Tagged: stripe

January 24, 2018 @ 4:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stripe, one of the most popular payment processing platforms around, has scheduled an end to Bitcoin acceptance. According to the company, Bitcoin transactions will end on April 23, 2018. Stripe commented on the decision in a blog post explaining they have long been excited about… Read More

November 7, 2017 @ 12:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdcube success and challenger bank Monzo announced on Tuesday it secured 71 million through its latest investment round, which was led by Goodwater Capital, Stripe, and Michael Moritz with participation from existing investors, Passion Capital, Thrive Capital, and Orange Digital Ventures. As previously reported, Monzo (originally… Read More

July 10, 2017 @ 2:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, Stripe announced it is officially launching its services in Hong Kong. The payments startup revealed that local companies can now access the full Stripe features such as Stripe Radar, Connect with Custom accounts, and 3D Secure support. “While in preview, we’ve been able to work with many of the fastest-growing… Read More

June 20, 2017 @ 1:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs, “the most active investor in UK private companies” is rebooting its Alumni Club portal to reposition the value proposition for early stage businesses in the UK. According to Seedrs, this relaunch comes with some prominent names dedicated to boosting UK entrepreneurs. The partner companies… Read More

February 25, 2017 @ 7:00 am By Jessica Pham  |  

Two-day conference Startup Grind earlier this week set in Redwood City, California at the Fox Theater boasted “5,000 founders and investors, more than 40 keynote and fireside sessions, and over 50 exhibiting startups”.  The ability to pull back from all of the pitches and decipher key messages… Read More

February 20, 2017 @ 12:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, Indiegogo introduced new payment options for its crowdfunding platform that will make it easier for backers to receive the support they needed. The funding portal revealed that, through its partnership with credit card vendor Stripe, it has begun to roll out Stripe payments… Read More

November 25, 2016 @ 12:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seven year old payment processor Stripe is now valued at over $9 Billion. This comes as a widely reported funding round saw the Fintech firm receive $150 million in new funding.  The funding was co-led by CapitalG, part of Alphabet (neé Google) Inc., and General… Read More

July 28, 2015 @ 11:35 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Payments startup Stripe landed a new round of funding from investors including American Express, Visa and Sequoia Capital, valuing the San Francisco-based company at $5 billion. According to the announcement, Stripe signed an agreement with Visa to work on digital transactions such as website ‘buy… Read More

July 21, 2015 @ 1:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Trulioo, a provider of online identity verification for the international market whose clients include Kickstarter, Stripe, Square and PayPal, announced that identity and fraud industry expert Jon Jones has been appointed as President. Jones is an accomplished leader in the fraud, compliance and identity space having… Read More

February 11, 2015 @ 7:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

  David Haber is the co-founder, CEO and visionary behind Bond Street, an online lender that empowers small businesses by providing financing in a simple, transparent and fair way. Haber leads Bond Street’s overall company vision, strategy, fundraising and business development functions. Through Bond Street, Haber aims to… Read More

January 6, 2015 @ 8:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter, a longtime user of the Amazon Payments platform, announced today they have decided to stop using the service shifting their business to competitor Stripe.  Amazon, described as an “excellent partner” has been the platform that Kickstarter has used to process “$1 billion in pledges”…. Read More

January 18, 2014 @ 11:49 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Remember Amex Sync? Back in 2012, American Express launched the program as a joint effort with Twitter. It offered Twitter users discounts on products for tweeting certain hashtags. The possibility of Twitter entering the e-commerce game has been the subject of a lot of prognostication… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 9:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Jailbreaking a smartphone like the iPhone gives the end user root access to the device, allowing them to bypass limitations set in place by Apple. For example, normal iPhone users can only install apps from Apple’s App Store. Jailbreaking an iPhone allows the user to… Read More

October 27, 2013 @ 10:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Hugely popular payment processor Stripe continues to expand.  One of their most recent clients happens to be equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs.  The UK based platform recently decided to migrate to Stripe as they investigated alternatives which could facilitate bank transfers on their platform while providing… Read More

July 4, 2013 @ 12:46 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Cristina Cordova is in business development at online payment processor Stripe. Stripe is a well-known payment system. I’ve personally worked on Stripe integrations and can say that it’s a very nice system to work with, so my interest was piqued when I saw that Cristina… Read More