Venture Capital

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

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Data Dive, Milestone Edition: Gig Payments, Affirm And Contactless March On
Data Dive, Milestone Edition: Gig Payments, Affirm And Contactless March On
April 08, 2019  |  Data Dive

For baseball fans, April 8 is a day that lives in semi-infamy, as it is the day 45 years ago in 1974 that Hank Aaron...

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Tandem Launches Fundraising For Expansion Plans
Tandem Launches Fundraising For Expansion Plans
April 05, 2019  |  Investments

Startup bank Tandem is trying to secure a new investment to help its plans for overseas expansion. Citing sources close to the bank, Financial Times...

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PayPal’s Blockchain First; Mastercard’s B2B FinTech Unicorn
PayPal’s Blockchain First; Mastercard’s B2B FinTech Unicorn
April 05, 2019  |  B2B Payments

This week’s B2B venture capital funding rounds were particularly focused on the enterprise cybersecurity space, though B2B payments caught the attention of investors, too, with...

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Affirm Raises $300M In Series F Funding
Affirm Raises $300M In Series F Funding
April 03, 2019  |  Investments

Financial services company Affirm has raised $300 million in a Series F funding round, the company said in a press release. The funding round was...

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Mastercard Launches AP Partnership With Bill.com
Mastercard Launches AP Partnership With Bill.com
April 03, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Business payments company Bill.com has secured unicorn status and launched a partnership with Mastercard to accelerate accounts payable for joint business customers. In a press...

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1stdibs Notches $76M In Funding Round
1stdibs Notches $76M In Funding Round
April 01, 2019  |  Retail

With a Series D round under its belt, the New York-based high-end marketplace 1stdibs has notched $76 million in funding. T. Rowe Price Associates led the...

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Logistics Scores Another Unicorn For B2B Startups
Logistics Scores Another Unicorn For B2B Startups
March 29, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Equity investments reigned this week, thanks to backing for accounts payable (AP) automation firm MineralTree and treasury management company Kyriba, but it was the logistics...

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WeWork Remains Bullish Amid $1.9B In Losses
WeWork Remains Bullish Amid $1.9B In Losses
March 27, 2019  |  B2B Payments

On-demand workspace startup WeWork has secured significant funding from investors and has aggressive plans for global expansion, but the company’s losses are ballooning, according to...

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Has Alternative Lending Seen Its VC Peak?
Has Alternative Lending Seen Its VC Peak?
March 26, 2019  |  Alternative Finances

In 2015, news outlets ran articles about the “gold mine” of venture capital investments in the alternative finance sector. The industry indeed proved to be lucrative...

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