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...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]It’s hard to imagine what exactly it was about tulips that drove the sort of mania where a single prime bulb was worth 10 times the annual salary of a skilled craftsmen. It’s equally hard to get into the mindset of...
After a tough start to the week, the second day story on the U.S. stock market initially seemed to be one about improvement. While the Chinese market remains something closely resembling turmoil, the U.S. market at one point in the day jumped about 400 points...
Though this week was a quiet one in FinTech investments, with only few $100M+ deals – VCs seem to have found a new favorite place to invest - bringing the supply chain into the digital age.
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] It has been a good year to be a cybersecurity entrepreneur — and business is booming since cybercriminals have had a busy and productive year and a half. But if there can be an upside to criminal activity, it has...
