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Hiro Tamura is the Atomico partner U.S. founders should know; here’s why
If you’re a U.S.-based founder and you’ve ever wondered how to pitch the London-based firm Atomico or, more specifically, who to pitch, Hiro Tamura is someone you might get to know better. Though he’s based in London, Tamura is the general partner who spends the most time in the U.S. — about one week a month on average. How does it work? Tamura says he gets ample… Read More
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Stripe launches Sigma, a new analytics tool to help businesses track payments data
Payments startup Stripe is always on the lookout for ways it can help its users make better use of its APIs, and occasionally builds new products to solve common problems they face. A good example of that is Sigma, a new data analytics tool the company is rolling out today. Read More
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Stripe Connect provides new tools for multi-sided marketplaces
Two years ago payments startup Stripe launched a new product called Stripe Connect to serve a growing number of marketplace customers. Today the company is launching a new set of capabilities that will enable new marketplace categories and help companies sign up and onboard sellers and service providers to their platforms. Read More
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Crunch Report | Instagram Stories Surpasses Snapchat
Instagram Stories surpasses Snapchat in terms of users, Susan Fowler joins Stripe, Google makes its fashion image searches look more like Pinterest and Yext shares pop more than 20 percent in public debut. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Susan Fowler joins Stripe as editor-in-chief of new quarterly publication Increment
Stripe today is launching a new quarterly publication called Increment featuring opinion pieces, expert interviews and how-to guides targeted at an engineering audience. To manage the site and all the content being produced for it, the company is announcing that it has hired Susan Fowler to be its editor in chief. Read More
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Stripe’s Patrick Collison says no to an IPO any time soon
You can imagine that Stripe CEO Patrick Collison is asked a lot about whether his San Francisco-based payments company plans to go pubic any time soon. Last year, the seven-year-old company raised $150 million in a deal co-led by General Catalyst Partners and CapitalG that valued the startup at $9.2 billion, almost double the valuation it was assigned in 2015. Read More
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Stripe opens its Atlas program to US-based startups
A little over a year ago, Stripe introduced its Atlas program as a way to help international entrepreneurs get incorporated and set up with everything they’d need to do business in the U.S. Now the payments startup is opening up the program as a way to facilitate company creation for founders that are already here. Read More
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Crunch Network
The AWS juggernaut
After last year’s AWS re:Invent conference, we posed the question, “Is Amazon the Most Important Enterprise Company?” Having just returned from re:Invent 2016, we can say the answer is a resounding “Yes”. In terms of both enterprise adoption and the pace of innovation, AWS is a juggernaut. This year again the company highlighted several organizations… Read More
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Payments provider Stripe has raised another $150M at a $9B valuation
Stripe — the company that lets websites and apps incorporate payments services by way of an API and a few lines of code — has raised another round of funding, a Series D of $150 million at a $9 billion valuation pre-money; $9.2 billion post-money. At a time when many have questioned whether the most valuable so-called “unicorns” of the startup world are being… Read More
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Stripe launches Works With Stripe, a directory of apps that integrate with its payments
Stripe, the company that competes against the likes of PayPal by letting businesses add payment services into their apps and websites with a few lines of code, is today launching a new directory that plays into its bigger ambition to position itself as not just a payment tech startup, but a wider platform for business services. Works With Stripe, as the new directory is called… Read More
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Stripe launches Radar to tackle e-commerce fraud with machine learning
Stripe, the startup that lets websites and mobile apps implement payment services through its API and a few lines of code, is today adding in another new feature as it continues to build out its platform with more tools. It is now going to help prevent fraud on Stripe transactions, through a new service called Radar. Radar is being rolled out globally as part of Stripe’s primary… Read More
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Stripe payments exits beta in Japan, adds Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company as investor
Stripe, the company that lets app publishers, online merchants and other digital businesses include payments features via a few lines of code, is expanding in Asia. After launching in Singapore two weeks ago, the startup is now officially opening for business in Japan. And alongside the Japan launch, Stripe is announcing a new investor. Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company, the largest credit… Read More
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Stripe offers Instant Payouts to all contractors after early rollouts at Lyft, Care.com, goPanache
Stripe, the startup that competes against the likes of PayPal’s Braintree and WePay to provide payment services to digital businesses, is taking the wraps off its newest product to set it apart from the rest of the pack. Stripe is launching Instant Payouts, a service tailored specifically for marketplaces to pay their contractors “within minutes” to a… Read More
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Stripe enters Asia with its official launch in Singapore
Payment enabler Stripe has kicked off its expansion into Asia after its service went live in Singapore today. Read More
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Crunch Network
What do you call a tech unicorn that goes public?
Are tech IPOs coming back? That is an ever-present question in Silicon Valley during any lull in the flow of shining private companies that get anointed as public companies. And we certainly have been in a long lull. Read More
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Stripe brings its Connect marketplace platform to Europe, Stripe clone Paymill finds a buyer
As the number of apps and sites for buying and selling goods and services continues to grow, we’re seeing a shakeout among the companies that help make those wheels of commerce turn, with the biggest of the lot continuing to scale up and those that have failed to grow getting swallowed up. Stripe, the startup based out of the U.S. that lets online businesses and apps quickly… Read More
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Crunch Network
Startup spending guide: Where to spend money
There is no shortage of advice when it comes to which tools software companies should use to run their businesses. We’ve all come across numerous “Top 100 resources for startups”-type posts at least once as we Google our way to entrepreneurial success. But after reading just one of them, it’s not hard to go from “I have no idea what’s out there” to… Read More
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Crunch Network
INNOVATE2016: General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja on the importance of politics for startups
There’s been a “global application rewrite” which means that entrepreneurs need to understand that “regulation is part of their product”. Read More
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Square copies Stripe with new online checkout API
Watch out Braintree, Stripe and other online checkout systems, Square is going after you. The company launched new APIs today for offline and online stores. But the bigger news is that e-commerce merchants can now process credit card payments using a simple form. Behind the scene, Square processes the payment. Like Stripe, you don’t need to sign up to an e-wallet. You can Read More
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