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 , one of Russia’s largest online retailers, has been on a growth spurt over the last few years.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

are in talks with Sistema , one of the largest publicly traded companies in Russia, to purchase Ozon , the Russian online retailer, Reuters reported. In late March, PYMNTS reported Princeville Capital of San Francisco made a $50 million investment in Ozon. Amazon and SoftBank Corp.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 19, 2019

The Series C funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, will help the San Francisco-based company hire more engineers to help build out more products, according to Erica Dorfman, Tally’s head of finance and operations. […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

The aim of the Starbucks Community Resilience Fund is to support SMBs in areas “with historically limited access to capital,” the release said, to promote racial equality and environmental resilience. Access to capital is especially important amid worries of a second lockdown.

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Bank Innovation

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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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

OCTOBER 7, 2018

According to reports citing the company, the Series A round of venture funding was led by 8VC, the venture capital company. The report noted Deliverr, which is based in San Francisco, uses machine learning and predictive intelligence to ascertain which warehouses have the clients’ merchandise. They didn’t build their own taxis.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

San Francisco-based FinTech company Square, known for its white card readers, has once again decided to become a banking establishment, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The bank will be led by Lewis Goodwin, a former executive at Green Dot, and capitalized with $56 million from Square.

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PYMNTS

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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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. Baillie Gifford, Spark Capital, Founders Fund and Fidelity Management & Research Co. 17) in a press release , bringing its total funding raised to more than $1.3

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

“With its tremendous, ongoing success in its core markets, we believe that this merger and its accompanying capital infusion will enable Shift to expand its product offerings and execute on its growth strategies.”. Arison said the move was about adding capital to scale the company. Merging with Insurance Acquisition Corp.

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PYMNTS

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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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

APRIL 24, 2019

The RealReal , an online retailer for authenticated luxury consignment, has authorized the sale of up to $70 million in new shares that could put its valuation at $1.06 Earlier this year, it was reported that the online retailer was considering an initial public offering (IPO) for later this year.

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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

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. A source told Reuters that the additional funding comes from investors, including U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We continue to evaluate capital options and are excited about our industry position,” CEO Anthony Hsieh told Bloomberg. the San Francisco-based peer-to peer lending firm and OnDeck Capital, the New York-based online small business lending company, which went public at the time were already trading down, Housing Wire reported.

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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. Flutterwave.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Standard Cognition , which provides AI-powered autonomous checkout solutions for brick-and-mortar retailers, announced it has raised $40 million in Series A funding, bringing its total amount raised to more than $51 million. We can’t wait to execute on this next stage of Standard’s growth.”.

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Abrigo

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 3 Loan-level stress testing can help assess repricing risk, while capital stress testing helps clarify the impact of CRE loan losses on capital.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

According to Essential Retail , online sales in March increased by 97 percent for home products and furnishings compared to March of 2019; 136 percent for do-it-yourself products; 163 percent for garden essentials; 27 percent for electronics and 30 percent for jewelry.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

the San Francisco-based mobile payment company, said Tuesday (Sept. Square’s shares have doubled since May, according to Bloomberg , and at $55 billion, the company’s market capitalization is eclipsing that of many traditional banks. Square Inc. , Square’s stock has been on the rise since the start of the year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Account takeovers are becoming bigger business for criminals — or, at least, the business of preventing account takeovers in the digital retail and payments realm is becoming an increasing focus of companies and security experts. The new capital will help fuel hiring and other growth, the company said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2016

Lending Club, which has been struggling to recover from loan errors and the departure of its Chief Executive (among other issues), has named Patrick Dunne, a veteran of BlackRock, as its new chief capital officer. Dunne most recently was in charge of BlackRock’s San Francisco office.

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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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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

There’s brick-and-mortar retail, where competition is so fierce that the media has branded it “the grocery wars.” So, what made Benchmark Capital confident enough to put $50 million behind Good Eggs, a San Francisco-based, curated, on-demand grocery store specializing in “absurdly fresh” local meats and produce?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

has completed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection process and emerged from one of the highest-profile retail collapses since COVID-19 began, the Dallas-based company disclosed. We emerge from Chapter 11 as a stronger, more innovative retailer, brand partner and employer.”. Neiman Marcus Holding Company Inc.

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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.” employee, and a former Google employee named Peter Szulczewski.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

In May Munchery said it was planning to focus on its largest market, which was San Francisco, in an effort to become profitable. Its venture capital investors included Greycroft, ACME Ventures (formerly known as Sherpa Capital), Menlo Ventures, e.Ventures, Cota Capital, M13 and others, noted reports.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

We are currently selling over 600 cars per month — and with our strong tech backbone, we are making aggressive strides towards becoming the numero uno used car retailer platform in India,” Kalwani, chief executive of Truebil, said, according to VC Circle. With this latest round, Truebil has currently raised a total of $22.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The drop boxes will be in six cities — New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Washington, D.C. — Currently, the company has five locations — in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. so that customers can return and rent items with ease.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Despite the many obituaries that have been written about brick-and-mortar stores over the past several months, physical retail isn’t dead — nor is it permanently shuffling off the stage. Physical retail is going to go on, although not in the form that the world previously knew it, sticky.io Capitalizing On Direct To Consumer.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Yesterday, the smaller-scale fulfillment company closed $40 million in Series C funding, led by Activant Capital, bringing its total capital raised to $70 million. That’s where Deliverr comes in,” said Steve Sarracino, founding partner of Activant Capital, in a statement. population now within 100 miles of one of its warehouses.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

Just take the recent story of Three Babes Bakeshop in San Francisco. Indeed, the San Francisco-based company reportedly owes tens of thousands of dollars to its food suppliers, many of which are small businesses, and some of which told reporters they were never warned by Munchery of its plans to shut down. Tabs and Cash.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Much of the excitement surrounding automated retail — aka cashierless retail — has been driven by Amazon Go, but the enthusiasm for “just-walk-out” technology has been tempered by the stores’ limited locations. The next wave of automated retail might be heralded by U.K.-based Unattended Retail Can Boost Sales.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

San Francisco-based startup Upbeat may have the solution to this problem with its cloud-based PR platform. As a result, some great stories may be missed. This week, Upbeat announced its $1.5-million

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