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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Via online and mobile it has introduced artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology in pricing cars as well as qualifying for financing. If the seller is still interested Shift personnel will pick up the car from one of its hubs (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento and Portland) and pay the seller via ACH transfer.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2017

The San Francisco-based company, has made numerous strides, from issuing its millionth loan to expanding its retail partnerships; from preparing to launch new products in the fall to moving into a permanent office space. This has been a good year for Affirm, the lending startup established by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 9, 2020

San Francisco-based Affirm , an installment financing platform for online commerce run by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin , filed its S-1 in preparation for going public in November. Affirm wants to disrupt the credit card business, a notoriously opaque realm of consumer finance.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

The CEO of SoFi, the digital personal finance company based in San Francisco, said its investor accounts have doubled this year, mostly due to fractional shares. Founded in 2011, SoFi made its reputation by refinancing student loans for millennials. In 2019, it launched SoFi Invest and SoFi Money, a cash management account.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

The San Francisco-based startup lets brides and bridesmaids shop together online, mimicking the traditional offline bridal-party-shopping outing. The new funding was said to be used to Weddington Way’s team, expand its efforts to acquire new customers and make improvements to its collaborative-shopping platform.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Online lenders could be opening doors for female entrepreneurs; the San Francisco Fed's Mary Daly talks about closing the gender gap in the research department; Barclays' UK diversity chief shares mentor-mentee relationship tips; Centric's Patti Husic creates a millennial advisory board.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Younger shoppers, however, are still seeking out places like IKEA even in the age of online shopping: A Home Furnishing News survey found that brick-and-mortar stores provided 63 percent of indoor furniture purchased by millennials. Pizza Hut plans to acquire online ordering software provider QuikOrder. restaurants.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

More than 100 Goodwill store locations ranging from New York to San Francisco are uploading products like collectibles, clothing and furniture to the platform to drive in-store and online sales. Goodwill organizations have worked with other tech companies to help sell their merchandise online. for sellers and buyers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

One-third of Gen Z members and more than one-quarter of millennials will make secondhand purchases in 2019 due to environmental concerns and cheaper prices, for example. The online thrifting market combines both of these factors, making it especially popular among both demographic groups. AI and the importance of personalization.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It started as a simple online form: Users would fill out their destinations, the number of travelers in their group, their dates of travel and a bit of information on what they are like. The company’s target market includes Gen Z and millennials. Their profiles will display a blue checkmark once they are verified.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

With roughly 17 million active users each month and 30,000 diverse online retailers, Honey has delivered some $1 billion in savings to shoppers in the past year. The San Francisco-headquartered startup runs membership-based healthcare clinics and was launched by internal medicine doctor Tom Lee, who served as the company’s CEO until 2017.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

But, while closing physical bank branches might appear to be a wise cost-saving measure, the move comes with risks that could hurt banks’ relations with new millennial customers. Armistead also spoke to the lesson the bank is learning from smartphone apps to better serve its customers online and in brick-and-mortar locations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This doesn’t mean that North American customers aren’t pining for mobile ordering options — especially the millennial market. consumers choosing delivery or takeout for every order, automating ordering systems and online ordering will draw more customers while simultaneously streamlining the lunch rush. While the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The brand has been well-known among Generation Z and millennial consumers for several years – particularly those into the clubbing and music festival scene. These are the types of things one can expect to find on the Dolls Kill online shopping portal – as well as off the rack in their San Francisco and Los Angeles physical locations.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Gabi , a San Francisco-based digital broker for home and car insurance, raised a $27M Series B led by Mubadala Capital. Coalition , a San Francisco-based digital cyber insurance managing general agent (MGA), acquired BinaryEdge , a Switzerland-based cybersecurity company, for an undisclosed amount. . Hi there, .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It’s true: bots have squeezed their way in and they’re changing the way companies interact with consumers online. . His presentation at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco included a demonstration of a Messenger chatbot for an iPhone, built using with Oracle software.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

7), the transit-as-a-service operator is offering car and truck owners looking to offload their vehicles a deal: Sell those vehicles via online retail service Carvana and get in return $250 worth of Lyft credits, plus three months of free membership in Lyft’s new Lyft Pink membership subscription program.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Millions of millennials have joined the gig economy, and according to Hyperwallet CEO Brent Warrington, they’re motivated by a desire for freedom and flexibility. It appears there are more millennial gig workers than there are millennials in the regular workforce. They’d still be in San Francisco, and they’d be struggling.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2016

Starting with several hundred homes in Florida — a hotbed of inexpensive real estate and high activity, Beasley explained — Roofstock offers would-be investors a detailed look at properties in an online marketplace-styled interface. What Roofstock can do is get people to start thinking about decoupling where you live from where you invest.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

So started Affirm’s Co-Founder and CEO Max Levchin ’s remarks at his firm’s first-ever AFFIRMation conference for its retail partners in San Francisco yesterday. “Finance is pretty broken.”. Levchin, by his own description, has spent his career in financial services and founding companies — “some of which succeeded, some didn’t.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Technology has proven useful in eliminating the friction inherent in so many processes and online marketplaces, so why not the process of finding a roommate where co-existence is virtually guaranteed to be harmonious? And then there’s the monthly joust over who is or isn’t paying their share of the rent and utilities on time.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

Target, on the other hand, has enjoyed some success with its flexible format, urbanite- and millennial-friendly CityTarget locations that first launched in 2012 and have since expanded to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, San Diego and Philadelphia.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The pandemic has also accelerated recent trends in banking, especially among the millennial demographic, which tends to favor digital banking and online brands over traditional banks. For example, Trumid is an online trading platform providing corporate bond market professionals with direct access to liquidity.

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NCR

MARCH 16, 2016

I was banking online when people still thought of it as exotic and somewhat dangerous (I figured if the banks had my information online, I should have access to it as well.) In fact, more than three-quarters of banks already have them, according to an online survey Apteligent conducted in December.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

Over the years, outdoor bazaars became main streets which morphed into malls and now online marketplaces where sellers and buyers meet to do business. When it launched in San Francisco, Uber had a network of drivers with cars to get passengers with the app excited to use it. Venmo’s mothership, PayPal, will be 18 this fall.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Online payment solutions company Klarna made a move to bolster the brain power of its team today. In August, we covered Cookies’ effort to change its business model into a messaging-based P2P payment service geared toward millennials. The company demonstrated its online payment processing service at FinovateSpring 2012.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Even so, one of the main ideas behind the new deal is to use the Barstool brand to further Penn National’s expansion into legal, online and mobile sport wagering, the doors for which were opened by a U.S. A closer look at football betting serves to illustrate how attractive online and mobile betting is becoming in the U.S.,

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Online SME lender OnDeck has announced a significant expansion of its product line for small businesses. Fortune magazine listed OnDeck as one of the 100 Best Places to Work for Millennials. OnDeck presented at FinDEVr 2014 in San Francisco , and returned this year to FinDEVr 2015.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

While much of the fintech world remains mesmerized by the millennial market, True Link Financial CEO and co-founder Kai Stinchcombe believes that Baby Boomers – and increasingly Gen Xers – are where it’s at. “We think seniors are the most exciting market in financial services today,” Stinchcombe said.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The startup, which is owned by online payments processing company Braintree (which PayPal purchased for $800 million in 2013 ) just exceeded $1 billion in payments processed in the month of January; the highest volume in a single month. ” The startup’s peer-to-peer payments service is popular among millennials.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Hims , a direct-to-consumer company selling health products targeted at millennials, is using a SPAC to go public , for example. Michael served as chief business officer at the San Francisco-based ridesharing giant where he led the merger of Uber with Didi Chuxing Technology , a Beijing ridesharing company, according to the report.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This includes targeting the underbanked/unbanked, millennials, students, kids, freelancers, and early adopters of blockchain. Millennials. This niche specifically targets the cash-strapped, digital savvy millennials with marketing, brand positioning, and prioritizing the product roadmap. Underbanked/Unbanked. Home Owners.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 9, 2017

Headquarters: San Francisco, California. The company is targeting mobile millennials who seek small, affordable housing options. The company is essentially an ecommerce platform for buyers to purchase Acre homes online. project frog. Disclosed Funding: $92M.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2015

How can organizations provide top-notch service when most customers, especially millennials, experience services through a website or mobile application, and have never stepped foot in a branch? How financial service companies can leverage WebRTC to bring the same high-quality customer service from brick and mortar stores online.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

In retail, and especially for personal beauty brands trying to navigate brick-and-mortar and online subscription spaces, this is doubly true. Dive deeper Sephora did when it followed up its Innovation Lab announcement with another explaining the first eight innovators invited to work on their projects at the San Francisco think tank.

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NCR

MAY 9, 2017

The 2016 Millennial Money Mindset Report, released by iQuantifi earlier this year, reported that nearly 42 percent of millennials want to manage their banking relationship exclusively online. Millennials do not want to go to a bank branch,” said Silicon Valley Bank head of payments services Eduardo Vergara.

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