Investments

Another Billion Dollar Week And Credit Karma’s Billion Dollar Vision
February 25, 2015

When Credit Karma came on the scene in 2007, it entered the startup marketplace with a fairly simply goal: help consumers better manage their financial lives by giving them truly free access to their credit reports. “We’ve been handing out free credit reports since 2008,”...

Indian Micro-Finance’s $125M Pick-Up And A New Use Case For Facebook
February 18, 2015

Slacktivism: The act of participating in obviously pointless activities as an expedient alternative to actually expending effort to fix a problem. Everyone with a Facebook page or a Twitter feed knows at least one “slacktivist” – that probably well intentioned soul who seems to have...

Rubikloud Wants To Make Big Data Useful And Easy At The Same Time
February 11, 2015

What do professional baseball, Google, political forecasting and retail all have in common? A love of big data. Whether that comes in the form of Billy Beane harnessing its power to build a better baseball team, Nate Silver taking all the fun out of the...

2015 Starts Off With A Bang And Yummly Reimagines Food As A Platform
February 04, 2015

“What should I make for dinner?” It is a deceptively simple question. One that has a variety of answers – all of which are now much easier today, thanks to mobile devices, apps, data and the cloud. For instance, on one end of the spectrum,...

WSJ: Venture Capital Hits 14-Year High in 2014
February 03, 2015

2014 will go down as the most lucrative year for venture capital since 2000, largely because of a greater emphasis on late-stage funding of tech firms that choose to stay private longer than their predecessors did during the dot-com bubble at the beginning of the last...

Will Lending’s Future Be Untethered From Banks?
January 28, 2015

The problem with a financial crisis is that the climb out has been particularly arduous for consumers and retailers. Even though spending and wages have recovered (albeit slowly and at a lesser rate than many would like) spending continues to frustrate. Consumers may be returning...

Taulia Starts 2015 With An Additional $15M In Funding
January 21, 2015

While B2C payments players often snap up most of the headlines, B2B players are often lurking in the background, gaining ground, making moves and quietly innovating away, though often is in a less flashy manner. Taulia is one such quiet payments players that steadily gained...

2015’s (Almost) $1B Start And peerTransfer’s $22 Million Pick-Up
January 14, 2015

Click here to see this week’s breakdown of investments There’s a group of college students whose biggest problem isn’t actually paying for tuition, it’s getting the funds they have for that tuition to the institution of higher learning that they’ll attend for two, four (or...

Investment Tracker, January 1-6
January 07, 2015

The 2014 Year in FinTech Investment | The PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker The 11 Things You Need To Know About FinTech Investments in 2014 • $102 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, IPOs, acquisitions,...