Online Checkout Conversions. It surprised even us that after nine months of looking at the 650 sites that represent 70 percent of eCommerce volume and the review of 10K data points that big retailers did no better than small ones at optimizing their online sites for checkout. And it isn’t viewed as cold commerce.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

It started out as an online, on-demand iPhone repair company. It’s somewhat morphing into this idea that technology should be easy, and with each new smartphone or IOT device, it turns out life gets more complex rather than easier. AJF: We raised the debt and venture capital and went through Y Combinator in 2012.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The fintech sector attracted $332 million in new capital the first week of August. Four of those came out of the most recent batch of companies launched from accelerator 500 Startups , where each received $125,000 in seed capital. Online payment service. Middle market capital matchmaker. HQ: New York City.

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APRIL 13, 2016

Three Finovate alums raised capital and one of the first FinovateSpring presenters, TradeKing , was acquired by Ally Financial for $275 million. Online & offline real estate broker. HQ: New York City. Scalable Capital. Online stock trading game. HQ: New York City. Joyowo.com.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

Select investors : Amazon, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Bowman Capital Management LLC. But despite the popularity of its sock puppet mascot, the online pet supplies retailer went out of business just 9 months after its Super Bowl ad, doomed by an untenable business model and the bursting of the dot-com bubble. in 2000 to 232.1M

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City. Online mortgage advisor. Tags: Development platform, bitcoin, blockchain technology, investors (Visa, Capital One, Fiserv, Citibank). Latest round: $50 million Series C.

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JULY 21, 2016

Pearl Capital. HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City. Online identity & payment services. HQ: New York City. Sentiment analysis for capital markets. Latest round: Unknown amount of new capital in Reverse IPO ($117 million value). HQ: New York City.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

. “Traditional lenders can’t always provide small business owners with the capital they need due to strict credit requirements,” Sheinbaum said. Formerly known as Merchant Cash and Capital and rebranding as Bizfi in the fall of 2015, the company specializes in providing financing options to small and medium-sized businesses.

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