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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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APRIL 11, 2016

That trend continues this week, with some San Francisco-grown AI thrown into the mix. Last week this space saw much of the largest fintech funding rounds taking place outside the U.S. This week we witnessed a major push forward in the process of collaboration between financial institutions (FIs) and startups. This Read More.

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JULY 10, 2020

He has grown from a small group of vintage cars in the San Francisco area to a global, tech-savvy transportation network in four countries with 1,500 cars. People were just canceling events, conventions … there were over 37 conventions in San Francisco that represented close to $1 billion of business coming into the city.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Francesco Simoneschi, co-founder and CEO of TrueLayer, said the “collaboration with Revolut is continuing apace — and this is just the beginning of what will be a fruitful partnership bringing further innovation to the German market.”. Meanwhile, Revolut is close to applying for a U.S. banking license.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Based in San Francisco, Bitwise is an investing fund that focuses on the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market […]. 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.

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JUNE 22, 2019

It seems every firm is trying to find a way into the expansive — and ever-growing — “health and wellness” market. In the last few years, wellness has become a dominant lifestyle value that is profoundly changing consumer behavior and changing the markets.”. Well, with innovation of course. The industry now represents 5.3

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The San Francisco-based startup brands itself as an alternative to predatory payday loans, much like fellow startups LendUp and Prosper. In addition to […].

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APRIL 16, 2019

Among the most recent headlines, in Asia this past week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the National Bank of Cambodia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), that Business Times said will boost partnerships on FinTech and financial services innovation. The banks have also agreed to share data on emerging markets.

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JUNE 23, 2020

kitchens are slated to open in San Francisco , Chicago , Los Angeles , Houston and Austin, according to the release, and will offer a selection of food from TiffinLabs’ digital-first restaurant brands. The first U.S. They’re expected to begin opening by the last quarter of this year.

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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. Sistema’s website said the investment company focuses primarily on “new and innovative industries, with no restrictions on geography or industry.”.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 27, 2019

SigFig, a San Francisco fintech specializing in robo advice, today unveiled SigFig Atlas, an interactive platform for financial advice and software-guided sales that faces both retail banks and their customers.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Cashierless stores aren’t just for mega retailers like Amazon to sell prepared food from their kitchens or products from other producers: Beverage brands, among other companies, are getting into the action and choosing this checkout experience for stores that showcase their own products IRL (“in real life”) as a marketing tool.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

With the brand’s proprietary digital platform and 1 million-member base in place, Fabletics said it uses deep customer insights and enhanced market data to determine the most strategic locations for its retail locations. Less is more,” Dustin Netral, SVP of operations for Fabletics, said in a press release.

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Bank Innovation

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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MAY 2, 2019

” According to Fortune , the company will test the service in 18 markets: Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Ft. We’re always looking to innovate and disrupt,” Singh said. Convenience store operator 7-Eleven is launching beer and cider delivery in select U.S. Louis, Missouri; and Tampa, Florida.

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JULY 8, 2020

“Startups are a great source of innovation in the IT industry, but are now especially cash-constrained,” Max Azaham , a senior research director at research and consulting firm Gartner Inc., told the Journal. He said coronavirus has caused investors to turn their backs on companies seeking less than $100 million. Groupon Inc. and Airbnb Inc.,

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

For example, Powell had to make the bikes electric, as people are riding up hills in areas like San Francisco. The company markets those bicycles to daycares, small preschools and small family-owned centers that can use a couple of the bikes to take a class on a field trip. The Philosophy and Market.

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MAY 3, 2020

The lawsuit by SC Innovations, Sidecar’s successor, has been allowed to go forward by Judge Joseph Spero in San Francisco. The lawsuit alleges that Uber began offering low fares for passengers and better incentives for drivers to bust into the market. Uber had no comment on the allegations.

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MARCH 25, 2019

New digital innovations, however, provide the promise of offering valuable customer data to merchants. These are just some of the ways that merchants are using digital innovations to better serve their customers with the help of kiosk and unattended retail technology: . Approximately one quarter — or 25.3

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

The company currently has offices in New York, New Jersey, San Francisco and Las Vegas. The combination of DraftKings’ leading and trusted brand, deep focus on customer experience and data science expertise and SBTech’s highly innovative and proven technology platform creates a vertically-integrated powerhouse,” Robins said. “I

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has been one of the main innovations when it comes to commerce related to the clothes we wear. The company’s other Go locations are mainly on the West Coast in places such as San Francisco and Seattle.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

bank Standard Chartered is expanding its network of innovation labs with the launch of an eXellerator lab in Shanghai, reports said this week. 7) that the Shanghai opening adds to Standard Chartered’s existing network of labs, which are open in Singapore, Hong Kong, Kenya, London and San Francisco.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Uber Money teams are also located in Palo Alto, Amsterdam, New York and San Francisco tech centers, Livemint reported. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement , “India remains an exceptionally important market to Uber and we will continue to invest in growing our local Rides business.”. Zomato was valued at $3.55

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JULY 22, 2019

While the seamlessness of Amazon Go may have grabbed the most attention, the experimental retail model has spurred other retailers to innovate. Zippin , a new cashierless convenience store, has launched in San Francisco with the goal of reducing typically long lines. Shoppers log in with an app, pick up goods and can walk out.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

discount on student loans from the San Francisco-based financial behemoth. Amazon and Wells Fargo gave an unceremonious kiss-off to their student loan hookup this week, which would give Amazon Student Prime subscribers a 0.5% No one knows why the pair went their separate Read More.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

21, replacing interim chief Allen Parker, the San Francisco-based bank […]. Wells Fargo named Charles Scharf chief executive officer, marking a new era in the bank’s efforts to turn itself around after a series of scandals claimed two previous CEOs in the past three years. Scharf, the CEO of BNY Mellon, will take over on Oct.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

WhereIsMyTransport, a mapping startup that works to outline public transport routes in emerging markets, has raised $7.5 Liil Ventures led the round, and previous investors Global Innovation Fund and Goodwell Investments also participated. million in a Series A funding, according to a report by TechCrunch.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The trucking industry generated $796 billion in revenue last year, while the global ride-hailing market was valued at just $36 billion in 2017. And since its launch in 2017, Uber Freight now has a team of hundreds, with offices in San Francisco, Chicago and Amsterdam.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

To differentiate his eCommerce site from the many other sock sellers, Williams came up with the idea of introducing a vending machine for socks – otherwise known as an automated retail unit – at the Westfield San Francisco Centre shopping mall. It sits at the Powell/Market Street Bart entrance of the mall’s concourse level.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Owning Kindred Systems of San Francisco and Haddington Dynamics of Las Vegas will help Ocado tackle “one of the world’s hardest challenges in robotics, the picking and packing of groceries,” the company said in a press release on Monday (Nov. Ocado , a U.K.-based Although Ocado only claims 1.7

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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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APRIL 14, 2020

Tally had its test run at a Target store in San Francisco, although the company has not announced plans to expand as of yet. Phil Duffy , VP of product management and marketing at retail automation company Brain Corp, believes that retailers will adopt a different mindset on the other side of the coronavirus crisis.

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MAY 31, 2018

With the ubiquity of smartphones, people expect to have access to data and be notified on these devices,” said Ray Almgren, chief marketing officer at Swift Sensors. Here’s how: The global IoT market is expected to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 27 percent from 2018 to 2024. trillion in 2024.

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JUNE 11, 2019

Though San Francisco startup Zippin has gotten lots of press for being the first cashierless convenience store to compete directly with Amazon Go, Zippin CEO Krishna Motukuri wasn’t hoping for a direct confrontation with the world’s largest eCommerce player when he first started thinking about unmanned stores.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The pop-up shop will be located in The Market @ Macy’s in New York City, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, now through early February. Compared to traditional pop-up stores, Macy’s own staff services the brands.

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APRIL 28, 2017

leads the rest of the world in the total value of FinTech investment due to the large amount of funds available to invest in the market, with investors focusing on late-stage, clear front-runner FinTech companies,” said KMPG U.S. The company said it will also look to expand into new markets. According to KPMG’s U.S.

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MARCH 19, 2020

On the one hand, it’s easy to find pictures of empty stores shelves , deserted restaurants and once-bustling streets in New York and San Francisco and conclude that Americans as a whole have, in fact, #hunkereddown with plans to stay secluded indoors for the next several weeks. . — because the reactions are a bit inconsistent.

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