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Record Exit Value for VC-Backed Startups Could Fuel Investment

More than a third of the companies that went public in the first half of this year were backed by venture capital. That, plus robust merger and acquisition activity, set a record for venture-backed exit value—$165.2 billion in money returned to investors—that’s already topped all other full-year totals, according to the latest VentureMonitor, the quarterly […]

Double-Digit Funding Rounds for Fintech Startups BlueVine, Chime, Marqeta

[Updated 6/11/18, 11:13 am. See below.] A trio of Bay Area fintech companies announced fundraising rounds in the double-digit millions over the past week to help build out their alternative services in small business lending, consumer banking, and payment cards. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Menlo Ventures led two of the funding rounds. —BlueVine, an […]

Posted in Boston blog main, Detroit blog main, Detroit top stories, National blog main, San Francisco, San Francisco blog main, San Francisco top stories | Tagged Affirm, Alipay, Apple Pay, Aspect Ventures, Betterment, Bitcoin, BitPay, blockchain, Cathay Innovation, Chime, Credit Suisse, Crosslink Capital, deals, Digital Wallets, Entrepreneurship, Eyal Lifshitz, Financial Technology, Financing, fintech, Forerunner Ventures, funding, Goldman Sachs, Google Pay, Iconiq Capital, innovation, Instacart, Internet, Investor, invoice factoring, invoice financing, IT, Kabbage, Marqeta, Menlo Ventures, Mobile, No-fee Banks, Northwestern Mutual, Omidyar Network, online lenders, SanFranciscoVC, Silicon Valley Bank, Software, Square, Startups BlueVine, SVB Capital, Tech, VC, Venture Capital, venture capital firm, Visa, Web, wireless | Comments Off

Affirm Receives $100,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=670327aa-0ec0-4bc0-a7b3-be092440cce6 Date 10/14/2016 Company Name Affirm Mailing Address 225 Bush Street San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description Affirm is the financial company for everyday people. We provide affordable ways to buy online that are more flexible and transparent than any other credit option. Website http://www.affirm.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $100,000,000 […]

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Affirm Receives $100,000,000 Series D Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a8490436-15a7-4484-ba8d-31076c0be634 Date 4/13/2016 Company Name Affirm Mailing Address 225 Bush Street San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description Affirm is the financial company for everyday people. We provide affordable ways to buy online that are more flexible and transparent than any other credit option. Website http://www.affirm.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount […]

Posted in San Francisco, San Francisco VentureDeal VC | Tagged Affirm, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Jefferies, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SanFranciscoVC, spark capital | Comments Off

Misfit Vets Out to Debug Science Experiments With Elemental Machines

You’ve heard of the smart home. You probably haven’t heard of the smart lab. Until now, that is. The idea is analogous to a connected home: you hook up a science lab with sensors and software to track things like temperature, humidity, and which piece of equipment was used when. Why? If you’ve ever spent […]

Posted in Boston, Boston blog main, Boston top stories, National blog main, National top stories, San Francisco blog main | Tagged 2M Companies, Affirm, AgaMatrix, Analytics, Angel Capital, Biotech, deals, Drug Development, drug discovery, Elemental Machines, Elicia Wong, Experiments, FF Angel, Founders Fund, Gary Tsai, Health IT, IT, LabCentral, Max Levchin, Misfit Wearables, PayPal, Project 11 Ventures, R&D, research, Rock Health, science, Sensors, Software, Sonny Vu, Sridhar Iyengar, startups, VC, Venture Capital | Comments Off

Skills Fund Aims to Be Accreditor, and Creditor for Coding Schools

The creation of Skills Fund, the Austin, TX-based startup that makes loans to people enrolling in coding and Web development bootcamps, started with two ideas. The first is that students should have access to loans that are easy to understand and that state the terms of the loan—such as knowing exactly what interest rate they will […]

Posted in Boulder/Denver blog main, Boulder/Denver top stories, National blog main, National top stories, San Diego blog main, San Diego top stories, Seattle blog main, Texas, Texas blog main, Texas top stories | Tagged accreditor, Acton Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence, Affirm, altenative, alternative lender, amortization, austin, Austin Texas, bootcamp, borrower, Bruce Bigelow, code, CodeU, coding, coding bootcamp, coding school, Course Report, credit, credit requirement, credit standards, creditor, debt investor, Dev Bootcamp, due diligence, Earnest, Federal, Financing, fintech, five year loan, fixed income, Fullbridge Program, Fundbox, funding, Galvanize, Hackbright Academy, Hedge Fund, interest, interest rate, Iowa Student Loan, lender, lending, loan, loan investor, loan term, MBA, Metis, nonprofit, online lender, online training, Private Equity, Quality, Rick O'Donnell, Sabio, seed funding, Skills Fund, SouthEast Bank, student lending, student loan, term loan, training, underwrite, underwriter, Venture Capital, Venture Funding, Web, web developer, Web Development | Comments Off

Celery Opens Do-It-Yourself Crowdfunding Tools To All Comers

Y Combinator alum Celery made its debut in 2012 as an e-commerce site that filled a need for startups after they completed successful crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and other sites. Those campaigns not only funded the development of novel products, but also raised the interest of consumers who sent in a continuing wave of […]

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Affirm Garners $275,000,000 Series B Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a21ecd28-c6ab-46b6-89f0-2522dfe9a2b1 Date 5/6/2015 Company Name Affirm Mailing Address PO Box 2854 San Francisco, CA 94126 USA Company Description Credit cards don’t always fit the bill, so Affirm offers clear and flexible financing options. We’ve eliminated complex fees and the other frustrations of typical consumer credit. Affirm is also the safest way to […]

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Affirm Lands $45,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3ed2aa1f-a293-46e6-9d50-a50065dcd5c7 Date 6/10/2014 Company Name Affirm Mailing Address PO Box 2854 San Francisco, CA 94126 USA Company Description Credit cards don’t always fit the bill, so Affirm offers clear and flexible financing options. We’ve eliminated complex fees and the other frustrations of typical consumer credit. Affirm is also the safest way to […]

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