startups

Jewel Paymentech Puts Banks On Par With FinTechs

There’s one thing banks and FinTechs can agree on: Those old-fashioned merchant onboarding processes take way too long. But nimble FinTechs have...

Emailage Embarks On ‘FinTech Roadshow’

Arizona-based startup Emailage — the identity verification company delivering risk scores to financial institutions (FIs) and online merchants based on customers’ email addresses...

Easy Early Payments Drive Adoption For Tipalti

The timing of supply chain payments can be a point of contention between companies and suppliers. Tipalti CMO Rob Israch said both...

Online Mattress Company Casper Tries Out Brick And Mortar

Lie before you buy: Casper, the online bed-in-a-box startup selling mattresses by mail order, will soon allow customers to try those beds...

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B2B Payments

From AI To T&E, B2B FinTechs Rake $141 Million

Don’t let the lack of news about mega-grossing venture capital (VC) rounds fool you. This week’s B2B venture capital activity led to...

Belle Cares’ Unusual Approach To Beauty On Demand

When most people think of beauty there is an almost instant association with the young and the glamorous. Sure there is such...

Middle East Online Marketplace Slowly Taking Shape

eCommerce has become a natural part of life in many parts of the world, but that hasn’t been the case in the...

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Startup Roundup

The Start-Up Secret Sauce

For all the wonderful things to be said for entrepreneurship, there remains this fact: It is extremely hard work that carries with...

Alternative Finances

Venture Capitalists Wary Of Online Lenders

With an early string of alternative lenders having a tough go of it, startups looking to raise money are having to show...

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

The Great Online Innovation Pile On Of 2017

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. Startups are piling onto Facebook,...

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Regulation

FinTech Mergers a-Plenty, While in Trump Era, Fewer Fines for Firms

On the regulatory front, last week saw a bit of news about mergers – actually, more than a bit. Specifically, the agreement...

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PayPal Acquires Swift Financial To Expand SMB Lending Options

The Great Recession had a crippling effect on credit markets across the board. Consumers, enterprise-sized businesses and small businesses (SMBs) all found...

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Payment Methods

Software Developed Specifically For The Smallest Businesses

Entrepreneurs can be a lot of things – CPA, however, isn’t often a common denominator. That’s why, as he explained in the...

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Brandless: Procter & Gamble For A Digital Generation?

Amazon, Walmart, Uber and others have been shaking up how people get their groceries by expanding their pickup and delivery services. Meanwhile,...

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Payment Methods

NEW REPORT: Getting SMBs Off The Software Sidelines

Sometimes, even the best businesses, big and small, need a little help from software. Whether its finding and keeping loyal customers or...

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The P2P Platform Startup That Wants To Pick Up Where Venmo Leaves Off

Vouchr co-founders, Robert Balahura and Suresh Bhat, say there’s a lot of noise in the P2P payments space and a lot of...

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Direct To Consumer: Ditching The Middleman

History tends to repeat itself. In retail, we’ve seen this happen time and again. The latest aspect of retail to rear its...

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ObEN Raises $5M From Tencent To Take On AI Celebrity Scene

ObEN, which uses artificial intelligence-powered tools to create avatars that look and sound like real people, announced it has raised $5 million...

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Matchmakers

Why OnTruck Isn’t The “Uber For Trucks”

Iñigo Juantegui, co-founder of OnTruck, tends to hear the word “Uber” a lot. As the head of a platform that connects short...

Investments

Worthy Closes Seed Round Of Funding For Its Mobile App

Worthy Financial, a digital investment app, announced Monday (July 17) the successful closing of its venture capital (VC) seed financing round. In...

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Amazon Delivery

Amazon Storms Blue Apron’s Last Holdout With Meal Kit Trademark

“We do the prep. You be the chef.” Hmm, where have we heard that idea before…? Oh, yeah. Meal kit startup Blue...

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Mastercard

Bicycle, Bicycle — Why People Want To Ride Mobike’s Bicycle

Bike-sharing has become big business worldwide in a relatively short span of time. Virtually unheard of even a few years ago, these...

Banking

In Land Of Free Banking Apps, Red Ink And Investor Support Only Go So Far

Upstarts are trying to eat traditional banks’ lunch, especially in Europe. But the field is a crowded one, awash in red ink. Will...

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Sizzle/Fizzle

Amazon Sizzles, Apple Fizzles And A High Profile Merger Fizzle Before It Starts

Some partnerships seemed destined, perhaps even written in the stars — Romeo & Juliet, Tony & Maria or (of course) Kimye are all...

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Investments

Zently Raises $1.6M, Launches Expense-Sharing Feature

Zently, a tech startup with a mobile app for renters that helps them pay on time and flags issues for the landlord,...

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Europe

Samsung Announces $150M Investment Fund For European Startups

Samsung’s venture capital arm has announced it will use a $150 million global funding round to invest in Europe’s startup scene. CNBC...

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Google

Google Buys India AI Startup Halli Labs

Google confirmed Wednesday (July 12) its acquisition of Halli Labs, a startup in India that is centered on building smart technology systems...

Investments

Autotech Ventures Raises $120M For New Auto-Focused Fund

Autotech Ventures, the venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, has reportedly raised $120 million from auto companies and financial investors to launch...

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FIS Payments President On What Makes Innovation, Innovative

The basis of innovation is not the desire to create something new or even the inspiration to do so. Innovation occurs where...

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Mastercard Announces Start Path 2017 Summer Class

Class is in session! For the summer. Today, (June 26), Mastercard announced news that it admitted six new startups into the Start Path program’s class...

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Rinse CEO On How To Clean Up In The On-Demand Laundry Biz

The dry cleaning industry isn’t working. Customers feel it, vendors feel it— but both parties need it to work. Everyone needs clean...

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Payment Methods

Visa Expands Everywhere Initiative To Middle East, North Africa

Visa announced Wednesday (June 21) that its Everywhere Initiative, which is a program aimed at encouraging the development of the so-called next...

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ResTech

Nestle Leads $77 Million Funding Round For Meal Kit Startup Freshly

In funding news this week, Freshly, the meal delivery startup — co-founded by Michael Wystrach and Carter Comstock — has raised $77 million...

Data Enabler Alooma Aggregates Data So Retailers Can Actually Use It

Analyzing data is tough, but a lot of products and services have solved for that. When Alooma CEO and cofounder Yoni Broyde...

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ResTech

Momentum Machines Gets $18M In Venture Funding For San Francisco Restaurant Run By Its Burger Bot

If fast food workers win the fight for a $15 minimum wage, it’s not going to be much of a win, since...

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News

Hong Kong Securities and Future Commission and ASIC Sign Agreement To Collaborate On Fintech

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission and ASIC announced Tuesday (June 13) they signed a cooperation agreement that provides a framework...

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Fintech Investments

Hong Kong SFC, ASIC In Australia Sign Agreement To Collaborate On FinTech

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and ASIC in Australia announced Tuesday (June 13) that they signed a cooperation agreement...

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Data Enabler Zooz Leverages Data To Drive Revenue

When 90 percent of Chinese customers are abandoning online purchases at the payment phase, that should tell merchants something. But to learn...

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Real Estate

Cannabis Startups Expected To Boost Warehouse Rents In Boston, L.A.

Industrial rents in already-expensive cities like Los Angeles and Boston are expected to get a boost because of weed startups, according to Bloomberg...

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Shopify Now Lets Merchants Hire Virtual Employee ‘Kit’ For Free

Today in retail news, employee of the week award goes to Kit, Shopify’s virtual assistant for Shopify merchants, who handles digital marketing...

Data Enablers: SigOpt’s Machine Learning Tools Help Businesses Optimize Operations

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning...

News

Tech Over Taste Was No Recipe For Success At The Melt

The Melt’s business model has been a bit of a gooey mess over the past six years, its “Grilled Cheese Happiness” motto...

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International

Russian Banks Launch FinTech Lab Incubator

Mastercard announced Monday (May 29) that Russian financial firms working within the collaborative FinTech acceleration program Fintech Lab has chosen 12 FinTech startups...

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Home Security Startup Deep Sentinel Sees $7.4M Series A

Home security technology startup Deep Sentinel recently announced the close of a $7.4 million Series A venture funding round led by Shasta...

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Artificial Intelligence

Tech Giants Acquiring Startups At Rapid Pace To Boost Leads In AI

There was a total of 34 artificial intelligence startups acquired in the first quarter of this year, more than twice the amount...

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What's Hot

Sprig Couldn’t Cut It In Food Delivery Space

On-demand food-delivery service Sprig won’t be growing any bigger than its namesake. The San Francisco-based company announced Friday (May 26) that it...

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For Restaurants, Profits by the Plate (With Upserve)

It’s no secret that Americans love to eat. And entrepreneurs with an eye on gourmets and gourmands love to serve. For the...

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Today In Data

Today In Data: Investors Pony Up

The funds are flowing for companies large and small as they announce the outcome of recent investment rounds. From small startups to...

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