PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2020

Health tech startup Accolade , with headquarters in Seattle and Philadelphia, filed with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise $100 million for an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday (Feb. Lead book-running managers for the IPO included Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and BofA Securities.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking. IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. The […].

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

Residential real estate startup Bungalow announced it has secured $64 million in funding: a $14 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures, Atomic, Founders Fund, Cherubic Ventures and Wing Ventures, as well as a $50 million debt facility. Since its launch, the company has operated in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego and Seattle.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2020

The company works with others, such as Nokia, Dell and PayPal , on managing contracts. It is in competition with Seattle-area startup Icertis. Docusign, which is based in San Francisco, operates its largest base out of Seattle, where it was originally founded in 2003.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Sources are saying that Uber wants to acquire Seattle startup Mighty AI. The company — originally called Spare5 — was launched in 2014 out of Seattle-based VC Madrona Venture’s labs, a rival of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Founded in 2007 in San Mateo, California, Zuora is an end-to-end subscription business management platform that provides insights for businesses looking to grow a robust subscription service and build customer loyalty. Its investors include Benchmark Capital, Wellington Capital Management and Shasta Ventures.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That guidance definitely applies to the fast-growing and fast-changing world of digital identity and identity management, as discussed in the latest edition of the PYMNTS Masterclass series. Say a person who lives in Seattle wants to buy a Christmas gift online and ship it to a relative in New York, Kumar explained. Who Is John Smith?

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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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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

MARCH 13, 2019

The customer experience in banking will change drastically over the next 10 years said panelists at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

In a press release , Globe Fintech, known as Mynt, said Bow Wave Capital Management and other existing investors all participated in the fundraise. During the pandemic, “GCash has been helping Filipinos get through their daily lives by providing them with convenient, safe and secure digital payment options,” the release said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2019

The FBI arrested a Seattle area woman, Paige A. In fact, security professionals have been warning about it for years. Through the gap, Thompson was able to access a central piece of Amazon’s cloud technology known as its metadata service, which holds the credentials and other data needed to manage servers in the cloud.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

Security Save Of The Week: Blocking The Biggest DDoS Attack Attempt Ever . You’ve got a bunch of brands stuck with merchandise and this is going to be an opportunity to generate cash,” Frank Poore, CEO and founder of e-commerce managed marketplace platform CommerceHub, told Forbes. And with Amazon in U.S.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

Digital Security. This continued to be a hot area with several deals including: TransUnion’ s acquisition of identity analytics provider Neustar Mastercard acquired digital identity provider Ekata Canapi Ventures invested in security/behavior analytics firm Neuro-ID The aforementioned DefenseStorm funding round.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

In a letter to shareholders filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday (April 16), the Amazon CEO said testing on a global scale would help keep people safe and get the economy back up and running. For this to work, we as a society would need vastly more testing capacity than is currently available,” he wrote.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2018

With more than $95 million in financing placed, startups across eProcurement, cybersecurity, logistics, alternative finance, blockchain and supply chain management secured support. Supply Chain Management. The Seattle-based company secured the investment from Grotech Ventures and Access Ventures Partners.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Hyperproof , an enterprise governance, compliance, and risk management technology provider, has raised $16.5M Seattle-based Hyperproof provides compliance solutions for continuous risk management across key industries, such as security tech, enterprise software, fintech, healthcare tech, and data communications.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2018

In fact, SoftBank was initially considering investing in the Seattle-based Rover, which also connects dog owners with walkers, but ultimately decided to fund Wag. As part of the deal, SoftBank’s managing partner, Jeffrey Housenbold, and senior investor Ted Fike will join Wag’s board. Housenbold will serve as Wag’s chairman.

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PYMNTS

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. Founded in Israel, Feedvisor also has an office in Seattle. This brings the site’s total amount raised to $33 million.

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MAY 12, 2017

Seattle startup FLEXE looks to enable online retailers to compete against Amazon’s logistics capabilities. “Our partnership enables FLEXE clients to leverage our secure facilities and skilled workforce.”. “Our customers are under tremendous pressure to meet consumer demand for fast, cheap shipping. .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Denver-based fast casual Seattle-style teriyaki chain Teriyaki Madness , which offers digital ordering online and via app, realized several years ago that many consumers were interested in convenient meals they could eat at home. Managing Order Integrity. He explained that the firm is still working to tackle this issue, however. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

percent of small QSR managers were satisfied, according to the Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker. Seattle-based startup Joe Coffee built a platform to enable customers of local coffee shops to pre-order and pay for their drinks on mobile devices. PYMNTS’ most recent Restaurant Readiness Index found that only 30.7 In fact, 91.4

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Optimizing risk, compliance and security. Too often cloud adoption can just happen, and security teams are asked reactively to make it secure and compliant. But it is possible to gain control and establish a proactive foundation of well governed, compliant security upon which these cloud projects can be built and managed.

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PYMNTS

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.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Nets and OT will combine their capabilities to offer an end-to-end mobile payment solution, which will include host card emulation (HCE) and tokenization to secure payments. “By The collaboration, announced on Oct. Payments Take The Field.

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JUNE 8, 2018

Based in Seattle, Qumulo offers businesses data management technology via its cloud-based file storage solution. The company secured $93 million in Series D funding announced this week, with BlackRock Private Equity Partners leading the investment. System noted its tool serves as both CRM and CMS for small businesses.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2016

That’s how Dan Charron , EVP and Head of Global Business Solutions for First Data , sees it and how he describes the latest rollout of its commerce technology solution at CenturyLink Field Event Center and CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks , aimed at taking the fan experience to the next level. The Bigger Picture.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Such was the news out of Seattle HQ this week — Amazon is pushing toward fully automating its warehouses, but won’t be hitting that target until sometime next decade. Shrivastava continued, “Today, we are thrilled to open Key by Amazon to millions of Prime members who can now have their Amazon packages delivered securely to their garages.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2018

It’s a thought that comes to mind this week because the World Cup is currently underway in Russia, and because this week’s news managed to offer up a win, a loss and a draw, depending on where one looked. . According to a release earlier this week, Erica now has one million users, a milestone managed in just two months. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

Some members of the Slickdeals forum managed to score an accidentally amazing deal on some very expensive photography gear for a very low price. Big Move of the Week: Real-Time Security Ranking. million user accounts were managed, more than 450,000 end points were protected and over 5.1 million vulnerabilities were remediated.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

In a new report, Renee Schuurman, global market manager of Citi ’s channel services division, makes an argument that by using application program interfaces (APIs), traditional banks are able to disrupt the marketplace by developing highly scalable solutions, and not fall victim to being disrupted themselves by new entrants. Switch, Inc.,

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Filene

JANUARY 26, 2016

Theran Colwell, CUNA Mutual Group, Director, Risk Management Commercial Products. A slate of information security leaders from credit unions just like your's: WSECU, David Luchtel, Vice President - Infrastructure and Operations. Sunmark FCU, Sara Spychalski, Vice President, Risk Management. LUNCH (in meeting room).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2017

Descartes System Group , a Canadian logistics company with global reach, has acquired ShipRush , a Seattle-based shipping company that connects small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with delivery carriers across the U.S., for $14 million. Its focus is on transportation and logistics, and that’s where ShipRush comes in.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

And for good reason, Karen Webster noted in a recent commentary – a minority of users managed to turn Facebook into a home and hub for some of the vilest content on the internet. Earnings weren’t quite what investors were looking for, its usership base in the U.S. So is everything solved and sizzling for Facebook?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Amazon now has Amazon Care , a mobile app that connects consumers with healthcare providers online and via walk-in clinics, initially in the Greater Seattle area and more recently in neighborhoods near its warehouse facilities for its employees. In 2018, Amazon was reportedly in talks with regulators to launch an insurance comparison website.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Blockchain is permeating nearly every industry, from healthcare to supply chain management. Microsoft has filed patents for trusted execution environments (TEEs) that could secure and support blockchain networks. BAIDU IS EXPERIMENTING WITH an IP MANAGEMENT blockchain. VCs and corporations are hot on blockchain.

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