Travel search site Skyscanner has raised $192 million in its latest round of funding, joining a clique of British unicorns. The Edinburgh-based company, which was founded in 2003, plans to use its fresh funding to expand globally and make new acquisitions, the company said. The company’s...
When it comes to investments and the payments and commerce tech startups that need them, 2016 so far is shaping up to be a rather tense time. The World Bank thinks global markets are heading for a “perfect storm” of instability and the first two...
2015, with respect to FinTech investments, came in like a lion with big funding rounds and unicorn designations flying around at warp speed. It may be going out on a somewhat less ebullient note. The summer brought uncertainty in international markets, which was followed this...
When Foursquare launched out of the South by Southwest conference in 2010, it was briefly something of an overnight sensation. Consumers just couldn’t get enough checking-in. Six-and-a-half years down the line, things have not quite proceeded so smoothly. Last spring, Foursquare made a big and...
There are any number of players striving to be the prime mover behind Southeast Asian eCommerce — many of them very large and rather established. And in that crowded field is iPrice, a small firm with a big plan for itself: to be the gateway...
Insurance is, by its very nature, not an easy product to sell because it requires customers to give up current cash flow to hedge against a bad future situation of some kind. Consumers don’t like giving up their current cash flow, nor do they like thinking...
Despite fewer business days last week, investment continued apace going into the holiday season, with even activity between commercial and B2B investment split almost evenly. That was good news for Bee, the online banking startup that grabbed $4.3M to seed its expansion outside New York.
The weather has been warm all around the U.S. — much to the irritation and chagrin of the nation’s retailers. But the investment marketplace has had just the opposite “weather pattern;” in fact, it’s been a decidedly chilly place for the last several weeks. The weather...
Alternative student and personal loan outfit Earnest just garnered $275 million in financing — a nod to the continued attractiveness of lenders outside of big banking. And investment activity picked up sharply from early November's slump.
