Much focus has been spent (and column space been given) to the ever-expanding valuations handed off to maturing — or nearly mature —startups as part of their supercharged late funding rounds. Given the sheer scale of all that funding, that makes sense. As of the...
While investing in startup firms has been somewhat restricted to institutional investors and the extremely affluent, 2015 has seen the marketplace open up some for involvement for middle-class investors looking to get in on the storied “ground floor.” The first big step in that transition...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When long-time homeless advocate and serial entrepreneur Liz Powers first told people about her plan to combine her two passions and build the first online art marketplace for homeless, disabled and otherwise disadvantaged people, people continually congratulated her on founding such a noble charity. And...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A few years ago tech writers nationwide more or less ran their thesauruses dry trying to find adjectives worthy enough to describe the wonders of a cloud-enabled future. These days the ecstatic prose has died down some — or moved on to the innovations that...
In a world where buying online is as simple as clicking a buy button, Moven just closed a $12M round to help shoppers stop before they drop (too much money). Meanwhile, on the VC spending front, our Investment Tracker shows that the top five players...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Giving money away is very easy, almost anyone can do it. However, unless one has a neverending supply of funds, giving money away is not something any human or company can afford to do for very long. And while this seems...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Financial inclusion – and finding a way into the financial system for the 2 billion or so people worldwide who live largely outside of it (or on its margins) – is a widely touted goal. The UN, The World Bank,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither are payments businesses. That’s something that AvidXchange CEO Michael Praeger knows all too well. It’s been a 15-year journey from an idea to reinvent how middle market companies pay their suppliers to its latest (and pretty massive)...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Big data is the wave of the future – and is big business. International Data Corporation projects that the market for advanced and predictive analytics (APA) software will grow from $2.2B in 2013 to over $3.4B in 2018 – a compound annual...
