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1.2KRetailWall Street Skeptics Balk At Beyond Meat’s Valuation
Plant-based meat maker Beyond Meat has surged about 225 percent since going public last week, leading one analyst to call the valuation...
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1.8KInvestmentsChowNow Raises $21M, Launches Food Ordering Site
ChowNow, the online ordering platform for local restaurants, announced Wednesday (May 8) it has raised $21 million in venture funding. In a...
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3.2KNewsAmazon’s Bitcoin Embrace And Cannabis Burgers Top The Week’s News
The end of a busy week provides a chance to catch up on the biggest news from the world of digital payments...
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2.4KInvestmentsP2P Chinese Lender Dianrong Seeks $100M Amid Regulations
Chinese peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Dianrong wants to raise $100 million in an attempt to outlast a regulatory squeeze on the industry in...
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4.6KDigital PaymentsDigital Payments Help Rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral
After much of Chicago burned to the ground in 1871, rebuilding the city involved various fundraising and restorative strategies. One famous effort...
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3.1KInvestmentsGrab Gearing Up To Raise $2B More This Year
Grab, the Southeast Asia ride-hailing company, is gearing up to raise an additional $2 billion in funding during 2019 to bankroll its...
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2.3KInvestmentsTeacher-Focused Homebuying Startup Lands $7.5M
A startup called Landed that helps teachers buy houses has raised $7.5 million in a Series A funding round, according to reports. Landed...
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4.0KInvestmentsTandem Launches Fundraising For Expansion Plans
Startup bank Tandem is trying to secure a new investment to help its plans for overseas expansion. Citing sources close to the...
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4.1KFintech InvestmentsTransferWise Seeks To Raise Up To $300M
Cross-border money transfer startup TransferWise is looking to raise funds and will sell a stake in itself to do so, according to...
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2.8KStartupsHealthJoy Lands $12.5M To Double Staff
HealthJoy, the Chicago healthcare startup, has raised $12.5 million in venture funding. According to a report citing the company, the Series B round...
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4.2KInvestmentsGrab Raises $4.5 Billion Led By Softbank’s Vision Fund
Grab, the Southeast Asian ride-hailing startup, has raised more than $4.5 billion in a round of funding led by SoftBank‘s Vision Fund....
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5.2KSecurity & FraudEx-Barclays Head: Qatar Capital Was Not Vital To Bank’s Health
During a fraud trial on Tuesday (Feb. 19), the former chairman of Barclays bank said that Qatar was “not as central” to...
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3.5KFintech InvestmentsRaisin Raises $114M To Make Strategic Buys, Expand Internationally
Raisin, the pan-European FinTech that operates a marketplace for savings and investment products, announced Wednesday (February 6) that it raised $114 million in...
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4.0KHealthcareStartup 98point6 Raises $86M To Rival Amazon In Healthcare
Seattle-based 98point6 has officially launched nationwide availability of its on-demand primary care platform. The company announced that the service, which delivers personalized...
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1.7KSpend ManagementDeep Dive: Spend Solutions To Help Charitable Organizations Spread Cheer
During the holiday season, nonprofit and religious organizations step up their fundraising efforts for charitable causes. These groups must demonstrate a high...
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3.0KPlatform PaymentsHow Webconnex Works To Make Events Simple
There can’t be a barnburner if it can’t get off the ground to begin with. And no matter what the event is,...
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6.3KPlatform PaymentsRaising The Roof With Platform Payments
As a growing group of consumers around the globe adopt digital payment platforms and tools, some well-known players, including Google and Amazon,...
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5.5KStartupsBird, Lime Seek Capital At Lower Valuations As Investor Interest Wanes
Bird and Lime, the two electric scooter sharing startups, have been reducing the amount they are seeking to raise from investors amid...
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3.4KRetailInstacart Builds A Coalition To Compete In Grocery’s Future
Instacart captured a lot of headlines earlier this month with the news that, for a limited time, it would be cheaper to...
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3.4KInvestmentsPeopleFund Notches $11M In Series B Round
In a Kakao Pay-led Series B round, peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform PeopleFund took in $11 million in funding. The South Korean company,...
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3.6KInvestmentsUber’s In-Car Convenience Store Cargo Raises $22M
Cargo, the startup that provides in-car commerce for the rideshare economy, announced on Thursday (Sept. 27) that it has raised $22 million...
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3.8KInvestmentsDoor Opens For Opendoor’s $400M SoftBank Funding
In fundraising news on Thursday (Sept. 27), Opendoor, the home selling startup, said that it has raised $400 million from SoftBank’s Vision...
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4.1KStartupsSEBA Crypto Raises $103M To Open A Cryptocurrency Bank
SEBA Crypto, the Swiss startup building a cryptocurrency bank, has raised $103 million from investors including BlackRiver Asset Management and Summer Capital....
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5.7KInvestmentsStripe Raises $245M On A $20B Valuation
Stripe, the payments startup, has raised $245 million in a new round of venture funding, giving the company a valuation of $20...
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3.9KBlockchainChina Shows Road For Blockchain Beyond Cryptos?
China is striving to curb cryptos, and speculation -- with nascent adoption of blockchain in financial services and beyond. Might "smart banking"...
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2.2KInvestmentsTesla, Slack Show Lure Of Non-Public Funding Amid High Mkt Valuations
As the saying goes, cash is king. Amend that a bit to state that when it comes to corporate events, cash may...
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2.9KInvestmentsAxoni Raises $32M Led By Goldman Sachs, Nyca Partners
Axoni, a provider of enterprise blockchain technology, announced Tuesday (Aug. 14) that it has raised $32 million in venture funding. In a...
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3.6KInvestmentsEven Financial Lands $18.8M In Venture Funding
Even Financial, a FinTech company focused on the consumer financial services ecosystem, announced on Tuesday (Aug. 7) that it raised $18.8 million...
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4.4KInvestmentsIndia’s Bus Sharing Startup Shuttl Lands $11M In Venture Funding
Shuttl, the bus sharing app startup based in India, raised $11 million in a series B round of venture funding. In a press...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsFlywire Pulls B2B Payments Back Into The Investor Spotlight
The biggest investment news of the week came on Thursday (July 26), when cross-border B2B payments company Flywire announced an impressive $100...
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4.4KDigital PaymentsPaidy Tries To Simplify Mobile Payments — And Please Merchants While Doing So
A consumer can own multiple credit cards and live in a highly technological society and still want to pay via a method...
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2.4KRetailHow Headout Is Making The Spontaneous Schedulable
Vacations are supposed to be fun and relaxing – the dozens of “think pieces” generated in early summer each year about the...
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3.5KInvestmentsPaidy Raises $55M In Round Of Funding
Paidy, the company that instantly issues post-pay credit accounts linked to mobile phone numbers, announced on Thursday (July 12) that it raised $55...
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5.4KPlatform PaymentsGiving Charities And Nonprofits Control Over Fundraising
For nonprofits, accepting donations on the go often means using “knuckle-buster credit card imprinters” or old-fashioned checks. These are solutions that Roger...
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5.0KInvestmentsJD Finance Raises $2B, Doubles Valuation Pre-IPO
JD.com’s finance unit has raised $1.96 billion in a new round of funding. Reuters, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter,...
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3.9KPlatform PaymentsNEW REPORT: Speeding And Securing Online Nonprofit Fundraising
In the push to make payments faster, platform and solutions providers are ratcheting up their payments processing infrastructure with new technologies and...
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3.2KHealthcareHealth Services Firm higi Scoops Up $21.3 Million For Modern Healthcare Systems
The Chicago-based population health services firm higi – which focuses on consumer-centric, data-driven engagement solutions for providers, payers, retailers and self-insured employers –...
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8.5KResTechToast Notches $115M In Series D Round
To drive investment in R&D, recruiting and expansion, Toast announced on Tuesday (July 10) that it has raised $115 million in Series...
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3.7KInvestmentsThetaRay Notches $30M In Funding
Cybersecurity firm ThetaRay has notched more than $30 million in a funding round, bringing its total fundraising to over $60 million. The...
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4.9KInvestmentsDespite Regulation, ICOs Raise Nearly $12B Through May
Despite a regulation crackdown and other issues, investors have continued to fund cryptocurrency startups in 2018, with ICOs raising $11.8 billion this...
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1.5KInvestmentsGoFundMe Debuts Team Fundraising
GoFundMe has launched GoFundMe Team Fundraising, allowing groups of people to raise money together for a single effort. The service will enable...
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3.7KInvestments$150B Valuation Makes Ant Financial World’s Largest Unicorn, Ahead Of Possible IPO
Ahead of an expected initial public offering (IPO), Alibaba’s investment arm Ant Financial has secured $10 billion in funding from global and...
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2.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsGoFundMe Buys YouCaring For Undisclosed Sum
GoFundMe, the social fundraising platform, announced news on Wednesday (April 4) that it is acquiring personal fundraising site YouCaring for an undisclosed...
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4.8KInvestmentsJD’s Finance Arm Seeks Fresh Funding
In an effort to deepen its push into securities, banking and insurance, JD.com’s finance arm is seeking to raise ¥12 billion —...
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3.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsGoodworld And Verrency Partner To Make A Good World Through Donation Payments
Social payments charity platform Goodworld and Australian payments marketplace Verrency announced a partnership that will create a new Corporate Social Responsibility offering...
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3.5KInvestmentsGo-Jek Raises $1.5B From Investors, Including BlackRock, Google
Go-Jek, the delivery and ride-hailing company located in Indonesia, has raised $1.5 billion in venture capital funding. According to news from Reuters, Go-Jek...
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4.2KInvestmentsAffirm Said To Eye $150M Capital Raise On $1.5B Valuation
Affirm Inc., an online lender, is reportedly in late-stage talks to land a new round of financing that would propel it to...
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7.1KAlternative FinancesGoFundMe Launches Zero Fee Platform
GoFundMe, the online donation platform, announced Thursday (Nov. 30) it is introducing a zero percent platform fee with new, U.S.-based personal fundraising...
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7.2KFacebookFacebook To Eliminate Transaction Fees On Donations
Facebook announced that it has eliminated transaction fees on donations made to non-profit organizations through its platform. According to news from Reuters,...
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6.8KInvestmentsAre ‘Unicorns’ Much Less Valuable Than We Think?
The valuations that have come out of Silicon Valley in the last few decades have been nothing if not eye-catching: $62.5 billion...
