HelloFresh co-founder Dan Treiman is helping to get kids involved in the kitchen, teaming up with Joanna and David Parker to launch a healthy prepared meal service for children. According to news from TechCrunch, startup Yumble offers pre-prepared meals for breakfast and dinner – as...
Unlike its namesake flower, startup payment platform Amaryllis did not bloom quickly or easily. It did, however, do so dramatically in pursuit of its goal to redefine “what good looks like” in the market. The startup was founded in 2011, but it was not until...
It’s no surprise that the holidays mean increased eCommerce traffic – and therefore, increased instances of fraud. The fraudsters often get away with it, too, simply because many merchants are overwhelmed by the volume of traffic and can’t give sketchy transactions their due consideration. Sometimes,...
Cross-border payments aren’t easy. They can be costly, time-consuming and fraught with risk. Banks that power international payments must satisfy the regulations and standards on both ends of the transaction, but while also protecting the transacting parties and the funds moving between them. Toronto-based technology...
Tipalti has caught a few bad guys lately — 7,400 of them, to be exact. The San Mateo startup recently announced the addition of a new fraud monitoring module, Tipalti Detect, to help eliminate accounts payable fraud risk. Tipalti Detect stopped those 7,400 payments throughout its...
While all startups are doing their own thing and trying to solve different problems, many of those problems boil down to the same core issue: From onboarding to payouts and everything in between, the old way of doing things is just too slow. For the...
Paying with your smartphone is OK, but having the option to pay with any device you want — phone, smartwatch, fitness tracker, key fob — all while enjoying the confidence that the transaction is equally secure no matter which method you choose — now that’s the consumer way....
Alternative lending startup Activehours has raised another $39 million in financing, bringing its total raise to nearly $65 million since its 2013 launch. According to TechCrunch, this new round – led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Matrix Partners, Ribbit Capital and...
There’s one thing banks and FinTechs can agree on: Those old-fashioned merchant onboarding processes take way too long. But nimble FinTechs have been able to move much faster to address that compared to their lumbering legacy competitors, and that has often left traditional banks to...