Investments

Investment Tracker, October 29
October 29, 2014

Click here to see this week’s breakdown of investments Interview One might be tempted to look at bitcoin as so 2013. It started the year strong – but a string of scandals, run-ins with regulators and now Apple Pay seems to have knocked bitcoin, and...

Investment Tracker, October 22
October 22, 2014

Click here to see this week’s graph Beacons are the darling of commerce, with estimates of something like 30,000 of them in stores in the U.S. alone. The Beacon ecosystem ignited last year when Apple launched iBeacon, and ever since there has been a stampede...

Investment Tracker, October 15
October 15, 2014

Click here to see this week’s investment tracker. Interview With Spreedly   Tokenization is not a new idea, but since the announcement of Apple Pay and its much-praised tokenized security protocol, it is a hot idea. Lately it seems a consensus is emerging amongst payment...

Investments in Retail Payments Rocks October
October 08, 2014

$130M in financial activity. Included an array of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, almost all was driven by strategic or venture –backed investments. Deem ran with the leading investment. A round for the San Francisco based company, was $30...

In Depth
PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker
September 07, 2014

PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker Here’s what happened in the first week of September: The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $638.4 Million in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, $628.4 M was...

PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker
August 26, 2014

Here’s what happened in the third week of August: The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $1.3 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, $856 M was the driven by strategic...

B2B Payments
PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker
August 18, 2014

Here’s what happened in the first week of August:   The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $1.2 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc.  Of that total, $1,053.6 M was the driven by...

B2B Payments
PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker
August 04, 2014

There’s lots of stuff published on who’s funding what across all technology sectors worldwide. We thought it would be useful to provide you with a weekly update on who’s investing what in the retail and commercial payments and financial services sectors. Retail was king during...

Controversial
Payments Innovation Investment Tracker | Week of July 25
July 30, 2014

Oh where oh where have the investments in Fintech gone? Well, last week, $8.9 billion of it went to a bunch of players in payments with acquisitions in the processing and security sectors leading the way.