startups

Why Banks Withhold Cards From Startups — Even With VC Funding

The world’s startups are having a good year. In the first quarter of this year, KPMG said in a recent report that there...

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B2B Payments

Cybersecurity Squashes B2B Startup Funding Competition

Alternative finance apparently won’t stop catching the attention of investors — at least, not any time soon, if this week’s B2B venture...

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Startups

Brex Raises VC Funding As It Launches Card For Startups

Brex, the FinTech startup, announced Tuesday (June 19) that it closed a Series B round of financing, bringing the company’s total funding...

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Startup Check-In

DadeSystems: Mobile Deposits Must Serve The Middleman Too

Tom Berdan, chief marketing officer at startup DadeSystems, is working from his home office in Orlando, where the air conditioner is broken. He’s...

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Artificial Intelligence

Samsung NEXT Launches Fund For AI Startups

Samsung NEXT has announced the launch of Samsung NEXT Q Fund to fund startups involved in artificial intelligence (AI). Q Fund will provide...

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Brexit

UK To Launch Program Aimed At Keeping FinTechs In The Country

Aiming to prevent startups from defecting after London leaves the European Union, the U.K. government is offering startups a bunch of perks...

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Startup Check-In

Chargehound: Getting Merchants Up To Speed With Chargeback Data

When a merchant receives a chargeback, chances are that the transaction in question took place weeks or even months ago, meaning the...

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Retail

Startups Compete With Facebook For Home Services

Consumers who want to hire a home services professional to, say, fix a broken air conditioner, are sometimes faced with a dilemma:...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: Blockchain Hits 25M Wallet Milestone, Crypto Startup Paxos Notches $65M In Funding

Crypto startup Paxos has notched $65 million in funding to expand its operations, Reuters reported. Investors included Liberty City Ventures and RRE...

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Startup Roundup

Startup Roundup: Letting The Machines Do Their Thing

Robots aren’t going to take over every human job, but they are certainly changing what types of jobs humans need to do,...

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Google

Google Partners With Orange For EMEA Investments

Google has invested in startups around the world through entities such as CapitalG and GV (formerly Google Ventures) – and its parent,...

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Startup Check-In

FitPay: Borrowing Security Across The IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly – too rapidly, some would say. The proliferation of connected devices on the market...

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Startup Check-In

Nanopay: Growth Means Building Beyond The Niche

There are three things on the mind of nanopay‘s CEO Laurence Cooke: Emerging markets, cross-border business-to-business (B2B) transactions, and capital markets and treasury....

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Investments

Daimler Takes Stake In Ride-Hailing Startup Taxify

Daimler, the German carmaker that owns Mercedes-Benz, has acquired a stake in Taxify, the ride-booking startup, in a round of fundraising that gives...

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Investments

Rocket Internet Eyes AI, FinTech Investments

Rocket Internet, the Germany eCommerce company, is aiming to invest in financial technology and artificial intelligence startups with the $3 billion in cash...

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Sizzle/Fizzle

The Gig Economy Sizzles, Autonomous Cars Fizzle And Victoria’s Secret Needs To Bring Sexy Back

Fizzle of the Week: Victoria’s Secret The results are in for Victoria Secret’s Q1 performance, and they’re nothing to swoon over. Following...

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Startup Check-In

Modo: Interoperability Powers The Three Cs In Payouts

As noted in last week’s PYMNTS Gig Economy Index, 35 percent of today’s workforce participates in the gig economy, and that number...

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Startup Check-In

Emailage: Partnerships Are Key To FinServ Growth

A few years back, when Emailage was one of the first companies to talk about the importance of the email layer in risk...

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B2B Payments

Africa FinTech Leads This Week’s B2B Investments, Breaks Record

After a few quiet weeks, U.S. B2B startups in the small business banking, expense management and analytics sectors led this week’s investment...

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Startup Check-In

DadeSystems: Time To Replace Outdated RDC

Legacy systems can be a problem across the board in the payments industry, and corporate deposits are no different. Many of the...

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Startup Check-In

AvidXchange: Automating HOA Payables Is Harder Than It Sounds

In the homeowners’ association (HOA) vertical, more than 70 percent of property vendor payments are still made via paper check. Granted, it’s...

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Startup Check-In

How Automation Can Help With FATCA Compliance

Validating tax information to comply with the IRS: sounds like a no-brainer, something every business and finance organization would simply take for...

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Fintech Investments

Morgan Stanley Goes After Brazilian FinTech Market

Taking a page from Goldman Sachs’ book, Morgan Stanley is beginning to lend to FinTech startups in Brazil as it seeks more of...

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Startups

Cisco’s Former CEO Says Government Is Hurting Startups

According to John Chambers, former chief executive of networking giant Cisco Systems, if the U.S. wants to continue to be a technological innovation...

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Startup Check-In

The Dollars And Sense Of Automation

Many organizations have recognized the value of automation for delivering cost savings, but not all of them have realized that it also...

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SMBs

Why SwipeSum Says It’s The ‘Kayak For Processing’ For SMBs

Single people have Tinder, Match and Coffee Meets Bagel. Now, small businesses (SMBs) have a matchmaker, too: SwipeSum, a marketplace whose goal...

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B2B Payments

Former NSA Chief Lands Top B2B VC Funds For Cybersecurity Startup

This week’s B2B venture capital roundup includes a strong showing from one uncommon market: Brazil. The nation secured significant funding for startups...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: Blockchain Startup Hires PayPal Co-Founder, Ripple Adds Oman Bank To Blockchain Network

Origin Protocol, a blockchain-based sharing economy startup, has brought a PayPal co-founder on board as a research and development engineer, CoinDesk reported....

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Startup Roundup

Startup Roundup: New Innovations In Bloom

Sometimes, being a startup is about fixing the problem no one else will fix. Other times, it’s about improving on existing solutions...

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Startup Check-In

How India Will Leapfrog Plastic Payments

Three decades ago, there were 25 million credit cards in use across the Indian subcontinent, despite it being one of the world’s...

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Startup Check-In

Amaryllis Makes TRANSACT 18 Impact

Startup Amaryllis made an appearance at TRANSACT 18 in Las Vegas April 16 through 19 – the company’s first 10-by-10 booth at...

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Payments Innovation

Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

Benjamin Franklin is best remembered as a signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and a prolific inventor who created the...

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Investments

China’s ‘Little Red Book’ Seeks $200M Investment

As it seeks to speed up its eCommerce expansion, China’s Xiaohongshu or “Little Red Book” is seeking new funding. According to people...

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Startup Check-In

What It Takes To Scale A Lifestyle Banking Bot

Lifestyle banking, including conversational banking components across web, mobile, messaging and voice channels, could be the wave of the future when it...

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Startup Check-In

Automating The Counterfeit Crackdown

A growing online marketplace introduces a growing set of challenges for those who manage it. As the number of SKUs available on...

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Merchant Innovation

How Knotel Is Building The Airbnb Of Commercial Real Estate

Knotel co-founder and CEO Amol Sarva has had a full life in tech. Apart from his current venture, Sarva is also the co-founder of...

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Startup Check-In

Chief Growth Officer To Serve As Ringmaster For AvidXchange

Growing fast can be a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it’s a sure sign a company is doing something right. On...

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Startup Check-In

What To Do When The Fraud Call Comes From Inside The House

In the age of data breaches, there’s a lot of talk and tools emerging in the fraud prevention and risk mitigation spaces,...

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Startup Check-In

NXT-ID And FitPay Are Making eWallets A True Wallet Replacement

Startups FitPay and NXT-ID are working to take eWallets to the next level. Existing smartphone-based eWallets may have achieved the ultimate convenience,...

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Startups

SoftBank Driving Investments In Silicon Valley Startups

Silicon Valley startups have been raising more money in recent months, and they have SoftBank of Japan largely to thank. According to...

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Startup Check-In

Cascade: What’s In A Wearable?

Wearables aren’t just smartwatches anymore. They’re keychains, rings, wristbands, coins — anything that can accommodate a chip. Furthermore, it’s no longer enough...

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Startup Check-In

Switch, Gateway Or Hub? All And None Of The Above

For startups, it’s never easy explaining when they’re doing something the same yet different. The payments industry already has switches, gateways and...

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Startup Check-In

DadeSystems Is Building The Twitter Of Accounts Receivable

The year is 2018, and social media platforms like Twitter are now influencing the way businesses handle accounts receivable. With its 280-character...