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Brex Raises VC Funding As It Launches Card For Startups
June 19, 2018

Brex, the FinTech startup, announced Tuesday (June 19) that it closed a Series B round of financing, bringing the company’s total funding to $57 million. According to a company blog, Brex said the investors in this round of fundraising included Y Combinator Continuity, PayPal Founders...

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Emailage: Larger Footprint Means Richer Risk Assessment
June 18, 2018

Emailage, the online fraud prevention startup that uses email addresses to assess risk, announced this week that it’s expanding its geographical footprint and establishing new offices in regions of interest, which has included strategic hires and reappointments. The news is significant because, although Emailage had...

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DadeSystems: Mobile Deposits Must Serve The Middleman Too
June 15, 2018

Tom Berdan, chief marketing officer at startup DadeSystems, is working from his home office in Orlando, where the air conditioner is broken. He’s got a repair guy on the way. After the unit is fixed, Berdan will have a few payment options depending on the repair...

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Scooters Vs. Bikes: Who’s Winning This Week?
June 13, 2018

It’s not exactly Ali vs. Foreman — or Anakin vs. Obi Wan, if you prefer. Yet, when it comes to the next big thing in mobility-as-a-service, the scooter-vs.-bicycle storyline is getting interesting. The investments, for instance, are heating up. Electric scooter-sharing startup Bird recently said it might...

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Chargehound: Getting Merchants Up To Speed With Chargeback Data
June 06, 2018

When a merchant receives a chargeback, chances are that the transaction in question took place weeks or even months ago, meaning the revenue was already accounted for at the time. Then, when they fight the chargeback, it can be another three to four months before...

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Startup Roundup: Letting The Machines Do Their Thing
May 31, 2018

Robots aren’t going to take over every human job, but they are certainly changing what types of jobs humans need to do, as well as how those jobs get done. The future won’t be “man versus machine” (or, as science fiction has taught many to...

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FitPay: Borrowing Security Across The IoT
May 31, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly – too rapidly, some would say. The proliferation of connected devices on the market can make securing each one a challenge. Even where security is sufficient, connected consumers have many devices, and the more they have, the...

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Nanopay: Growth Means Building Beyond The Niche
May 30, 2018

There are three things on the mind of nanopay‘s CEO Laurence Cooke: Emerging markets, cross-border business-to-business (B2B) transactions, and capital markets and treasury. Cooke said that, as the startup grows, it’s time to transition from niche and isolated offerings to more sophisticated solutions that offer something...

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Why The World Needs Artisanal Marshmallows
May 29, 2018

If one were trying to come up with the most millennial-sounding product imaginable, it would be hard to do much better than an artisanal marshmallow. It’s so millennial-sounding, in fact, that it could almost pass for a derogatory euphemism for those born during the last...