Growing fast can be a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it’s a sure sign a company is doing something right. On...
In the age of data breaches, there’s a lot of talk and tools emerging in the fraud prevention and risk mitigation spaces,...
Startups FitPay and NXT-ID are working to take eWallets to the next level. Existing smartphone-based eWallets may have achieved the ultimate convenience,...
Silicon Valley startups have been raising more money in recent months, and they have SoftBank of Japan largely to thank. According to...
Wearables aren’t just smartwatches anymore. They’re keychains, rings, wristbands, coins — anything that can accommodate a chip. Furthermore, it’s no longer enough...
For startups, it’s never easy explaining when they’re doing something the same yet different. The payments industry already has switches, gateways and...
The year is 2018, and social media platforms like Twitter are now influencing the way businesses handle accounts receivable. With its 280-character...
The first quarter can be even more chaotic than the holidays for some companies — or, at least, it brings its own...
This month, startup Tipalti is celebrating a PO-matching match made in heaven as it integrates with leading cloud ERP provider NetSuite. PO...
Furthering the battle for artificial intelligence (AI) between firms in China and the U.S., China’s SenseTime has raised $600 million in Series...
On the surface, investors were quite varied this week when it came to backing B2B startups. With more than $95 million in...
Goop, the lifestyle brand founded by Gwyneth Paltrow, is lapping up some serious investor love. The website has just snatched up $50...
Combined, more than $337 million in funding will fuel growth for an array of B2B startups that revealed their latest funding rounds...
Being a startup means constant chaos. Hopefully controlled chaos, but chaos nonetheless. Yet it’s an exciting time in any company’s lifecycle, and...
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...
FitPay, the startup technology platform that adds contactless payment capabilities to wearable and IoT devices, has announced a partnership with Discover. Co-founders...
Blockchain at the State Level In legislative news, a bipartisan bill is making its way through Congress that urges government agencies to...
Jewel Paymentech has forged a capital alliance with Japan’s largest payment processor, GMO Japan, which will be leading the startup’s Series A+...
B2B startups haven’t seen an investment week this busy in some time. Funders had a range of startup targets in mind, but...
About a year after U.K. FinTech Tide officially launched, its CEO and founder is stepping down. Reports in TechCrunch on Thursday (March...
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...
There comes a time in every startup’s life when momentum kicks in and everything becomes a whirlwind of activity. Or maybe that’s...
In an effort to lure more FinTechs its way, France is working on a regulatory framework that would enable startups to raise...
Travis Kalanick, the ex-Uber chief executive, has found a new job leading City Storage Systems, a startup that repurposes distressed real estates...
Visa, the payments company, announced an expansion of its Visa Everywhere Initiative for 2018, adding new participating countries, including the U.S. In...
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,...
This time last year, if a customer asked Cascade about cryptocurrency loading, the startup had to tell them, “We don’t do that.”...
Reliance on digital to boost the top line means the digital bottom line is about to get a little lighter. Reuters reported news...
Businesses that hope to make 2018 a big growth year must start by asking themselves: “Which of my business operations are non-scalable?”...
Startup Emailage stopped almost twice as much potential fraud in 2017 as it did in the previous year. Content marketing manager Chad...
Google and Apple are facing a lawsuit from France, which is seeking fines of $2.5 million for what the country says are...
Integrated receivables are a concept that many bank customers are now considering as they look to consolidate all their payment streams, whether...
Three quarters of freelancers said they would leave their current marketplace due to payment dissatisfaction. That’s according to a recent survey by...
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...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making itself right at home in the retail industry. In 2016, AI in the retail market totaled $712.6...
Spinning. Pilates. Barre. No matter how consumers decide to get their fitness fixes, boutique fitness studios that focus on a specific workout...
It’s a tale as old as time, or at least as old as the internet. Retailers, both traditional and digital-first, must increasingly...
With B2B FinTech a rising star among investors, two trends in particular are surfacing from the industry. One is the ongoing focus...
The European Commission floated the idea of issuing so-called “passports” for crowdfunding startups in an effort to drive growth in the financial...
Blockchain startup Bitt announced that it has received an additional $3 million in funding from Overstock’s venture capital subsidiary, Medici Ventures. According...
The pomp, the pageantry — and, of course, the glamour. Roughly 40 million people tuned in last night to the 90th run-through...
Enterprise cybersecurity company Bugcrowd announced a funding round late last week for its solution that crowdsources cybersecurity for corporations. The company announced...
The whole point of startups is to do things differently than mainstream players, and that is exactly what these companies are doing...
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,...
What if bitcoin were actually a coin? FitPay has made it one. Flip, a new contactless payment device that the startup just...
The irony of cryptocurrency is that, the more mainstream it gets, the less it’s able to do what it was designed to...
Payments has a balancing problem, according to Modo CPO Matthew Leavenworth. There are two forces at odds, said Leavenworth: The growth of...
Amazon and Alibaba may be the most high-profile eCommerce marketplaces, but they are far from the only ones, especially in smaller international...
Online home rental marketplace Airbnb has been trying to branch into new areas with its Experiences service, an offering that focuses on...
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that take on debt actually perform better than those that don’t, according to a new report, though...