It’s the calm before the storm for Modo Payments, according to the startup’s Founder and CEO, Bruce Parker. It’s everything his startup friends and mentors warned him about: big challenges, big opportunities and the sheer terror and exhilaration that go along with them. Parker said...
There comes a time in every startup’s life when momentum kicks in and everything becomes a whirlwind of activity. Or maybe that’s just startup life in general. Either way, Amaryllis CEO Mark Bishopp said that’s exactly where the startup has found itself this past quarter,...
Travis Kalanick, the ex-Uber chief executive, has found a new job leading City Storage Systems, a startup that repurposes distressed real estates such as parking lots and strip malls. Recode, citing an unnamed source, reported the company used to be called CloudKitchens and was headed...
As it builds a retail bank from the ground up, N26 has notched $160 million in a Series C funding round led by Allianz and Tencent. For the round, Allianz invested through its Allianz X investment arm, TechCrunch reported. “I think Tencent and Allianz are a great combination of...
This time last year, if a customer asked Cascade about cryptocurrency loading, the startup had to tell them, “We don’t do that.” Its partner banks weren’t supporting the feature, so neither could Cascade. But as more and more people started asking about it, Founder and...
Businesses that hope to make 2018 a big growth year must start by asking themselves: “Which of my business operations are non-scalable?” Those are the factors that will hold them back. Pallavi Kuppa-Apte, head of Sales and Marketing for the startup Chargehound, said that’s the...
Startup Emailage stopped almost twice as much potential fraud in 2017 as it did in the previous year. Content marketing manager Chad Koskie broke it down by the numbers: Against the backdrop of $180 billion in transactions running through the system, $1.8 billion in potential...
Integrated receivables are a concept that many bank customers are now considering as they look to consolidate all their payment streams, whether paper or electronic. Typically, when an ACH payment is received electronically, the company gets a deposit from its customer into a banking account,...
Three quarters of freelancers said they would leave their current marketplace due to payment dissatisfaction. That’s according to a recent survey by startup Tipalti, which collected responses from more than 200 freelancers working in gig, sharing and marketplace economies around the world. Freelancer payment satisfaction...