Tagged: bolt

June 1, 2024 @ 10:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

bolt, the insurtech with the country’s largest technology-enabled insurance exchange, today announced the appointment of Jeff Staley as Head of Sales. Staley will be responsible for leading bolt’s sales efforts “across its core business segments and meeting the company’s growth targets.” Staley brings more than… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 7:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

bolt, the insurtech with the country’s largest technology-enabled insurance exchange, announced the appointment of Matt More as CFO for North America. More joins from ThoughtSpot, a leader in enterprise business intelligence SaaS, “where he was VP of Finance and Strategy.” In this role, he built… Read More

March 19, 2024 @ 6:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bolt, a checkout technology company, and Checkout.com, a global payment solutions provider, have announced a partnership to advance e-commerce. Through this collaboration, Bolt will become Checkout.com‘s exclusive one-click checkout provider and Checkout.com will “become Bolt’s preferred payment partner.” Checkout.com is focused on boosting “its merchant’s… Read More

October 17, 2023 @ 5:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bolt, a checkout technology company, announced that it has launched with Saks OFF 5TH, Shinola, Filson, Lafayette 148, and Toys”R”Us to automatically recognize more shoppers, increase conversion, boost store account registrations—and most critically—”drive repeat purchases and build meaningful, lifetime relationships with their customers.” With the… Read More

January 5, 2023 @ 5:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Add another casualty to the crypto contagion pile. Crypto firm Wyre is said to be shutting down, according to multiple reports. Earlier this week, Axios reported that the collapse of the deal by Bolt to acquire Wyre was the final nail in the coffin. Industry… Read More

July 20, 2022 @ 12:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Pay, a contactless, borderless, and secure user-to-user cryptocurrency payment feature by Binance, announced its partnership with Bolt Global, a technology company that builds platforms and services “for the next generation of the internet.” The partnership will “allow Binance users from over 150 countries to… Read More

May 26, 2022 @ 7:10 am By JD Alois  |  

  In a dear team email, Maju Kuruvilla, CEO of Bolt, announced the company would be reducing the size of its workforce. Kuruvilla has only been CEO of Bolt for a few short months having taken over company leadership in February 2022. Prior to that,… Read More

May 2, 2022 @ 1:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bolt Labs, which claims to be a “mission-driven” security and privacy startup, has announced a $9 million strategic partnership “with blockchain gaming company, Forte, a …provider of blockchain solutions for game publishers, to support its adoption of cryptographic technologies, including multi-party computation (MPC) and zero-knowledge… Read More

October 13, 2021 @ 2:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An entire generation of shoppers has started to expect the ease and convenience of Amazon’s one-click checkout—it’s “seamless and hassle-free,” the Bolt team writes in a blog post. They pointed out that Shopify has also been fairly successful with Shop Pay, which enables users to… Read More

November 18, 2020 @ 8:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

bolt, a U.S.-based insurtech exchange, recently announced it has reached an all-time high of more than $4 billion in active insurance premiums on its platform. The company noted that the premiums get by more than a third since May 2020. Founded in 2000, bolt enables… Read More

January 8, 2018 @ 6:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs, a UK based crowdfunding platform, has published full year results for 2017.  According to the company, during the year £125 million was invested in 168 different deals – the biggest year since platform launch. Investors came from 58 different countries making more than 46,700… Read More

April 14, 2015 @ 8:53 am By Erin Hobey  |  

As mentioned in a recent interview with  FluxMob’s Co-Founder Alan Tran, he and his childhood friend Co-founder Justin Zito who swiftly raised $90,253 in initial funds for their tech gadget company FluxMob and its first product, BOLT, through Kickstarter, overfunding with the help of 1,790 backers. The duo has returned to Kickstarter with… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 9:29 am By Erin Hobey  |  

With an increasing number of start-ups launching with crowdfunding platforms, eBay has turned into a logical “step two” for entrepreneurs like FluxMob’s cofounders who are looking to expand their product’s reach.  Alan Tran and his childhood friend Justin Zito swiftly raised $90,253 in initial funds for their tech… Read More