Click here to see this week’s graph Beacons are the darling of commerce, with estimates of something like 30,000 of them in stores in the U.S. alone. The Beacon ecosystem ignited last year when Apple launched iBeacon, and ever since there has been a stampede...
Click here to see this week’s investment tracker. Interview With Spreedly Tokenization is not a new idea, but since the announcement of Apple Pay and its much-praised tokenized security protocol, it is a hot idea. Lately it seems a consensus is emerging amongst payment...
$130M in financial activity. Included an array of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, almost all was driven by strategic or venture –backed investments. Deem ran with the leading investment. A round for the San Francisco based company, was $30...
PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker Here’s what happened in the first week of September: The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $638.4 Million in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, $628.4 M was...
Here’s what happened in the third week of August: The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $1.3 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, $856 M was the driven by strategic...
Here’s what happened in the first week of August: The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $1.2 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, $1,053.6 M was the driven by...
There’s lots of stuff published on who’s funding what across all technology sectors worldwide. We thought it would be useful to provide you with a weekly update on who’s investing what in the retail and commercial payments and financial services sectors. Retail was king during...
Oh where oh where have the investments in Fintech gone? Well, last week, $8.9 billion of it went to a bunch of players in payments with acquisitions in the processing and security sectors leading the way.
An acquisition and an auction drove the bulk of investment activity last week. Of the venture back moves, alternative lending and electronification of documents paved the way. The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $5.7 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding,...
