Tagged: uber

Uber Teams Up with Mastercard and Payfare to Launch Uber Pro Card in Canada

Uber (NYSE: UBER) announced a new partnership with Mastercard and Payfare to launch the Uber Pro Card, providing free instant payouts after every trip or delivery1 and enhanced loyalty features for drivers and delivery people on the Uber platform in Canada, powered by Payfare’s leading… Read More

Uber for Business Announces Integrations with Expense Management Providers Brex and Ramp

Uber for Business, Uber’s enterprise arm, announced it has integrated with leading expense management providers Brex and Ramp. The integrations will automate receipt matching “for Uber rides and meals, which rank among the most-expensed items for employees.” This will help companies “of all sizes simplify… Read More

Uber, PayPal Expand Relationship, Focused on Global Card Processing

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) and Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER), announced an extension of their multi-year relationship, furthering PayPal’s role as a key operational partner in Uber’s continued growth in both its core and new lines of business in markets all over the world…. Read More

Fintech Stripe, Uber to Enhance Payments Processing, Reduce Costs

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced an expanded global partnership with Uber Technologies, Inc. Uber will significantly “expand its use of Stripe’s payments platform, including in the US, to reduce costs and give customers more flexible ways to pay for Uber Rides and… Read More

Uber Freight Teams Up with Marqeta, Branch to Provide Quicker Payments and Support Rewards for Carriers

Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ), the modern card issuing platform, reveals that it has teamed up with Branch, a workforce payments platform, and Uber Freight in order to bring quick, reliable payments and carrier-first financial services to the logistics and transportation sectors. Uber Freight’s driver-first carrier tools… Read More

Paris based Fintech Upflow, which Addresses Late Payments, Secures $15M from 9yards Capital, Others

Paris-based Upflow, a startup that assists B2B firms with getting paid, has secured $15 million in capital via a Series A round which included contributions from 9yards Capital, eFounders, and angels N26 co-founder Maximilian Tayenthal and Uber exec Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty. Companies or businesses usually try… Read More

Fintech Unicorn Marqeta Might Conduct IPO as Early As Next Month: Report

Fintech Unicorn Marqeta is reportedly planning to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) later this year, according to a report from BI. Oakland-based payments processor Marqeta is valued at around $4.3 billion. The company provides debit cards to firms such as DoorDash and Instacart. Marqeta… Read More

PayPal Says it Won’t be Purchasing Bitcoin or Other Cryptos but Will Capitalize on the Growth Opportunity Presented by Digital Assets

PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) has reportedly stated that they won’t be purchasing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), the payments giant’s CFO John Rainey told CNBC on Thursday (February 11, 2021). Rainey clarified that PayPal would not be investing corporate cash (probably) “in sort of financial assets… Read More

Marqeta Announces Global Card-Issuing Partnership With Uber

Marqeta, a fintech unicorn that claims to be the first global modern card issuing platform, announced on Tuesday it has formed a global card issuing partnership with Uber. Marqeta reported that the partnership is considered a critical financial infrastructure for its global expansion. The company… Read More

Kabbage Launches PPP Application for Drivers & Delivery People Using Uber

  Global financial service platform Kabbage announced on Tuesday it has expanded its Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) with a customized application for drivers and delivery people who use Uber in the U.S. The Paycheck Protection Program is part of the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief,… Read More

India’s Payments Giant Paytm Partners Uber to Add Credit and Debit Card Processing to Allow Users to Easily Settle Card Transactions

India-based Paytm, an established payment gateway, has teamed up with ride-hailing app Uber in order to add credit and debit processing and will allow customers to easily perform card transactions. Uber will use the existing digital wallet integration with Paytm’s platform to offer riders a… Read More

Uber Completes Acquisition of Middle East-Based Internet Platform Careem

Uber (NYSE: UBER)  announced on Thursday it has officially completed the acquisition of Careem, an internet platform for ride-hailing that is based in the Middle East. Uber reported that it acquired Careem for $3.1 billion. Founded in 2012, Careem offers services in mass transportation, delivery… Read More

Uber Money: Uber Moves into Payments Sector of Fintech, Will Provide Credit/Debit Cards, Wallet and More

The world’s largest ride-sharing platform is going Fintech. In a corporate announcement, Uber (NYSE:UBER) said they were introducing “Uber Money” a series of services that will provide benefits to their drivers plus a relaunch of their consumer card. Uber said they have established a team… Read More

BBVA Partners With Uber to Launch Third Party Banking Product in Mexico

BBVA announced on Tuesday, in partnership with Uber, that it is launching what it claims to be the first banking product in Mexico that operates in a third-party app. BBVA reported that through the Uber application, Uber’s driver and delivery partners may quickly and easily… Read More

While the Uber IPO May have Stumbled, Early Investors Still Killed it

Early stage investing is a very risky endeavor yet this is where most of the big money is made. Today, an initial public offering (IPO) is too frequently more of an exit opportunity than a chance to generate wealth as companies wait as long as… Read More

As Good as it Gets: OurCrowd Investors Benefit from Two IPOs in Just One Week as Uber & Beyond Meat Go Public

What do Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, ‘Jay Z’, Jeff Bezos, Softbank, Tencent, Axel Springer, and OurCrowd all have in common? They all invested in Uber before it went public today (May 10, 2019). Where OurCrowd stands out from the pack is the fact that OurCrowd… Read More

Grab Acquires Uber’s Southeast Asia Operations Following Launch of Financial Services

Less than two weeks after announcing the launch of its new financial services, ride-hailing company Grab announced on Monday it has acquired Uber’s Southeast Asia operations. This deal is the largest-ever of its kind in Southeast Asia. Grab reported it will integrate Uber’s ridesharing and food delivery business in… Read More

Oh the Agony! 150 of 165 Invited Investors Did Not Respond to Uber Investment Offer in 2010

Hindsight is usually 20-20. And there are times when maybe you just want to close your eyes and go back in time. Below is an interesting tweet back that shares some interesting information from the early days of AngelList and Uber, when the ride sharing… Read More

Grab Turns to Indonesia with $700M to Invest in Mobile & Payments

Singapore-based company Grab, self-described as “Southeast Asia’s Leading Ride-Hailing Platform”, is investing $700 million in Indonesia to make the country ASEAN’s most digital economy.  Grab’s project will focus on mobile fintech features in the country, and in particular, on mobile payment. According to the company, the… Read More

Indian Demonetization & Rupee Reform: The Uber Moment Fintech Needed?

When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in November that the country would no longer use its R500 and R1000 (approximately $7.50 and $15.00) currencies — which make up 86 percent of all cash in circulation in India — observers questioned the wisdom of the… Read More