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In Depth
How ZestFinance Used Big Data Lending To Secure $150M From Fortress
October 07, 2015

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Giving money away is very easy, almost anyone can do it. However, unless one has a neverending supply of funds, giving money away is not something any human or company can afford to do for very long. And while this seems...

Though Small, International Deals Dominate
September 30, 2015

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Financial inclusion – and finding a way into the financial system for the 2 billion or so people worldwide who live largely outside of it (or on its margins) – is a widely touted goal. The UN, The World Bank,...

B2B Payments
What Do $225M and $3.4B Have In Common?
September 23, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither are payments businesses. That’s something that AvidXchange CEO Michael Praeger knows all too well. It’s been a 15-year journey from an idea to reinvent how middle market companies pay their suppliers to its latest (and pretty massive)...

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FinTech (And Compass’) Big Data Direction
September 16, 2015

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Big data is the wave of the future – and is big business. International Data Corporation projects that the market for advanced and predictive analytics (APA) software will grow from $2.2B in 2013 to over $3.4B in 2018 – a compound annual...

Is The Mobile Bubble Getting Ready To Burst (For Real This Time)
September 09, 2015

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]It’s hard to imagine what exactly it was about tulips that drove the sort of mania where a single prime bulb was worth 10 times the annual salary of a skilled craftsmen. It’s equally hard to get into the mindset of...

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August Investment Activity Gets a Bit Cooler
August 26, 2015

After a tough start to the week, the second day story on the U.S. stock market initially seemed to be one about improvement. While the Chinese market remains something closely resembling turmoil, the U.S. market at one point in the day jumped about 400 points...

Why Investors Are Flocking To Freight-Forwarding
August 12, 2015

Though this week was a quiet one in FinTech investments, with only few $100M+ deals – VCs seem to have found a new favorite place to invest - bringing the supply chain into the digital age.

A Unicorn Is Born: Zscaler Raises $100M And Snags A $1B Valuation
August 05, 2015

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] It has been a good year to be a cybersecurity entrepreneur — and business is booming since cybercriminals have had a busy and productive year and a half. But if there can be an upside to criminal activity, it has...

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Investment Heat Wave, OneVest’s Financing Revolution
July 29, 2015

Fund flows perked up quite a bit last week, with two mammoth announcements outside the U.S. And the CEO of one venture that's making mammoth differences for lots of new ventures, OneVest, raised some dough of their own and tells PYMNTS there's more to crowdfunding...