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Payment MethodsCheckout.com Raises $150M On $5B Valuation
Checkout.com, the London-based online payments software platform, has nearly tripled it worth to $5.5 billion following a $150 million round of fundraising,...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsAfterpay Launches Fundraising Push For 2 Charities
Afterpay, which works in the buy now, pay later (BNPL) space, will help deal with the fallout of the pandemic by asking...
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InvestmentsWith Startup Valuations Down, VC Firms Seek Deals
With valuations sinking, startups are becoming reticent to fundraise like normal. But venture capital firms, seeing the lower prices, are becoming more...
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SMBsIntuit And GoFundMe Team Up On Small Business Relief Fund
Fundraising platform GoFundMe and Intuit QuickBooks have teamed up on an initiative to help small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) raise money while...
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FacebookNonprofits Shun Data Lock Behind Facebook’s Donate Button
Many nonprofits are leery of using Facebook’s “donate” button, saying it doesn’t help them in their fundraising efforts, mainly because Facebook keeps...
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StartupsAlibaba-Backed Chinese Social Media Startup Seeks $6B Valuation
Chinese eCommerce and social media startup Xiaohongshu, also known as “Little Red Book,” wants to raise funds at a $6 billion valuation,...
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Platform PaymentsStreamlabs Offers Free Fundraising Platform For Charities
Live streamers who want to raise money for charity will have an easier time of it now, thanks to a new platform...
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B2B PaymentsNYSE Submits IPO-Alternative Proposal, Nasdaq To Follow
Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the two major stock exchanges in the U.S., are proposing an alternative for corporates...
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FacebookInstagram To Enable In-App Nonprofit Donations
Facebook is adding three new features throughout its platforms to help with fundraising efforts, the most visible of which is a donate...
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InvestmentsSecond Home Looks For Funding To Offset Co-Working Location Costs
Second Home, a co-working startup that rivals WeWork, is looking for funding to continue expanding and to cover the unexpected costs of...
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InvestmentsHow Crowdfunding Is Becoming Regular Investing
A decade ago, an entrepreneur wanting to raise cash pretty much had to have rich relatives or pals, or gain entry into...
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South East AsiaGrab Considered Buying Payments Provider 2C2P
In a sign of Grab’s ambitions in the financial services space, the Singapore ride-hailing firm reportedly had discussions to acquire payments provider 2C2P...
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Fintech InvestmentsRobinhood Nearing A Valuation Of At Least $7 Billion
Robinhood Markets, the operator of a free mobile trading app, is close to garnering a valuation of $7 billion or more. CNBC,...
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RetailWall 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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InvestmentsChowNow 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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NewsAmazon’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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InvestmentsP2P 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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Digital 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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InvestmentsGrab 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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InvestmentsTeacher-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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InvestmentsTandem 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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Fintech 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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StartupsHealthJoy 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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InvestmentsGrab 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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Security & 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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Fintech 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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HealthcareStartup 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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Spend 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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Platform 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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Platform 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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StartupsBird, 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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RetailInstacart 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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InvestmentsPeopleFund 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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InvestmentsUber’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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InvestmentsDoor 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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StartupsSEBA 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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InvestmentsStripe 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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BlockchainChina 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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InvestmentsTesla, 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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InvestmentsAxoni 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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InvestmentsEven 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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InvestmentsIndia’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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B2B 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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Digital 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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RetailHow 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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InvestmentsPaidy 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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Platform 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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InvestmentsJD 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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Platform 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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HealthcareHealth 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 –...
