Tagged: data

October 28, 2023 @ 3:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since the end of 2022, the SaaS market has been in “a downward trend, and founders, investors, and customers alike are seeing the effects,” according to an update from Capchase. Everyone is tightening their purse strings, and many SaaS companies are “noticing that it’s become… Read More

October 28, 2023 @ 1:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Percent, the private credit platform that has created the modern credit marketplace, announced the findings of a recent study completed with Coalition Greenwich on trends and data in private credit, demonstrating a seismic shift to private credit market investments. The study, titled “Coalition Greenwich 2023… Read More

October 28, 2023 @ 9:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The New York Stock Exchange, part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure, announced NYSE LaunchPad. This program is designed to help today’s entrepreneurs “leverage enterprise technology expertise through a secure, cloud-based platform.” As part of the… Read More

October 26, 2023 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bluefin, the integrated payments firm focused on PCI-validated encryption and tokenization technologies that protect payments and sensitive data, announced a partnership with CORE, a provider of enterprise revenue and payment management solutions, to bring a new level of payment security to CORE’s customer base. Bluefin… Read More

October 25, 2023 @ 9:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Prism Data, a cash flow underwriting and data analytics platform, announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding. This investment round was reportedly “led by Obvious Ventures, with participation from Citi Impact Fund and Core Innovation Capital.” Prism’s new funding follows “a… Read More

October 24, 2023 @ 11:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

North America is the largest cryptocurrency market, according to Chainalysis. Chainalysis reveals hat the region has “an estimated $1.2 trillion in value received on-chain between July 2022 and June 2023.” That total now “represents 24.4% of global transaction activity during the time period studied.” Most… Read More

October 24, 2023 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Riskified (NYSE: RSKD), which claims to be a leader in ecommerce fraud and risk intelligence, today announced a partnership and integration with Plaid, the data network powering the digital financial ecosystem. This partnership empowers online merchants, marketplaces, and trading platforms to approve ACH (Automatic Clearing… Read More

October 23, 2023 @ 8:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Even as the initial hype around AI-specific stocks cools off, investors are still buying into the technology as a market-driver. New data from the latest Retail Investor Beat survey from trading and investment platform eToro finds “that one in four (26%) American investors consider digital… Read More

October 19, 2023 @ 4:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Justin Orgel from Marigold, a global MarTech that works with over 40,000 brands and organizations worldwide to help them identify and create strong relationships with their customers. The company offers industry-tailored MarTech and loyalty solutions that support the entire customer lifecycle… Read More

October 18, 2023 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nova Credit, the data analytics company enabling businesses to grow responsibly by harnessing alternative credit data, announced it raised $45 million in Series C funding. The capital helps Nova Credit to further broaden its product offering “beyond cross-border credit reporting and scale Cash AtlasTM, the… Read More

October 16, 2023 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX, the global financial information provider, is leveraging leading Network as a Service provider Megaport in order to “provide customers seamless private access to its data services via any major public cloud provider.” The service is available as of today and “covers more than 100… Read More

October 15, 2023 @ 2:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A total of 40,374 deals (comprising mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity, and venture financing deals) were announced globally during the first three quarters (Q1-Q3) of 2023. This represents a year-on-year (YoY) “decline of 24.3% in volume over 53,369 deals announced during the same period… Read More

October 15, 2023 @ 11:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

API3’s managed dAPIs are available on Base. Developers on Base can now “access over 120 verifiable, decentralized data feeds powered by first-party oracle nodes, which are operated directly by the data providers.” Base is an Ethereum L2 solution incubated by Coinbase that is “built on… Read More

October 14, 2023 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US Consumer Price Index (CPI) data published Thursday supports the case that the Federal Reserve will likely “implement one more interest rate hike,” says the CEO of one of a financial advisory, asset management and fintech organization. The prediction from Nigel Green of deVere Group… Read More

October 11, 2023 @ 6:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thread, the firm focused on enterprise-scale autonomous data collection for delivering precise inspection insights, announced that it closed a Series A funding round in the amount of $15M. The investment round was “led by Badlands Capital with notable participation from an early utility partner of… Read More

October 10, 2023 @ 9:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jumio, the provider of automated, end-to-end identity verification, risk assessment and compliance solutions, announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with NextWealth, a pure play data services provider. Jumio’s AI-powered solutions have “reached record-breaking high automation and quality rates.” With this enhanced partnership, NextWealth will… Read More

October 2, 2023 @ 11:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Plaid is pleased to announce several updates to their Transactions product, which enables financial services providers to do even more with transactional data. These new features and quality enhancements from Plaid are “designed to amplify your ability to provide tailored solutions and services, unlocking improved… Read More

September 30, 2023 @ 3:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Parker Merritt and Kyle Waters from Coin Metrics have provided a close examination of the current Bitcoin mining landscape through the lens of their extensive data. Despite a flat BTC market in the back half of Q3 as spot ETF chatter quieted, hashrate continued “to… Read More

September 26, 2023 @ 10:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Assemble users can now view Carta Total Compensation benchmarking data and cap table information within the Assemble platform, making it easier to “build a startup compensation strategy.” In the past, Assemble customers had “to log in to Carta separately to access Total Comp or their… Read More

September 25, 2023 @ 3:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CarbonEnfo, a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlanta-based Empower Energy Technology, will leverage Energy Web’s ecosystem and Web 3 infrastructure solutions in order “to develop and launch a range of blockchain-enabled energy data services.” CarbonEnfo, a division of Empower Energy Technology, a key player focused on… Read More