Tagged: commercial

April 20, 2021 @ 8:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Bespoke Financial, a U.S.-based fintech that provides debt financing to cannabis companies, announced on Tuesday it raised $8 million through its Series A funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to date to over $28 million. According to Bespoke, the investment round was led… Read More

March 10, 2021 @ 2:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Corvus Insurance, a U.S.-based insurtech startup, announced on Wednesday it raised $100 million through its Series C funding round, which was led by Insight Parters with participation from previous institutional investors. Corvus reported that as part of the transaction, Insight Partners’ Managing Director Deven… Read More

February 22, 2021 @ 11:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Briza, a U.S.-based commercial insurance-as-a-service API provider, recently announced it secured $8 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by Investment Group of Santa Barbara with participation from 500 Startups. Founded in 2016, Briza claims it is enabling the commercial insurance industry’s… Read More

January 31, 2021 @ 9:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  TD Bank recently announced it has combined its previous commercial and corporate with speciality banking teams to create a new commercial bank. According to TD Bank, the commercial banking will drive growth as well as deliver a “better” client and colleague experiment and create… Read More

January 18, 2021 @ 3:41 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

    Bold Penguin, a U.S.-based commercial insurtech firm, recently announced it has been acquired by American Family Insurance Mutual Holding Company. As previously reported, Bold Penguin claims it launched a “high efficient” exchange that enhances the connection between customers, agents, and carriers while reducing… Read More

December 9, 2020 @ 10:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Plastiq, a U.S.-based intelligent payments solution for small businesses, announced on Wednesday it has teamed up with global payables automation platform Tipalti to enable commercial businesses to use their corporate credit cards to pay suppliers, even if the suppliers don’t accept credit cards. According to… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 2:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Mastercard announced on Monday that it and its partners, TSYS, a Global Payments company, and Extend, have introduced a mobile virtual card solution that enables virtual corporate cards to be easily loaded into a mobile wallet for fast and secure contactless payments. According to… Read More

October 29, 2020 @ 11:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

U.S. digital bank Radius Bank announced on Thursday it has teamed up with API banking group Treasury Prime to launch its commercial API banking platform and developer sandbox. Radius noted that with API banking it is expanding its banking-as-a-service (BaaS) digital platform by offering commercial… Read More

August 14, 2020 @ 8:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mastercard announced on Friday it has formed a global commercial partnership with merchant software platform, Pollinate. Through the collaboration, the duo will reportedly bring the latest technology and data insights to banks serving small and medium businesses around the world. In a statement, the companies… Read More

March 24, 2020 @ 8:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Coterie, a U.S.-based commercial insurtech, recently announced it secured $8.5 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by RPM Ventures with participation from Allos Ventues, Western & Southern, Intercept Ventures, Frontier Venture Capital, and Sure Ventures. The company previously raised $3.15 million…. Read More

May 24, 2019 @ 10:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

VersaPay (TSXV: VPY),  a provider of cloud-based invoice-to-cash solutions including electronic invoice presentment and payment, announced on this week it has signed another major U.S. REIT to add to its growing client list in commercial real estate. VersaPay revealed: “With properties across the US, the… Read More

April 17, 2018 @ 12:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

DiversyFund, a real estate crowdfunding marketplace, announced on Monday it has launched its Commercial and Multifamily Real Estate Growth Fund. The funding portal reported that investors in this fund will own shares of a variety of real estate investments, with 80% of the fund dedicated to… Read More

March 7, 2018 @ 12:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

RealtyShares, an online marketplace for real estate investing, announced on Wednesday the results from its Commercial Real Estate Investing Survey, which was conducted online among over 2,000 U.S. adults in December 2017 by Harris Poll on its behalf. The results revealed that many Americans believe… Read More

January 15, 2018 @ 1:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Realty Mentors, an affiliate company of CreditVest and a commercial real estate diligence and underwriting firm headquartered in Pittsburg, announced on Monday its new investment advisory business, which specifically offers advice and analysis of commercial real estate investment opportunities for individual investors. The company… Read More

January 15, 2018 @ 10:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based property crowdfunding platform Property Partner announced on Monday it is now offering direct investment in commercial property. The funding portal revealed that it will now enable non-institutional investors to buy and sell shares in a range of handpicked commercial properties. “Unlike traditional funds, which… Read More

September 29, 2017 @ 10:08 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Assetz Capital, one of the UK’s fastest growing peer-to-peer finance platforms and the largest property backed peer-to-peer lender, announced on Friday it has lowered its entry interest rate for commercial mortgages from 7.9% to 6.9% in an unprecedented move to give access to even lower rates… Read More

September 1, 2017 @ 10:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, online real estate transaction marketplace Ten-X Commercial announced it has formed a partnership with real estate crowdfunding platform Money360. The company revealed this new partnership will expand the investor pool for commercial properties listed on its platform by giving prospective buyers assurance they will… Read More

March 16, 2017 @ 1:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Commercial real estate marketplace lending platform Money360, announced on Thursday it has officially doubled its portfolio and surpassed the $200 million mark this month. The lender reported it took more than a year and a half for its platform to hit the $100 million and less… Read More

June 7, 2016 @ 3:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, new low-cost long-haul airliner, People Over Profit (POP), announced the airing of its first two TV commercials. The debut was revealed less than a week after the company launched its very own self-running crowdfunding campaign.  As previously reported, POP is not just considered the only airliner to… Read More

March 8, 2016 @ 10:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Acquire Real Estate, a real estate crowdfunding platform, announced on Tuesday its recent investment in the DoubleTree by Hilton DFW Airport is delivering on its targeted returns. The project reportedly met its projected Year 1 return rate of 17.5% for investors and is also on track… Read More