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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...

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Startup Check-In

Emailage Rides Out Post-Holiday Rush In Q1

The first quarter can be even more chaotic than the holidays for some companies — or, at least, it brings its own...

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Startup Check-In

Tipalti Targets Multi-Entity Orgs With NetSuite Integration

This month, startup Tipalti is celebrating a PO-matching match made in heaven as it integrates with leading cloud ERP provider NetSuite. PO...

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Investments

SenseTime Notches $600M In Funding

Furthering the battle for artificial intelligence (AI) between firms in China and the U.S., China’s SenseTime has raised $600 million in Series...

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B2B Payments

B2B Startups Integrate Artificial Intelligence To Impress Investors

On the surface, investors were quite varied this week when it came to backing B2B startups. With more than $95 million in...

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Retail

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Now Valued At $250M

Goop, the lifestyle brand founded by Gwyneth Paltrow, is lapping up some serious investor love. The website has just snatched up $50...

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B2B Payments

US B2B Startups Dominate $337 Million Worth Of Funding

Combined, more than $337 million in funding will fuel growth for an array of B2B startups that revealed their latest funding rounds...

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Startup Roundup

Startup Roundup: The Storm Before The Calm

Being a startup means constant chaos. Hopefully controlled chaos, but chaos nonetheless. Yet it’s an exciting time in any company’s lifecycle, and...

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Startup Check-In

Nanopay CEO On How To Bank Sub-Saharan Africa

A digital fiat currency and government-issued mobile money platform could transform the Sub-Saharan African economy, according to nanopay CEO Laurence Cooke, who recently...

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Startup Check-In

Discover Phase: FitPay Adds Major Payment Network To Platform

FitPay, the startup technology platform that adds contactless payment capabilities to wearable and IoT devices, has announced a partnership with Discover. Co-founders...

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Regulation

Regulatory Tracker: Blockchain At The State Level, FinTech Sandboxes Go Global — Maybe

Blockchain at the State Level In legislative news, a bipartisan bill is making its way through Congress that urges government agencies to...

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Startup Check-In

Singaporean Startup Jewel Paymentech Cracks The Japanese Market

Jewel Paymentech has forged a capital alliance with Japan’s largest payment processor, GMO Japan, which will be leading the startup’s Series A+...

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B2B Payments

Blockchain And Banking Grab $226 Million In Investments

B2B startups haven’t seen an investment week this busy in some time. Funders had a range of startup targets in mind, but...

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B2B Payments

Tide Founder Departs One Year After Launching SMB Services

About a year after U.K. FinTech Tide officially launched, its CEO and founder is stepping down. Reports in TechCrunch on Thursday (March...

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Startup Check-In

Modo Has Its Head In The Cloud

It’s the calm before the storm for Modo Payments, according to the startup’s Founder and CEO, Bruce Parker. It’s everything his startup...

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Startup Check-In

Foundation Is Laid, Momentum Kicks In For Amaryllis

There comes a time in every startup’s life when momentum kicks in and everything becomes a whirlwind of activity. Or maybe that’s...

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Cryptocurrency

France Wants To Create ICO Framework To Lure Startups Its Way

In an effort to lure more FinTechs its way, France is working on a regulatory framework that would enable startups to raise...

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Startups

Kalanick Joins City Storage Systems As CEO

Travis Kalanick, the ex-Uber chief executive, has found a new job leading City Storage Systems, a startup that repurposes distressed real estates...

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VISA

Visa Expands Visa’s Everywhere Initiative To The US

Visa, the payments company, announced an expansion of its Visa Everywhere Initiative for 2018, adding new participating countries, including the U.S. In...

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Today In Data

Travel, Capital And Revenue — Today In PYMNTS Data

Innovations are popping up everywhere. They’re helping on-the-go domestic travelers get the food they crave, city dwellers more efficiently park their cars,...

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Startup Check-In

Cascade To Power Crypto Card Loading

This time last year, if a customer asked Cascade about cryptocurrency loading, the startup had to tell them, “We don’t do that.”...

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News

EU Mulls Turnover Tax On Tech Juggernauts

Reliance on digital to boost the top line means the digital bottom line is about to get a little lighter. Reuters reported news...

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Startup Check-In

Chargeback Automation Is An Opportunity For Scale

Businesses that hope to make 2018 a big growth year must start by asking themselves: “Which of my business operations are non-scalable?”...

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Startup Check-In

Fraud Is Everywhere, So Emailage Must Be, Too

Startup Emailage stopped almost twice as much potential fraud in 2017 as it did in the previous year. Content marketing manager Chad...

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Legal

France Is Suing Google, Apple Over Their Dealings With Startups, Developers

Google and Apple are facing a lawsuit from France, which is seeking fines of $2.5 million for what the country says are...

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Startup Check-In

DadeSystems Serves Banks By Serving Their Corporate Customers

Integrated receivables are a concept that many bank customers are now considering as they look to consolidate all their payment streams, whether...

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Startup Check-In

Freelancer Payment Satisfaction Drives Loyalty

Three quarters of freelancers said they would leave their current marketplace due to payment dissatisfaction. That’s according to a recent survey by...

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Investments

BioCatch Announces $30M Financing Round

U.S./Israeli startup BioCatch announced it has closed a $30 million funding round led by Maverick Ventures. Founded in 2011, BioCatch uses behavioral biometrics...

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Artificial Intelligence

The Place For AI In Retail’s Future

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making itself right at home in the retail industry. In 2016, AI in the retail market totaled $712.6...

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Retail

Smart Fitness Tech Brings The Boutique In-Studio Class Experience Home

Spinning. Pilates. Barre. No matter how consumers decide to get their fitness fixes, boutique fitness studios that focus on a specific workout...

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

Nordstrom, Walmart And The Startup Snap-Up Strategy

It’s a tale as old as time, or at least as old as the internet. Retailers, both traditional and digital-first, must increasingly...

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B2B Payments

Bank-FinTech Collaboration Wins Over Investors

With B2B FinTech a rising star among investors, two trends in particular are surfacing from the industry. One is the ongoing focus...

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International

EU To Give Crowdfunding Startups A Passport

The European Commission floated the idea of issuing so-called “passports” for crowdfunding startups in an effort to drive growth in the financial...

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Investments

Blockchain Startup Bitt Gets $3M Investment From Medici

Blockchain startup Bitt announced that it has received an additional $3 million in funding from Overstock’s venture capital subsidiary, Medici Ventures. According...

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Data Dive

Data Dive: And The Winner Is Edition — SMBs Worldwide, DoorDash And Gun Regulation

The pomp, the pageantry — and, of course, the glamour. Roughly 40 million people tuned in last night to the 90th run-through...

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B2B Payments

Bugcrowd Lands $26 Million To Crowdsource Corporate Cybersecurity

Enterprise cybersecurity company Bugcrowd announced a funding round late last week for its solution that crowdsources cybersecurity for corporations. The company announced...

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Startup Roundup

Startup Roundup: A Is For Automation

The whole point of startups is to do things differently than mainstream players, and that is exactly what these companies are doing...

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

Circle Buys Crypto Exchange

Circle, the payments firm that operates an app-based peer-to-peer payments network based on blockchain and which has financial backing from Goldman Sachs,...