PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Vertical payments startup Flywire has acquired healthcare technology startup Simplee , while also closing a $120 million Series E investment round led by Goldman Sachs, the company announced on Thursday (Feb. This funding round brings the company’s total capital investment to $260 million.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

From startups to blockchain and financial institutions, there has been a myriad of investing related news announced late this week. million | Amount of funding announced by food delivery startup JoyRun. $7 7 million | Series A funding for digital currency startup Ledger. subprime lender. . $7

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Andreessen Horowitz announced that it is launching its own crypto startup school “to encourage more tech entrepreneurs to start crypto projects and help crypto-curious builders navigate the idea maze.”. Chris Dixon, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz , told The Block that the school will boast free tuition. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2017

Russia is getting more into digital currency with the central bank in the country launching tests of several digital currency schemes. “Regulators of all countries agree that it’s essential to develop a national digital currency, that it is the future,” Skorobogatova said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. But Software-as-a-Service emerged as a hot spot, too, with the largest investment round of the week going to a B2B eCommerce SaaS provider.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

Rocket Internet , the Germany eCommerce company, is aiming to invest in financial technology and artificial intelligence startups with the $3 billion in cash it has, reports Reuters. Sales were up 18 percent after excluding the impact of currency changes. RICP, having reached the hard cap of 1 billion [U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

London-based global payment provider Checkout.com has purchased Pin Payments, an Australian startup, the companies announced Tuesday (May 26). The acquisition of Pin Payments represents our investment to serve Australian entrepreneurs with world-class technology and a truly global acquiring network,” Pousaz said in a statement. “In

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

The fund intends to invest in roughly 45 startups during the three years to come, and it will be geared toward seed investing. It made early wagers on firms such as digital lending company Blend, digital currency exchange Coinbase and grocery delivery firm Instacart, among others. million in a Series A round.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

Surprise, surprise: a cybersecurity startup saw the largest funding round of the week by far. WannaCry’s explosive impact on the industry has enterprise security on everyone’s mind, and this startup is now a unicorn because of that attention, closing $100 million in Series D financing. Supply Chain Management. Based in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The whole point of startups is to do things differently than mainstream players, and that is exactly what these companies are doing with automation, interoperability and digital currency initiatives. Why are one startup’s customers calm in the face of Visa’s upcoming new chargeback rules? Chargehound. Jewel Paymentech.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

A new firm is opening a marketplace for accredited investors to trade equity stakes into blockchain startups. According to a Bloomberg news report, BnkToTheFuture plans to open a market in the second quarter, using a blockchain ledger to keep a record of investments for clients.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2018

Being a startup means constant chaos. All my startup friends have been telling me to expect this,” said Bruce Parker, founder and CEO of ModoPayments. ModoPayments isn’t the only startup riding that storm before the calm. Here’s what’s been going on in the world of startups in the month of March. ModoPayments.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

B2B startups in the small business banking, expense management and analytics sectors led this week’s investment roundup, securing more than half of the $108 million raised. But it’s a startup in Africa that not only secured the largest investment round of the week, but set a new record in the process, raising $47.5

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2019

African FinTech payment startup Chipper Cash has attracted some high-profile investors and raised $2.4 The company went live in October of 2018, and it’s a no-fee, P2P cross-border startup. 500 Startups’ investment was led by Sheel Mohnot, who compared the company to PayPal in its early stages.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

San Mateo accounts payable automation startup Tipalti won $76 million in a funding round led by Zeev Ventures. Tipalti also services other big-name tech startups, including Uber, Roku, GoDaddy and Foursquare. The startup targets mid-market firms. full-time accounts payable employees. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

In addition, the firm contended the second sale was not a securities offering as the company didn’t provide investors with contractual obligations or pledge returns on investment. In other news, Tim Draper is eyeing the early digital currency space in India, Cointelegraph reported. I hope to be able to fund a number of them.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, is investing in CoinList, a company that helps startups raise capital through cryptocurrency sales. This is the first time Dorsey has invested in CoinList. The funding round was led by Polychain Capital. Square recently said that it was going to introduce a new service called Square Crypto.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Earlier this week, blockchain arrived on Capitol Hill by way of the formation of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus focused on examining and educating lawmakers on the payments technology and issues associated with the digital currency. Blockchain database startup BigchainDB just landed a sweet $3.37 Jared Polis (D-CO) and Rep.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2018

PayPal is partnering with Alpha JWC , the Indonesian venture capital firm, to invest in FinTech companies operating out of Southeast Asia. After the two companies’ senior executives both in Singapore and San Jose choose the startups, they will receive coaching and mentoring from PayPal executives, noted Bloomberg while citing Tso.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company, Reuters reported, to help it debut on the stock market. Noto is an ex- Goldman Sachs investment banker. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for its application for a national bank charter.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, is investing in CoinList, a company that helps startups raise capital through cryptocurrency sales. This is the first time Dorsey has invested in CoinList. The funding round was led by Polychain Capital. Square recently said that it was going to introduce a new service called Square Crypto.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 11, 2024

JPMorgan Chase takes the top honor as Global Finance ’s World’s Best Bank for 2024, as well as the World’s Best Investment Bank and World’s Best Private Bank. trillion in extended credit and new capital for its consumer and institutional clients while moving $10 trillion in over 120 currencies daily.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

However, this summer, a different kind of B2B startup has captured investors’ attention. This week, the largest investment round went to one industry player in China. Enterprise blockchain startup Axoni secured $32 million in Series B funding this week, the company announced in a press release. Based in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Crypto research site Diar claims that startups in the digital currency and blockchain space have notched roughly $3.9 billion in funding via venture capital (VC) investments, CoinDesk reported. The figure, which represents investments over the first, second and third quarters, marks a 280 percent jump from all of last year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

But it was a Banking-as-a-Service company that led the roundup this time, with one startup looking to expand into Credit Cards-as-a-Service with its latest investment. Entrée Capital and SBI Investment also participated, alongside other FinTech founders and angel investors. million in new funding for U.K.-based and Hong Kong.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

Coinbase, the digital currency exchange, will offer bitcoin-backed cash loans to select customers as early as next month, the San Francisco-based company announced on its blog this week. Customers in 17 states have been invited to join the waitlist to borrow up to 30 percent of their bitcoin holdings.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2016

Russia’s love-hate relationship with digital currency continues. Now, Russia has overcome its fears and has opened the first digital currency exchange. The new exchange will provide 24/7 currency exchange services and, according to News BTC , the Russian exchange is an actual office. Try Synthetic Currency.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

Here’s how these startups are hastening the robots’ day. Recent research by the startup and Gatepoint Research showed that nearly half of organizations still validate tax forms manually, while 30 percent aren’t validating them at all. That’s what he said the startup aimed to create in its mobile tool for corporate deposits.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Coverage includes Binance ’s investment in Australian startup TravelbyBit to bring crypto payments to airports. million investment to bring digital currency payments to major airports around the world, the company said in an announcement. Binance is backing Australia-based TravelbyBit with a more than $2.5

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2017

But off the trading floors, the news cycle carried its own pace as Walmart made cash cheaper to send, bitcoin and the blockchain got a series of thumbs down from bankers around the world and startups started feeling the burn. prohibits banks it transacts with from dealing with virtual-currency exchanges, for example. Investment in U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

It’s been several months, if not years, since blockchain was the darling of tech startup investors, but this week proved the technology still has a lot to offer venture capitalists. blockchain startup Envoy will be used to bolster its supply chain and trade finance platform, the company told PYMNTS in an emailed announcement.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

After presenting the Budget, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman interacted with a group of media persons where she highlighted the government’s resolve to generate more jobs by giving thrust to startups, MSMEs, manufacturing firms and defence equipment producers. Every individual cannot be mining currency. Is it not illicit?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

The government] is considering both shutting down all local virtual currency exchanges or just the ones who have been violating the law,” a representative noted. Separately, Bank of Korea Governor Lee Ju-yeol told a news conference that “cryptocurrency is not a legal currency and is not being used as such as of now.”.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This acceleration-and-investment program is part of the bank’s early-stage venture capital (VC) strategy. In 2023, the lab honed its focus to concentrate on startups between seed and Series A funding stages. Founded in 2016, Turkey’s Akbank LAB wants to be the technology partner of choice for innovative tech startups worldwide.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

Here’s how these startups are hastening the robots’ day. Recent research by the startup and Gatepoint Research showed that nearly half of orgs still validate tax forms manually, while 30 percent aren’t validating them at all. That’s what he said the startup aimed to create in its mobile tool for corporate deposits. Chargehound.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

As a general rule, most startups aren’t too happy when the regulator comes around, and it is rarely indicative of good news. And while that is bad news for a startup like Uber, as it turns out, instinctive fear of the regulator is not an endemic condition among startups.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The Australian Services and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned John Louis Anthony Bigatton, who was the Australian national representative for crypto platform BitConnect, from engaging in financial services for the next seven years after he was found to be engaging in deceptive practices, a report from Financial Standard finds.

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