PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2019

The investment gives Uber ATG a valuation of $7.25 The development of automated driving technology will transform transportation as we know it, making our streets safer and our cities more livable. Toyota also plans to contribute an additional $300 million over the next three years to help cover the costs of the activities.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Brazil still has room to create more unicorns,” Maciel said, adding that SoftBank sees opportunities in Brazil in the areas of health, logistics, transportation and agribusiness. Creditas had a recent valuation of $750 million and said the capital would help it to expand to other Latin American countries. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

“It’s become even more important that businesses take extra precautions to enhance the safety of their employees while commuting with corporate taxis — often seen as safer and more efficient alternatives than public transport,” the company said. In May 2019, Gett said it had raised $200 million , putting its valuation at $1.5

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VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

Ensuring Proper Inventory Valuation When inventory is not valued properly, turnover ratios return false information, affect cash, and cloud understanding of how investment in inventory is affecting the business. Conversely, overstating inventory valuation will lead an organization to think it has too much inventory on hand.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

That plan, however, seemed to take Transport Minister Javier Jimenez Espriu by surprise when he was asked about it by local media. It also seems that perhaps this solution is a bit too out of the box for the transport minister. When asked directly if this was a feasible plan, Jimenez Espriu was far from encouraging.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

The Silicon Valley transportation startup was founded in 2017 as LimeBike, rolling out with 500 bicycles in Seattle. billion valuation, making it a unicorn. More global markets planned for this month. A $335 million funding round in 2018 resulted in a $1.1 Last month Lime announced the rollout of a new subscription offering.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

billion is twice the company’s previous valuation of $1.1 “This new mode of transport is becoming a part of daily routines, and Lime is leading this space. The company also plans to focus on safety issues , and pledged to work with regulators around the world on the issue. billion, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

Gett, a ride-hailing company that works with taxis, is planning an initial public offering later this year, The Financial Times reported. The company offers transportation through established taxi systems rather than the minicab model used by Uber and Lyft, and it expects to become profitable later this year. or yellow cabs in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

The company also said it was planning on launching a similar service in other countries in Europe and in Africa. Bolt raised $175 million last year at a valuation of $1 billion. In Estonia, Bolt Food will deliver from around 80 restaurants in Tallinn, the capital of the Eastern European country.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Gett is backed by Volkswagen and has a valuation of about $1.5 The company had aspirations of going public by 2020, but those plans have potentially hit a roadblock. . Being a leader in the corporate ground transportation, profitable and global, makes our plans for IPO realistic.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Gett is backed by Volkswagen and has a valuation of about $1.5 The company had aspirations of going public by 2020, but those plans have potentially hit a roadblock. . Being a leader in the corporate ground transportation, profitable and global, makes our plans for IPO realistic.”.

Profit and Loss 40

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 29, 2023

Bloomberg ) • AI’s Winners, Losers and Wannabes : An NVIDIA Valuation, with the AI Boost! Musings on Markets ) • For Trend-Setting Family Offices—and Those Following Their Lead—Timing Is Key : Investors are sensing a regime shift in the market but capturing it will take careful planning. Slate ) • St.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Valuation after this funding round is estimated at “well over $500 million,” the source said. Earlier this week, Ola announced plans to move into London after entering different parts of the U.K. 27), citing two sources. The rental service runs more than 17,000 electric and gasoline scooters in 36 Indian cities. cents) per km and Rs 1.5

Startups 43

Startups Transportation Valuation Finance 43

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

million in Series A funding announced this week, Libra said it plans to roll out new apps and services for accounting, auditing and tax processes, according to Accounting Today. billion valuation. InstaFreight, based in Germany, announced more than $9.5 Artificial Intelligence. Artesian Solutions. Corporate Culture. Thrive Global.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Ride-hailing company Grab , which recently announced a $2 billion expansion plan in Indonesia, said it was going to invest “several hundred million dollars” in Vietnam, according to a report by Reuters. Grab is also SE Asia’s biggest startup, and it has a valuation of around $14 billion.

Transportation 43

Transportation Valuation Startups Investments 43

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

In October Lyft ran its “ Ditch Your Car ” promotion, offering passengers transportation credits if they give up their cars for 30 days. “We We are on the brink of a massive shift in personal transportation, moving away from car ownership and into transportation as a service.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

The past several weeks have seen its estimated valuation halved, its planned 2020 IPO likely shelved and its headcount in the process of being radically reduced. Thus far, the firm has yet to comment on what its IPO plans will be in COVID-19’s wake. He wrote that the firm will likely only collect roughly half of the $4.8

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Transportation Valuation Securities Startups 63

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2017

That would bring Bigbasket’s valuation to $800 million, according to news from Bloomberg — that is, if it can get through the country’s antitrust authority, the Competition Commission of India. Food cannot be safely stored and transported without warehouses and refrigerated trucks, which are in short supply.

Investments 40

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

At the current time, there are no plans to launch a scooter sharing service in the U.S. This means we’ll be able to help more people with their daily transportation problems.”. In May, it raised $175 million from Daimler, Didi Chuxing and other investors, giving it a valuation of $1 billion.

Transportation 40

Transportation Valuation Leadership Startups 40

CFO Share

JANUARY 31, 2024

You are pivoting your business plan and results are yet uncertain. Manufacturing, transportation, distribution, real estate and construction are very financially complex and require a specialty fractional CFO. These include: You are too busy to perform bookkeeping and accounting. Forecasting has become too complex or too stressful.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Raising salaries, more flexibility, and upskilling are a few of the options, and some companies are even doing biannual valuations and pay raises, something unheard of only a few years ago. 2022 is the year for CFOs to switch from survival mode to long term planning, and there is no doubt that financial automation is crucial in this process.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

As Mastercard has found in a recent study, only 25 percent of online merchants were aware of SCA requirements, and of that tally 24 percent said they have no plans to support the requirements by the deadline. Chewy valuation: Pets are big business, with a mastiff-sized initial public offering (IPO) looming.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The advantage of Lyft getting there first is that it won’t be judged based on the valuation of Uber, which is a much bigger company. Jim Williams, chief investment officer of Creative Planning, said the IPO market is focused on growth, and that investors will assess both companies based on the total number of new riders and total rides.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

One oft-noted use case was the possibility that Apple’s NFC could be used to open hotel room doors, or as a virtual transit card for easier access to transportation. That deal lowered Uber’s total valuation to around $48 billion, which is approximately 30 percent lower than the company’s earlier valuation of close to $70 billion.

Valuation 40

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon is expanding its grocery delivery services , and curbside pickup and convenience stores are being planned nationwide. According to Business Insider, Postmates was slow to raise its new round of financing, and DoorDash raised only a $600 million valuation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yandex, a Russian technology giant and car-sharing company, plans to expand its car-sharing offerings into Europe as other companies in the space retreat, according to a report by the Financial Times. Some analysts, including those at UBS, expect Yandex , which has a valuation of $600M, to double its revenues by the end of the year.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Now, we have driverless Ubers and Uber Fleet – both intended to disrupt/transform the transportation model even further. Flipkart’s reported valuation is presently around $11.5 Then, Uber Ice Cream, where SUVs loaded with coolers of creamsicles and ice cream sandwiches could be summoned to deliver a little “good humor” to the office.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 12, 2023

trillion cumulatively invested in the last decade: Source: BloombergNEF Almost half of this investment in alternative energy sources has been in renewable energy, with electrified transport and electrified heat accounting for a large portion of the remaining investments. in the 1998-2010 time period to 5.95 in the 2011-2023 time period.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We sat down with Oomf CEO Gavin Gray to take a peek behind the curtain on Oomf to learn about what it offers and its 2017 plans. As he struggled to find a non-Uber mode of transportation to get home, the idea for a shareable, accessible portable power source came to him. If no funding has been received, are there plans to seek funding?

Manufacturing 50

Manufacturing Startups Investments Transportation 50

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that. How do we move around in terms of transportation? CASE: Well, when we decided to do a road trip, we planned this for more than six months in advance. What do we eat? How do we learn?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 69

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Startups Investments Healthcare 69

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

MCCARTHY: — and more demand because tenants really need to be there, both to access their customers and to reduce the cost of transportation and labor to move goods around. MCCARTHY: That is what’s most important. RITHOLTZ: It’s the same thing, you’re just looking at it from different perspective.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 64

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 64

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Imagine setting up a platform with, you know, in 32 markets that has to buy each individual home and execute a CapEx plan on a 30, $40,000 CapEx plan on a home. And they were able to pay for the Super Bowl ad out in embedded in that $10 cost, like the transportation cost to get people to and from these homes.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Robson: We have a modest preference for Europe over the US, given where valuations are. There’s clearly a feed-through to energy prices, and it could be a headwind to some of our issuers of things like transportation that rely on energy costs. Robson: Be nimble and flexible in terms of your issuance plan.

Economics 98

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The two most likely to dissent, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, who is close to the unions, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has presidential ambitions, did Biden’s dirty work without any hesitation on Capitol Hill…. If you are planning to travel on Xmas, do consider your plans carefully. * * *. • politics today.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

WA was the career plan, always economics and finance. It was not our plan. How do you think about valuations for both equities and fixed income here in the beginning of 2025? So Sheila Cyclically adjusted so-called cape ratio at 37 is and 38 and approaching 40 is indeed a very, very elevated level of valuation.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 26, 2023

Transportation equipment, up four of the last five months, drove the increase.” Improvements were noted mostly in durable goods plants, mainly for wood products, machinery, and the manufacturing of transportation equipment.” V]ictims’ families are planning to testify in Texas this week at the arraignment. percent increase.

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