unicorns

Funds Flow in Southeast Asia, Giving Tech Unicorns Wings
Funds Flow in Southeast Asia, Giving Tech Unicorns Wings
February 06, 2019  |  Investments

In Asia, the marquee names seem to be ones that are attracting attention when it comes to investors’ appetites — and money! — and so...

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FinTechs Raised A Record $39.57B In VC Funding Last Year
FinTechs Raised A Record $39.57B In VC Funding Last Year
January 29, 2019  |  Fintech Investments

Financial technology startups were able to raise $39.57 billion in venture funding last year, marking a 120 percent increase from 2017. Reuters, citing data from...

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Payments’ Stranger Things
Payments’ Stranger Things
August 13, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

The payments world could very well be living in the Upside Down. The Upside Down is the fictional parallel universe controlled by a hive mind...

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Are ‘Unicorns’ Much Less Valuable Than We Think?
Are ‘Unicorns’ Much Less Valuable Than We Think?
October 17, 2017  |  Investments

The valuations that have come out of Silicon Valley in the last few decades have been nothing if not eye-catching: $62.5 billion for Uber, $31...

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Amazon Storms Blue Apron’s Last Holdout With Meal Kit Trademark
Amazon Storms Blue Apron’s Last Holdout With Meal Kit Trademark
July 18, 2017  |  Amazon Delivery

“We do the prep. You be the chef.” Hmm, where have we heard that idea before…? Oh, yeah. Meal kit startup Blue Apron (and pretty...

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Amid Snapchat’s IPO Debut, Some Unicorns Have Wings
Amid Snapchat’s IPO Debut, Some Unicorns Have Wings
March 02, 2017  |  Investments

The big news in tech land might have been the debut of Snapchat IPO shares, publicly traded in the U.S. And indeed those shares soared...

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Some Unicorns Expand, Some Don’t
Some Unicorns Expand, Some Don’t
February 17, 2017  |  Unicorn Tracker

Adyen said that payments volumes for the firm were up 80 percent year over year to a volume of $90 billion. The key drivers were and...

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M&A Marks Unicorn Activity
M&A Marks Unicorn Activity
January 27, 2017  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

It’s been rather quiet on the unicorn front in past weeks, but some activity of note more recently did extend across mergers, acquisitions and even...

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Some Deal-Making In Unicornland
Some Deal-Making In Unicornland
January 20, 2017  |  Investments

Amid the earnings reports that are just getting started among publicly traded companies, in privately held Unicornland, activity is stirring, too, most notably on the...

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