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download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewLago, a French startup that offers open-source billing software, has raised $22 million. Founded in 2021, Lago utilizes the open-source community to help businesses like Mistral, Together AI, and Swan manage their payments and billing needs. AdvertisementIn addition, Lago, which has around 30% of its business in the US, will begin to scale out its offering outside of Europe. Lago believes its flexibility around infrastructure will help it win more clients globally as businesses look to create more customizable revenue stacks.
Persons: , Lago, Swan, Matt Turck, Chuong, Turck Organizations: Service, Business, FirstMark, New Locations: Paris, Lago, Europe
Dick's Sporting Goods — Shares jumped 14% after the sporting goods retailer posted fourth-quarter results that exceeded expectations. Dick's Sporting Goods reported earnings of $3.85 per share on revenue of $3.88 billion. Analysts surveyed by LSEG, formerly Refinitiv, had expected earnings per share of $3.35 on revenue of $3.80 billion. In its first quarter, Lennar reported revenue of $7.31 billion, weaker than the $7.39 billion expected by analysts polled by LSEG. UiPath — Shares tumbled 7.4% after the enterprise automation company posted revenue guidance that was weaker than expected.
Persons: LSEG ., SentinelOne, LSEG, Robinhood, Wells, Joe Biden, Armour, Kevin Plank, Plank's, Evercore, MicroStrategy, Oprah Winfrey, , Lisa Kailai Han, Alex Harring, Pia Singh Organizations: Dick's, Dick's Sporting Goods, LSEG, . Steel, U.S, Steel, Nippon Steel Locations: Japanese
Naro, a German fintech startup, has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding. Cologne-based Naro, founded in 2022, wants to take advantage of the boom in exchange-traded funds — or ETF — products in Europe to offer white-label services to various banks, funds, and brokers. Naro's pre-seed funding round was led by Berlin's La Famiglia alongside Discovery Ventures, plus investment from Robin Capital, Angel Invest, and various angels. Funding will go towards expanding the startup's current team of 10 staff as it looks to partner with potential customers looking to build out products within their existing infrastructure. Naro's business plan subsequently changed from its original slides, you can see a version of its pre-seed pitch deck below:
Persons: Chris Püllen, Püllen, Naro's, Berlin's La Organizations: Business, Trade Republic, Discovery Ventures, Robin Capital, Angel Invest, Credit Suisse Locations: Naro, Cologne, Europe, Germany
Fintech giant Stripe revealed in its annual letter published on Wednesday that it surpassed $1 trillion in total payment volume in 2023, up 25% from 2022. By comparison, PayPal surpassed $1 trillion in total payment volume in 2021, 23 years after it was founded. Stripe is valued at $65 billion as of the company's latest tender offer completed last month. We wanted to ensure shareholders have access to liquidity that is why we did the tender offer last year, that's why we did the tender offer this year." "Things got a bit mad at the peak of 2021... startups are focusing on more profitable growth," Collison explained to Sorkin on "Squawk Box."
Persons: Patrick, John Collison, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Collison, Sorkin Organizations: PayPal, CNBC, YouTube
One of the leading emerging use cases for artificial intelligence could be automating customer support requests, according to Barclays. At a time when some investors are beginning to doubt the AI momentum, some companies are now experimenting with AI for customer support and consumer-facing features. These support levels involve escalations from solving simple customer service problems, and can entail trouble-shooting with support technicians and the involvement of engineers, if needed. Lyft stands to be the biggest beneficiary of AI automating customer support requests, assuming that it can move just over a third of its Level 2 and 3 human-based customer service requests to AI. To be sure, it's still early days for companies that could benefit from deploying AI as part of their customer support, Barclays found.
Persons: Ross Sandler, Klarna, Sandler, GoDaddy, Roblox's, it's, We've Organizations: Barclays, Web Services, Google, FactSet
Inside Startupland's 'Shroom Boom'
  + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Samantha Stokes | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Frohman is part of a small but growing community within the startups industry that is experimenting with small doses of psilocybin to improve focus and productivity. Business Insider spoke with multiple founders and investors who microdosed, but wished to be anonymous. The person declined to share their name for publication, but their identity is known by Business Insider. Vancouver-based Filament Health is working to expand access to natural psychedelics through an extraction and drug-discovery process, while brick-and-mortar shops Shroomyz and Fun Guyz are further fueling the Canadian "'Shroom Boom".
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Here's why Mizuho's Dan Dolev doesn't favor Coinbase
  + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHere's why Mizuho's Dan Dolev doesn't favor CoinbaseDan Dolev, Mizuho fintech equity research analyst, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss ADP's stock valuation, Coinbase's role in the crypto ecosystem, and more.
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British banking-as-a-service fintech Griffin has raised new funding after receiving regulatory approval to be a fully operational bank. The market is god awful, so not having to do a down-round, with outside investors coming in, is the best outcome." Griffin has raised £19.1 million, around $24 million, in a funding round led by MassMutual Ventures, NordicNinja, and Breega, with participation from Notion Capital, EQT Ventures, DG Daiwa and CircleRock. "We are hiring, but unlike earlier rounds, we aren't going on a hiring blitz, as we did the hiring for this round before the round closed. We were about to be a fully operational bank, so we needed operations roles," Jarvis added.
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Here are Monday's biggest calls on Wall Street: Morgan Stanley reiterates Nvidia as overweight Morgan Stanley said the stock is a top idea after coming out of the company's recent TMT conference. " Morgan Stanley downgrades Hyatt to equal weight from overweight Morgan Stanley said in its downgrade of the stock that risk/reward is more balanced. Morgan Stanley reiterates Eli Lilly as overweight Morgan Stanley said the next catalyst for Eli Lilly is the results from the company's sleep apnea trial. Morgan Stanley initiates Phinia as overweight Morgan Stanley initiated the auto components and supplier company and says it's a "key beneficiary of the EV reset." Morgan Stanley reiterates Meta as overweight Morgan Stanley said it's standing by shares of Meta.
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A subsequent audit "revealed persistent non-compliances and continued material supervisory concerns in the bank," the central bank said on Jan. 31. Yet to be profitable, Paytm is also reportedly being probed by the federal anti-fraud agency on possible violations of foreign exchange laws. On Feb. 26, One97 Communications, the parent company of Paytm, said in an exchange filing that founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma had resigned from the board of Paytm Payments Bank. During the pandemic, Paytm capitalized on the digital payments boom in India, reporting a 3.5 times growth in transactions. SoftBank and Ant Group are now reportedly cutting their stakes in the payments company, according to local media.
Persons: Anindito Mukerjee, There's, Karan Mohla, Paytm, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, SoftBank Organizations: Bloomberg, Getty, B Capital, Reserve Bank of India, One97 Communications, Paytm Payments, Alibaba, Ant, Ant Group Locations: Greater Noida, India
Digital health benefits startup Fijoya just came out of stealth and announced an $8.3 million seed round from Team8, the Israeli venture group that creates startups and invests in existing ones across the cyber, data infrastructure, fintech, digital health, and AI industries. As Americans are spending more than ever on healthcare, Fijoya is one of many healthtech startups cropping up to tackle the financial aspects of healthcare. Now, out of stealth, Fijoya is focusing on giving employees an easier way to choose healthcare benefits that best suit their lifestyles. "This end-to-end approach signifies our commitment to simplify health benefits by offering a wide range of options with a seamless discovery, selection, and payment process.'" Check out the 15-slide pitch deck Fijoya used to raise its seed funding round.
Persons: Team8, Baruch Levy, Levy Organizations: Business, Health, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners Locations: Team8, Israel
They were gathered for the inaugural summit of The Juggernaut, a digital South Asian news startup that launched in 2019. The Juggernaut spokesperson told BI that "multiple employees have equity in the company," but BI was unable to identify any such employees. "Twenty years ago, you might've struggled to mention a South Asian actor that you've seen in a movie," he said. As of January, the site had about 10,500 subscribers, Sur told investors in an email viewed by BI. Some feel that the publication has strayed from its mission of delivering "untold, smart South Asian stories and news you won't find anywhere else."
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Sam Blond has left Founders Fund after 17 months with the firm. Blond's departure from Founders Fund is the second in as many months after Keith Rabois left. AdvertisementSam Blond, the Founders Fund partner who brought sales expertise from his years at Brex and Zenefits, has left the firm, he announced on X. He's the second partner to depart Founders Fund this year after Keith Rabois made a return to Khosla Ventures in January. In 2022, Founders Fund took part in 84 rounds that totaled about $6.6 billion.
Persons: Sam Blond, he's, Keith Rabois, , I've, Blond, Forbes, Rabois, Axios Organizations: Fund, Service, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Brex, Institutional Locations: Brex
download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. In today's big story, we're looking at how Google has gone from the tech industry's vanguard of cool to just another boring company . AdvertisementGoogle has long stayed atop Silicon Valley's volatile popularity contest — but the best place to work in tech is starting to feel like any other business , Business Insider's Hugh Langley and Lara O'Reilly write. Bureaucracy, an aversion to risk, and deference to Wall Street over employees — things Google long eschewed — have become the norm. The latest example is the debacle surrounding Gemini — its flashy new AI model that faced backlash for being too "woke."
Persons: , Rebecca Zisser, Hugh Langley, Lara O'Reilly, Alistair Barr, Sundar Pichai, Hugh, Lara, Mateusz Wlodarczyk, BI's Peter Kafka, it's, David Rosenberg, Gary Shilling, Snowflake's Frank Slootman, Ozgur Hakan Aslan Toyota, Boxabl, Elon Musk, Tesla, Hewlett Packard, Dan DeFrancesco, Hallam Bullock, Jordan Parker Erb Organizations: Service, Google, Business, Gemini, Meta, Big Tech, OpenAI, Corporations, Nvidia, SEC, Universal Music Group, Universal, BI Locations: , New York, London
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFintech Jeeves could launch in Qatar as soon as next year, CEO saysDileep Thazhmon, CEO of Fintech Jeeves, discusses the company's potential launch in Qatar next year at the Web Summit in Qatar.
Persons: Dileep Thazhmon Locations: Qatar
For a second year, CNBC and independent research firm Statista are working together to identify the world's top fintech companies, to be named in a published CNBC report this July. Nominations are now open for the top global fintech companies list. You can check out last year's list of the top 200 fintech companies, which includes the likes of Chinese tech giants Ant Group and Tencent, U.S. fintech firms PayPal and Stripe, and European companies like Klarna and Revolut. In addition to the fintech list, CNBC is also launching a separate list showing the top insurance technology (insurtech) companies globally, planned to be published in August. Insurance has proven a market ripe for digital disruption, as a wave of new digital-native companies have done away with the paper-based processes that previously dominated the industry.
Organizations: CNBC, Ant Group, PayPal, Insurance
Klarna says its AI assistant is doing the equivalent work of 700 people. Not everyone's impressed, but the assistant is another sign of the company's enthusiasm for AI. AdvertisementKlarna says its AI assistant is doing "the equivalent work of 700 full-time agents." One user, Gergely Orosz, a software engineer and author of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, said he was skeptical of the news after trying out Klarna's AI assistant. Advertisement"There will be a shrinking of the company," Siemiatkowski said in December.
Persons: Klarna, Swedish fintech, everyone's, , Gergely, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Siemiatkowski, We're Organizations: Service, Business, Telegraph Locations: Swedish
Read previewSpanish fintech startup Embat has raised $16 million in fresh funding from VC fund Creandum, the company said Tuesday. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Treasury-management startups and similar offerings targeting the office of the CFO have become a key focus for fintech investors in recent years. Embat's proposition is directly aimed at financial software users, with data security at the forefront of its platform's architecture, cofounder Carlos Serrana told Business Insider. "We were probably born in the worst period to raise capital but we have built a solid product which has traction, and our sales have traction," Serrana told BI.
Persons: , Embat, Carlos Serrana, Creandum, Serrana Organizations: Service, JPMorgan, Business, Treasury, Venture Locations: Madrid, Germany
Infinity Ventures's Jeremy Jonker, former head of corporate development and PayPal Ventures at PayPal, led the most recent funding round, joining investors including Michael Vaughn and Jon Pomerantz of Vera Equity and Rex Salisbury of Cambrian Ventures. "It's been sign up after sign up after sign up," he told Business Insider in an interview. SimpleClosure's funding round comes as more startups than ever are shutting down thanks to a tech-market downturn that's left plenty of companies in the lurch. 770 startups shut down in 2023, up from 467 the year before, according to data from cap-table management startup Carta. "More than half of our customers have been entrepreneurs who are already starting their next company," Yona said.
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He prefers getting to know founders long before they decide to raise money so he can pounce on the right opportunity. Investors, including hedge funds, hurtled term sheets at founders to beat the competition, skipping the usual diligence along the way. Flush with cash, the partners are seeing a flood of hyper-growth startups come to market for funding after a two-year dry spell. The funding blockage is also softening as valuations come back to earth, Costolo said. "Prices are a lot more sensible now," Costolo said, noting the exception of valuations in artificial intelligence.
Persons: Dick Costolo, Costolo, Costolo isn't, Adam Bain, Twitter's, Dario Amodei, Kimberly White, Getty Costolo, they're, Bain, David Fischer Organizations: Twitter, Business, Advisors, Software, Carta, TechCrunch, Google, Nvidia, Fund, Health Locations: Jackson Hole , Wyoming, Detroit
download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Twitter and Block cofounder Jack Dorsey once balanced the responsibilities of running both companies with an early morning wake-up and a lot of meditation. Some Twitter staff even tried the cocktail out during the company's retreat in 2018, according to the book. In 2012, Dorsey told Fast Company he'd divide his weeks into themes in order to manage running both companies. On days beginning with 'T,' I start at Twitter in the morning, then go to Square in the afternoon," he told Fast Company.
Persons: , Jack Dorsey, Dorsey, Ben Greenfield, I'm, Greenfield, Kurt Wagner, Wagner Organizations: Service, Twitter, Business, New York Times, Bloomberg, — Company, Fast Company, Wired, Block Locations: San Francisco
Many workers have expressed fears that the technology will show up at the office like a young gun coming for their job. Williams expects some of the biggest gains from AI won't center on what companies and workers are doing now. Instead, he sees major wins coming from what workers aren't doing but that AI could. Filling in when help is scarceOne reason jobs sometimes aren't getting done is because there aren't always enough workers. If AI could be deployed to help with this work, the time the task takes might get cut in half, Holding said.
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Alexa von Tobel realized the importance of being financially savvy at a young age, but she still wishes she'd learned more about money as a kid. Like most children in the U.S., von Tobel received "no formal education" on personal finance. "Appreciating that you can have your dollars work hard for you, and on behalf of you, is a really powerful concept," von Tobel says. 'A skill set that you need for your whole life'Given her success as a fintech founder and investor, von Tobel clearly mastered that particular financial lesson eventually. "That concept is very powerful," von Tobel says.
Persons: Alexa von Tobel, she'd, von Tobel, Von Tobel's, von Tobel's, von, Von Tobel Organizations: Harvard University, CNBC, Northwestern Mutual Locations: U.S
Here are Thursday's biggest calls on Wall Street: Morgan Stanley raises Nvidia price target Morgan Stanley increased its price target on shares to $795 from $750 after the chipmaker's earnings announcement. " UBS reiterates Nvidia as buy, but trims price target UBS reiterated its buy rating on Nvidia but reduced its price target to $800 from $850. Morgan Stanley upgrades DoorDash to overweight from equal weight Morgan Stanley's upgrade comes after the stock fell around 10% since its earnings report on Feb. 15. Morgan Stanley reiterates overweight rating on Rivian Automative Morgan Stanley kept its overweight rating on Rivian , but cited concerns on the company's outlook. Jefferies reiterates Sunrun as buy Jefferies also raised its price target on Sunrun to $31 from $25, implying shares nearly doubling from Wednesday's close.
Persons: Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Nvidia Goldman, Morgan, Rivian, Automative Morgan Stanley, Jefferies, Sunrun, Bernstein, Wendy's, Wendy, TD Cowen, Cowen, COTY, Cantor Fitzgerald, Root, Cantor, Remitly Organizations: NVIDIA, UBS, Nvidia, Data Center, RBC, Rivian Automotive, EV, Petrobras, ITC, Coty, BMO, Markets Locations: Argentine, China, Brazil, 2024E
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Georgia Lord, a 27-year-old certified financial planner and HENRY in New York City. I have a few financial goalsOne of my financial goals is to save up for the professional designations available in my field since they can be expensive. To reach my savings goals, I automate at least 20% of my paycheck every two weeks and deposit it in a high-yield savings account. For example, some stock market returns might've been 3% last year, but some high-yield savings accounts have a return of 4.5%. That's just as important as putting $100 into the stock market every week.
Persons: HENRY, Georgia Lord, I've, That's, Ally, CapitalOne360, There's, might've, Roth, We're Organizations: Morningstar, Business, Roth IRA, Locations: Georgia, New York City, Brisbane, Australia, New York
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