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1.2KInvestmentsAkeneo Lands $46M To Enhance Product Info For Retailers
Akeneo announced Thursday (Sept. 12) it has raised $46 million in funding led by Summit Partners. Existing investors Alven, Partech and Salesforce...
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2.3KInvestmentsCiti Ventures Co-Leads Even Financial’s $25M Round
B2B2C FinTech company Even Financial announced that it has raised a $25 million strategic round of investment led by Citi Ventures. The...
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1.5KEarningsCoupa Software Beats Estimates For Q2 Revenue
Payment management software firm Coupa Software beat Wall Street estimates for second-quarter revenue, sending shares up 10.3 percent on Tuesday (Sept. 3)....
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1.8KB2B PaymentsSage Stocks Tested In Cloud Migration Efforts
As U.K. accounting company Sage continues to bolster its cloud-based offerings, the company is looking to offload its offline products to remain...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsZuora Faces Revenue Woes Due To Slow Integration, Poor Sales Execution
As Zuora’s stock has fallen over the past year, one analyst is giving the company a neutral rating. Zuora provides companies with...
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2.4KSecurity & FraudPing Identity Plans To Raise $100M With Public Listing
The Colorado-based online ID management company Ping Identity is going public and is trying to raise up to $100 million in an...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsHow Tech Takes The P-Card Into The Digital Age
The corporate purchasing card (p-card) has been a tool in-use for years, allowing employees to make purchases on behalf of businesses without...
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3.9KEcosystemsCan ISVs And ISOs Thrive Amid Payments Megadeals?
So far, 2019 has been a year of mergers, refashioning the roster of big (and getting bigger) payments solution providers, bringing myriad...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsAfter B2B Payments Embrace The Cloud: What’s Next?
When consumers use mobile apps like Uber or iTunes, the expectation that payments occur in a seamless, integrated way represents a broader...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsFreshBooks Adds Recurring Revenue Support
Small business (SMB) accounting company FreshBooks is introducing a new feature to support recurring revenue automation for the services industry. In a...
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6.0KPayments As A ServiceHow To Build A High-Performing Platform Payments Fraud Team
In recent years, no type of business has expanded globally at the pace and scale of digital platforms. If there is a...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsWhitepages Pro Spins Out, Becomes Ekata
Whitepages Pro is playing the long game when it comes to payments, with a series of structural changes separating consumer and B2B...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsWhitepages Pro Spins Off B2B Biz Into Ekata
Whitepages Pro has announced that it is spinning off its B2B business from the U.S.-focused direct-to-consumer operations of Whitepages.com, and is changing...
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3.0KB2B PaymentsLooking Beyond Alternative Lenders For Startup Financing
Post-financial crisis, FinTech shed light on the plight of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) seeking capital, often shunned by banks — thanks...
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3.5KInvestmentsBiz2Credit Raises $52M In Funding To Expand
Biz2Credit, the online lending platform that helps banks and other financial institutions manage small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending processes, announced Tuesday...
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3.1KB2B PaymentsCybersecurity, Recruiting Tech Lead B2B VC
U.S.-based B2B FinTechs led the way in this week’s investment roundup, with more than $212 million in new funding falling in the...
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4.5KB2B PaymentsMultibillion-Dollar B2B FinTech Firms Emerge From Investors’ Pockets
The B2B FinTech market flexed its muscles this week, with investments landing at alternative small business lending, payroll and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). However,...
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2.5KB2B PaymentsBiz2Credit White Labels SMB Lending Tech For Banks
Small business lending platform Biz2Credit is rolling out a new technology designed to help traditional financial institutions strengthen their small to medium-sized...
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2.1KIPOSaaS Security Platform Crowdstrike Files For IPO
SaaS Security platform Crowdstrike has filed to go public, aiming to raise $100 million in its initial public offering (IPO). Crowdstrike’s cloud-based...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsHow To Motivate FinServ To Take Action On Cybersecurity
To those who understand the importance of cybersecurity, and the monumental risks that growing cyberthreats impose on organizations, safeguarding systems and data...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsUS B2B FinTech Firms Lag With VC Investors
It was a slow week for B2B FinTech funding rounds, but investors nevertheless provided an impressive sum to industry startups. In total,...
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4.7KB2B PaymentsChina’s PINTEC Acquires Bank SaaS Firm InfraRisk
China-based financial services technology firm PINTEC Technology has announced its acquisition of Australia-based InfraRisk. PINTEC said in a press release on Monday (March...
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5.7KB2B PaymentsEnterprise Security Returns To Top Of B2B Investment Mountain
Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half...
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4.1KB2B PaymentsFinxact Raises $30M For Banking SaaS
Finxact announced that it has raised $30 million in equity financing, with participation from new and existing investors. New investors include the...
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4.0KB2B PaymentsMixing AWS, Azure Creates Cloud Spend Challenge For Corporates
Corporates are quickly embracing the cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), leading to fierce competition between some of the largest enterprise cloud service providers...
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3.6KB2B PaymentsOnPay Eyes Agriculture With Payroll Partnership
Small business payroll and HR solutions provider OnPay is targeting the agriculture industry with a new collaboration. The company said in a...
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4.2KInvestmentsShopKeep Closes $65M Growth Round
ShopKeep, a tablet-to-cloud and point-of-sale (POS) payment platform for retailers and restaurants, has closed a $65 million round of equity and debt...
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3.6KB2B PaymentsvCom Enhances IT Spend Management Mobile Solution
IT spend management solutions provider vCom Solutions is upgrading its mobile app for iOS and Android devices, the company said this week....
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3.1KEarningsBottomline Technologies Reports 15 Pct Subscription and Transaction Growth
Bottomline Technologies posted fiscal first quarter results that showed subscription and transaction revenue growth of double digits as management pointed to opportunities...
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4.2KRetailHow Subscription Services Are Steering Consumers Away From Owning Possessions
To help consumers save on the costs of owning possessions, companies are offering more goods and services on demand with the subscription...
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4.9KIPOThinking ‘Differently’ Than Ant, Pintec Makes Its Post-IPO Plans
Pintec Technology Holdings Limited may not be a household name in the U.S., but it ended last week with a some very...
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4.7KB2B PaymentsG2 Crowd On Avoiding The Costly Mistakes Of SaaS Procurement
Software company 1E raised eyebrows in 2016 when it released a report warning that businesses have wasted a collective $28 billion in...
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3.6KSubscriptionsAmazon Pay, Zuora Partner On Subscription Billing
Zuora announced Thursday (Oct. 11) that it has been named a Premier Partner in the Amazon Pay Global Partner Program. Founded in 2007...
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6.7KLoansAvant Brings SaaS Lending Tech To Banks
Avant is best known among its financial services peers as a FinTech firm, founded to throw automation and an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced...
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4.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsGlobal Payments Drops $415M On Food Service SaaS
Global Payments, Inc. announced it will acquire SICOM Systems from LLR Partners in a cash transaction valued at approximately $415 million. Founded...
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5.5KRegulationIdentityMind On The Need For FinTech Compliance Marketplaces
Compliance and risk? The top of any FinTech’s to-do — and to-keep-doing — list. Automating that compliance is now a “need to...
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2.9KB2B PaymentsAPAC, North America Shine Through With B2B Funding
A week of more than $200 million for B2B FinTech firms across the globe shows that venture capitalists’ support for the space...
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3.0KInvestmentsTeamleader Closes $22M In Series C
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform Teamleader has closed $22 million in Series C funding, led by Keen Venture Partners, with participation from PMV and...
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5.1KB2B PaymentsSubscription Mania Has Entrepreneurs In A Recurring Payments Whirlwind
Ever sign up for a free trial, then get burned when forgetting about the subscription by being hit with an automatic payment...
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4.5KGlobal PaymentsAccenture Unveils FinTech Lab Startups, Billon Teams Up With FIS
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Accenture’s FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific. In addition, Europe’s Billon...
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4.2KStartup Check-InDadeSystems: Integrated Receivables Can Enhance Treasury Offerings For Banks
Payments are the livelihood of any business, but the payments landscape has evolved from simpler times. Ten, even 15 years ago, businesses...
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5.2KSubscriptionsCar Subscription Market Set To Grow 71 Percent By 2022
Luxury automakers are upending their traditional business models with a new take on an old idea – a car subscription. BMW, for...
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5.4KB2B PaymentsWhy Banking The ‘Accidental Entrepreneur’ Takes Baby Steps
When you picture a small business owner, who comes to mind? The stereotype may be a young professional beaming at a storefront,...
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3.8KNewsFive At Five: Facebook Adds To Its Marketplace
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at payments and commerce news you might have missed. Today’s stories focus on Facebook’s...
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3.1KB2B PaymentsNeiman Marcus To Boost Visibility Of Inventory For Suppliers
Retailer Neiman Marcus is turning to technology to boost visibility into sales and inventory for its supplier base, the company announced this...
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7.1KInvestmentsBigCommerce Raises $64M Led By Goldman Sachs
BigCommerce, the eCommerce platform for retailing brands, announced news on Wednesday (April 25) that it has closed a $64 million round of...
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5.0KSubscription CommerceNEW STUDY: The Four Secrets To A Successful Subscription Offering
Subscriptions are seemingly available for anything, from the more established Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings like the latest iteration of Microsoft Office to video-streaming services...
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4.0KB2B PaymentsSalesforce’s $2.2 Billion Plans For France
Enterprise software conglomerate Salesforce is planning to invest more than $2.2 billion in the French market, reports in Reuters said on Tuesday...
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4.1KB2B PaymentsFor B2B SaaS Firms, Smart Data, Smarter Sales Efforts
Software-as-s-Service has its lures and challenges for providers in the B2B realm. Recurring revenue is great, of course, but the ever-present challenges...
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5.3KB2B PaymentsHP Enters Cannabis Enterprise Software Market With Flowhub
HP is reportedly stepping into the cannabis industry with a new partnership to provide businesses with financial management software, according to The Washington...
